Improvement include: Less bugs (especially in the WSS adapter), slicker UI, some developer-friendly features and a new Google adapter which allows syndicating google searches. Download it here:... Read More

This week was the week my PhD ramped up a notch. Presentations to give, proposals to write, references to seek. 13 hour days don’t leave much time for the .NET blog, but fear not! Sundays are... Read More

From Fritz Onion: “All in all, it looks like the future of IIS (IIS 7) is moving toward integrating into the ASP.NET pipeline, so it will be worth spending time familiarizing yourself with the... Read More

Little tip. To set the page title on an ASP.NET Web From using Whidbey, add runat=”server” properties to the head and title tags in your HTML: Now, you can set the page easily using:... Read More

Need to run SQL Express within applications other than those supporting .NET? Well, I needed to get my database schema to Visio, yet none of the connectors would work. By default, Express... Read More

Getting Started with Mono As I say in the introduction to the article, I avoid Linux and stick to my friendly Windows icons and buttons. But, of course, there are times when Linux is a requirement on... Read More

Being able to evaluate mathematical expressions at runtime is a great way of building dynamic structured data, where you can plug in complex expressions written in a textual form and retrieve a... Read More

I know .NET isn’t involved per say in a Windows SDK, but many made the jump to .NET from Windows development, like me :) So, this is all good stuff to get your hands dirty with.... Read More

Just in case anyone’s having the same problem as the one described below… When using the Server Explorer in VS.NET, whenever I went to add a new data connection, a popup would appear... Read More

Another superb article by Zak is up and available on SitePoint giving a great explanation on how to use some the new security features within ASP.NET 2.0. This week, I’ll work on combining the... Read More

One of the features lacking in the SQL Express 2005 package is a Query Analyser. Of course, Microsoft have big plans for frontends to SQL Server 2005, however, I want something now! QA Replacement... Read More

BlogWave is a great product written in C# that grabs a variety of information resources and publishes them as an RSS feed. You can even write your own “adapters” so BlogWave can... Read More

Microsoft have launched the SQL Server 2005 home pages at microsoft.com. Check out the “Top 30 Features” page to get ready for the future :) Learn Responsive Web Design SitePoint's ebook:... Read More