This year’s PDC is all about the cloud (or cloudy as I call it) and the .NET Framework 4.0. No one at Microsoft has ever told me that Windows Forms are dead (quite the opposite) but looking at the list of sessions for this year’s PDC I can only see WPF . So the question remains: Are Windows Forms dead...

This is great news for me.I personally love seen my ugly face on the Tech-Ed main page, that reminds me the day I declined the offer to get my picture professionally done. http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/cc531163.aspx

It’s not the first time I try but, for one reason or another, this is the first time I will go to the PDC ( Microsoft ’s Professional Developers Conference). According to the site “The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software architects. If you’re interested in the future of the Microsoft...

The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . On this version there are some bug fixes, new rules and documentation. Also in this version, the list of errors and warnings goes to the Errors List window like with the compilers. I whish that...

In the past I presented another possible use for the using keyword: as hints on LINQ . I’ve been giving some thought about this lately and refined my proposal. var q = from person in personCollection using MyEnumerableExtensions group person by person.LastName into g using new MyOtherComparer () orderby...

C# 3.0 introduced object and collection initializers . It is now easier to initialize objects or collections: var person = new Person { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado" }; var persons = new List < Person > { new Person { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado"...

ASP.NET provides out of the box three session state stores: Provider Description InProc Session state is stored in the ASP.NET cache. SQLServer Session state is stored out-of-process in an SQL Server database. StateServer Session state is stored out-of-process in an ASP.NET state service. Because with...

(This was pointed out to me by Frans Bouma and explained by Jon Skeet ) Imagine you have this set of classes: public class A { public virtual string P { get { return "A" ; } } } public class B : A { } public class C : B { public override string P { get { return "C" ; } } } And this class: public static...

In one of the environments I work, cookies cannot be used because the pages run inside web browser controls running on a client application and cookies end up being shared by all browsers. Fortunately, ASP.NET allows us to persist some cookies as part of the URL. To persist the session state identifier...

On my last post I wrote about a solution for the problem that arises when we try the use path infos and ASP.NET Themes and Skins together . Raj Kaimal   suggested rewriting all LINK HTML elements URLs to the correct URL as seen from the client. Something like this: void HttpApplicationPreRequestHandlerExecute...