26th February 2008

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In this article, Brian discusses the usage and application of lambda expressions in .NET applications. After providing a short introduction, he examines the concepts with the help of source code and relevant explanation.

http://aspalliance.com/1584_Working_with_Lambda_Expressions

Editor's Comments

It seems we have more interesting news coming out about Silverlight now. Scott Guthrie gave a preview of Silverlight 2 last Friday. He mentioned in his blog post a coming release of a public beta of Silverlight 2. There are plenty of new features coming with this new release. Microsoft is finally releasing basic form controls for Silverlight. This version has TextBoxes, CheckBoxes, RadioButtons as well as plenty of other controls ASP.NET developers know already.

Scott wrote a simple application using Silverlight and has documented the process in an 8-part tutorial. Those tutorials will give you a great deal of information about this new version of Silverlight. I recommend taking a look at them. You’ll get a chance to play around with it once Beta 1 ships, but you can check out these tutorials now if you’re interested in seeing what is coming down the pipe.

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Code Smith is an awesome tool to generate code in the fashion you like. It can generate data access layers, business objects, LINQ queries, ASP.NET pages, and many other types of objects rather seamlessly. This article looks at building some templates and how it can make work easier, while creating code in the format you choose.

In this article, Debjani provides a basic introduction to ColdFusion. He starts the discussion with an overview of the different parts of ColdFusion and then provides a detailed explanation of the ColdFusion Markup Language. After reading this article, you will also be familiar with the different data types supported by ColdFusion and the scopes of the variables available in ColdFusion.

This article provides a basic idea of the necessity of ASP.NET 2.0 validation controls. Samer also lists some of the properties associated with the controls along with a short explanation for each one of them.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to unit test Membership Provider. He uses a test membership provider and unit tests the provider using MbUnit. [5:18]

The SchemaExplorer is a mechanism to connect to a database and retrieve data about databases, tables, and columns in CodeSmith Studio. In this article, Brian examines how to set it up in a step-by-step way with the help of relevant code snippets.

In this article, Steve reviews JD Frazer's (User Friendly Cartoonist) book on turning web sites, blogs, and podcasts into cash. The book includes a lot of useful knowledge for any developer/bloggers seeking to earn some income from their online writing.

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AJAX is the latest buzzword in the web development industry. But what is it, and how can you use it? Ramaprasad Potturi and Sanjay Patnaik explain the technology and provide a real-world example of a web page that presents a country and state pair of drop-down lists, where the state drop-down list is populated dynamically on the client side, removing the need for the page to post back to the server.

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Crystal Reports 2008 was released in October 2007. This article (written in Jan 08) explains the ins and outs of the CR2008 versions, integration with VS versions, side-by-side compatibility, upgrading reports and general features of interest to Visual Studio Developers.

In this review, Eric starts with a basic introduction and layout of Brian's Crystal Reports book. He then provides chapter wise detailed opinion of the contents and also some of his recommendations.