Software Development : .Net Development

Developing HTML5 with Javascript and CSS3 online courses from Virtual Academy

eralper — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:39:00 GMT

Hello web programmers, and additionally Windows Phone 8 programmers,

Since all we can now code in HTML5 in our environments or devices where our apps or applications will run on.

I've been attending to courses that Microsoft offers free over Virtual Academy. After attending Windows Phone 8 development training courses, I now started Developing in HTML5 with Javascript and CSS3 and I want to share the first session's evaluation notes with you.

In fact this is some small notes not to forget for future while HTML5 programming.

The first note can be the difference between canvas and SVG graphics improvements in HTML5.
Don't forget if complex, SVG will be slow in rendering process. Although developers can identify and work with each object on SVG seperately, canvas will perform better if the graphic is too complex.
All graphic reach apps use canvas.
Here I mentioned an other important difference between canvas and SVG is that, SVG images can be searched within a DOM. But canvas is to be repainted one image everytime.

And the improved and new forms elements in HTML5.
For example, when you place an input element within an HTML5 form, you can mark the field as required in an input form just by adding the "required attribute" or setting the required attribute value to "required". Here is the sample HTML5 markup code. Both usage is correct.
<input type="text" required />
<input type="text" required="required">

An other evaluation questions were about the new HTML5 semantic tags.
For example if you want to place author and copyright data in your HTML5 web page, you can use the footer semantic tag.

If you want to place a stand-alone content seperated from others, you can use the figure semantic tag.
Figure semantic tag can be used for grouping stand-alone content like video or image.

And that is all for today's HTML5 self-training and evaluation

Windows Phone API poster for Windows Phone 8 app developers

eralper — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:10:00 GMT

Are you a software programmer developing apps for Windows Phone 8?

If so Windows Phone API poster from Microsoft will be a good resource for you just like many other Windows Phone 8 app developers.
You can download the Windows Phone API Quickstart poster from DevCenter for free.

If you are looking for more resources and samples for Windows Phone 8 app development then you will probably refer to Official Microsoft WP Dev Center
There you will find sample code, sample apps, show cases, videos and more links to necessary blog posts and Windows Phone development tutorials

Play Mastermind Game using T-SQL on SQL Server

eralper — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:11:00 GMT

Hello all T-SQL masters,

Do you think is it possible to play mastermind game using T-SQL on SQL Server?

I tried to develop sql code for managing game setup, making guess and evaluating the results to demonstrate a mastermind game actions on a SQL Server.

But I get stuck.
I need your comments and help to progress to finish sql mastermind game :)

Soon I'll place the transact-sql codes I have developed besides the database design and table structures for simulating the mastermind game on a SQL Server environment.

Stay tuned and share your comments!

Register for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Certification Exams (Beta)

eralper — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:31:00 GMT

Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Certification Exams beta versions.
If you have taken a beta certification exam from Microsoft, you know that beta exams are free.
If you have programming experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, I strongly suggest you to register for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 certification exams which will be done in April, 2010

For beta promotion codes and beta exam codes please go to Register Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Certification Exams

Microsoft WebCamp Istanbul on 1st of February, 2011

eralper — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:57:00 GMT

Microsoft WebCamp will be held in Istanbul for developers and IT professionals living in Turkey on 1st of February, 2011 at Microsoft Istanbul office.

Web developers who want to attend the Microsoft Web Camp should be quick to register for the limited seats left for Istanbul WebCamp.

Please go to Microsoft WebCamp Istanbul registration pages for registering online.

Microsoft SQL Server 2011 aka SQL Server Denali CTP1 Community Technology Preview is released

eralper — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:37:00 GMT

Microsoft has released the upcoming version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2011 code-name SQL Server Denali CTP1 (Community Technology Preview 1) for SQL Server database professional, SQL Server database administrators and developers.

The MS SQL Server 2011 release date of first CTP, CTP1 is 8th of November, 2010.
We can expect the next CTP within 3 months time. And a similar timing schedule is leading me to expect the MS SQL Server 2011 release date of RTM version at the end of 2011.

You can find the MS SQL Server 2011 download link at Microsoft Downloads

After you download Microsoft SQL Server 2011 CTP1 from Microsoft Downloads and install SQL Server 2011, to see what is new in SQL Server 2011 and work with samples, you can also download SQL Server 2011 sample databases and AdventureWorks sample database for SQL2011.

You will find more information about next version of SQL Server, MS SQL Server 2011 or SQL Server Denali at MS SQL Server 2011.

Download Report Viewer - Microsoft Report Viewer 2010 Redistributable Package

eralper — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:34:00 GMT

Microsoft has released Report Viewer 2010 for Web and Windows applications. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report developers can use Microsoft Report Viewer to display sql reports in their Windows and Web programs and software.
To summarize, Microsoft Report Viewer control enables developers build applications that are running on Microsoft .NET Framework in order to present Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports.

SQL Server Reporting Services developers can download Report Viewer 2010, Microsoft Report Viewer 200 Redistributable Package from Microsoft Downloads portal.

The free Report Viewer download file ReportViewer.exe is about 4.5 MB in size.
Microsoft Report Viewer 2010 redistributable package requires MS SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services or higher versions for server processing mode and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-070 for Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure

eralper — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:19:00 GMT

Microsoft has recently released a security update which resolves the publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET

I strongly suggest ASP.NET developers, IIS Administrators, system administrators and security administrators to take care on Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-070.

The security problem Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure was known for a period of time and a few work-arounds were already been suggested to ASP.NET developers.

For more information on security update please refer to Microsoft TechNet portal web page Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure.

I finished VS2010 Download and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 installation

eralper — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:26:00 GMT

Hello .NET Framework developers,

As you know Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 release date was a few day before and many developers like me have already finished Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 download from MSDN and installation of VS2010 to see the new Visual Studio 2010 features.

I especially choose the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate download in order to see the new features. You know VS2010 Ultimate edition is covering all components of Visual Studio IDE when compared with other VS2010 editions.

I will soon be publishing a short guide in order to show how to install Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate edition and also compare Visual Studio 2010 editions.

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eralper — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:48:00 GMT

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eralper — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:20:00 GMT

Hello all,

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If you are following my Microsoft Certification blog entries, you might have realized that I have taken a number of Microsoft Certification exams. And Microsoft Learning has invited me to participate in the limited pilot of the new MCP Learning Rewards Program.

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Download SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit

eralper — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:31:00 GMT

Hello SQL Server developers,

Programming on SQL Server using t-sql is one of the things that I like alot.
Working with data, selecting, querying, aggregating data, reporting in a meaningful way is one of the most loved tasks I enjoy in my job.

With the t-sql enhancements and t-sql improvements introduced with MS SQL Server 2005 and with MS SQL Server 2008, coding in t-sql is enabling many difficult tasks to be implemented easier in less code.

Now, you probably know Microsoft SQL team has released the SQL Server 2008 R2.
The SQL team is now providing a developers training kit for all of sql developers and of course for database administrators.

T-SQL programmers can download MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit from Microsoft Downloads web site.

The total size of the training file is about 172 MB.

The sql training kit includes training videos, webcasts, presentations on SQL Server and sql, demos and sql hands-on labs.

There are sql training topics on Filestream, Spatial data, SQL CLR, StreamInsight, Reporting Services improvements, new T-SQL enhancements like date and time data types, Grouping Sets, Merge statement (sql developers were actually expecting T-SQL Merge with SQL2005), tsql Table-Valued Parameters, etc.

If you want to learn more on SQL Server 2008 development and take a fast course on T-SQL features and improvements in SQLServer 2008, download SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit and watch video files and work on demo applications and do the hands-on labs.

Register for Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams

eralper — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:08:00 GMT

Hello Microsoft .NET Framework developers,

Microsoft has announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams.
Developers can register for Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams for free.

Microsoft has invited developers to take part in one or even more Visual Studio 2010 certification beta exams and the beta exams of Microsoft .NET Framework 4 certification.

If you are successfull in a beta exam, this exam credit will be transferred to your transcript.
You will have the same certification as you have passed the final version of these Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 certification exams.

Here are the announced Microsoft Framework 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 exams for certification in beta period.

Exam 71-511, TS: Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Exam 71-515, TS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Exam 70-513: TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Exam 70-516: TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Exam 70-518: Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Exam 70-519: Pro: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Although Microsoft has warned candidates in order not to share their exam voucher and exam promotion codes, since this promotional codes and exam vauchers are announced at a TechNet Blog, I do not think publishing the beta exam promotion codes for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will be a problem.

Here are the promotional codes for beta exams :

For 70-511 you can use promotion code 511BC
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Wish you success with the beta certification exams of new wave Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Could not load file or assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit' or one of its dependencies.

eralper — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:34:00 GMT

I have got the following error when I tried to build an ASP.NET web site application.

Could not load file or assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

I had registered the assembly by using the following code:

<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="ajaxControl" %>

I have solved the problem after copying the AjaxControlToolkit.dll into the /bin folder of the web site application.

Do you wonder about Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0

eralper — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:42:00 GMT

Hello,

If you wonder about the future of Visual Studio and ASP.NET, you can refer to presententation on Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 from Microsoft.

You can find more information about Visual Studio 2010 at the homepage of this product at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx.

Also first Visual Studio 2010 CTP (Community Technology Preview) version is available for free download and test use of IT professionals at Microsoft Downloads Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

And for the future of ASP.NET with ASP.NET 4.0 you can find a walk through video at Channel9 from Scott Hunter named ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap