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      • LINQ to SQL Beta 2 to RTM Changes
        11/27/07


        Complete document
        LINQ_to_SQL_Beta_2_to_RTM_Breaking_Changes.htm

      • Visual Studio 2008 RTM Training Kit
        11/27/07
        inally, we can present the RTM version of the Visual Studio 2008 RTM Training Kit.
        This kit is a real goldmine, containing presentations, Hands-On-Labs, demo's... on all topics related to Visual Studio 2008.
        Now you only have to find about 5 days to complete all that's in here, a

      • Visual Studio 2008 Released: Installation ReadMe
        11/23/07
        Steps to Uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release
        Several people have asked me for recommendations on the best way to upgrade a system that has VS 2008 Beta2 on it to the final VS 2008 RTM release. In my blog post announcing the VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 release yesterda

      • Visual Studio 2008 Released
        11/23/07
        Quick Tour of Some of the New Features

        Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 contain a ton of new functionality and improvements. Below are links to blog posts I've done myself as well as links to videos you can watch to learn more about it:

        VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support

      • Developer Express .NET Controls in VS 2008 toolbox
        11/19/07
        Recently i discovered that my Developer Express .NET items weren't displayed in my VS 2008 toolbox.

        After searching for a while I found out that they added a small tool that recreates all the items in your toolbar.

        Program Files\Developer Express .NET\Tools\ToolboxCreator

      • Assign ENTER to a button on a form with multiple buttons in asp.net
        11/14/07
        When you have submit button on your form, your browser will use that button whenever ENTER has been pressed.

        BUT

        When you have 3 buttons on your form and when the user presses the enter button, the browsers will use the first button encoded on your page..

        when you wa

      • Confirmation box before a delete - ASP.NET - C#
        11/13/07
        When you want to delete an entry, when the user presses a button it would be useful to display a confirmation bo where the user can reconsider if he wants to delete the object...

        When developing in asp.net you can't use the Messagebox.Show() method :p but you can use this alternative

      • Culture Info SQL 2005
        11/06/07
        ALways handy to optimize your code so that the Datetime formats are the same as in your sql server...


        public CultureInfo GetCultureInfo(Server server) {
        CultureInfo ci
        SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(server.ConnectionContext.ConnectionString);
    • September