Scott Hanselman’s Tools List

Scott Hanselman’s provides two articles on his site that are a “must have” for all developers:
- Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
- Scott’s List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns
Highly recommended!

ASP.NET 3.5 – Curso Completo

Já está nas bancas o novo livro de Luís Abreu: “ASP.NET 3.5 – Curso Completo“.
As diferenças deste livro para o ASP.NET 2.0 Curso Completo, além da versão, foram adicionados novos conteúdos aos capítulos já existentes na versão anterior, com exemplos de novos controlos e funcionalidades da versão 3.5, e também foram corrigidos alguns bugs do [...]

Snippy – C# Code Snippet Editor

Code Snippet’s in VS2005 and 2008 are a wonderfull tool that can decrease the time you dispend with coding. IntelliSense Code Snippets are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code. It includes code snippets covering tasks ranging from creating a custom exception, to sending an e-mail message, to drawing a circle. A set of Visual Basic and [...]

Techdays 2008 Portugal – Video Sessions

The video sessions from Techdays 2008 @ Portugal are comimg!
check it out at http://videos.techdays.pt/

LINQPad – Query, interactively, SQL Databases with LINQ

LINQPad it’s a tool from Joseph Albahari ( the author of C# 3.0 in a nutshell ) that interactively query SQL Databases with the new query language LINQ.

LINQPad supports LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML. This tool is also a great method to learn LINQ because it comes preloaded with [...]

MIX08 – Video Sessions

Now that MIX08 have finished we have the video sessions to remember.
I recomended that you see it! There is some interesting videos like the keynote from Guy Kawasaki and Steve Balmer (thumbs up!), the presentation of Silverlight 2 and “Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008″ by Brad Abrams.
At [...]

MIX08 – The Next Web Now

MIX08 has started!
From March 5 to 7, at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, now in its third year, MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web. Come explore the latest wave of opportunities and help redefine [...]

Best articles of January 2008 – CodeProject

CodeProject has a voting system for the best articles in some categories. Here is the list for January 2008:
Best ASP.NET article
Omar Al Zabir – 10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets
Best C++/MFC article
Mladen Jankovic – Making Class Schedule Using Genetic Algorithm
Best VB.NET article
konamiman34 – Certification by Example
Best C# article
Sacha Barber – WPF: A Beginner’s Guide – [...]

Techdays 2008 and Heroes Happen Here – Portugal

11 de Março – Heroes Happen Here
12-14 Março – Techdays 2008
No dia 11 de Março, no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal, vai realizar-se o lançamento oficial das novas versões do Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 e Visual Studio 2008. Este lançamento ocorre no início do evento Techdays que decorrerá nos dias 12, 13 [...]

101 LINQ Samples

.NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) adds query capabilities to the CLR and the languages that target it. The query facility builds on lambda expressions and expression trees to allow predicates, projections, and key extraction expressions to be used as opaque executable code or as transparent in-memory data suitable for downstream processing or translation. The standard query [...]