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MSDN 'How Do I?' Videos—MSDN has some interesting videos that teach you step by step how to accomplish things like: ASP.NET Ajax, Devices, Native Coding, Security, Silverlight, VS, etc. Worth a look!
MVC Source Code Released—If you are eager to deploy on the new MVC framework, Microsoft has released the source code so you can apply your own hacks bug fixes instead of having to wait for official releases.
MVC Framework—ScottGu has an interesting series on the MVC Framework (models, views, and controllers). He introduces the framework here and goes into a more detail in Part1. You can also watch a video of Scott going over MVC.
Subversion Setup Video—Our very own ByteJuggler has been doing a great job on the forums lately and recently product a lovely video on setting up a Subversion Repository using TortoiseSVN. The video is in flash format so just open the file up using Internet Explorer.
Web Application Projects—Missing the single DLL? “The Web Application Projects add-in provides a Visual Studio 2005 Web project model option that works like the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Web project model.”
New C# Orcas Language Features—ScottG talks about the new features in C# 3.0, he details features like Automatic properties, object initializers and Collection initializers.
Windows PowerShell—PowerShell is a new powerful command line shell and scripting language. It ships with over 130 command line tools build on top of the .NET framework and the ability to write your own 'command-lets'. Download the PowerShell Documentation while your at it. Also keep an eye on on the PowerShell team blog. Developers should bookmark the programmer's guide.
ASP.NET Framework 3.0—Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 can now be downloaded here. For more details see this page. ASP.NET 3.0 is included in Windows Vista, some new technologies are Windows Presentation Foundation, Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace. The redistributable package is for Windows XP and Server 2003.
FREE MSDN Library Download—You heard it right, get your very own 1.9 GIG local copy of the MSDN Library from MS downloads.
IIS.NET goes live—As Scott Guthrie has noted in the past, IIS7 is a major update and improvement. Bookmark this site as it is going to be a great platform to keep up to speed on its developments.
Free Intellisense for SQL Server—FREE until September, download your very own copy of SQL Prompt. Features: Code completion, keyword formatting, code snippet integration. No time-bomb or restrictions, it really is free!
Get Real!—If you build web applications for a living, you will find this eBook very interesting. It is written by the makers of 37signals.com, and they talk about development techniques that have worked for them (less is more etc.) I'm currently on page 16 of 177 and I couldn't wait to tell you guys about it. ($19).
Database Synchronization the easy way — Synchronizing database schema's is usually an unpleasant task for most developers, I review a tool that can ease burden
Hacking Visual Studios — Want to learn to hack Visual Studios and make the most of your IDE
Latest TipsError Reporting — Email error reporting for your web application.
URL Rewriting — Dynamic content generation with user-friendly URL's
