Develop Your First Metro Application

Metro style application is a new concept of designing and developing a full screen user interface application. It gives the flexibility to the developers to manipulate each pixel of the system screen in their applications while the end users can be completely engaged with the content they love in a full screen view. It lets developers create the applications in various platforms like web, desktop, tablets and mobile devices with use of technologies like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, C++, C# and VB.NET. More details? Read article in Codeguru...

http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/article.php/c19745/

Working with Dundas Charts in SQL Server Reporting Service

Dundas data visualization provides third party chart controls for developers used for creating embedded chart based RDL reports with SQL server reporting service. Dundas also provides gauge, map and other visual controls for different Microsoft development platforms (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint). Dundas charts for reporting services can be very easily incorporate into RDL reports and easy to use. These chart control offers more features, additional graph types and more reporting abilities.  For more details read my article in Codeguru.

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/article.php/c17821/

Top 10 SharePoint Features Increasing Developer's Productivity and Efficiency

Introduction
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 now makes it easier for developers to work together. We have seen some major enhancement of SharePoint 2010 in comparison with its 2007 counterpart. Here I delineate major 10 of them which in my opinion increase developer’s productivity and efficiency.
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http://www.sharepointbriefing.com/spother/top-10-sharepoint-features-increasing-developers-productivity-and-efficiency.html