I have create one place to share and talk about my art, music and some art news … In this space I will try, not avoid, talking about programming ;D

Please check my tumblr page:

The site always give the credits to the artist; The artist is the owner of that image and all credits belong to him! ;D
Take a look around. Believe me, the site is very inspiring. You will not regret it.

For example:

< %# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, “myField”,“{0:c}”) %>

An equivalent expression using casts would be this:

< %# String.Format(“{0:c}”,(CType(Container.DataItem,DataRowView)(“myField”))) %>

The idea is to join all the best images of the web and make the artists recognized and known!! The site always give the credits to the artist; put some description (if I found any), artist name, artist site. If you like the image, please go to the artist site!! He is the owner of that image and all credits belong to him! ;D

Share your images and be recognized
You can also have the opportunity do submit your best images (only the excellent ones will be approved). That means all you need to do is upload at least a large image for each post and you’re ready to go.

Many of the artists on the site, working for the gaming industry and TV (films). Others just do it for passion.Take a look around. Believe me, the site is very inspiring. You will not regret it.

For a variety of historical reasons, Office COM APIs have large numbers of parameters, several of which have reasonable defaults. In addition, while you may want to use many of the defaults, you may need to specify a value for some of the parameters later in the list. It would be great to call those Office methods having 15 or more parameters by only specifying those parameters where you want something other than the default. Optional and named parameters enable that for you in C# 4.0.

Named and Optional Parameters Explained
Named parameters allow you to call a method by specifying which argument in a method call refers to which formal parameter. Suppose someone had written this trivial Subtract method:

public static int Subtract(int left, int right)
{
return left - right;
}

All three of these calls are equivalent:

result = Subtract(7, 5);
result = Subtract(left: 7, right: 5);
result = Subtract(right: 5, left: 7);

If you don’t specify a name for any of the parameters, the normal order is used. Notice that you can rearrange the order of the parameters by specifying them by name.

Optional parameters enable you to specify a default value for any parameter to a method. Any parameters that have default values must be at the end of the argument list. Optional parameters must be compile-time constants.

One of the things I like the most about named parameters is that you can improve the readability of code.

Please read the complete article here:
Visual Studio Magazine : Looking Ahead to C# 4.0: Optional and Named Parameters

Note that this book is not updated to the latest version (.NET Compact Framework 3.5) but it is an excellent start. ;D

Check his link:
http://www.paulyao.com/cfbook/index.asp

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PART 1: FOUNDATIONS

1 Compact Framework Architecture
2 What is a Compact Framework Program?
3 Fundamental .NET Data Types
4 Platform Invoke

PART 2: USER-INTERFACE PROGRAMMING

5 Creating Forms
6 Mouse and Keyboard Input
7 Inside Controls
8 Data Binding
9 Inside More Controls
10 Custom Controls

PART 3: MANAGING DEVICE DATA

11 Storage
12 ADO.NET Programming
13 Synchronizing Mobile Data
14 Remote API (RAPI )

PART 4: CREATING GRAPHICAL OUTPUT

15 Compact Framework Graphics
16 Text and Fonts
17 Printing

A Appendix A: Hungarian Naming for .NET
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If you want the updated book, you must to buy it:
Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5 (2nd Ed) Autographed Copy

Completely revised and updated for .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and Windows Mobile Smart Phones, Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5, 2nd Edition, teaches you how to write highly effective applications for handheld wireless devices with small screens, limited memory, and finite battery life.

Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Second Edition
The C# source code from the book is available here

<asp :GridView runat="server" Width="100%" .... HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />

Resulting output:

<tr align="left" valign="top"> <th scope="col">Your Column Name</th><th scope="col">Your Column Name 2</th><th scope="col">Your Column Name3</th><th scope="col"></th></tr>

Note that the align style is applied to the tr and not the td. IE8 by default is setting the alignment for th (header) elements to center, while td defaults to left. Solution: Instead of using the HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign property, set a CssClass instead and apply the alignment directly on the th element:

<asp :GridView HeaderStyle-CssClass="HeaderStyle"... />

then add one css class rule:

<style type="text/css"> .HeaderStyle th{text-align:left} </style>

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He have made one excellent Performance Comparison of different Web Browsers. The end results were very interesting as we can see below:

“The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance. Each web browser was tested three times under an unprimed cache (except for the browser cache performance), and their average value reported in the results.”

See the Original Source: Performance Comparison of Web Browsers

“Internet Explorer 8 is a unique release in the history of Internet Explorer in more than one way, but the decision to make standards mode the default means that authors of existing sites are impacted by it, if only to set the compatibility mode to IE7. (…)

Most ASP.NET built-in controls have been doing just fine in IE8, or the faulty behavior was actually due to an IE bug that we reported and that got fixed.

All except asp:menu. It so happens that the menu control is making a bad assumption on what the default value for z-index should be.”

asp:menu fix for IE8 problem available
http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/03/23/asp-menu-fix-for-ie8-problem-available.aspx

Description of the hotfix rollup package for ASP.NET 2.0: April 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969612/

Direct FIX: ASP.NET 2.0 rollup package (April 2009)
Applies to ASP.NET 2.0 running on Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003.
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=18157

However, you will notice that using the IE8, several times, is reported as IE7.

[test.aspx]

< %
response.write(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))
%>

Using the IE8 browser, in both cases, I get these two different results:

Local Machine (Localhost):

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)"

Production Server:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)"

If you notice, one says MSIE 8.0 and other MSIE 7.0.

Since IE8 include 3 rendering engines (IE8 Standards, IE7 Compatibility, IE6 Quirks), IE8 will set the Version Token dynamically, based on the user compatibility settings for each site.

This two links, will show you the best practices to detect IE8 on real world scenarios: