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Hand picked sessions from PDC2010

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:45:52 GMT

If you are not living under a rock, probably you know that yesterday (October 28th) the PDC2010 started. If you missed the keynote of PCD 2010 here is a brief description of what I found interesting, the links to sessions I consider to be interesting (at least for me) and some considerations about SL vs HTML5.

Chart Web Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:15:52 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to use the chart helper that is part of the Microsoft Web Helpers library in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta

What Really Makes a Good Programmer?

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:30:52 GMT

I wrote this survey and could really use some responses from the community. Feel free to stop by and take the survey. I'm publishing results soon.

5 Reasons to be Excited about ASP.NET MVC 3

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:30:52 GMT

It's already been 6 months since ASP.NET MVC 2 was released and version 3 is already taking shape. I, personally, am thrilled about that because this version seems to put ASP.NET MVC, in terms of maturity and functionality, on the first line along with other MVC frameworks out there like RoR. I've put together 5 main reasons why I'm excited about this upcoming version. What about you?

ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binding

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:33:01 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to create a custom model binder to accept a strongly typed object from a HTML multi select control.

Five Must Have Tools for MVC Developers

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:15:52 GMT

5 Must have tools for MVC developers

Two More Windows Phone 7 Tutorials

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Couple of WP7 tutorials covering Model, View, ViewModel and the Visual State Manager.

Dean Hume - ASP.net MVC HTML5 Toolkit

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:48:11 GMT

If you haven't started playing around with HTML5 yet, you should definitely check it out. I've blogged about some of the features of HTML5 before, so if you take a look at this post, it should give you a fairly idea of what HTML5 is about. I try and play around with ASP.net MVC as much as possible and this site is also written in MVC 2. One of the things that I thought about adding to MVC is the ability to have all the textboxes and controls updated to use HTML5. One of the great things about HTML5 is that even though some browsers do not currently support it, you will still be able to use it in your web applications and the browser will just handle it as a normal HTML control if it doesn't recognize it.

Simplified access control using Windows Azure AppFabric Labs

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:29:32 GMT

Earlier this week, Zane Adam announced the availability of the New AppFabric Access Control service in LABS. This just *has* to be good! Let's see how easy it is to work with claims based authentication and the AppFabric Labs Access Control Service, which I'll abbreviate to "ACS" throughout this post.

Entity Framework and Lazy Loading

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Some details on how to properly create POCO objects for using in Entity-Framework

HTML5 Support In Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:45:52 GMT

I was trying to play around with HTML5 assuming that VS 2010 had shipped with HTML5 support but to my dismay it was not the case. Bummer! So I did a bit of homework and came up with an easy workaround.

What's new in ASP.NET 4.0: Core Features

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:45:52 GMT

A nice overview with examples of the new features in ASP.NET 4.0

Announcing PostSharp 2.0 RTW

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:01:52 GMT

The final release of PostSharp 2.0 is out! PostSharp helps software developers produce clean code and avoid the mess of duplicating boilerplate snippets because of tracing, exception handling, data binding, and so fore.

OData Explorer

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:35:42 GMT

One nice tool to use with OData is the OData Explorer. The OData Explorer is a tool that helps to explore OData feeds in a visual way and not by exploring the Atom/JSON responses. You can download the tool from here.

Thoughts On Razor, Microsoft's New ASP.NET MVC View Engine

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:15:52 GMT

Thoughts on different blog posts and twitter conversations surrounding the new Microsoft View engine for ASP.NET MVC, called Razor, with some notes on Microsoft's relation with existing Open source .NET projects in general...

Calling a WCF Data Service From jQuery

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:18:48 GMT

I'm working on a lecture about OData which I'll will present next month. One of the things that I want to show is how easy and simple it is to consume a WCF Data Service (OData feed) with the jQuery library. In the post I'll show you exactly how to do that.

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."

Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:14:18 GMT

In this article, Andrea Boschin is creating a simple reusable control that lets the developer implement a better file-uploading experience using Silverlight 4.0.

IIS Express

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:15:51 GMT

If like me you are sick to death of Cassini (whats that then? its the built in web server that visual studio uses) and also sick to death of playing around with IIS 7 then relief is at hand.

Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Using a Multi-Select list box in MVC. Binding items to and getting the list of selected items back!

Observer in .NET 4.0 with IObserver(T)

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:30:52 GMT

The IObservable(T) and IOberver(T) interfaces are part of base class library of .NET 4.0. It's great that there is now a out of the box solution to implement the observer pattern. The article shows with a simple example how the two interfaces should be used.

Silverlight MergedDictionaries - styles & resources from Class Libs

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:00:51 GMT

If you were developing larger Silverlight/WPF applications and trying to keep things like styles, control templates and other resources organized it can become really hard. Prior to Silverlight 3 it was hell to be honest. But then nice people from Microsoft introduced lovely little feature called MergedDictionaries that allows you to combine the resources from different places in your application.

30 Favorite Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Here is a list of my favorite Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts that I use all the time to increase my productivity and perform repetitive tasks with ease.

Automatic Fluent Validation Integration into ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 25 May 2010 12:31:26 GMT

Automatic Fluent Validation Integration into ASP.NET MVC with MvcTurbine.FluentValidation

Dropbox API and RestSharp for a C# developer

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:52 GMT

How to use the DropBox API with RestSharp