Getting Atlas Controls in your toolbar.

Wanna start to work on ASP.net Atlas-based application?
The first thing you need to do is to install the ASP.NET codename “Atlas” package and unpack the package into folder on your computer.
The next thing is to add the Atlas Control Toolkit into your Visual Studio’s toolbar. Here are the steps you can do:
1. Right click on [...]

vs2005 Inline task comments

Creating Task List Comments in your projects can ensure you to complete the important and esential tasks. This feature can be used to indicate a variety of work to be done at the location marked
The Task List displays comments embedded in your project code that begin with the comment marker for your development language, followed [...]

What terms a Project manager should pay more attention to

As a development manager or project manager, you here a lot of weasel words and excuses from your staff or from external consultants who are trying to hose you into believing things are better than they are. In many cases, developers use these phrases to even convince themselves that things are better than they are, [...]

SQL Caching

Caching is a very useful way for you to retain pages or data across HTTP requests, so that you can reuse them without the recreating them.
In ASP.net 2.0, it makes you easier to implement data caching. SQL cache dependencies are one of ASP.net 2.0 coolest features, which allows you to create dependencies between cached items [...]

Bug Tracking Software Review #1 JIRA

I’ve been using a product from Atlassian called JIRA for the past couple years to track tasks, bugs, and requests.
I highly highly recommend it - its an amazing product and the team behind it provides great support and rapid response. They’re also highly supportive of charity and open-source organizations - if you ask nicely, they’ll [...]

Protecting web.config Connection strings

It is recommended that store your database connection strings in the Web.config file and encrypt the connection strings. In the .NET Framework 2.0, you have the option to enable the configuration encryption in the <protectedData> section in the web.config file.
For example:
<protectedData>
<protectedDataSections>
<add name=”connectionStrings” provider=”RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider”/>
</protectedDataSections>
</protectedData>
There are two predefined providers that you can find in the .NET Framework [...]