If you have not seen the two new additions titled ITracker: Inventory Tracking System and Extended Club Site Starter Kit give them a look. Also seperate from By the Community, For the Community there is a new starter kit available titlted Small Business Site Starter Kit with the download section of www.asp.net that may be of ...

Today Microsoft has released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers.  [Download Here] Check out Scott's blog which contains a few more resources in this matter.

If you have not seen the article Code Documentation in .NET be sure to take the time to give it a once over and to assist in this process be sure to grab Roland Weigelts' GhostDoc. There are versions for both Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005 so you have no reason not to document your work. If you have any doubts of how useful GostDoc is take a ...

I was extremely surprised to return home from work and check my email only to find that I have been nominated for the Microsoft MVP Award. I am honored just to have been nominated for such an award. I have been working as a web developer since 1995 and over the last ten years I have been amazed at the progress Microsoft has made over the years ...

Jump on over to MSDN for: SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Visio for Enterprise Architects (vs2005) Visual SourceSafe 2005 Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System

While listening to the .NET Rocks show dated 7/4/2005 Carl mentioned a free book from Microsoft titled Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers. While I prefer C# it is always great to expand your skillset. Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers Chapters Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in ...

Today while I was in the process of writing the code for an article I am about to release at ASPAlliance I ran into a problem that was driving me crazy. I spoke to other developers and some seemed to think it was a permissions issue but I said it could not be due to I verified at the root Oracle folder the ASPNET user had the rights required. I am ...

Many of the configuration settings for an ASP.NET application that you may be working on can be maintained in a distinct XML based text file named Web.config. If you are familiar with XML then you will discover that this file is easy to follow and understand. Even if your experience level with XML is limited, I believe you will find the Web.config ...

I had a colleague ask me the eternal question that seems to always be at the center of a debate. Why C# over VB.NET? My reasons for C# are based from my Java experience over the years. I find C# much easier to code than VB.NET not to mention that it looks so much cleaner in my mind. While searching Google I ran across the following links that I ...

By utilizing ODP.NET, Oracle database, and really very little effort you also can store images as a Blob for convenient storage and simple categorization. [ Read More ]