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Redirecting Assemblies in .NET for MVC 3

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:31:26 GMT

How to update your ASP.NET MVC 2 project to MVC 3, and still use libraries that were built against MVC 2.

Embedding pre-compiled Razor views in your dll

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:27:06 GMT

Inspired by David Ebbo's blog post 'Turn your Razor helpers into reusable libraries' I wanted to be able to embed compiled Razor views in a dll. This would allow for easy distribution of asp.net mvc 'modules' that have their default views embedded, but allowing you to place files in your 'views' folder to override those default views

Using the IIS 7 URL Rewrite Module to block crawlers

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:36:08 GMT

Here's an easy way to block the main web crawlers - Google Bing and Yahoo - from indexing any site across an entire server. This is really useful if you push all your beta builds to a public facing server, but don't want them indexed yet by the search engines.

Announcing: Jobping URL Shortener. Open source MVC.NET 2 C#

Tue, 04 May 2010 10:30:52 GMT

Open source MVC.NET 2 C# Url Shortener

Customising Visual Studio debugger DataTips with DebuggerDisplay

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:15:55 GMT

Quick tip on how to use the DebuggerDisplay attribute to change how an object is displayed in the Visual Studio debugger.

Snack size C#: null coalescing operator

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:37:45 GMT

Examples of how to assign the value of an expression to a variable, unless that expression evaluates to null, in which case default to something else. And if that something else is also null, then fall back to another value, and so on.

New and upcoming books for ASP.NET developers

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:30:38 GMT

The are some great books in the pipeline for ASP.NET web developers. Everything from Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, HTML 5, jQuery 1.4, and even iPhone development. Not to mention second editions of classic titles like jQuery in Action and C# in Depth.

List of Technology Posters on MSDN

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:00:46 GMT

Here's a list of developer and technology posters you can download from MSDN. .NET Framework, C#, VB, BizTalk, Silverlight, and others.

SQL Server 2008 will have IntelliSense

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Hurray!

.NET Coding Guidelines - Commenting

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Nice rant about developers who don't comment their code, I can sympathize.