.NET Blogs

Below are some of the best (IMHO) .NET blogs - enjoy!

Scott Guthrie's Blog

Scott Guthrie is the Product Manager of the .NET Framework. His Blog is essential reading for any .NET developer, especially those working with ASP.NET.

Last Post: Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework

Last month we released a beta of the Microsoft Web Farm Framework. The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free product we are shipping that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them. It also supports integration with load balancers - and enables you to automate updates...

Cached since 08 September 2010 14:57:59

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

Scott Hanselman's Blog

Scott Hanselman is a web developer and a new employee of Microsoft. His blog covers all kinds of technology related topics.

Last Post: The .NET Micro Framework - Hardware for Software People

I'm definitely a software person. I took EE in school and made an LED class, then a small computer like everyone else, and I know my volts and my amps for the most part, but that's about it. The limits of my skills are somewhere around adding an LED and some resistors to leech power off a USB adapter (which I recently did while working on the Hanselcade retro arcade build). I look at hardware guys like Clint Rutkas in awe. I mean, seriously, who builds a T-shirt cannon from scratch for fun? Amazing....

Cached since 08 September 2010 14:58:00

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

.NET tip of the day

It's not a blog, and there isn't a tip every day, but it's worth a read for the clever tips you may not be aware of.

Last Post: How to respond with code 404 (Not Found) in ASP.NET

Suppose you configured custom 404 page in web.config file in the customErrors section. So whenever user requests non-existent aspx page, ASP.NET run-time returns well formatted message to the user. Also you have a page that shows articles from a database according to article ID passed in the url (for example: article.aspx?id=345). But if user passes article ID that doesn't exists the page must return code 404 (Not Found) and show the custom 404 page like in the previous...

Cached since 08 September 2010 14:58:00

http://dotnettipoftheday.org/

Mike Taulty's Blog

Mike is a developer evangelist based in the UK who writes about a variety of up-coming Microsoft technologies.

Last Post: Silverlight on Windows Live Photos

I really like the subtle use of Silverlight on Windows Live Photos – it’s not one of those over-the-top spinning, projection based UI’s but it makes the experience for uploading photos and for viewing in a SlideShow just a lot nicer. If you’ve not seen it,...(read more)

Cached since 08 September 2010 14:58:00

http://dotnettipoftheday.org/

Darren Fieldhouse's Blog

OK, this is blatant self-promotion, but I'd like to think my blog is a useful resource...

Last Post: Designer resources for Developers

If like me, you have to turn your hand to design every now and then, you might find some of these useful: Fonts Free for commercial use fonts. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ Colours A very cool flash based colour picker. http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromacolor Another colour scheme design – all HTML this time… http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Icons A library of icons with various licences. http://www.iconlet.com/ Hope you find some of these useful… leave a comment if you have...

Cached since 08 September 2010 14:58:01

http://blog.dotnettech.net/