Productivity Improvements in Mono 2.4: Components and Architecture

Mono is an open source .NET development framework based on the ECMA standards for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Led by Novell, the Mono project creates a .NET-compatible set of tools that enable developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications, including a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime (CLR), that run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. To Know more read my article.
URL - http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/43410

Free Microsoft Azure SQL Tools For Cloud Application Development

The relation database (RDBMS) provided in Microsoft Azure is known as SQL Azure. The SQL Azure database can be easily integrated with your local SQL Server and tools provided in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Azure Developers can use T-SQL script for queryring data as they presently do for any on-premises SQL database. It's a highly available and scalable service can be obtained by registering to SQL.Azure.com site. Microsoft Azure doesn't provide any Off-premises SQL Azure development tools or Management studio for developers. You need to develop a local database and migrate it to SQL Azure durin production deployment. To know more check my article..

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/mobile/article.php/c17147/Free-Microsoft-Azure-SQL-Tools-For-Cloud-Application-Development.htm

Extend Your ASP.NET MVC Application to Windows Mobile

For the last 6 months I have worked on a web based application in the life science domain, and as per customer demand we introduced ASP.NET MVC Framework with a test driven approach.
Our customer was very happy about the product quality, and after project completion we got another work order to deploy the customer module to Windows Smart Devices. None of our team members had experience deploying ASP.NET applications to Windows Smart Devices. Our plan was to deploy the existing released codebase to Windows Smart Devices with minimal modification.
 
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http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/44610?trk=DXRSS_LATEST

Developing Web Application using MVC 2.0 Framework

For last couple of months I am working on MVC 2.0 Framework.ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is the latest Microsoft framework for building web applications on top of the .NET framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 etc.
MVC stands for Model, View, and Controller, a design pattern that is widely accepted throughout the development industry. You can download MVC 2.0 Beta from the following URL. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4817cdb2-88ea-4af4-a455-f06b4c90fd2c&displaylang=en

Microsoft has also published source code of the MVC Framework, which can be downloaded from Codeplex. http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/39978 .
 
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http://www.devx.com/DevXNet/Article/44400

Suppressing Compiler Warning Message in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

NET Compiler generated warnings (Code Analysis warnings) messages may not be meaningful in the development cycle, but once the code review is done you may need to suppress these compiler generated warning messages. To achieve warning message suppression you can either use In Source Suppression (ISS) allowing .NET developers to write code for warning suppression or use Microsoft Visual Studio Project menu to suppress the warnings. In this article, we will be discuss different techniques of compiler warning suppression.


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http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_general/article.php/c17011

Moonlight With Mono 2.6

The latest version of Mono 2.6 and the Mono Graphical editor MonoDevelop 2.2 was released in December, and with this version Mono is now more compatible with regards to Microsoft .NET 3.5 API's.
This version also includes open sourced ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX, and Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime. Read More in devX
 
http://www.devx.com/DevXNet/Article/44206

Vista Security with Smart Cards

If you've always wondered what a smart card is, here's how to think about it: a smart card, used for authentication, is a mini computer that has a hardware and software component. The hardware component contains a micro chip/integrated circuit (ICC) as a memory card.
Another category of the smart card contains an embedded microprocessor and volatile memory, required for data processing. Regarding software, a smart card has its own operating system, required for communication with it via a card reader. The smart card may also have its own file system.
 
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http://www.devx.com/security/Article/44279/