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...

This year’s PDC is mostly about the cloud . Everyone is talking about the cloud : cloud services, cloud computing, etc. but I’m not sure everyone has the same understanding of what the cloud is. Let’s say it’s a cloudy concept. So, what is this cloud thing, anyway? Let’s take Windows Home Server (WHS...

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...