So you want to get into ASP.NET web development, but don’t know what you need to get started. It’s okay, I’m here to help!

This in-depth article contains detailed instructions for setting up your Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 computer for full-on ASP.NET web development in C# including installation of IIS, Visual Web Developer Express, and SQL Server Express. This does not cover any actual use of those tools (those posts will come later), but only discussed what you need and how to install everything.

The purpose of the Null Coalescing Operator ( ?? ) is to set a default value for a variable in the event the first value you are attempting to assign from is null. Hence, the logic behind the null coalescing operator is this: If this variable is null, use this other value instead.

This is handy is because what would otherwise be a multiple-line if/else block is now a single, concise line.

Since we know that all months have at least one day, setting an existing DateTime to the first day of a month is a cinch… but finding the last day of a month is a wee bit more complicated since months tend to have a variable number of days from year to year.

Fortunately, there is a relatively simple (if roundabout) way to calculate the last day in a month.

This in-depth article contains detailed instructions for setting up your Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 computer for full-on, balls-out PHP web development – including installation and configuration of IIS, PHP, MySQL, SQLyog, and NetBeans.