April 2011 - ByteScout

April 2011

Learning ASP.NET MVC? Try To Learn Ruby On Rails To Understand MVC Approach Better!
.NET MVC 3 from Microsoft gains more and more popularity for ASP.NET web application development since the first version which was introduced in 2007 but developers ofter compare ASP.NET MVC to other mature MVC frameworks such as Ruby On Rails (Rails framework) The best way to compare is to try both frameworks yourself and actually learning Ruby On Rails helps to understand ASP.NET MVC better. Although there are a lot of books, tutorials, and screencasts [...]
.NET Bear, Do You Know Any Free PDF Generation Libraries For Use In Commercial Applications?
Short Answer: Yes, you can use iTextSharp 4.1.6 (please read important information about this particular version 4.1.6 below). iTextSharp is the mature and solid PDF generation library for .NET, originally ported from iText, Java library. This open-source library delivers functionality to create, modify, stamp, fill PDF files. Question: Can I use this library in a closed source commercial applications for free of charge? Answer: this is allowed with iTextSharp 4.1.6 version (or prior versions) only [...]