Channel 9 which happens to be my favourite media station now has a section for courses. And if you have downloaded Visual Studio 2010 then this is the place to get yourself some VS 2010 training. Topics covered in this online course are:

Managed Languages
ASP.NET 4.0
Data Platform
WCF & WF
Parallel Computing
ALM

Link to Visual Studio 2010 and .NET [...]

Microsoft PDC 2009 site is now accepting registrations. PDC 2009 will run from 17th November to 19th November 2009 at Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles. Here is pricing information from PDC website.

I think in or around PDC 2009 we should see commercial launch of Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and maybe [...]

.NET Framework provides classes which give information about the machine on which code is executed. One Such class is System.Environment which gives us things like Machine Name, OS Version and much more. I recently had a requirement to programmatically detect the number of Processors on a machine. I thought this was a simple enough task. [...]

I have a confession to make. When I saw var keyword for the first time I did not like it at all. My first opinion was that var was so variant like. Call me a control freak but I like to clearly see what I am declaring. And var was something I thought made the [...]

If you are an Architect or a Developer then I highly recommend that you read Application Architecture Guide from Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft. In recent years .Net Framework has grown tremendously to include technologies such as WPF, WCF, WF over the standard offerings such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms and BCL. How does [...]

CTP of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework is now available for download. Visual Studio 2010 takes the world’s best IDE to the next level by innovating on many fronts. Here is an overview from the download page.
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. [...]

As of 14th October 2008, Mainstream support for .NET Framework 1.1 has ended. However extended support will be available till October 2013. We’ll most likely be in .NET Framework 12 by then. Or will there even be .NET?

While browsing forums today I came across a question which asked for a solution to download a file from a web server programmatically. The solution is very simple and below is the code which achieves the goal. Here I am downloading a file asynchronously on Button Click.

1: private void buttonDownloadFile_Click(object sender, EventArgs [...]

This code shows you how to find the difference between two DateTime values. The easiest way to do this is to use the TimeSpan class and subtract one DateTime from another.

DateTime firstDate = new DateTime(2008, 8, 1);
DateTime secondDate = DateTime.Now;

TimeSpan timeSpan = secondDate.Subtract(firstDate);

// Get Difference
Console.WriteLine(“Days : ” + timeSpan.Days.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(“Hours : ” + timeSpan.Hours.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(“Minutes : [...]

Channel 9 does a “This Week On Channel 9” video every week and this week they paid a visit to One .Net Way. They mentioned my post about Retrieving a list of applications using LINQ in their news video. I am very happy to see One .Net Way mentioned on Channel 9. It feels good [...]

ServiceControl can be used to get information about a Windows Service on a machine.  In this post I will show you how to retrieve information about a service using ServiceControl.
To begin with lets examine the properties for ServiceControl. Through the designer we can set the ServiceName property. This can be set to the name of [...]

SQLBulkCopy class in ADO.NET can be used to do bulk copy operations from a .Net application. There are two ways data can be bulk copied using this class. You can either do a single bulk copy or a multiple bulk copy operation. In this post I will show you how to perform a single bulk [...]