MSDN’s Channel 9 has published a cool series of documentary videos providing an introspective into the history and thinking that has gone into the development of Microsoft’s programming languages (BASIC, Visual Basic, C# …) and their primary development platform consisting of Visual Studio’s IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and the .Net Framework. [read article]

Becoming a good and proficient programmer is ofter about the little things. There are small good habits that make an ok programmer golden, and bad little habits that make a code genius a nightmare to work with. Here are some humble tips for the aspiring dotnet programmer on his way... [read article]

Jonathan Carter of Microsoft provides a great overview of the enhancements to Data features provided by ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. He covers enhancements to technologies such as the Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and Velocity quite excellently. [read article]