January 2008
DataContractJsonSerializer in .NET 3.5 - Rick... →
.NET 3.5 now includes a JSON serializer in DataContractJsonSerializer. This useful little component makes it pretty painless to create JSON from objects and back.
Creating JSON String Using... →
From the page: “ASP.NET AJAX framework includes the System.Web.Script.Serialization which helps to serialize the .NET object to a JSON representation string. I am using ASP.NET 2.0 callbacks to call the server side method using the client side code.”
LINQ to SQL (Part 5 - Binding UI using the... →
In today’s blog post I’ll cover the new control that is shipping as part of ASP.NET in the upcoming .NET 3.5 release. This control is a new datasource control for ASP.NET (like the ObjectDataSource and SQLDataSource controls that shipped with ASP.NET 2.0) which makes declaratively binding ASP.NET UI controls to LINQ to SQL data models super easy.
LINQ to SQL: .NET Language-Integrated Query for... →
From the page: “LINQ to SQL provides a runtime infrastructure for managing relational data as objects without losing the ability to query. Your application is free to manipulate the objects while LINQ to SQL stays in the background tracking your changes automatically. “
Download details: LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 →
From the page: “LINQ to XSD is the code name of an incubation project that aims to provide .NET developers with support for typed XML programming on top of LINQ to XML. While the LINQ to XML programmer operates on generic XML trees, the LINQ to XSD programmer operates on typed XML trees — instances of .NET types that model the XML types of a specific XML schema (XSD). LINQ to XSD can...
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ITarchitect | Articles | Avoiding the Icebergs →
From the page: “Today, the role of the software architect is widely recognised and most large system development projects are led by someone who takes particular responsibility for the system wide technical factors, such as ensuring that the system will provide the right set of qualities (such as functionality, availability, security and performance) for its stakeholders.
In recent years...
ITarchitect | Articles | Avoiding the Icebergs:... →
From the page: “The first part of the article discussed five pitfalls that have beset many software architects over the years, and in this second instalment weâÂll discuss five more.”
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Getting started with IronRuby video tutorial
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell - LINQ Quiz →
From the page: “Take the following short quiz and test your knowledge of LINQ!”
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell - PredicateBuilder →
From the page: “Suppose you wanted to write a LINQ to SQL query that implemented a keyword-style search. In other words, a query that returned rows whose description contained some or all of a given set of keywords.”
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell - LINQKit →
From the page: “LINQKit is a free set of extensions for LINQ to SQL power users. It comprises the following: * An extensible implementation of AsExpandable() * A public expression visitor base class (ExpressionVisitor) * PredicateBuilder * Linq.Expr and Linq.Func shortcut methods With LINQKit, you can: * Plug expressions into EntitySets * Use expression variables in subqueries *...
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell - LINQBridge →
From the page: “You might already have discovered that LINQ is addictive: once you’re accustomed to solving problems through slick functional queries, it really hurts being forced back to the imperative style of C# 2.0! LINQ’s query operators are implemented in .NET Framework 3.5. And here lies a difficulty: you might be unsuccessful in demanding that all your customers install...
Implementing Service-Oriented Integration with... →
From the page: “In the Global Bank scenario, the Web application server accesses the mainframe computer through a gateway service to retrieve a customer’s account balance. Figure 1 illustrates how the interaction between the two systems is implemented as Service-Oriented Integration by using Microsoft ASP.NET Web services.”
JavaScript Regex Tester & RegexPal →
Regex testing
Regular Expression Tool →
Test your regex online, quickly!
MIX University - WPF Bootcamp →
Learn WPF quickly, free and from MS
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Firewheel Design | Dashboard Widgets →
From the page: “The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day, along with its hexadecimal values for all you web geeks out there. If you’re looking for some daily inspiration, some colors to steal, or simply another cool-looking widget to fill up your dashboard and impress your friends, here you go. Each daily palette features four colors, with the option to change your...
SimpleViewer Download →
Show off you flickr photos anywhere with this nifty flash app
Wael Saad online portfolio →
From the page: “My name is Wael Saad, I was born in Cairo 1983 . I finished Bsc. Of computer science in 2004 I studied art in a private art school of Dr magd el segeeni, I have spent the past 3 years designing websites as a freelancer. As part of my services, I have also helped to design identity and logo files for my clients. I like websites with clean, simple and elegant designs and I...
Barack Obama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
From the page: “Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.[2][3] He is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history, the third to have been popularly elected, and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.”
RIAnimation →
From the page: “Give your ASP.NET projects new life with RIAnimation. We have taken powerful JavaScript libraries (Prototype, JQuery and Interface) and developed a simple ASP.NET control for applying RIAnimations (Rich Interactive Animations) to any ASP.NET control. With RIAnimation, adding sophisticated interaction to your existing web apps is as easy as dropping our control on the form...
GMAN: FlickrDown →
From the page: “Recently a friend started using Flickr which is a great service. I personally like to save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle so I whipped up this program so I could download them more easily.”
Vanilla Days : HDR Tutorial: How to create... →
From the page: “HDR means âÂHigh Dynamic RangeâÂ. Using software like Photomatix you can create images with a more detail in the highlights and shadows than you can with a normal photo from todays digital cameras. Its similar to the old technique of exposure blending. Taking one photo for the sky and one for the ground, then merging them both together in Photoshop. HDR takes it a step...
The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content... →
Welcome to brand new CMS Matrix site! This site is provided as a community service to everyone interested in looking for a means to manage web site content. Here you can discuss, rate, and compare the various systems available on the market today. This site works because of community involvement. Please rate any systems you’ve used and discuss them in the forums. If you notice any errors,...
IIS.net : FastCGI for IIS : Microsoft Internet... →
The IIS FastCGI component enables popular application frameworks like PHP be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way.
FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release.
CGI...
SplendidCRM | Enterprise CRM Software for System... →
From the page: “SplendidCRM Software, Inc. has released SplendidCRM Professional 2.0 and SplendidCRM Open-Source 2.0, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications licensed in part under the “SugarCRM Public License 1.1.3”.
New features include:”
LINQKit: "C# 3.0 In A Nutshell" Extras →
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Picfindr: Free stock photo and image search →
From the page: “PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially. Several licensing arrangements have recently emerged as alternatives to copyright (sometimes called “copyleft”) and PicFindr makes sense of them all by helping you find images based on what you have to do to use them, whether licensed under Creative Commons, GNU, a...
Free photo search - Photopy.com →
Photopy is a search engine for free photos. Photos with licenses such as “public domain”, creative commons or other free licenses. A new search engine for freely licensed photos.
Infrared Filter Comparison →
From the page: “The images below were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 950 fitted with different infrared pass filters. The camera was mounted on a tripod and the shutter was released using the self timer. Settings for all shots were: flash off and auto matrix metering. The autogain feature of the camera firmware (v 1.3) resulted in ISO adjustment for longer exposure with the B+W 093 (87C) filter....
Infrared Digital Photography →
From the page: “I’ve found the best approach to shooting and processing IR images with the G1 is to go for the green channel. The green channel tends to have the maximum IR effect, and is the sharpest. Set the camera to daylight white balance mode, and it will expose for the green channel primarily. You might actually need to overexpose a bit more too (bracket and experiment to get a...
Infrared basics for digital photographers →
 From the page: “Conventional visible light photography is challenging enough. Why bother with infrared? Because it opens up an otherwise unseen corner of the world â” one of serene beauty and never-ending surprise. Digital cameras make this peek around the red end of the visible spectrum easier than ever before.”
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Download details: Windows Workflow Foundation Web... →
From the page: “This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 (with updates for Visual Studio 2008) project that demonstrates using Windows Workflow Foundation for simple task-oriented workflow in an ASP.NET Web application. A workflow model is used to automate work order requests at a small example company. It includes three pre-defined roles which each play a part in the work order creation,...
Windows Workflow Foundation →
From the page: “Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a .NET Framework version 3.0 (formerly WinFX) namespace, an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio 2005. Windows Workflow Foundation is available for both client and server versions of Windows. Windows...
HOYA OPTICS: Leading supplier of advanced optical... →
HOYA CORPORATION USA Optics Division is a leading supplier of advanced optical materials and components for scientific, technology and industrial companies throughout the US.
Quick And Easy Software & Blog Archive &... →
From the page: “A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program. Its very useful if you have a USB flash/pen drive, especially if you use a menu such as PStart or the Portable Apps launcher.”
MP3-Check →
From the page: “After the start of MP3-Check youâÂll find all available settings directly on the left side. Thus, you can define the criteria on which your MP3 collection should be checked. In order to ease your start for this check of your music collection, we defined default settings for each criterion.”
ID3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis Infotags Preview. Infotip... →
From the page: “A typical shell extension is meant to help a user work with a category of files. Let’s suppose you’re mainly interested in audio files (MP3, WMA, Monkey’s Audio, Ogg Vorbis and so on), but there is no system-provided way to know about the title of a song, artist or album it belongs to. If you manipulate audio files extensively, then this shell extension...
mobelform →
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tag2find - better than searching &124; tag... →
From the page: “tag2find helps you to find everything on your desktop by simply using tags. Directories & folders were the structure of the 20th century. Now it’s time for something new - TAG IT!”
Home - Lightroom Community Help - BETA - Adobe... →
From the page: “Welcome to the new Lightroom community help system, which provides core documentation for Lightroom as well as links to additional learning content both within and outside of Adobe.com.
You can navigate this community help system by using the links on the left side of your browser. When you click a topic to read about it, you’ll find Adobe core documentation in the...
Welcome to Agile Egypt →
From the page: “Agile Egypt is a unique one-day conference held on Sunday March 2nd 2008. It is the first of its kind in the Arab Middle East. During this one-day gathering, several world-class agile practitioners and coaches will provide a collection of presentations and workshops covering a wide range of topics about Agile Software Development. Their main objective is introducing the...
Get informational tooltips for audio, text, and... →
cre.ations.net - an open showcase of creativity →
From the page: “Welcome to cre.ations.net. Here you can publish anything you’ve created and show it off to the world! Whether it’s art, technology, software, or even just a clever way to turn off the lights from your bed, your creation has a place here. You can also browse creations by other people and vote for your favorites. Check out the most popular creations for an idea of...
YouTube - Why the U.S. stock market will crash... →