.NET Renaissance from India (Arun GG)!!!

Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) is a supported add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework providing developers the latest advanced Web services capabilities to keep pace with the evolving Web services protocol specifications.

With WSE 2.0, one can easily develop and deploy reliable, secure and scalable Web Servcies.

Download Web Services Enhancements 2.0 Service Pack 1

MSDN is now providing RSS Feeds for many of its developer centers and for other areas of the site such as the MSDN subscriber downloads.

• MSDN Just Published (all recently released technical content)
• .NET Framework
• Architecture
• ASP.NET
• Data Access and Storage
• Longhorn
• Mobile and Embedded
• MSDN Subscriber Downloads
• MSDN TV
• Office
• Security
• SQL Server
• The .NET Show
• Visual Basic
• Visual C#
• Visual C++
• Visual FoxPro
• Visual J#
• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio 2005
• Web Services
• Windows Embedded
• XML

Wait.... What is this RSS?! If anyone asked this question?! :)

Here the answer:

What Is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) provides a convenient way to syndicate information from a variety of sources, including articles, latest updates, news or even source code check-ins for a development project!!!

What is Atom?

Atom is an XML-based file format intended to allow lists of information, known as "feeds", to be synchronised between publishers and consumers.

Few RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows:

SharpReader,
FeedReader
AmphetaDesk,
NewsGator.

My favorite is SharpReader. If you install this program and subscribe to the respective RSS, you can see the update of all those sites in one place.

RSS for my Blog is : www.mvpblog.com\arun\atom.xml

FxCop is a cool tool for code analysis. Once I finished my coding, the first thing that I will do is check the code with FxCop. Actually FxCop verifies .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines.

Check here for more info on .NET Framework Design Guidelines

FxCop uses reflection, MSIL parsing, and callgraph analysis to analyzes managed code assemblies and reports information about the assemblies, such as possible design, localization, performance, and security improvements. Even with the FxCop SDK one can develop custom rules that extend the set of violations detected by the FxCop GUI application and command-line tool.

Make use of this powerful tool.......

Documentation:
FxCop 1.30 Readme
Online documentation (v1.30.5, 8/5/04)
FxCop.chm download (1.1 MB, v1.30.5, 8/5/04)
Reflection SDK Samples (8 KB zip file, 5/4/04)

My friend Sudhakar hosted a cool site where you can find all Indian MVP blogs!

The .NET Show now has its own Blog. It is really a cool one. Check the blog site to learn about upcoming shows, discuss current shows, or just chat with the hosts. :)

The latest show is about: New Episode: Introduction to Visual Studio 2005

It is worth to see!!!

Check the photos, that I took during the KURNOOL dotnet user group Inauguration!

Click the link - ImageStation Album to see the photos taken during the July, UserGroup meeting (MUGH - Microsoft User Group Hyderabad).

The prominent thing -- For the last two meetings, the number of attendees crossed the 100 count!

Venue: Chip Auditorium, Cyber Towers, Madhapur
Day: Friday 23rd July,Timings: 6:30 PM onwards.

Sample Snapshot:
You can see me - second person in the first row.

First sunday of every month, I will wake up early?

What in sunday, early ?! Yes. On that day We Microsoft MVPs in Hyderabad (India) meet to discuss and share information about various community updates from each technology that we represent.

Scoble has posted a Channel9 featured MVP Breakfast picture at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=17922



Left to Right
Gnana Arun Ganesh (Me!)
Sudhakar Sadasivuni
Ravikant Dangeti
Tameem Ansari

.NET Security and Cryptography By Peter Thorsteinson, G. Gnana Arun Ganesh - 013100851X (Paperback) - Sep 2003 - 496 pages.

This time it is from Scott Forbes (scottfo@microsoft.com) the Security and Privacy compliance manager in Microsoft’s Lawand Corporate Affairs group.

Download in PDF Format
Download in HTML Format

You can also see my book listed in Technet April 2004 Edition:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/securitybooklist.mspx#XSLTsection129121120120

Some other reviews about my book:

http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2004_01/online/mack_2/

http://www.aspalliance.com/articleViewer.aspx?aId=225&vId=1&pId\

http://www.globetechnology.com/books/013100851X.html

Why the name Whidbey?

Whidbey Introduction

The imperative features that I like in Whidbey – Visual Studio 2005 are:

1. Visual Studio 2005 - Improve the Design of Existing Code with the Help of Refactoring

2. ClickOnce - A New Application Deployment Technology

3. The My namespace

4. Insert snippets - Visual Studio 2005

5. What's new in Debugging? - VS 2005

6. Visualizers - Facilitates Customized Data View while Debugging

7. Exception Helper - VS 2005

8. Smart Tags in Whidbey

9. Import/Export Settings

10. Whidbey's Docking feature

Share your thoughts and feedbacks about the Whidbey Session Here!

What you feel about the new features of Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey"?

Do you think these features improve your productivity? Share your valuable thoughts here!

The versions of Visual Studio stand for cities/islands in the Northwest that are near to Redmond, WA.

** Codenamed - Everett - Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Everett is a city north of Seattle.

** Codenamed - Whidbey - Visual Studio 2005 - Whidbey is an island north of Seattle, which is nearer to Everett.

** Codenamed - Orcas - Visual Studio 20XX - Orcas is an island in the San Juan group of islands even further north of Seattle.

** The next version of Windows (Codenamed - Longhorn) Longhorn is a bar close to Whistler and Blackcomb ski resorts.

Check here to know the complete list of the Microsoft Code Names!!!

In the following picture, you can see where the Whidbey island is located:

Similar to Office XP, in Whidbey you can see smart tags in many places (Both in Designers and in Code Editor), which helps you in do your comon tasks with out moving to different menus.

Smart Tag in DataGrid:


Smart Tag in Mask Control:

In whidbey, if an exception error occurs in your code, it shows an exception handler bubble, which provides useful information like troubleshooting tips, standard info on the exception and some tips on how to avoid that exception from occuring again.

Exception Handler Bubble: