So you have installed SQL Server on your server. Or maybe you installed SQL Server Express when we installed Visual Studio Express. Your next step is to create a test web page that queries a database to test your new SQL Server and when you try to execute your code, you get an exception with […]

We previously installed Visual Studio Express, an IDE to developed .NET applications that Microsoft made available for free. But in order to be able to develop web applications, we need to install another IDE. Don’t worry, it’s also free.

Mono is a multi-platform and open source framework for .NET, and MonoDevelop is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Mono. In this post we’re going to install MonoDevelop in our Ubuntu installation.

We’ve already seen what VirtualBox is and how to install it. Now is time to create a virtual machine with VirtualBox. In this post, we’ll create a virtual machine with Windows installed.

With the recession we experienced in the last few years, IT departments started looking into ways of cutting costs on their data centers. This is when Virtualization started to pick up. Virtual Machines allow us to run multiple operative systems on a single PC or server, which means they could reduce the space required for the data centers and the energy consumption. In this post, we’ll talk about VirtualBox, a virtualization product available as open source.

We’ve seen two of the most popular IDE for Java. Now is the turn for .NET. There are really not many free options when developing for .NET. Visual Studio is definitely the most common IDE for .NET, and Visual Studio Express is the free version of Visual Studio. We’ll install Visual Studio Express on this post.

Eclipse is an IDE with a lot of support from the community, but it’s not the only option. NetBeans is another option to develop in Java. NetBeans is a great IDE too. We’ll go over the installation of NetBeans in this post.

We’ve seen that a text editor is enough to start writing Java code. But there are tools that can facilitate many of the tasks at the time of writing code and debugging our applications. Eclipse is one of those tools.