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5 Ways That Postsharp Can SOLIDify Your Code: Authorization

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:13:43 GMT

One of the best uses of AOP is to take cross-cutting concerns that repeat themselves over and over in your system, and move them into their own class. Authentication and authorization are important parts of many applications, but too often the code to check if a user is authorized is spread all over the app. A class should have one and only one reason to change, so let's get the "auth" stuff into its own class.

5 Ways That Postsharp Can SOLIDify Your Code: Logging and Auditing

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:42:20 GMT

Matt Groves's journey through the top 5 aspects inevitably meets logging and auditing. But rather than staying at the "Hello, world" level, Matt explains how the aspect can be optimized for performance, and shows how the aspect optimizer, a feature of the professional edition of PostSharp, makes the difference.

5 Ways That Postsharp Can SOLIDify Your Code: Caching

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:03:24 GMT

Sometimes there's just no way to speed up an operation. Maybe it's dependent on a service that's on some external web server, or maybe it's a very processor intensive operation, or maybe it's fast by itself, but a bunch of concurrent requests would suck up all your resources. There are lots of reasons to use caching. PostSharp itself doesn't provide a caching framework for you (again, PostSharp isn't reinventing the wheel, it's just making it easier to use), but it does provide you with a way to (surprise) reduce boilerplate code, stop repeating yourself, and separate concerns into their own classes.

5 Ways Postsharp Can SOLIDify Your Code: Lazy Loading of Dependencies

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:30:18 GMT

Matthew Groves discusses how combining aspect-oriented programming and a service locator can provide an attractive alternative to dependency injection containers. Dependencies are loaded lazily when a property or field is first fetched, and there's no reference to the service locator in source code.

The NEW DotNetKicks front page is in beta

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:45:52 GMT

We are working on totally reworking how the front page of DotNetKicks works and the new version is now in public beta. Check it out, use it, and give us your feedback!

Working with WCF Part Seven - What's the deal with REST?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:02:30 GMT

The good news is that if you are reading this blog then you have used REST. The reason is that REST is the architectural basis for the Internet. When you opened your web browser of choice and typed www.jamescbender.com into the address bar and hit ENTER, the browser issued a request to the access resource located at www.jamescbender.com (whatever that may be) using the REST GET verb. In fact, if you've ever navigated to any website you've seen REST in action. That's the basis of REST; clients make requests to servers using a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) which, depending on which REST verb was used in the request, returns, created, alters or deletes the resource at the location specified by the URI. It's that simple.

Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever 2

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

You may recall giving the "Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever" a try last year, and they created a new one for this year. There's 100 levels, and they've got prizes for the first 100 people to finish it!

Add a Google Reader Shared Items widget to any site with jQuery

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:54:45 GMT

Use a little bit of jQuery + CSS to display your Google Reader Shared Items on your web site.

Add a Last.fm Widget to any web site with jQuery

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:40:34 GMT

The "Lastest Music" widget pulls data from my Last.fm account. Currently I'm displaying the 12 artists/albums that I've listened to the most on Last.fm over the last week. It shows the cover art for each album and links to the album's page on Last.fm.

ASP.NET MVC Chained Controller Factory

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:30:00 GMT

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!

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:02 GMT

By default, the ASP.NET MVC framework instantiate controllers calling their default constructor. This makes using Dependency Injection impossible. But, as almost everything inside that framework, the logic with which a controller is instantiated can be replaced with you own logic. This can be done creating your own ControllerFactory, which is pretty simple. But if you are using one of the many popular DI/IoC libraries, that task is even simpler, since there are already custom controller factories for almost all the IoC libraries available. In this post we are are going to see how to use the ControllerFactory that delegates to Ninject the creation of your controllers.

CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 4 - Membership and authentication

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:31:18 GMT

This post is part 4 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing authentication in CarTrackr. Other parts: Part 1 - Introduction, containg links to all other parts Part 2 - Cloud-enabling CarTrackr Part 3 - Data storage Part 4 - Membership and authentication (current part)

CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 3 - Data storage

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:16:16 GMT

This post is part 3 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing cloud storage in CarTrackr. Other parts: Part 1 - Introduction, containg links to all other parts Part 2 - Cloud-enabling CarTrackr Part 3 - Data storage (current part)

CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 2 - Cloud-enabling CarTrackr

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:16:11 GMT

This post is part 2 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about enabling the CarTrackr Visual Studio Solution file for Windows Azure.

Track your car expenses in the cloud! CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Par

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:46:07 GMT

As you may see in the title, I will be starting a series on modifying my CarTrackr sample application to a cloud-based, Windows Azure application. At this point, I don't know if it's easy nor do I know what it takes to achieve this goal. I only have some assumtions on how CarTrackr can be converted to a cloud application. This post is part 1 of the series, in which I'll describe the architecture of Windows Azure and what I think it takes to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application.

Saving dynamically added list items using jQuery and ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:16:20 GMT

The author gives an example of how you can use ASP.NET MVC built in DefaultModelBinder to populate a List of Complex Types for a Controller Action. Taking the example a step further, the author describes how to dynamically add elements in the form using jQuery that eventually get posted to a save action.

The Perfect Storm Botnet

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:50:51 GMT

How botnets work as well as the importance of using Html.Encode on your website to prevent the website from being hacked and spreading malware.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

Social Timeline

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:32:23 GMT

A slick little ASP.NET MVC + JQuery example.

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:31:13 GMT

Describes what is needed to add OpenID login as an option to traditional ASP.NET Membership and integrating both.

Public Speaking - Great Beginnings

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:39:27 GMT

With a good opening comes a good closing. All that's left is the stuffing in the middle.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 3: Twitter War Stories

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:31:06 GMT

A group of Twitter power users met up on the last day of the TechEd 2008 Conference. They sat down with Deep Fried Bytes host and Twitter user Keith Elder to discuss their ideas, experiences and observations of the online service. Each person has their own reason for using Twitter but they all share a common theme. They all use Twitter to keep in touch with their friends and stay connected to keep relationships thriving.

MVC Storefront: Dependency Injection

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:01:02 GMT

This is a long one! I sat with Jeremy Miller (of StructureMap/CodeBetter fame) for over 2 hours, talking about DI, Singletons, kids, and other things and what came of it is, in my opinion, the best webcast in this series.