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Hello World, I am Win Phone 7

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:00:03 GMT

Take a first look at Windows Phone 7 Development. We will walk through creating a simple hello world application as well as give a quick tour of how to use the emulator.

ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT

Getting friendly with HTML in ASP.NET MVC just got a whole lot easier. In this Code Magazine article, Donn Felker delves into the Spark View Engine, an alternate view engine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Spark's main goal is to allow HTML to dominate the flow of view development while allowing code to fit in seamlessly.

Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT

We continue to take look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. In this episode we will take a deeper look at partials and learn more about their _undocumented_ features. We will also be learning how partials will allow us to create clean, compartmentalized and well organized code.

Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:30:03 GMT

Taking a look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. We will be taking a first look at partials and learn how we can setup our application to use partials as well as how to use them in your application. We will also be learning how partials will allow us to create clean, compartmentalized and well organized code.

Reimagining www.asp.net - Part One: The Home Page Experience

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:30:00 GMT

How would you redesign www.asp.net if you could start from scratch?

Auto-Creating Your DB with Active Record

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:15:14 GMT

A demonstration of how to automatically create a SQL Db on the fly with SQL Express. The demonstration also includes ASP.NET MVC, Spark, Active Record, Castle Windsor.

Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Taking a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and move up to looking at nested if-then-else statements.

Exploring how to use Global Variables and ViewData (Strongly typed and

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:15:03 GMT

Taking a look at how to utilized both global variables and local variables. We will also take a look at how to create and use both strongly typed viewdata and weakly typed view data.

Learning Hudson: Setting up to run and report Unit Test results

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:15:00 GMT

We will be taking a look at how we can use Hudson to report our Unit Tests results after each build. We will be looking at both reporting NUnit and MSTest results and will also show how you can convert MSTest results into NUnit results in order to report all tests in a single screen.

Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:45:05 GMT

Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine inside Visual Studio

Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine

Wed, 27 May 2009 19:15:00 GMT

Taking a introductory look at the Spark View engine. The Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly.

Learning the Observer Pattern

Fri, 08 May 2009 05:46:08 GMT

Taking a look at how we can use the Observer Pattern in our application. The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application.

ReSharper Templates (live and file)

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:16:16 GMT

A set of NUnit, Rhino Mocks and other templates for use in your ReSharper instance.

Using Prism (Composite WPF) EventAggregator

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:39:12 GMT

Imagine that your "Services" layer needs needs to send off an event that some data has changed. One way to do this would be to bubble the event to the parent layer and then let that layer bubble the event up again. For example, lets say that the Service layer changed the Customer and it wants to let any interested parties know (as it should) through an event. So it sends a "CustomerChanged" event notification. Since the only object who is watching the Service layer is the Model layer, the model layer will grab the event and then re-publish it again (bubbling it up) the object graph). As you can tell, its a royal pain to do this. Imagine the amount of code you have to write. You've to write a ton of plumbing just to bubble the event from the service to the model to the view model to the view, and vice versa. This is where an event aggregator comes in.

BlogEngine.NET extension: Detailed Download Counter

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:34:00 GMT

A detailed download counter extension for BlogEngine.NET 1.4.* that registers all downloads on your blog and shows you detailed information about the downloads itself.

How To: REST Services in WCF 3.5 Part 2 - The POST

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:31:42 GMT

Learn how to utilize the WebInvoke Attribute in WCF 3.5 to implement a RESTful Web service that accepts POST requests.

Implementing a REST service with WCF (part 1)

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:46:14 GMT

A short how to on implementing a REST service with WCF.

Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:46:11 GMT

Ryan Lanciaux discusses a class for retrieving Gravatar images -- this class was mainly written to facilitate using Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC.

How To: Implement a simple REST Services in WCF 3.5 Part 1

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:20:44 GMT

A real life introduction to how to program REST based services with WCF. With full working source download!

Integration Testing - End to End

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:13:12 GMT

A detailed blog post that outlines exactly what integration testing is. Its not unit testing, its integration testing. Full examples provided.

My Visual Studio Settings - My Altered Vibrant Ink Settings Setup

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:27:31 GMT

Custom DARK .NET Settings file with a preview. You will need Consolas for these settings.

4 Common Follies Made In Unit/Integration Testing

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:29:20 GMT

Review 4 common unit testing and integration testing follies. From testing with databases to not testing components because "You think they work".

Resizing a VHD and a Volume

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:50:57 GMT

Learn how to resize a Virtual PC VHD File so that the C drive has more space. VERY VERY Helpful when you run out of room on that VPC!

Intro To Microsoft Unity - Configuring the Container through XML

Mon, 26 May 2008 09:43:55 GMT

Learn how to configure Microsoft Unity through manual registration and XML registration. A full sample application is included for download.

Using iTextSharp To Watermark/Write Text to Existing PDF's

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This tutorial shows you how to write text to an existing PDF by using iTextSharp. Learn how to write text on top of the document, below the document and at various locations through the code and full solution provided.