I just came across this: www.MyRampUp Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology. The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper...

I’m flying to San Jose tonight for tomorrow’s OpenAjax Alliance face to face meeting , which Microsoft is hosting. On Friday, we are also hosting a new event that aims at establishing a dialogue between JavaScript library developers and Microsoft. We’ll have talks from the IE, Visual Studio and ASP.NET...

Luís just broke the news on our LINQ with C# book. I was honored with the invitation from Luís to write this book with him for FCA , for which he has already published a few books [ ^ ] [ ^ ] [ ^ ] before. This will be an entry level book in Portuguese targeted to anyone wanting to learn LINQ with C#...

So you started using Silverlight and you wanted to download a RSS feed, talk to a web service or download a few images from a website to realize that many of the requests you made come back to you empty or you get the 404 error. How do I get the error when I know that web page or image is there? There...

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...

Hello All, This might be a long one so bear with me here this might bore you :). I have have had the need to be able to add dynamic nodes to my sitemap, I am using a sitemap xml file. My first solution, was to create a custom sitemap provider, which would parse the XML and if it detected the node I had...

Hello, I have the need to easily convert a string to another type i.e. int. And would like to return null if the string is empty. I created a quick extension method, thought id post it up incase anyone finds it helpful. /// <summary> /// Converts a string value to the given type, if the string...

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"...