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A new validation framework for F# and ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:37:32 GMT

Write your validators once and have it work both server side and client side.

F# and first-class functions, part 4: doing heavy lifting

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:15:52 GMT

The 4th and final part in the first-class functions series, this post brings it all together and starts doing some serious work in F#! See how F# has made it easy for to use higher-order functions to solve a real world problem more concisely and more simply than in C# or Visual Basic.

A new way to filter a list by URL - StringToIQueryable

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:50:53 GMT

Ever see a URL with a bunch of query string variables that is used to filter a list result? There is a new way to write and parse a query parameter using a parser monad and a few standard combinators that can be used to filter an IQueryable based on a pre-defined syntax. Have a look at the code that will make your querying easier with MVC.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 Released

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:45:00 GMT

Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago. Some of the cool new features we've added to Preview 2 include...

Introducing PostSharp 2.0: #1 - NotifyPropertyChanged

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Gael Fraiteur does first revelations about PostSharp 2.0 on a real-life example: implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged pattern with an aspect. Be safely seated!

Reflecting Code Is Not A Perfect Science

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:45:09 GMT

Interesting when .NET Reflector creates code which executes different from the code written.

ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Strongly Typed UI Helper Performance

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:42:01 GMT

I am sure many of you ASP.NET MVC enthusiasts have either examined, downloaded, or started to play around with the ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 release. One of the many new features is the concept of Strongly Typed UI Helpers such as Html.DisplayFor() & Html.EditorFor() which take a Lambda Expression as their argument. This is a great new feature because we can now get compile time checking of our arguments and it provides the ability to easily refactor changes across our project. The old version of the Html Helpers were littered with Magic Strings that were susceptible to error and painfully resistant to change.

C# lambda and foreach variable

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:15:00 GMT

Surprising behavior of lambdas

Combining Assemblies Using ILMerge

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:15:02 GMT

When creating solutions that include multiple projects, Visual Studio creates an assembly for each project. This can lead to libraries that are complicated to use, needing many references. Using ILMerge, the assemblies can be combined into a single file.

How Do You Deal With Exceptions?

Fri, 15 May 2009 02:01:09 GMT

A little post on my ideas about handling exceptions within applications. How do you handle them?

ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:01:11 GMT

ELMAH has been one of the most useful tools for ASP.NET developers to log errors on their web applications. Now Scott has a nice talk on how to use it even in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Cool!

ASP.Net - Never again fear publishing your website with debug=true

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:31:02 GMT

What makes the deployment element special is that it is a machine level configuration element. When its retail attribute is set to true, it will disable the <compilation debug="true"> for ALL ASP.Net applications running on that machine. In addition, it turns of detailed errors messages being sent to remote machines and disables the ability to trace output.

Reducing Duplicate Content with ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:37:13 GMT

As you're all no doubt aware, ASP.NET MVC recently went RTM. This brings the MVC-style of coding, made very popular by Ruby-on-Rails to the ASP.NET world. I've been eager to start using MVC for months, but I've been holding off until I knew the API was locked down so I don't have to change anything. Unfortunately, like WebForms, MVC has some "issues" with regards to duplicate content, making it not all that SEO-friendly.

Don't Get Bit By Lazy Evaluation

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:01:12 GMT

A very good explanation of how delayed evaluation can cause subtle problems in your code.

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Open Source MS-PL

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:07:18 GMT

Today, ASP.NET MVC is now Open Source and licensed under MS-PL. That means you can change it, redistribute your changes, even fork it if you want. MS-PL is an OSI-Approved Open Source License and you can read the legalese on their site.

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:46:02 GMT

In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything.

Putting the "M" Back in MVC

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:46:14 GMT

"Trying to keep up my end of the bargain with respect to MVC and SubSonic :). I did a walkthrough of it and decided that I was talking too much and, in honor of everyone telling me "SubSonic is dead" I thought it fitting to toss in some Rob Zombie."

NHibernate POID Generators revealed

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:31:02 GMT

In this post author shows some differences among identity generators for NHibernate.

Late-Bound Invocation with Expression Trees

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:46:20 GMT

Avoid the cost of reflection for late-bound invocation by using expression trees.

Eager loading a One-to-Many collection w/ NHibernate

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:01:07 GMT

A quick overview on how to resolve a common one-to-many issue with eager loading when you get multiple records back from the child collection.

JQuery Shortcuts: $.showhide(length > 0)

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:18:53 GMT

Eliminate boolean situations like if (length > 0) { $('div').show() } else { $('div').hide() }

Calling Page Methods and Web Services directly using jQuery.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:53:33 GMT

For calling Ajax Page Methods from Javascript using jQuery use the below jQuery method to set type, url, input data empty braces if no input data is available to avoid errors. Data transfer will done in JSON format.

xVal 0.8 improves client side validation in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:01:16 GMT

xVal is an open source validation framework bridge for ASP.NET MVC. Its new release, version 0.8, became available this morning and adds the following features: Support for NHibernate.Validator, Internationalization, Custom validation logic, Fluent syntax for defining ad-hoc validation rules, Comparison validators, and more.

jQuery $document.ready() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:31:03 GMT

Combine ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery and make $document.ready execute even after an asynchronous postback took place.

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:16:12 GMT

The goal was to get some Mono project templates working with Mono assemblies and the Mono compiler in Visual Studio. The trick was to do it in a way that would be able to survive upgrades of Mono installations.