MEF will not get easier, it’s cool as ICE(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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

Over the past few weeks, several people asked me to show them how to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), some of them seemed to have some difficulties with the concept of MEF. I tried explaining that it will not get easier than it is currently, hence the title of this blog post. MEF is based on 3 keywords: export, import, compose. Since these 3 words all start with a letter that can be combined to a word, and MEF is cool, here’s a hint on how to remember it: MEF is cool as ICE! read more...

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Windows Azure Drive (aka X-Drive)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 3 months ago

With today’s release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK version 1.1, also the Windows Azure Drive feature has been released. Announced at last year’s PDC as X-Drive, which has nothing to do with a well-known German car manufacturer, this new feature enables a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easily migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud. This blog post will describe the necessary steps to create and/or mount a virtual hard disk on a Windows Azure role instance. read more...

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Recording of my session at Remix 2009 - ASP.NET MVC(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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

Session recording of my remix09 talk: ASP.NET MVC Wisdom Abstract: "Building a Twitter clone in 60 minutes, featuring what's new in ASP.NET MVC 2 preview 1 and focusing on some of the core ASP.NET MVC features like security and routing." read more...

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Leveraging ASP.NET MVC 2 futures ViewState(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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

In my previous blog post, I called something “ViewState in MVC” while it is not really ViewState. To be honest, I did this on purpose, wanting to see people discuss this possibly new feature in MVC 2. Discussion started quite fast: most people do not like the word ViewState, especially when it is linked to ASP.NET MVC. As Phil Haack pointed out in a comment on my previous blog post, I used this foul word where it was not appropriate: "(…) I think calling it ViewState is very misleading. (…) what your serializing is the state of the Model, not the View. (…)" Let’s use this in a practical example. read more...

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application #25(jvdveen.blogspot.com)

submitted by mrjvdveen(195) 2 years, 7 months ago

In the previous episode I discussed how an enum can be used to encapsulate char values in a database, in this case using a Gender enum as an example. As cool as that was it does pose a problem with databinding in Silverlight that I'd like to share with you. Part of that explanation leads us into the realm of reflection (that would make for a cool blog title :) ) and then into some cool trick in binding, all to end with a bit of a dissapointment. 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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Replacing ASP.NET Session with Velocity Session Provider(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by gilf(2139) 2 years, 7 months ago

One nice feature of Microsoft Distributed Cache aka Velocity is a custom session provider that can replace the ASP.NET default session provider. In this post I’ll explain how to replace ASP.NET session with the Velocity session provider that is being provided with Velocity. read more...

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xVal v1.0 is now released(blog.codeville.net)

submitted by desmond(2014) 2 years, 8 months ago

In case you’re not aware, xVal is a validation helper for ASP.NET MVC that lets you use your own choice of server-side validation framework (e.g., Microsoft’s DataAnnotations attributes, or Castle Validator, or NHibernate Validaion) and dynamically generates client-side validation code from your rules. Version 1.0 adds new features including dynamic client-side validation summaries and remote (ajax) validation rules. read more...

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The cloud as a platform for platforms(aws.typepad.com)

submitted by alexgross(258) 2 years, 8 months ago

AWS is not only a rich platform to build solutions but also a platform for building specialized platforms. Customers can choose to either use the AWS cloud directly or take advantage of these value-added platforms. Customers can also mix and match platforms from this rich ecosystem. In this post, we look at some of the best examples of specialized platforms built on AWS: read more...

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C# Identify Crisis, You Have To Know Your Identity(devcomponents.com)

submitted by devexpert(260) 2 years, 8 months ago

Marking the beginning of the end of C# as language and its ongoing identity crisis. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 8 months ago

Back in March, I blogged about an experimental MvcSiteMap provider I was building. Today, I am proud to announce that it is stable enough to call it version 1.0! Download MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 over at CodePlex. Ever since the source code release I did back in March, a lot of new features have been added, such as HtmlHelper extension methods, attributes, dynamic parameters, … I’ll leave most of them up to you to discover, but there are some I want to quickly highlight. read more...

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Your very first NHibernate application - Part 1(dotnetslackers.com)

submitted by Marwan(850) 2 years, 8 months ago

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. read more...

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AI: Population based Incremental Learning in C# and .NET(c-sharpcorner.com)

submitted by maheshcha(1620) 2 years, 8 months ago

In this article I would like to discuss another offshoot of the genetic algorithm called Population Based Incremental Learning (PBIL). 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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ASP.NET MVC Chained Controller Factory(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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

My last post on the REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK received an interesting comment… Basically, the spirit of the comment was: “There are tons of controller factories out there, but you can only use one at a time!”. This is true. One can have an IControllerFactory for MEF, for Castle Windsor, a custom one that creates a controller based on the current weather, … Most of the time, these IControllerFactory implementations do not glue together… Unless you chain them! read more...

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Haacked: Simpler Transactions(haacked.com)

submitted by Jemm(9604) 2 years, 9 months ago

"My idea was to write a method that accepts an Action which contains the code you wish to run within the transaction. " read more...

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