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ASP.NET MVC - Prevent Image Leeching with a Custom RouteHandler

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:38:29 GMT

Have you ever noticed an unusually high number of requests in your web server log files for image files? It may well be that someone is linking to your images from their own site, and basically stealing your bandwidth. Here's how to implement a custom RouteHandler within an ASP.NET MVC application to prevent people leeching your images.

More on Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:00:01 GMT

In my last post, one of the thing you complained about the maintaining view model meta data configuration in two separate place and I admit this becomes a pain when you skim through the codes. I have changed the implementation, so now you will be able to configure the meta data very much like the Fluent NHibernate or Entity Framework 4.0 Code ...

XNA Game Development (Decentralize)

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:34:07 GMT

In the previous post, we have talked about drawing and moving 2D textures on the XNA window. In this post, we will explore the basic architecture that XNA uses in order to separate the game logic from the sprite logic.

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, YouTube, Flicker API and .NET Lib

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:29:55 GMT

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, YouTube, Flicker, Orkut..etc are the most popular in the Web. Now these are becoming a part of website and web application. These provide API to use the service in your web app.Here are the links of API and sample wrapper for (VB C#).NET developer.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta - Strongly Typed UI Helpers

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:45:06 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to use ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta's strongly typed UI helpers.

6 Of My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:30:01 GMT

A few of my favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts to make my life and yours just a bit easier!

5 Very Useful C# Attributes

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:09 GMT

A look at some of the useful attributes in c#

Exploring .Net 4 Features - Tuples

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4. We will be focusing this episode on Tuples. Tuples allow you to return multiple values from a method with simplicity and ease by allowing you to dynamically create a return object which is typed for your specific needs.

Mastering jQuery now available at TekPub | Encosia

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:00:05 GMT

Dave and I launch a new series on TekPub about Mastering JQuery.

Difference TempTable and Table Variable

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:00:00 GMT

A Myth Busted. Recently, I have been conducting many training sessions at a leading technology company in India. During the discussion of temp table and table variable, I quite commonly hear that Table Variables are stored in memory and Temp Tables are stored in TempDB. I would like to bust this misconception by suggesting following: Temp Table and Table Variable - both are created in TempDB and not in memory.

IE8 And Web Standards

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Earlier this year, Microsoft submitted 7200 CSS 2.1 test cases to the W3C, as a mature approach to move the web forward and help solving ambiguities, options and misinterpretations in any specification. In this post you will get a sense of how these tests work and how IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome are passing these tests. You will also find a demo of Expression Web SuperPreview and some very positive feedback from the Mozilla team.

Meet my new ASP.NET MVC Extension - System.Web.Mvc-Kazi Manzur Rashid

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:15:00 GMT

After hearing Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman in their latest podcast and PDC session I decided to give a good look at the MvcTrubine project in this weekend. I totally agree the intend of this project, let your favorite IoC to rule everywhere, but I do not think it has been implemented in the correct way. There are three important design flaws that I found in MvcTurbine: Generic Component Registration API Rather than allowing you to use your preferred IoC registration features, it prefers to use its own generic syntax for component registration, which is simply wrong. In real application, we need more support from our IoC such as lifetime management, auto wiring, modularity like (Ninject/Autfac Modules, StructureMap Registry) etc. In case of this generic API we have to throw away the features of these IoCs. Missing Common Service Locator I think the Common Service Locator(CSL) has become the standard to abstract the underlying IoC from your application code and all the popular IoCs in .NET world has an adapter for CSL. But rather than using/extending it, it has its own version of service locator. Limited support for Action Filter injection It uses a host kinda Attribute to inject the dependencies into the actual action filter attribute and this host is not capable of passing the attribute specific values to the actual attribute and even if this feature is implemented in the future it will be based upon the string based property name which would work on top of reflection. Now, lets see how my new extension solves the above issues and how easily you can start plugging it in your application. First lets take a quick look of the project structure of this extension.

.NET 4 Parallel Programming, Not So Fast. (Part 3)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:11:53 GMT

A look into the performance of the parallel programing structures included with .NET 4.0

15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development (MDD)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:45:06 GMT

Johan den Haan has written a compelling piece over at Enterprise Architect on why you should start using MDD. He lists 15 advantages of Model-Driven Development that focus in on productivity, quality and alignment.

ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:15:04 GMT

It is difficult to strike a balance between the optimal architecture and over architecting a solution. Joe Shirey sits down with Rocky Lhotka , the creator of the CSLA.NET framework, to discuss how he balances what should and should not be in his framework.

3M Multi-touch Developer Kit on Windows 7

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:30:01 GMT

The 3M Multi-touch Developer kit consists of a 19-inch, 16:10 metal-housed LCD display with desktop stand and USB HID interface. This kit provides software developers with the necessary tools to create next-generation, true multi-touch applications in support of the upcoming release of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. One unique aspect about the multitouch developer kit is that it supports 10-finger multi-touch input. For more technical detail visit 3M's web site here.

Windows Azure in 20 Minutes!

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:15:01 GMT

I had the opportunity to present The Windows Azure Platform at the 2nd Annual ISV Architects Workshop in New York City on December 10,2009. My thanks to my associate Gunther Lenz who is the local Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist for the opportunity.

Secure Wcf service over https

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:15:09 GMT

How to secure a WCF services with https and credential validation against an asp.net membership provider.

Telerik ASP.NET MVC Grid Preview (Take 2) - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:30:00 GMT

In the last post, I have shown you how you can extend the ASP.NET MVC2 templates and some of the issues of the current beta. In this post, I will show you how we are taking advantages of the new DisplayFor/EditorFor in our MVC Grid. One of the benefit of using those statements in our grid is, you can host any kind of component in an individual cell, obviously the first two components will be the DateTimePicker and NumericTextBox that we are going to include in our next release. One of the most requested feature since our last release is the inline editing support in the grid. In this, I will show you the inline editing of product of my last post, but this time with our Grid. The Grid should support both server and ajax editing, but in this example we will only discuss the server.....

Silverlight 4 and ESRI ArcGIS Server - COM interoperability

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:21:27 GMT

One of the most interesting new feature in Silverlight 4 is the COM interoperability functionality. This blog post shows how this can be used with ESRI software.

KiGG Design And Architecture - Part 2 Project Structure

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

In part 1 I talked about KiGG high level architecture. In this part I am going to talk about KiGG project structure and summarize the purpose of each project in the solution. I'll not go into deep details of each project. I'll save that for some other posts, just be patient with me and stay tuned.

Table Variables - still a mystery

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:51:09 GMT

Just geeking with table variables!

SQL Server Soundex Functions

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:45:01 GMT

The forty-ninth part of the SQL Server Programming Fundamentals tutorial describes the Soundex functions that are provided by Transact-SQL (T-SQL). These functions allow strings to be compared according to their pronunciation by English speakers.

Extending ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:45:00 GMT

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is Templates (DisplayFor/EditorFor), Brad Wilson did a series of post which explains how the templates works, Please read it before you continue this post. Although he did an excellent job explaining the inner-details, but one thing you will notice that the object model in those examples are traversed from top to bottom or parent to child which is good for explaining the internal, but in our real application we need a bit more support. Lets take a trivial example, you are creating a create/edit screen for your Product, where each product has a associated Category and you want to show this category in a DropDownList, say we have a Product class like the....

A look at the Printing API in Silverlight 4

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:58:35 GMT

This post takes a deep dive into the Printing API, starting out with a simple scenario and moving to the more complex.