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Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:21:14 GMT

Silverlight is dead! WPF is dead! .NET is dead! Hey, they didn't talk about SharePoint or SQL Server at the BUILD conference, those must be dead too. Welcome our new Metro-id overlords! We read such FUD everywhere these days. Actually none of these technologies are dead for the next several years! And you'll probably agree if you know the fasts and not the FUD. So here are my thoughts based only on the facts I got from watching BUILD sessions, reading posts that stick to the facts and not listening to ...

Steps to write a plugin based application with MEF

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:29:06 GMT

Writing a plugin based application is always been an element of fun. With Reflection you can read dlls at runtime and load plugins. This article will guide you step by step how to write one for you. I have also converted the same application to use Managed Extensibility Framework with source code.

Windows Phone 7 Theme-Resources Cheat-Sheet

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:47:04 GMT

Gordon Breuer Theme Resources Cheat Sheet is a friendly helper for Windows Phone 7 dev work

Find deep-links to the Windows Phone 7-Marketplace

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:34:10 GMT

Linking to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is not very comfortable at the moment. Deep-Links are redirecting you and launching the local Zune client to open the app detail-page. This is a helper-class to analyse the submitted html code and return any application IDs (if any are available) to use those app-links directly with the MarketplaceDetailsTask() for example. May be usefull for RSS reader applications.

Visual Studio 2010 Extension: Unicode Converter 1.0 (with Tutorial)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:16:33 GMT

Go straight to the Visual Studio Gallery, download, install and just use my "Unicode Converter"-Extension. Or you read on and I will explain a few things about how I solved some problems. Oh, and just in case: there is a link to the sourcecode of the extension at the end of this article!

Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor.

Exploring Operator Overloading in C#

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:00:09 GMT

Taking a look at how create overloaded operators for your objects. Operator overloading permits user-defined operator implementations to be specified for operations where one or both of the operands are of a user-defined class or struct type. When creating your own operators there are many different operators which can be overloaded. +, -, *, /, %, &, |, <<, >> All C# binary operators can be overloaded +, -, !, ~, ++, -, true, false All C# unary operators can be overloaded ==, !=, <, >, <= , >= All relational operators can be overloaded, but only as pairs.

IE6 Update: Help kill Internet Explorer 6 (BlogEngine.NET Extension)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:30:05 GMT

IE6 is like an illness that just won't go away but now there is another new project to kick his ass: www.ie6update.com - With this small extension you are able to include this project into your BlogEngine.NET with just copying a single file.

Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:15:00 GMT

Ever worked with the templated helpers provided by ASP.NET MVC 2? Templated helpers provide a way to automatically build UI based on a data model that is marked with attributes defined in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace. For example, a property in the model can be decorated with the attribute [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:c}")], and the templated helpers will always render this field formatted as currency. If you have worked with templated helpers, you must agree: they can be useful! There's one thing which is impossible in the current version: ordering fields. And that's what this post will accomplish.

16 Ways To Create IObservables without implementing IObservable

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:43:26 GMT

The Reactive Extensions for .Net offers plenty of ways to create IObservables

.NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:15:02 GMT

This is a walkthrough in automating Sandcastle to generate API documentation during an automated build process.

Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:45:00 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to build a color picker tool using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.

Setting a Default Button in ASP.NET MVC using jQuery

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:15:00 GMT

In ASP.NET MVC, there's no concept of a default button as there is in ASP.NET WebForms. To mimic this functionality, this can be accomplished quite painlessly using jQuery

Building A Ratings Widget With ASP.NET MVC And jQuery

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:45:10 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to build a ratings widget for your website using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.

List of active extensions in BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:57:22 GMT

I have included a new page to my blog to show a list of all active BlogEngine.NET extensions. Most users will recognize this table from the admin panel but without priority, viewing sourcecode and (de-)activate buttons.

BlogEngine.NET & Microsoft Tag

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:31:04 GMT

A few days ago I had the idea to include a Microsoft Tag into the print version of my blog articles. You see, nobody is fancy to typewrite a long, search engine optimized, url, right? So here is my proof-of-concept with a fully functional extension for BlogEngine.NET.

ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:15:00 GMT

Back in March, I blogged about an experimental MvcSiteMap provider I was building. Today, I am proud to announce that it is stable enough to call it version 1.0! Download MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 over at CodePlex. Ever since the source code release I did back in March, a lot of new features have been added, such as HtmlHelper extension methods, attributes, dynamic parameters, . I'll leave most of them up to you to discover, but there are some I want to quickly highlight.

Static analysis tool/Add-in for Visual Studio - CAT.Net (CTP)

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:09:51 GMT

CAT.NET is a binary code analysis tool that helps identify common variants of certain prevailing vulnerabilities that can give rise to common attack vectors such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection and XPath Injection. It's a a snap-in to the Visual Studio IDE that helps you identify security flaws within a managed code (C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#) application you are developing. It does so by scanning the binary and/or assembly of the application, and tracing the data flow among its statements, methods, and assemblies.

Regex Hero to the Rescue

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:16:14 GMT

From BucketSoft comes an online Silverlight regular expression tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine. Features instantaneous highlighting of regular expression matches. It's a great way to test iterations of your .NET regular expressions quickly.

Singletons vs. Static Classes

Fri, 01 May 2009 08:01:02 GMT

My last "versus" post seemed to elicit a good number of interesting responses. Today, I'm musing about Singletons vs. Static Classes -- two constructs which appear to accomplish the same task. Or do they?

BlogEngine.NET 1.5 final release

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:16:03 GMT

BlogEngine.NET 1.5 final release announcement

TwitterFeed-Widget for BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:22:53 GMT

This is a widget for the BlogEngine.NET 1.4 to show your latest tweets in your margin. There are several options you can configure on-the-fly. The widget is developed in C# 3.0 and uses some .NET 3.5 syntax.

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

New version of the VisualSVN Servers

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:13:37 GMT

Yesterday the SVN-plugin VisualSVN for Visual Studio (2003 - 2008) was updated to the new version of subversion 1.5.6 - today the free VisualSVN-Server measures up to the same subversion-version with VisualSVN-Server 1.6.4.