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Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit Released

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:30:06 GMT

Almost six months after the official release of Asp.Net MVC 1.0 and nearly a year after the last release of the starter kit, I've finally rewritten and released the Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit.

Re-Thinking C# Events

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:41:55 GMT

When I was learning C#, I was taught a pattern to use when declaring events. That pattern is rather cumbersome. Through the magic of generics and extension methods, this pattern can be generalized to a single line of code. This article explores the new pattern.

How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:24 GMT

How to calculate utilization of a particular network interface in .NET using performance counters and a bit of math.

Oxite: A good example after all?

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:53:28 GMT

The community response to Oxite has been.interesting. The general consensus seems to be that they got it all wrong...

Oxite Refactor, Take 1

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:46:02 GMT

I mentioned yesterday on Twitter that I'm helping out the Oxite team with some refactoring and tweaking of their codebase. I got started last night and people have been asking about it a LOT, so I thought that today I'd show you initially what I'm up to.

Some Thoughts on Oxite

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery's comments and thoughts on new open-source CMS project 'Oxite'. In this post he analyzed some critical issues in Oxite and suggested some solutions to optimize this ASP.NET MVC powered blog engine.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

Implementing a red black tree in C#

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:08 GMT

This article talks about how to implement a red-black tree in C#. The implementation is generic, and it also implements IEnumerable<T>.

jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:31:12 GMT

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.

Solving common problems with Compiled Queries in Linq to Sql for high

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:01:02 GMT

If you are using Linq to SQL, instead of writing regular Linq Queries, you should be using Compiled Queries. if you are building an ASP.NET web application that's going to get thousands of hits per hour, the execution overhead of Linq queries is going to consume too much CPU and make your site slow. There's a runtime cost associated with each and every Linq Query you write.

ProMesh.NET v2.0 RC1 is (finally) out

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:31:02 GMT

After months of writing documentation, the first release candidate of ProMesh.NET v2.0 has been released in the wild. ProMesh.NET is a powerful MVC framework for .NET 2.0 that has been around for a long time, but today it finally reached another important milestone.

TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:31:04 GMT

Understanding the TimeZoneInfo classin .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard TimeZone class.

DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset in .Net

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:01:10 GMT

Understanding the DateTimeOffset struct in .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard DateTime struct.

A simple jQuery Client Centering Plugin

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:31:12 GMT

Centering content is a useful client side UI feature especially when working with pop ups or popup windows when displayed for the first time. Here's a little jQuery plug in that handles centering in the window and in other container elements easily.

Silverlight Particle Generator

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Cool particle effects live demo done with Silverlight. Sources are available, too!

ProMesh.NET v2.0 (MVC Framework) just around the corner

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:48:12 GMT

Time for an update on the state of ProMesh.NET, the open-source MVC Web Application framework I started a few years ago. The last public release was almost 7 months ago, and a lot has been changed since then. The original plan was to create a version 1.5, but I decided against that and made it in a full 2.0 release

Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:16:02 GMT

We're all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details about it. This article will show you how you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting with just a few simple CSS tricks.

Web developers. You suck.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Showing some support for LINQ to SQL

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Great article detailing why LINQ to SQL deserves some attention particularly if you buy into the object oriented style of development or are currently working with an ORM such as NHibernate.

Color Scheme Generator Web Application

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

This application will generate a color scheme for you based on an image. After you upload an image, it will generate you a list of the most common colors that are significantly different from each other. Click anywhere on the image to pick other colors. There are zoom tools to pick the exact pixel you need. Web demo and Source Code Available

A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:46:12 GMT

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

PersistJS: The Cross Browser Storage...Without Cookies!

Fri, 23 May 2008 20:15:33 GMT

Modern web browsers support some form of persistent storage that doesn't involve cookies. The problem is that they each use a different storage mechanism. Introducing PersistJS - a small, standalone persistent storage library that lets you access the browser storage while remaining ignorant to which browser you're using!

SharpTemplate.NET pre-release on CodePlex

Wed, 21 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Introducing SharpTemplate.NET, a lightweight general-purpose template engine for .NET 2.0. It allows you to incorporate template parsing in your .NET applications. Perfect for code generators, reporting tools, mass-mailing applications, etc.

SEO Page Manager For ASP.Net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:46:10 GMT

manage all your meta tags and sitemap urls in one convenient place

A .NET Cryptography Primer, part 3

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:01:02 GMT

This part covers symmetric encryption, more commonly known as password-based encryption. Goes over the different types of symmetric algorithms available, concepts such as initialization vectors, and includes code examples.