LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5:
LINQPad is also a terrific tool for learning LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the recently released C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. There’s no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and functional programming.
PowerShell+ is a true PowerShell console embedded in a rich and intuitive user interface.
PowerShell+ is free for non-commercial use. Get your personal copy now: http://www.powershell.com/downloads/psp1.zip!
Update: New Stuff from the latest update will be in RED.
This list will grow as I find new tools. So if you know of some not on this list do post them in the comments.
Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier
Aavailable on Channel 9
- Lap around Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 presented by James Conard
- What’s new in C# 3.0? presented by Luke Hoban
- What’s new in Visual Basic 9.0? presented by Amanda Silver
- .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements presented by Jack Gudenkauf
- .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) presented by Luca Bolognese
- Using LINQ with Relational Data presented by Mike Pizzo
- ADO Synchronization Services presented by Steve Lasker
- Introduction to the Microsoft Client Continuum by Adam Kinney
- Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX
- Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008
- Introduction to Silverlight
- What’s New in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5
- Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend
- Integrating Windows CardSpace
- Connected Application Foundations using WCF, WF, and Windows CardSpace
- Building Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Enabled Windows Communication Foundation Services in .NET Framework 3.5
- Web Programming with WCF
Named pipes are far more powerful than anonymous pipes. They can be duplex, over the network, and can support multiple server instances of a single name, making them ideal for quick-to-build, and easy to connect to, multithreaded servers. Furthermore, they support message based communication so that a reading process can read varying-length messages precisely as sent by the writing process. Finally, named pipes support impersonation allowing connecting processes to use their own set of permissions on remote servers.
Pipes are a lower level channel the WCF could be built on top of. WCF actually has its own internal pipe implementation that it uses to achieve IPC. In the future, WCF may switch to using the public pipe implementation that we’re now providing.
HashSet<T> is an unordered collection containing unique elements. It has the standard collection operations Add, Remove, Contains, but since it uses a hash-based implementation, these operation are O(1). (As opposed to List<T> for example, which is O(n) for Contains and Remove.) HashSet also provides standard set operations such as union, intersection, and symmetric difference.
Via BCL Team Blog
Coding4Fun Developer Kits!
- The C4F Developer Kit is an offering of 20+ components and controls that offer developers a great opportunity to create cool, fun applications with technology that may be otherwise too complex or require countless hours of research and coding. The toolkit hosts controls for things like Bluetooth, Speech, TAPI, Calendar and much, much more. We’ve rolled this out on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/c4fdevkit) to allow the community to share and add to it.
- e.g. Web Services
Managed code wrappers for sites like:
- Yahoo Traffic
- Flickr
- MySpace
- Amazon.com
- Craig’s List
- Delicious
- Digg
- YouTube
- And more
- The C4F Vista P2P Toolkit offers developers the ability to create peer-to-peer applications for WinForms and WPF with no lines of code. Built on top of the WCF, we created a set of controls that developers simply drag ‘n drop on their design surface and simply select from the Smart Tags which pieces to hook up. They have prebuilt controls for Chat, file sharing and streaming audio and video. This too can be found on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/c4fp2p).
- Finally, to bring the above apps & samples altogether, we’ve created the C4F Dashboard which is part of the C4F Developer Kit. This simple WPF application allows developers to launch the samples, source code or documents for a single dashboard.
If you delete all the records from a table it won’t reset the identity.
To reset the identity seed you need to use a DBCC command.
DELETE FROM myTableName DBCC CHECKIDENT('myTableName', RESEED, 0)// DBCC CHECKIDENT (table_name, RESEED, new_reseed_value)Setting new_reseed_value to 0 will cause the next INSERT with an identity = 1This T-SQL applies to MS SQL Server 2000+
Here is a list of some of the best links: ASP.NET MVC Link collection
Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview
Download the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview | Readme | Quickstarts | Discuss in Forums
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC provides model-view-controller (MVC) support to the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime, which enables developers to more easily take advantage of this design pattern. Benefits include the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns, as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD).
The ASP.NET MVC Toolkit provides HTML rendering helpers and dynamic data support for MVC.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
ASP.NET Dynamic Data helps developers build a fully customizable, data-driven app quickly. It provides a rich scaffolding framework that allows rapid data driven development without writing code, yet it is easily extendible using the traditional ASP.NET programming model.
ASP.NET AJAX
New additions to ASP.NET AJAX include support for managing browser history (Back button support).
ADO.NET Entity Framework
ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new modeling framework that enables developers to define a conceptual model of a database schema that closely aligns to a real world view of the information. Benefits include easier to understand and easier to maintain application code that is shielded from underlying database schema changes.
ADO.NET Data Services
ADO.NET Data Services provide new services that find, manipulate and deliver data over the web using simple URIs. Benefits include an easy and flexible way to access data over the web, while enabling the separation of presentation and data access code.
Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET
You can integrate the rich behavior of Microsoft Silverlight into your Web application by using two new ASP.NET server controls: a MediaPlayer server control that enables easy integration of media sources such as audio (WMA) and video (WMV) into your Web application, and a Silverlight server control that allows an ASP.NET page to reference both XAML objects and their event handlers.
Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data: 
ADO.NET Data Services with ASP.NET AJAX Support: 
Introduction to ASP.NET MVC December CTP: 
Introduction to ASP.NET Ajax History: 
Introduction to the ASP.NET MediaPlayer Control: MUST READ – ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 0) (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
David Ebbo
Troy Goode
DevConnections and PNPSummit MVC Demos Source Code
Provides introductory information about LINQ to XML, including a conceptual overview and an overview of the System.Xml.Linq classes.
Provides conceptual and how-to information about programming with LINQ to XML.
Provides pointers to the LINQ to XML managed reference documentation.
Provides sample applications for LINQ to XML.
Providing a custom LINQ solution for the Lucene Information Retrieval System, commonly referred to as a search-engine.
Vincent Leung .NET Tech Clips 