Time for (free) Beta Exams again

Information can be found from here

http://blogs.technet.com/betaexams/archive/2010/03/17/register-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-exams.aspx

Register via http://register.prometric.com

For easier reference, exams available are listed below (along with PromoCode)

And as always, word of advice, read and master the items in prep guide to increase your chances of passing the exams.

Good luck!

A couple of weeks back, RedGate/SimpleTalk contacted me for a short article about ANTS Profiler. I've been using it for sometime and has definitely been very useful so I won't think twice about recommending it.

Here's the link (below) and please do drop by to read it. Feel free to rate/comment

Using a profiler to speed (up) application Performance

This blog running on BlogEngine.NET (and the its parent/main site) is now running on IIS 7 Integrated Mode and would like to share a little of my experience.

There were two major issues with I migrated these blog to IIS 7 More...

Here's a small Windows Forms application that I created to automate removal of malicious SCRIPT tags inserted into some web files. More...

Might need to create a separate page for notes on performance since I've been doing a lot of C# and database tuning lately but having them on this post so far. Here are some of my notes on performance More...

I have some short notes to make and it might not be blogworthy so having them on this page instead :) Will add to this from time to time. More...

After some issues regarding the license and terms of SandCastle in CodePlex, the project is now again available at CodePlex; this time with source code and not just the executable and documentation.

You can read more on this at this SandCastle blog post : Sandcastle Source Code published in Codeplex

Or go directly to their site at CodePlex : http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle