Free Online .NET Learning Resources

Software development is an ever expanding field that requires a concentrated effort to keep up with the latest tools and technologies available to the developer in order to satisfy the ever more knowledgeable and discerning client and end user. Thankfully with high bandwidth connections and the internet there are also many places to learn more about the latest tools and technologies. What follows are several links to sites I've been using over the past few months to help me keep up to date. Hopefully you will find them of value too. more . . .

HP Is Not The Company They Used To Be

This morning my HP DV9000 series notebook failed, again. This is the third time in three months. In each case it has been the same failure, no video. I bought this unit new 3 years ago next week. It's worked fine until three months ago with the first failure. more . . .

Adding Membership and Roles to your MVC or ASP.NET Web Site - Application Services

There are several ways to add Application Services(membership, roles, etc.) to your web project. Depending on your deployment needs the different ways of adding these services are not all equal.

At the heart of most of the ways of adding Application Services to you sites is aspnet_regsql.exe. Application Services (and aspnet_regsql.exe) first appeared with .NET 2.0. more . . .

Adding an RSS feed to an ASP.NET MVC Site

This web site is fairly new and I keep finding functionality I'd like to add; most recently that was an RSS feed. I did some Google searches and came up with three or four results for implementing RSS in an MVC site. Some seemed more complex than I thought they should have been. Then I found Damien Guard's recent post on this subject and knew I'd found the answer I was looking for. more . . .

Adding a Syntax Highlighter to FCKeditor

In the previous posts on FCK we went through adding and configuring FCKeditor to an MVC project and enabling the file upload control. In this post we'll add syntax highlighting so that you can have nicely formatted code in your HTML documents. To add this capability to FCKeditor, version 2.6.6 requires two pieces, a plug-in for FCKeditor and a syntax highlighter. more . . .