.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows managed code to be launched from a network share

If you want to run your .net app run from local network path(Intranet), lets say \\maheshkumar\example.exe, it would throw security exception due to security issues. Now, this is been addressed with .net 3.5 SP1. You can run like any other executables without any exceptions or warning. Download .NET 3.5 SP1 ( 2.8 MB) from here. Read more about this from Vancem blog. Ofcourse this will greatly reduce our deployment and updates hassles. Simply publish your shared network URL, that’s it done !!

60 Free controls are available from DevExpress

Yes, I’ve checked it and downloaded them all. 60 Free controls are available from DevExpress. (via – Misfitgeek blog). To download, get register @

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

Useful read – 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

Create PDF in .NET – Without using Adobe lib (Try PDFSharp, free lib)

If you want to create,merge,extract PDF files in .NET, PDFSharp is the best one to use. Creating PDF’s Without using Adobe Acrobat libraries. I know there is lot of libraries from Open Source, but the best one i’ve seen is PDFSharp ( Free ). Get it from here – http://www.pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp