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MSDN Ultimate Subscription Giveaway
If anyone is interested, we are giving away a free subscription to MSDN Ultimate (which has kindly been provided by SQL Server MVP Denis Gobo and has a list price of $11,899!). All you have to do is leave a comment in the following blog post with 3 short...
Get Free Typemock licenses – ASP.NET bundle launch
Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET Bundle...
Posted: May 18 2009, 10:25 PM by ca8msm | with no comments
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Windows 7 Public Beta - Download Link
I've heard a few people saying they couldn't find the link to the public Windows 7 Beta link, so if you are one of these people, please visit the following page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx
ASP.NET "Hacks" Series at LessThanDot
At LessThanDot , we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first installment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks . These hacks...
Microsoft Project - Velocity
Microsoft have announce details of project "Velocity", a distributed caching mechanism for .NET. The Velocity team describe it as: "Velocity is intended to provide distributed caching (in memory) for all .NET applications – from enterprise scale to web...
Posted: Jun 06 2008, 09:18 AM by ca8msm | with 2 comment(s)
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LessThanDot goes live!
This morning saw the official launch of LessThanDot, a new IT Community. For more info on the site, please read my previous blog post on LessThanDot or come and visit us directly at LessThanDot . The IT Community of the 21st Century: http://www.lessthandot...
LessThanDot?
What have I been up to? It's been a while since I last wrote a blog on here, so what have I been up to? Well, it's been a very busy time for me as along with the birth of our first child, I've been working on a few startup projects. One of these that...
LINQ
I have mixed feelings about LINQ. I don't want it interfering with my database, and running queries against it so I think I'll be sticking to stored procedures for this type of access. However, there are also cases where I think it is very useful. Here...
Posted: Jan 25 2008, 12:57 PM by ca8msm | with 9 comment(s)
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IE8 passes Acid2 test!
Whilst this may not be something deemed as particularly important by web users, web developers will be pleasantly surprised that the latest version of IE passes the Acid2 test: Read more... Is this a big milestone for IE and Microsoft? Should we expect...
Convert HTML tables to a DataSet
I've just had a requirement to extract some data from a web page and manipulate it before sending it off elsewhere. The data in the web page was all included inside <table> tags, so I wrote a few Regular Expressions to extract this data and place...
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