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How to Securely Verify and Validate Image Uploads in ASP.NET and ASP.N

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:09:55 GMT

How do you verify that content that your users are uploading to your ASP.NET site are just harmless images and not something malicious? Use GDI+ to validate that images are images and nothing else!

Getting Started with AppHarbor - Heroku for .NET

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:04:25 GMT

Nice guide to setting up an ASP.NET MVC3 app on Appharbor (http://appharbor.com)

Creating Missing Index and Improve SQL Server Performance

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:17:43 GMT

A Quick Script which you can right away run and improve SQL Server Performance.

Building an HTML5 App with ASP.NET

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:06:33 GMT

Describes how to create a JavaScript Reference by taking advantage of HTML5 features such as local storage, and offline manifests. Also demonstrates how to build server-side JavaScript unit tests for an Ajax application.

How to Use Remote Validation in ASP.NET MVC3

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:21:40 GMT

Remote validation is brand new as of ASP.NET MVC3 RC, and it's a powerful feature for remotely validating user input against your data repositories in real-time, and it doesn't require developers to program ANY jQuery whatsoever.

10 Harder-to-find-than-they-should-be Answers for Silverlight Beginner

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:42:50 GMT

In the process of learning Silverlight 4, the most recent version of Silverlight for which few guides or books exist, I've built a list of the top ten answers I wish were easier to find when I started learning Silverlight. I was unable to quickly find answers on these subjects perhaps because I was using the wrong lexicon or perhaps these are things that professional Silverlight / WPF developers consider to be too "obvious" to be worthy of inclusion in any of their books or blog entries. Well to make it easier for all of you, I went ahead and researched all of these.

ScottGu: Introducing "Razor" - a new view engine for ASP.NET

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:30:51 GMT

"ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of "view engines" - which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The "default" view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC view engines used today include Spark and NHaml. The new view-engine option we've been working on is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. The codename for this new view engine is "Razor", and we'll be shipping the first public beta of it shortly."

Using Tika in .NET for extracting text out of documents

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:45:51 GMT

Tika is an open source Java-based tool for extracting information out of various different document formats. It can be used with Lucene for indexing and searching documents, among other things. In this post, Kevin Miller talks about how use Tika in .NET via the IKVM.net utility.

Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:14:18 GMT

In this article, Andrea Boschin is creating a simple reusable control that lets the developer implement a better file-uploading experience using Silverlight 4.0.

Windows Phone 7 Action Pack Tool for easier Windows Phone 7Development

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:02:25 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Action Pack Tool for easier Windows Phone 7 Development-

Announcing the Release of Quick and Dirty Feed Parser

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:30:36 GMT

Quick and Dirty Feed Parser is a lightweight .NET 2.0 library designed to give developers an agnostic way of parsing RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 XML syndication formats. QD Feed Parser parses both Atom and RSS feeds into business objects with common interfaces which expose the substance of the feeds - that way you can get to the business of syndicating content without worrying about what format it's in.

IIS Express

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:15:51 GMT

If like me you are sick to death of Cassini (whats that then? its the built in web server that visual studio uses) and also sick to death of playing around with IIS 7 then relief is at hand.

Getting started with bing map in silver-light

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:00:52 GMT

This post explains how to get started with Bing Map and Silverlight. This is first of a series of posts which explains how to build geo-spatial solutions using silverlight, bing maps based on the data stored in a SQL Server database.

Microsoft needs to innovate or go home [ASP.NET]

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:01:07 GMT

It's a simple concept really: MVC is a wonderful addition to the Microsoft web stack, but it's not exactly "daring" - not yet anyway. By "daring" I mean "ass-kicking" in the way ASP.NET was when it was first introduced, and ASP Classic when it first came along just 4 years before that. These platforms inspired thousands of developers - ASP.NET alone was responsible for expanding the Microsoft developer base massively. Inspiring. Controversial. Wonderful and Fearless. Many have described the newer web frameworks with exactly the same adjectives: Rails, Sinatra, and Django have inspired and helped so many - and enable so much on the web. Microsoft developers tend to remain completely ignorant of what these frameworks are capable of - and it makes sense as to why.

How to Query a User's del.icio.us Feed with RestSharp

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:30:52 GMT

Using RestSharp's smart deserialization capabilities to automatically parse an XML document (del.icio.us RSS feeds in this case) into POCO classes.

WPF ListView Styling Tutorial Part I

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:15:52 GMT

This quick article will enable you to take full advantage of the ListView control by creating a simple data model and through a step-by-step incremental approach, demonstrate how to fully style the ListView GridView control.

How To Contribute Code To BlogEngine.NET

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:46:04 GMT

If you've ever wanted to contribute to the BlogEngine.NET project but weren't sure how, this post from one of the project's coordinators explains everything you need to know in a step-by-step format.

ASP.NET MVC Charts

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:15:52 GMT

There are a few references online about how to get the new ASP.NET Charting controls working with the MVC framework. However, some of them are outdated, and the corresponding information to make it work with MVC2 are spread out. So in an effort to organize the info all in one place, here's a quick step by step guide on how to get this working

Build .NET projects from Windows Explorer using MSBuild Launch Pad (mP

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:15:52 GMT

In September 2009 I posted about a tool I am using to build my MSBuild projects from the shell "Build your .NET project with a right click in Windows Explorer" Last week I changed to MSBuild Launch Pad (mPad) which also add a context menu when you right click your project or solution files.

SELECT * FROM XML

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:00:52 GMT

This post shows how to run a SELECT * kind of query on an XML document to see the elements, attributes, values and the XPath Expression of each element and attribute in the document.

How to Use the Validation Application Block, Part 1

Mon, 24 May 2010 22:59:52 GMT

Introduces the Microsoft Enterprise Library Validation Application Block and some of the basic validators, such as regular expression, string length, range, and so forth.

AddThis.NET v2 for Blogengine.NET released

Tue, 25 May 2010 16:30:52 GMT

AddThis.NET is a Blogengine.NET extensions which adds social bookmarking buttons to your posts based on AddThis. A seperate DotnetKicks and DotnetShoutout button will be displayed, which can also be removed if you are no .net developer.

Dropbox API and RestSharp for a C# developer

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:52 GMT

How to use the DropBox API with RestSharp

Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let"

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:52 GMT

Details how using the "let" keyword can make your LINQ statements shorter and faster.

amCharts Quick Charts for WPF & Silverlight - Open Source Charts

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:15:52 GMT

amCharts has released a feature complete version of Quick Charts for WPF & Silverlight. Quick Charts support line, column, area and pie charts. It's easy to use, fast, small and absolutely free under Ms-PL license.