Enterprise Library 1.0 Hands On Labs

Those who wanna get hands on the Enterprise Library 1.0, Here is the chance you've been waiting for!!!

Download the Enterprise Library 1.0 Hands On Labs from here!

.Net Audio and Video that I Listen and Watch

One of my colleagues caught me watching a downloaded MSDN TV recording so he asked me from where I get these from. I know that most of you geeky .netters out there know these links, but for the people who does not know here are the links.
And for your information I have most of them downloaded (300K versions) with me so any one can ask me before downloading whether it's available with me.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/

http://channel9.msdn.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/nuggets.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/

And if you guys know any more links where I can download more audio or video content on .Net please make comments.

Imagine Cup Sri Lankan Finals

Imagine cup Sri Lanka winners has been announced. The team is from the Moratuwa University. And the project is called Value Chain Integration System. And the team made their way to success under the supervision by our friend Wellington Perera a.k.a Wela ( one of the Sri Lankan MVPs )
My Congratulations to Wela and The Team who will be flying to Yokohama, Japan. I hope that you will bring the Imagine Cup Home.

SQL Server 2005: CLR Integration Blog

The SQL Server 2005 CLR integration team recently has started blogging.
SQL-CLR enables writing sprocs, funcs, triggers, etc... using any of the .Net Languages.

You can watch the action at http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlclr/default.aspx

Code Snippet Collection From Ted Gamble

Ted Gamble shares his code snippet collection which contains code samples, tips, tricks, hacks which he has created or encountered during his life as a Software Engineer.

You can view them Here

Another free e-book from "The Server Side"

You can freely download a good e-book with the title

Essential XML Quick Reference:
A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More By Aaron Skonnard & Martin Gudgin.

A structured way to handle URLs in ASP.Net Applications

I extracted the following from the site of PageMethods which is a solution to define a structured method to define URLs and Calling them.

Introduction
Linking to a web page is very easy, both in simple HTML and in ASP.NET. Linking to a page that really exists, passing the right parameters, and parsing these parameters, is a bit different.

Features and Benefits
"PageMethods provides a solution for the limitations of the standard way of handling pages, URLs and parameters.The usual way to proceed is not structured. With PageMethods, the code of your pages is simpler, cleaner and more reliable.
The approach is based on strict page inputs and declarative parameter binding. With PageMethods, each page exposes a set of methods that represent the different ways to call the page.All you have to do to start benefiting from sharp URLs is to add methods to your pages, and mark these methods with attributes provided by PageMethods."

check it out here!!!

Discussion on Naming Guidelines

I started a thread on the Sri Lankan .Net User Group to discuss about .Net Naming Guidelines and practices the discussion is going pretty cool [ 150 views and 15 comments at the moment (DateTime.Now!!) ] you can check it out here .
If you also have any comments on this please do.

Free e-book on COM and .Net Interop.

A free e-book from the Server Side on COM and .Net interoperability we can download it here!!!