Anand Narayanaswamy

Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today introduced TFS Work Item Manager (Beta)and TFS Project Dashboard (Beta), a new class of developer workload and resource management applications built with RadControls for WPF by Imaginet ... (more)

DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of DXperience v2009 vol 2 – award winning and feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Controls, IDE Productivity Tools, and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio 2008/2010. With DXperience v200... (more)

Nevron has announced the immediate availability of the new major version release (2009 Vol.2) of Nevron SSRS Vision suite – the leading Data Visualization suite for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008. In 2009 Vol.2 we have introduced many improvements in the Chart for SS... (more)

As always, Murach publishing updates their books as and when a new version of the software is released. SQL Server 2008 for Developers is an updated book of its 2005 edition. The book consists of 22 chapters divided into five sections providing solid coverage of SQL Server 2008. ... (more)

I have been a big fan of the Dummies book series for the last 8 years. I can still remember the day when I picked up my first dummies book from a local book shop. I recently came to know that Ken Cox has been involved in writing a dummies title for ASP.NET 3.5 and was keenly wait... (more)

Mike Murach & Associates has just published a new book entitled Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting. This book is written for developers who want to know how to use JavaScript and DOM scripting to create websites that deliver the fast response times, dynamic user interfaces, an... (more)

Telligent is pleased to announce the availability of Telligent Analytics 3.0 (previously called Harvest Reporting Server). The latest version of Telligent’s analytics software represents the company’s ongoing commitment to innovation and enterprise collaboration. Telligent Analy... (more)

Recently, Jacob Sebastian, SQL Server MVP (http://beyondrelational.com) had a chance to interview Pinalkumar Dave, SQL Server MVP (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) and a prominent authority on SQL servers. In a hour long friendly conversation with Jacob, Pinal brings forward a lot o... (more)

Mike Murach & Associates has just published a new, C# edition of their popular ADO.NET book. Entitled Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with C# 2008, it covers what today’s C# developer needs to know to create database applications the way the best professional... (more)

Nowadays, many web developers have implemented AJAX in their web applications. This enables them to create dynamic, rich web sites. There are numerous resources available on the web for learning ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, but it is always nice to refer to a book as and when required. In h... (more)

Sebastopol, CA – Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today’s web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In his newest book, Even Faster Web Sites, (O’Reilly, US $34.99), Steve Souders, ... (more)

Web developers are always on the lookout for great products to add dynamic effects to their Web pages. Dynamic pages, often called DHTML pages, make use of slide shows, random content rotation, and news scrollers, and are generally developed using languages such as Visual Basic, ... (more)

The promise of the semantic web–in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web–is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality. Programming the Semantic Web (O’Reilly Media, $39.99 USD) demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications,... (more)

WordPress You can now create blogs for free using WordPress hosted platform. This means that you need not have to buy a domain to host your blog. Instead, you will be provided with a unique sub domain URL like http://.wordpress.com. You just need to register at ... (more)

Imagine that you have completed a degree course and waiting for a job. Spending alone at home. Don’t waste your time. You can spend your spare moments by visiting various websites which will ultimately expose you to the outside world. Linkedin It is a popular site to record you... (more)

Microsoft’s .NET SDK ships with a command line compiler called csc.exe. It can be executed from within the DOS prompt. In this article, I will show you how to build a simple C# program using this compiler with Notepad as the editor. Open your editor and enter the code as given i... (more)

Once you have installed a C# compiler, the next process is to choose an editor to enter source codes. There are different types of editors such as Notepad and Visual C#. In addition to these two, many third party vendors have also developed editors for programming with C#. This F... (more)

If you’re looking to take full advantage of multi-core processors with concurrent programming, The Art of Concurrency (O’Reilly, US $44.99), by Clay Breshears, provides the knowledge and hands-on experience you need. The book is one of the few resources that focuses on implementi... (more)

First of all, you need to install a C# compiler. You can either use a command line compiler available from Microsoft or third party compiler kit developed by Mono. Microsoft’s C# compiler is widely used by many developers as the Mono compiler kit is not yet fully developed. In ad... (more)

You will need to work with more than one form while developing Windows based applications in C#. In this code snippet, Anand examines the steps required using Visual C# 2008 (1) Start Visual Studio 2008 (Start | All Programs | Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 | Microsoft Visual Stud... (more)