Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler(www.coderjournal.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years ago

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC: Compile Your Views for Release Build Only(developmentalmadness.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 1 month ago

Mark J. Miller shows how to setup an ASP.NET MVC application project to compile views based on WebForms engine in release builds only. You therefore get the speed during development but a final validation before release. read more...

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What's New in the BCL (Base Class Library) in .NET 4 Beta 2(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 3 months ago

Justin Van Patten of the BCL (Base Class Library) team provides a rundown of what's new in the BCL with .NET 4 Framework Beta 2, in addition to what was included in Beta 1. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 10 months ago

Scott Guthrie announces that the ASP.NET MVC source code is being released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code. read more...

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Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult (devlicio.us)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 11 months ago

“While the MVC RC has brought with it many improvements, it has also taken a step towards breaking down the clean separation of concerns with the introduction of the JavaScriptResult ActionResult. …JavaScriptResult puts more power into the hands of the developer, but also assists in shooting yourself in the foot if used improperly.” read more...

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Amazon EC2 running Windows & SQL Server now in BETA(aws.amazon.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 3 months ago

Amazon releases the public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server, providing an environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and IIS. The Amazon EC2 environment can be managed using web service APIs, including using a C# library that wraps the APIs. Pricing for Amazon EC2 running Windows Server begins at $0.125 per compute hour. read more...

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OUTPUTing Data from the Just-Inserted, Updated, or Deleted Row(s)(scottonwriting.net)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 3 months ago

Scott Mitchell discusses a little gem he discovered, which is the use of OUTPUT clause in INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and MERGE (2008) DML statement to get the effect of in-place triggers and more. read more...

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Clean-Up JavaScript sources Using JSLint from within Visual Studio IDE(jason.diamond.name)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 4 months ago

Jason Diamond shows how to integrate JSLint (http://www.jslint.com/ by Douglas Crockford) into Visual Studio so that one can interactively clean-up JavaScript sources of common pitfalls without ever leaving the IDE. read more...

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Native JSON in Internet Explorer 8(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 4 months ago

Internet Explorer 8, as of Beta 2, offers native JSON parsing (JSON.parse) and serialization (JSON.stringify) while maintaining compliance with JSON support as described in, “ECMAScript 3.1 Language Specification - Draft.” This will enable Ajax applications to run faster and parse untrusted payloads in a safe manner without resorting to (regex-verified) eval! read more...

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Get the message for PDC 2008(channel8.msdn.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 4 months ago

Microsoft got their best ad-agency guys and gals together to figure out how best to get the word out on PDC 2008. This (video) is an inside look at one of their early brainstorming sessions, which apparently got a little out of hand. read more...

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tfs2svn: Export a TFS repository to a Subversion one(sourceforge.net)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 4 months ago

tfs2svn is an open source WinForms application that will export a Team Foundation Server (TFS) repository and import it into a Subversion (SVN) repository. read more...

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JavaScript Memory Leak Detector (beta)(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 4 years ago

JavaScript Memory Leak Detector is a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code. It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory leaks in JavaScript code that runs in Internet Explorer. The tool is currently in beta. read more...

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Statically-typed reflection with LINQ (clariusconsulting.net)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 4 years ago

Daniel Cazzulino on an interesting approach to strong-typed reflection using LINQ expression trees. He also makes an API available on a CodePlex project (http://www.codeplex.com/clarius). read more...

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Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC(codeplex.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 4 years ago

The Validator Toolkit provides a set of validators for the new ASP.NET MVC framework to validate HTML forms on the client and server-side using validation sets. By defining a validation set, e.g. a LoginValidationSet class, the toolkit will generate code, in conjunction with the JavaScript library jQuery, to validate on the client-side and will use the same set of rules to validate on the server-side. read more...

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JSONLint - Online JSON Validator(jsonlint.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 4 years ago

A site that allows you to enter JSON text and check it for strict compliance against the standard (RFC 4627). Errors are pointed out with quite good accuracy, highlighting the offending area. The output is also pretty-formatted. The only downsite is that your JSON text is processed and validated on the server so don't use this facility to validate JSON text containing confidential or sensitive data. read more...

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Three CSS Roll Over Techniques You Might Not Know About(colincochrane.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 4 years, 3 months ago

When it comes to rollover effects in web design the most common way to accomplish the effect has traditionally been with JavaScript. The reason this method is used so commonly is because it is simple to implement and, more importantly, avoids the "lag" on the first mouseover that comes when using a CSS background-image switch on an selector:hover rule due to the delay required to download the rollover image. One thing that a lot of people don't realize is that there are methods to accomplish this effect in CSS without the initial rollover lag. read more...

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