New version of CSS Friendly control adapters for asp.net

As a developer we all love css (Cascading style sheet). Microsoft has significantly updated his css friendly control adapters kit.

The key is to use something that may be new to you: control adapters. These are little chunks of logic that you add to your web site to effectively "adapt" an ASP.NET control to render the HTML you prefer. The ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters kit provides pre-built control adapters that you can easily use to generate CSS friendly markup from some of the more commonly used ASP.NET controls

here is the link to download css friendly adaptors kit.
http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/

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Maximum for objects in sql server

Here are some maximum number of different objects in sql server.

1. maximum number of character in table name-128
2. maximum number of character in column name-128
3. maximum number of table columns per select statement -4096
4. maximum number of table columns per table-1024
5. maximum number of foreign key reference per table-253
6. maximum number of column per index-16
7. maximum number parameters in stored procedure -1024
8. maximum number of columns in view-128

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Diffrence between Oracle 9i and sql server 2000

Oracle and sql server both are great database management system and have great features. Often developer need to know what type of DBMS he should use for a particular needs.I have found a great comparison articles for oracle 9i and sql server 2000. Which describe all the feature of both DBMS and compare based on features.

here is the link for that article..
http://www.dotnetspider.com/kb/Article3289.aspx

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Ten Must-Have Tools Every .NET Developer Should Download Now

James Avery created a list of tools that every developer should download.

This list contains .....
Snippet Compiler
Regulator
CodeSmith
Building a Custom Template
NUnit
Writing an NUnit Test
FxCop
Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector
NDoc
NAnt
NAnt in Action
Switch Tools

here is the link of article that descries the every tools in great details...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/MustHaveTools/

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Ten Essential Tools - Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

James Avery creates a list of ten add ins a visual studio developer must download.
This contains following add ins.

TestDriven.NET
GhostDoc
Smart Paster
CodeKeep
PInvoke.NET
VSWindowManager PowerToy
WSContractFirst
VSMouseBindings
CopySourceAsHTML
Cache Visualizer
Wrapping It Up

here is the article link for that...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/VisualStudioAddins/

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Book:Developing More-Secure Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Applications

Microsoft Press has this great book.
this book includes...
• Harden a Web server, operating system, communication protocol, and ASP.NET Validate input data with white listing, regular expressions, sand boxing, and other techniques
•Understand design and security implications of various cryptography approaches
•Integrate with Microsoft Windows security features such as impersonation, delegation and protocol transition
•Implement Web farm, single sign-on, and mixed-mode authentication
•Use provider-based features for user and role management and authentication
•Trace attacks with error-handling, logging, and instrumentation
•Lock down your application with partial trust

here is the link to buy this book...
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9989.aspx

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Migrating to asp.net 2.0 videos

Microsoft asp.net team and and http://www.learn2asp.net/ has launched a new web cast series about migrating from other languages to asp.net 2.0.

It's contains following web casts;

Migrating to asp.net 2.0 (2 web casts)
Migrating from asp to asp.net 2.0
Migrating from jsp to asp.net 2.0
Migrating from coldfustion to asp.net 2.0( 2 web casts)
Using PHP on Windows Plateform.

here is link for that
http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/

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