Speed up Visual Studio Builds - Arik Poznanski's Blog(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Recently I got involved in a big project where we had a single solution with approximately 100 projects. read more...

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Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 2 months ago

A while ago, I did a blog post on creating an external facing Azure Worker Role endpoint, listening for incoming TCP connections. After doing that post, I had the idea of building a Windows Azure FTP server that served as a bridge to blob storage. Lack of time, other things to do, you name it: I did not work on that idea. Until now, that is. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide(adamyan.blogspot.com)

submitted by Alik.Adamyan(135) 2 years, 3 months ago

This is a full guide for localizing asp.net mvc 2 web application covering following aspects: views localization, simple culture switching mechanism, model validation messages localization, DisplayName attribute localization and problem solving with caching(OutputCache) and localization. read more...

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Translating routes (ASP.NET MVC and Webforms)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 4 months ago

For one of the first blog posts of the new year, I thought about doing something cool. And being someone working with ASP.NET MVC, I thought about a cool thing related to that: let’s do something with routes! Since System.Web.Routing is not limited to ASP.NET MVC, this post will also play nice with ASP.NET Webforms. But what’s the cool thing? How about… translating route values? read more...

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Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 7 months ago

The latest preview of ASP.NET MVC 2, preview 2, has been released on CodePlex last week. All features of the preview 1 version are still in, as well as some nice novelties like client-side validation, single project areas, the model metadata model, … This post dives into the accompanying futures assembly and discovers... ViewState is coming back! read more...

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SQL Azure Manager(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 9 months ago

SQL Azure manager: a community effort to quickly enable connecting to your SQL Azure database(s) and perform basic tasks. read more...

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REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 9 months ago

Earlier this week, Phil Haack did a post on the newly released REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK. I had the feeling though that this post did not really get the attention it deserved. I do not have the idea my blog gets more visitors than Phil’s, but I’ll try to give the SDK some more attention by blogging an example read more...

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Signed Access Signatures and PHP SDK for Windows Azure(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 9 months ago

The latest Windows Azure storage release featured a new concept: “Shared Access Signatures”. The idea of those is that you can create signatures for specific resources in blob storage and that you can provide more granular access than the default “all-or-nothing” approach that is taken by Azure blob storage. Steve Marx posted a sample on this, demonstrating how you can provide read access to a blob for a specified amount of minutes, after which the access is revoked. The PHP SDK for Windows Azure is now equipped with a credentials mechanism, based on Signed Access Signatures. Let’s see if we can demonstrate how this would work… read more...

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Accessing ServiceConfiguration in FastCGI (PHP) web role(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 9 months ago

While working on a sample PHP application hosted on Windows Azure, I found that it is nearly impossible to retrieve information from the Windows Azure ServiceConfiguration.cscfg file. Also, it is impossible to write log messages to the Windows Azure Web Role. Well, both are not 100% impossible: you can imagine dirty hacks where you let a ASP.NET page do something from PHP and stuff like that. But how about a clean solution? How about… A PHP extension module? read more...

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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 1: Introduction(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 10 months ago

“Once upon a time, Microsoft started a Windows Azure developing contest named new CloudApp();. While it first was only available for US candidates, the contest was opened for international submissions too. Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker and his fellow knightsmen at RealDolmen decided to submit a small sample application that could be hosted in an unknown environment, known by the digital villagers as “the cloud”. The application was called TwitterMatic, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. It would allow digital villagers to tell the latest stories, even when they were asleep or busy working.” read more...

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Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 11 months ago

Ever had a team of developers using your ASP.NET MVC framework? Chances are you have implemented some action filters (i.e. for logging) which should be applied on all controllers in the application. Two ways to do this: kindly ask your developers to add a [Logging] attribute to the controllers they write, or kindly ask to inherit from SomeCustomControllerWithActionsInPlace. If you have been in this situation, monday mornings, afternoons, tuesdays and other weekdays are in fact days where some developers will forget to do one of the above. This means no logging! Or any other action filters that are executed due to a developer that has not been fed with enough coffee… Wouldn’t it be nice to have a central repository where you can register application-wide action filters? That’s exactly what we are going to do in this blog post. read more...

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Revised: ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 11 months ago

A while ago, I did a blog post on combining ASP.NET MVC and MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), making it possible to “plug” controllers and views into your application as a module. I received a lot of positive feedback as well as a hard question from Dan Swatik who was experiencing a Server Error with this approach… Here’s a better approach to ASP.NET MVC and MEF. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 11 months ago

Phil Haack announced yesterday that the tooling support for ASP.NET MVC is available for Visual Studio 2010. Troy Goode already blogged about the designer snippets (which are really really cool, just like other parts of the roadmap for ASP.NET MVC 2.0). I’ll give the new TDD workflow introduced in VS2010 a take. read more...

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A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Azure)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 11 months ago

Hosting and deploying ASP.NET MVC applications on Windows Azure works like a charm. However, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have seen that I don’t like the fact that my ASP.NET MVC views are stored in the deployed package as well… Why? If I want to change some text or I made a typo, I would have to re-deploy my entire application for this. Takes a while, application is down during deployment, … And all of that for a typo… Luckily, Windows Azure also provides blob storage, on which you can host any blob of data (or any file, if you don’t like saying “blob”). These blobs can easily be managed with a tool like Azure Blob Storage Explorer. Now let’s see if we can abuse blob storage for storing the views of an ASP.NET MVC web application, making it easier to modify the text and stuff. We’ll do this by creating a new VirtualPathProvider. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 3 years ago

Ever since the release of ASP.NET MVC and its routing engine (System.Web.Routing), Microsoft has been trying to convince us that you have full control over your URL and routing. This is true to a certain extent: as long as it’s related to your application path, everything works out nicely. If you need to take care of data tokens in your (sub)domain, you’re screwed by default. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing(blogs.securancy.com)

submitted by SickDotNet(200) 3 years ago

One of the propagated “great features” for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url’s of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let’s walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing. read more...

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