XMLSerializer and invalid XML

On the blog of Raj Kaimal I have read the following article about xml serialization.
The conclusion of this article is the existence of the System.Xml.XmlWellFormedWriter class which can be created with the XmlWriter.Create method.

New Ajax Toolkit

In this article some new controls of the new ajax toolkit

Download the new release here:
http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=33804

Try the live demos here:
http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/

Configure test projects in Visual Studio

I have not done anything reals with test projects in Visual Studio but on Platinum Bay there are some options for configuring the test projects in Visual Studio.

.NET Framework 1.1. on Vista

When you want to install and use the .NET Framework 1.1. on a PC where Vista is installed read the following article.

Reset auto number from a SQL table after delete

When you have an auto number on a table and you deletes the rows in the table you have to reset the autonumber value.

DELETE FROM tblName
DBCC CHECKIDENT (tblName,RESEED, 0)

The first lines throws all the rows in tblName away and with the second row the auto number is reset


read here more information

Fill a dropdown with month names

On Jeff Widmer's Blog there is an >article about filling a dropdown with the month names. It sounds very simple to me, but when you digging into the code you will see that for months there is not a nice solution as for the DayOfWeek:(.

VS2010: Multi monitor

On the Blog of Scottgu he write about the support of mulit monitors in VS2010. This sounds very nice, I will try this when I have installed a version of VS2010...