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Attributes Every .NET Developer Should Know About

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:00:52 GMT

Here's a list of important .NET attributes that is commonly used in projects and proves very useful if you about them beforehand

Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let"

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:52 GMT

Details how using the "let" keyword can make your LINQ statements shorter and faster.

HanselMinutes: Women in Technology in the Muslim World - with Aby And

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:30:14 GMT

Scott's in Egypt today and he had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and Agile Project Manager at Dashsoft. Nearly 50% of the people at Cairo Code Camp are women. What is Egypt doing right to encourage so many women to choose technology as their career?

How to not suck at a techincal interview

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:00:03 GMT

CORRECT LINK THIS TIME. Tips to improve your marketability during a technical interview. Mostly a rant :)

ASP.NET Performance - Part 3 - Cache Busting

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:15:01 GMT

Creating dynamic links based on file hashes to leverage far reaching expiry headers without sacrificing updatability.

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:14 GMT

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks - Lots of improvements and even more on the way!

Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:30:03 GMT

Taking a look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. We will be taking a first look at partials and learn how we can setup our application to use partials as well as how to use them in your application. We will also be learning how partials will allow us to create clean, compartmentalized and well organized code.

Exposing the View Model to JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:28:45 GMT

View models make it easy to move data between your views and controllers in a strongly-typed manner, but what's the best way to leverage the view model from JavaScript? This post looks at some of the alternatives and presents a clean, simple way to convert the view model to an equivalent JavaScript object by using JSON on the master page.

Your very first NHibernate application - Part 1

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:05:03 GMT

In this series of articles Gabriel Schenker want to show and discuss which pieces are needed to successfully write an application based on NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate.

Design Patterns - Using the Decorator Pattern in C#

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:45:02 GMT

Decorator Patterns belong to the Structural Pattern category and it's role is in providing a way of attaching new behavior to the object at run time. The object is unaware of the new behavior and this pattern is a good candidate for enhancing legacy applications. Decorator Pattern provides a way of adding functionality to an existing class without using inheritance.

Multiple database support with Entity Framework

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:53:27 GMT

One of the features introduced in Entity Framework is being database independent. Which mean each database provider can support Entity Framework by implementing its provider. This feature allows you build applications independent from the underplaying database provider. In this post I'm going to show how to build an application that support multiple databases using same conceptual model made by Entity Framework.

11 books for a .NET Summer reading list

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

A great list of books to read this summer (its almost over though so get to it)

Siesta: Painless REST via ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:30:01 GMT

A simple and easy-to-use REST system for ASP.NET, based on the API from the Zen project management system.

Authenticating users with RPXNow (in ASP.NET MVC)

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:45:00 GMT

Don't you get sick of having to register at website X, at website Y, at website Z, .? It is really not fun to maintain all these accounts, change passwords, . Luckily, there are some large websites offering delegated sign-in (for example Google Accounts, Live ID, Twitter OAuth, .). You can use these delegated sign-in methods on your own site, removing the need of registering yet another account. Unfortunately, not everyone has an account at provider X. A while ago, I found out about the free service JanRain is offering: RPXNow. This (free!) service combines the strengths of several major account providers (Google Accounts, Live ID, Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, .) into one simple API. This means that people are able to log in to your website if they have an account at one of these providers! Here's how to use it in ASP.NET MVC.

NHibernate Linq Released

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:15:03 GMT

Official release announcement for NHibernate Linq 1.0 RTM. Congratulations!

OpenForum - new ASP.NET MVC based forum

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:00:00 GMT

There is new project in CodePlex called OpenForum. With source code you get also some samples you can run on your machine. OpenForum is pretty new and simple. There are no advanced forum features and currently it is suitable for smaller forums. You can change the look of OpenForum and write your own user repositories. Let's see how OpenForum looks like.

Global View Data in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A simple example that implements several options for exposing data to your views that may be necessary on all pages (such as used in the site's master page). The post starts from a Web Forms implementation style and then refactors toward the MVC pattern.

ASP.NET MVC, DynamicData, Domain-/RiaServices, Unity and NHibernate

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:15:00 GMT

For this project the following (extensive) list of libraries is used (all these libraries are included in the download): * MS ASP.NET Mvc 1.0 * Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview * NHibernate 2.1.0CR1 * NHibernate Linq (latest trunk version) * FluentNhibernate (latest trunk version, patched to work with NHibernate 2.1.0CR1) * MS Unity 1.2 * ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC Preview (since this project is pretty old, I had to modify it quite a bit, the source is included in the download) * I used Rob Conery's t4 templates as the base to generate entities from the database.

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.

Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:05 GMT

I was happy to learn that jQuery provides an excellent solution for consolidating settings to be used in multiple instances of $.ajax. In this post, I'll show you how to use that consolidation feature, and exactly how I am now using that to more simply call ASP.NET AJAX services with jQuery.

WikiPlex - An Embedded Wiki Engine

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Introducing WikiPlex, which is CodePlex's wiki engine that has been re-written and made open source under the MS-PL license. The first public version has also been released!

LINQ is not LINQ To SQL

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:30:00 GMT

Justin writes about a frequent misconception about LINQ: LINQ is not just LINQ to SQL, but it's a general purpose query language

Upload Multiple Files in ASP.NET using jQuery

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:15:00 GMT

Continuing my 'no less than an exciting' journey of exploring ASP.NET with jQuery, today's article will demonstrate how to Upload multiple files in ASP.NET using jQuery.

Asp.Net vs php : Speed Comparison

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Why is the myth that php is faster than Asp.Net so prevalent? Asp.Net is faster than php, here are the facts. So many times I have heard php pushers claim that php is so much faster than Asp.Net and that Asp.Net is clunky and slow. The most annoying part is that everything I have read (that is not factless opinion), and I mean everything, says that this is wrong; but for some reason, this myth is widely accepted. It has become a religious argument that ignores the facts...

Integration Testing Your ASP.NET MVC Application

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Unit tests are great for proving the correctness of a single component. But how can you prove that you whole ASP.NET MVC application hangs together properly - including its view templates, configuration settings, and database schema? Integration tests cover what unit tests can't - Steven Sanderson shows one way to approach it with ASP.NET MVC.