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Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN - ScottGu's Blog

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Earlier today the ASP.NET team launched a new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

ScottGu: Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:30:00 GMT

"Today's post covers a small, but nice, new feature that you can now optionally take advantage of with ASP.NET 4 - the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without having to wait for an external client to hit the web server. This can help you provide a faster response experience for the first user who hits the server, and avoids you having to write custom scripts to "warm up" the server and get any data caches ready."

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.

Windows 7 Code Pack v 1.0 Released

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:45:06 GMT

The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides support for various features of Windows 7 and previous releases of that operating system. The Code Pack has reached version 1.0 and has been published on Code Gallery:

Two New Features of C# 4.0 You will Love

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:15:07 GMT

Two new features to C# 4.0 are optional parameters and named parameters. Optional parameters have been a part of VB.Net but it's now possible to do this in C#. Let us see how

Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit Released

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:30:06 GMT

Almost six months after the official release of Asp.Net MVC 1.0 and nearly a year after the last release of the starter kit, I've finally rewritten and released the Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit.

ASP.NET MVC StrongRoutes AppAir.Web Preview Release

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:15:05 GMT

Magic strings be gone! make your routes strongly typed today.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 is released!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 2 first preview is released to public now and you can download it from Microsoft download site. Here is short overview of technical requirements and main new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 released!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:15:04 GMT

Today, Phil Haack did a blog post on the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1! Get it while it's fresh :-) An updated roadmap is also available on CodePlex. Guess now is about time to start revising my ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly book.

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.

Pulling others up

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:45:00 GMT

What should you do when you're in a situation where the people you're working with aren't using the latest and greatest technology and might not be using the so-called "best practices" that you subscribe to?

Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio

Thu, 21 May 2009 03:06:38 GMT

As you begin developing more complex client-side functionality, managing the size and shape of your JavaScript includes becomes a key concern. It's all too easy to accidentally end up with hundreds of kilobytes of JavaScript spread across many separate HTTP requests, significantly slowing down your initial page loads. I hope you'll find that this technique is a good compromise between the tedium of using manual minification tools and the overwrought complexity of setting up some of the more "enterprisey" automation solutions.

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 04:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

Implementing a simple genetic algorithm

Fri, 01 May 2009 17:01:02 GMT

In this blog post I'll give a quick introduction to what genetic algorithms are and what they can be used for. We'll implement a genetic algorithm that attempts to guess an RGB color by evolving upon a random set of initial guesses, until it at some point evolves into the correct RGB value.

22 amazing JQuery - Modal - Plugins

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:31:03 GMT

A collection of 22 amazing JQuery - Modal - Window - Plugins

Just say No! to C# Regions

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:01:02 GMT

You need a language construct so that your IDE can help you hide your big messy code block from you (because it's just so hideous, you don't even want to look at it anymore)?

Test-After Development is not Test-Driven Development

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:46:02 GMT

Test-Driven Development is first and foremost an application design methodology. If you write your unit tests after you write your application code, then you are not driving the design of your application with your unit tests. In other words, Test-After Development ignores the Driven in Test-Driven Development.

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

Using the ASP.NET MVC Futures AsyncController

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:31:04 GMT

Last week, I blogged about all stuff that is included in the ASP.NET MVC Futures assembly, which is an assembly available on CodePlex and contains possible future features (tonguetwister!) for the ASP.NET MVC framework. One of the comments asked for more information on the AsyncController that is introduced in the MVC Futures. So here goes!

Using complex types to make calling services less... complex

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:46:03 GMT

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:16:10 GMT

I had not messed around with file uploads in ASP.NET MVC for a while and so when I fired up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they had made it!

Activity Monitor is Empty - Fix Activity Monitor for All Users

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:31:02 GMT

Activity Monitor is essential tool for doing analysis of of system. Many users does not use this because when they open it there is no data. Due to same reason they move on. This article very quickly shows how to fix the same issue.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released!

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:31:02 GMT

To keep up with a good tradition (see here and here), I'm being one of the earliest bloggers having great news on ASP.NET MVC: we are at version 1.0! This means production ready, supported, stable, .! Grab the download at Microsoft.com.

10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:46:02 GMT

One of the best things about C# is that as the language and libraries expand thought is put into keeping things readable. Below I have listed 10 shorthands that you can use to make your code tighter and less wordy. No doubt you know one or more already - but do you currently use all ten of them ?

AnkhSVN 2.0.6310 Released - Subversion Plugin for Visual Studio.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:31:20 GMT

New features include: Experimental support of Visual Studio 2010, Overall performance improvemens, and much more...