Blogs by Mahesh Chand

In .NET 3.0, you have a choice between LINQ or SQL when working with databases. Here are some of the key differences between two.

Jeff Prosise talks about the pain of every author and community leader.

I often find myself exhausted and frustrated not getting enough time to know every thing happening in the .NET world. There is always something new. It seems like it is just too much and too soon.

One of the main focus of .NET platform to make programmers' lives easier. What is the point making an application complex if it can achieve same results without it?

Here is a list of known issues for .NET 3.0 Installation and how to fix them.

This is what you need to install and run .NET 3.0.

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Beware when there is a looping and aways be careful when you define any variables inside the loop specially if loop frequency is a lot or the variables are large in size.

I have noticed, some programmers define variables for no reason. By using this quick tip, we can write more cleaner and efficient code.

Recently, I saw some code written by naive programmers and I decided to write a new series of blogs for beginners, which you won't find in books. In these tips, I will talk about small things we should keep in mind to be more efficient.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX), is the successor of .NET Framework 2.0 and new managed code programming model for Windows. This blog talks about .NET 3.0 and various new technologies available in it.

Microsoft Expression tools are a new series of products from Microsoft to build and design modern, high quality, richer user experience graphics and interactive Web and Windows applications.

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) introduced as a part of .NET Framework 3.0 is a sub framework of .NET that is used to build Windows client apps for Windows operating system. WPF uses XAML as its front end language and C# as its code behind language. The current version of WPF is 4.5.

Mike Gold has just completed 200 articles and Scott has finished 100 articles on C# Corner. Congratulations guys.

Scott Lysle, one of our top authors and contributors on forums has been awarded Microsoft MVP award. Congratulations Scott.

I have been using both but recently I am more impressed with ReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2005. What do you think?

Do you think programmers are getting dumber each day? Should we blame Microsoft and Google for it? I want to hear what you think.

I am tired of hearing this question again and again and this is why you should choose C# over VB.NET.

Now .NET 3.0 and XAML are being released and XAML and WPF being the language and library for the presentation layer for .NET applications, the obvious question is what happens to Windows Forms and ASP.NET? The same question I asked Microsoft team at MVP Summit and this is what I got in return.