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Build Facebook style infinite scroll with knockout.js and Last.fm API

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:07:48 GMT

Learn knockout.js by building a dynamic music history web app on top of Last.FM API, featuring FB/twitter style infinite scroll.

Using Microsoft POS for .NET in 2011

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:22:29 GMT

How to work around the various issues that occur when working with Microsoft's POS for .NET with newer technologies such as .NET 4.0.

Gotcha: iPad versus ASP.NET

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:22:31 GMT

Your ASP.NET application may fail on the iPad after it is saved to the home screen.

Re-skin your existing web app using jQuery Mobile

Tue, 24 May 2011 19:58:02 GMT

Did you know you could easily integrate jQuery Mobile controls into your existing web application?

Slash your ASP.NET compile/load time without any hard work

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:41:32 GMT

Tips & tricks to make your ASP.NET development more enjoyable (cut down compilation time / first load time).

New features in Silverlight Charting

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:16:22 GMT

A weekly update post about new features that are available in the Silverlight Charting components being included with Mindscape's control suite for Silverlight. This week adds bubble series, multiple bubble series, stacked line and bar series, spline rendering, logarithmic scale support, pie slice selection capabilities and legend placement!

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."

Lambda IEqualityComparer<T>

Mon, 17 May 2010 17:49:35 GMT

New extension methods to replace IEqualityComparer<T> for the most common scenario, comparing objects with a key.

AutoMapper 1.1 released

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:49:22 GMT

Today Jimmy Bogard pushed out the 1.1 release of AutoMapper.

Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:39:19 GMT

Bundle your view, controllers, images, in a portable mvc area dll to include in other MVC applications. Could this be the beginning of open source portable areas like a "Login and Registration" areas for example? Seems like a very promising project.

NoSQL: Getting started with MongoDB and NoRM

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:30:12 GMT

Object Database very cool for simple projects.

C# renderer for jQuery DataTables

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:26:23 GMT

DataTables is an excellent plugin for the jQuery javascript library to extend HTML table with advanced functionality. I like to use it in projects, but (may be it is strange for someone) I don't like lot's of raw JavaScript code in aspx\ascx pages. Some code I extract from page and write it using Script# - another excellent tool. But some code needs to be on a page for some reasons. In such cases I prefer to use a "renderer" - set of strong typed C# classes that renders needed JavaScript to the page. ...

Repository, Specification, Unit of Work, Persistence Ignorance POCO 2

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:46:47 GMT

This is my second post on one of the ways of applying the Repository, Specification and Unit of Work pattern using the persistence ignorance POCO with the upcoming ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0. This post will explain how to implement the Repository, Specification & Unit of Work with Entity Framework 4.0. Sample project codes included.

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Breaking Old Links

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:40:55 GMT

A bug fix in BlogEngine.net 1.6 broke older links to our blog.

ASP.NET Regenerate .designer.cs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:53:08 GMT

Your ASPX or ASCX .designer.cs file stopped being generated by Visual Studio and you don't know why? Here is a little trick for you.

.NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentBag

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:45:09 GMT

Another in-depth look at a new namespace in .NET 4.0 and how it can help with multithreading.

Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:30:01 GMT

The challenge of uploading large files in ASP.NET through HTTP is not a new challenge. In addition to handling large files, users often request an experience that shows the progress of an upload as it occurs. When you have either or both of these requirements, or if you simply need direct control of a stream of file data uploaded from a browser, you invariably hit the wall. I set about solving the problem in an ASP.NET MVC-specific way.

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.

jQuery 1.4 Released!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:00:07 GMT

In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we're really quite proud of it.

ASP.NET callback not being fired in Internet Explorer

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:08:25 GMT

Solution to ASP.NET callbacks not being fired in Internet Explorer.

Any() versus Count()

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:15:00 GMT

Jimmy Bogard brought to my attention today that I had been doing something wrong all along. I've been using Count() on my enumerations when I should have been using Any(). I've even done this in a presentation I've been giving the past few months. This is from Mash Up.

It's Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Rob Conery speaks about his idea for implementing an ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC. Kind of like how Rails does it, but more loosely coupled.

Implementing a jQuery-Calendar ASP.NET Control

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:30:00 GMT

Updated the jQueryDatePicker control from an old version of Mark Grabansiki's jQuery calendar to the latest version of jQuery.ui. This is an easy to use wrapper around the control to make it easy to drop the control onto a page with minimal configuration fuss and provide POST back functionality on the inline behavior.

Gotcha: gzip compression in SOAP message calls

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:16:33 GMT

Do not forget to enable gzip compression in your large SOAP requests.

REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:15:10 GMT

Earlier this week, Phil Haack did a post on the newly released REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK. I had the feeling though that this post did not really get the attention it deserved. I do not have the idea my blog gets more visitors than Phil's, but I'll try to give the SDK some more attention by blogging an example