I've been working on this for some time now but finally I'm happy to announce we have obtained exclusive distribution rights to the latest version of Steve Sartain's C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines 100+ page ebook, and are offering free download. More info - http://submain.com/blog/F... [More]

Those of you who are subscribed to our VBFeeds have only seen one side of the coin ;-) Today the other side has become available - Steve Smith launched similar C# Feeds service: Today CSharpFeeds officially goes live.  This is a pet project of mine and Gregg Stark’s based on ... [More]

I've been following the Web 2.0 buzz since August 2005 and until recently from the t3echnology prospective it was primarily associated with PHP and Ruby On Rails. Since the introduction of Atlas things are changing! A very well written article: Top 13 reasons to CONSIDER the Microsoft p... [More]

How many times did I mention lately I love ASP.NET 2.0 and VB2005? Not enough. Yet one more time – I absolutely love Whidbey! So, I decided to make vbfeeds.com mobile-enabled so visitors could browse it on their mobile device. In the past I would have a choice of setting up a virtual directory ... [More]

As found via Brad Abrams there is new great book is coming out - Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina dedicated specifically to Design Guidelines of Frameworks with .NET 2.0. I think the book will be good ... [More]

I have SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 on my laptop for few months and every now and then I find my laptop to be very sluggish. In the task manager sqlservr.exe shows 98-99%. It is only a week ago I found why that might happen and a workaround. I noticed that SQL only eats up the CPU when I ha... [More]

While posting my previous entry today I went to Victor Shatochin's blog again and found fresh info recently released Shareware Starter Kit: The Shareware Starter Kit (SSK) enables you to integrate important shareware management features into most .NET applications.  By providing highly custom... [More]