Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 months, 27 days ago

A introduction to Wijmo, a jQuery UI based component library, and the rational behind the decision of adopting it vs other component libraries read more...

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Evolution of the Async Controller in ASP.NET MVC(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 4 months, 16 days ago

Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially in combination with C# 5 and async/await) they reached the same easiness of use of the standard synchronous controller. Check out that absolutely awesome stuff you can do with them now! read more...

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How To Build a Modern Website in 2011(blog.tommilway.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 4 months, 17 days ago

Over the past 12 months I've been on a self-imposed quest for knowledge. We're at a changing - almost revolutionary - point with the web as I (start) writing this on November 1st, 2011. Here's why read more...

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API(www.silverlightshow.net)

submitted by KMillerr(2072) 4 months, 17 days ago

There is not any doubt, the first thing you meet when you use Windows Phone are the tiles. These are the large squares on the home screen that identifies some applications and they are also a distinguishable character that make your Windows Phone unique. As you know for sure, the tiles can be attached or detached from the home screen and some particular software can take advantage of double size tiles. While this is not a feature available to developers, in OS7.5, the tiles gained new features and a new set of APIs that you can use to enrich your applications. As an example you are now able to update your tiles from inside the application and you can use double faced tiles to improve information to the user. In this article I would like to explore these new features and show how to take advantage of them, while porting your software to the new operating system. read more...

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An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility(www.simple-talk.com)

submitted by Harlequin7(20) 7 months, 29 days ago

ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle. In fact, the best way to develop applications with ASP.NET MVC is to extend the system, Simone Chiaretta starts a series that explains how to implement extensions to ASP.NET MVC, covering the entire pipeline. But first, an overview... read more...

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Customise Subtext Core Pages – Part 1(www.siphilp.co.uk)

submitted by siphilp(919) 8 months, 12 days ago

I wanted to take time out from subtext themes for a moment and go over a topic that I think will be of some use to such webmasters that use subtext on a multi-blog platform. Customising Subtext core pages. read more...

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OWASP Top 10 for .NET devs part 8: Failure to Restrict URL Access(www.troyhunt.com)

submitted by troyhunt(831) 9 months, 26 days ago

What makes this particular risk so dangerous is that not only can it be used to very, very easily exploit an application, it can be done so by someone with no application security competency – it’s simply about accessing a URL they shouldn’t be. On the positive side, this is also a fundamentally easy exploit to defend against. ASP.NET provides both simple and efficient mechanisms to authenticate users and authorise access to content. In fact the framework wraps this up very neatly within the provider model which makes securing applications an absolute breeze. read more...

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Polyglot programming - combining functional, dynamic and imperative la(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 5 days ago

A blog post from Mindscape about the development experience of creating the Web Workbench product for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010. Like most .NET projects, it contains a fair chunk of C#. But quite a bit of the core is written in F#, and it also invokes a large amount of external Ruby and JavaScript code. While using all these languages definitely made it far easier to develop the product, it did also throw up a few challenges and surprises. This post looks at those challenges and surprises. read more...

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Sass, Less and CoffeeScript for Visual Studio 2010(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 8 days ago

Mindscape have released a 100% free Visual Studio extension that adds support for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript. Making this extension even more powerful is that it includes syntax highlighting, output generation, intellisense, go to definition and much more! Be up and running in with these technologies in Visual Studio in no time! read more...

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LightSpeed 4.0 .NET ORM released(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 27 days ago

The LightSpeed 4.0 ORM has been released and features distributed application support so you can work transparently with entities across a network, and Web enhancements that simplify development and encapsulate best practices in ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC. A huge new user guide and entirely new samples, packed with guidance not just on how to use LightSpeed but also on the best way to work with it in different environments. There is also a new metadata API, auditing capabilities and much much more. read more...

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OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 7: Insecure Cryptographic Storag(www.troyhunt.com)

submitted by troyhunt(831) 11 months, 13 days ago

In the 7th part of the series on addressing the OWASP Top 10 within ASP.NET, we look at how cryptographic storage can be implemented securely. The post looks at how poorly implemented hashing can be easily broken with rainbow tables then moves onto secure hash algorithms, proper use of salts and the implementation of symmetric encryption. read more...

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Creating custom node styles for WPF Diagrams(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 11 months, 25 days ago

This article discusses how developer can use the Mindscape WPF Diagrams product to create an custom diagram with custom node types. Customizing node types can mean creating normal diagram nodes, but it could be that developers want to build any type of composed surface - a Visual Studio style window designer, visual DSL tools, and anything else you can imagine. This article gets users started on the road to customization. read more...

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Why is a Y in the Windows Phone Mango Camera API(kodierer.blogspot.com)

submitted by teichgraf(615) 1 year ago

The new Windows Phone Mango tools will contain the Webcam CaptureSource and VideoSink API from Silverlight 4. Additionally it also introduce the new FileSink class which can be used to record the video stream as MP4 to the Isolated Storage. Most important a new PhotoCamera class with a lot of functionality is present in Mango. This blog post tries to fill the gaps and provides some information especially about the PhotoCamera's YCrCb capture methods. read more...

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Augmented Mango - SLARToolkit for Windows Phone(kodierer.blogspot.com)

submitted by teichgraf(615) 1 year ago

This post announces the new Windows Phone version of SLARToolkit and also provides a sample. read more...

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Dynamic repositories with LightSpeed - taking dynamic up a level(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year ago

Ready to think outside the box with the C# dynamic keyword? This post looks at taking the c# dynamic keyword and seeing how much boiler plate code we can get rid of. You'll learn how to take the Repository pattern where developers write a lot of GetFooByName, GetBarByEmailAddress type methods and how to get rid of them - gone, history, finished! Then there's Named Parameters - this post starts looking at how to use them for querying. By the end of this post you'll have a whole new way of looking at things with dyanmic and named parameters! read more...

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The importance of performance testing in a Windows Phone 7 application(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 1 year, 1 month ago

Simone Chiaretta highlights the importance of performance testing your applications on the Windows Phone 7 platform (where devices are not as powerful as desktops and server), illustrating with an example of an issue which caused him performance problems. read more...

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