Today I became a member of the Yahoo group for Visual Studio .NET.
Good that there is such a group and would love to see what others are saying and doing.
Migrating Some code from VS 2003 to VS 2005
I’m getting a hang of all the issues related to code migration from VS2003 platform to VS2005 platform. It seems like my .dll files are going to work just fine. But I will have some playing to do when it comes to Server Controls such as the DataGrids. VS 2005 DataGrid has certainly undergone some modifications and this means some properties and methods of a DataGrid will be manipulated. So my VS 2003 DataGrid is a little alien to the new enviorenment. Hope other controls are just about fine in the new enviorenment.
To be honest, I feel as if I’m way back in early 2004 when I was putting all those long hours trying to figure out how ASP.NET 1.1 controls work. Now it’s my turn to learn ASP.NET 2.0 controls.
It’s back to the drawing board…………………………………
I heard someone saying ‘History Repeats’………………………………………………………………………………………cool.
June .NET User Group Meeting - The Dark Side
As usual our .NET user group meeting on the 7th was exciting and was awaited by many, since the likes of Merill and Wella hardly disappoints people with their presentations. Merill’s presentation on coding best practices, performance enhancement and bugs was a good one. It was a compact and well organized presentation and I always like Merill’s ability to explain stuff in a simple way. I had lot of things to learn there and I did………….
Wella did a cool presentation on CSS. I’m yet to touch what is in VS 2005 in terms of CSS and designing. Wella was kind enough to share this link with us. It’s Very Interesting.
Finally, there was a power failure in the whole Borella area and all the presentations were done in total darkness except for the light generated by the projector. (Projector was running on backup power).
Merill with a dark tea shirt and a trouser was invisible……………………………………[ :- ) ]
Wella was luckily wearing a more lighter coloured trouser………………………………[ :- ) ]
All in all it was fun.
A Sample Application using Microsoft ATLAS
You can visit here to get an idea of how ATLAS could be used to achieve asynchronous features in an application. Also you can download the code of the application.
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and the New Era Of Web Develpment
I’m pretty sure that all those guys who were there for the AJAX presentation by Merill Fernando (MVP ) at the Latest .NET Forum meeting have more than enough reasons to be excited about future web development projects. For me, If I had known this technology six months ago, It would have made a definite impact on the performance of the application which I was working on. AJAX will optimize server calls by sending only the Data Content and by Not Refreshing the whole page.
However the most pleasing thing for me is that none of the technologies surrounding AJAX are not new but they are being used here in a manner to optimize the power of these technologies by combining them into one. The AJAX class Libraries are free for download from here.
I ‘ve found paper titled “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Application” in which AJAX was first introduced by Jesse James Garrett.
This very recent article on ComputerWorld is a Good Starting point for beginners or any enthusiats on Ajax.
.NET Success stories and more…………………..
Hi Good Morning……. I found some interesting news items at msdn !(microsoft visual studio developer center) to be precise. Also find the interesting case studies. I’ll just mention what hp() Tech Lead had to to say after their .NET experience “On our consumer application project Visual Studio .NET really lowered the technical barriers to doing great work,” . “We developed the application faster than we could have with other technologies due to the better tool set capabilities.”
Looking for more of these .NET inspirations then this will help.
