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ETags with WCF Web APIs Preview 4

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:57:42 GMT

How to handle ETags automatically with WCFWebApis

Tunnelling PUT and DELETE with WCF Web APIs Preview 4

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:28:26 GMT

Tunnelling PUT and DELETE requests with WCF Web APIs Preview 4

WCF Web APIs: Embrace the Web

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:28:26 GMT

The new WCF Web APIs library embraces the Web

Securing WCF REST services for smartphone clients

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:06:45 GMT

Discussion of the authentication methods that can be used for REST services, and the presentation of the WcfRestAuth framework.

OpenID for ASP.NET MVC, A Quick Setup

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:00:52 GMT

If you need to get your ASP.NET MVC website setup with some basic OpenID Authentication, I can help get you started. All you need is a DLL, a view, and two controller actions.

Replay detection in a web farm with WCF

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:10:20 GMT

WCF replay attack detection in a web-farm environment.

What's new in Subtext 2.5: full-text search, related posts and more

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

In Subtext 2.5 we changed the internal search provider from the "like %term%" SQL based one to a more mature and powerful one powered by Lucene.net. I wrote about how Lucene.net is implemented inside Subtext, but it didn't show the benefits for the users. In this post I'm explaining the visible features of the full-text search.

CouchDb vs RavenDB - Map & Reduce

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

A comparison of the Map/Reduce systems in CouchDB and RavenDB and an explanation of quite how different they really are.

A few thoughts on jQuery templating with jQuery.tmpl

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:15:52 GMT

Some thoughts on the current state of the jQuery.tmpl plugin, and suggestions for making it better.

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Action Results

Wed, 05 May 2010 06:24:21 GMT

Apply SoC and DI to ActionResults

Timesaving CSS Tools for ASP.Net Developers

Thu, 06 May 2010 15:45:52 GMT

A couple of tools for making web designer less painful for developers. Includes Blueprint a css framework, Bundler combine and minify and LESS CSS.

Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:14:14 GMT

Deleporter is a little .NET library that teleports arbitrary delegates into an ASP.NET MVC/WebForms application in some other process (e.g., hosted in IIS) and runs them there. This is very useful for integration testing: it means you can do cross-process mocking, change the application configuration on the fly, or run custom teardown logic (such as flushing caches) at the end of each test.

ASMX ScriptService mistake: Installation and configuration

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Continuing my series of posts about ASMX services and JSON, this post will cover two common mistakes that plague the process of getting a project's first ASMX ScriptService working: Installing System.Web.Extensions into the GAC and configuring your web.config.

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:45:03 GMT

How does BDD compare with TDD, and how can you use BDD-style tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow with ASP.NET MVC? Steve Sanderson considers the options, and provides an example of combining ASP.NET MVC 2, SpecFlow, and WatiN.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:45:05 GMT

This is a full guide for localizing asp.net mvc 2 web application covering following aspects: views localization, simple culture switching mechanism, model validation messages localization, DisplayName attribute localization and problem solving with caching(OutputCache) and localization.

Bundler Part 2 - ASP.NET Integration

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:56:07 GMT

A look at the Bundler Framework and how it could be integrated in with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC in order automate the process of minifying and combining JavaScript files.

Measuring the Performance of Asynchronous Controllers

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:15:00 GMT

It's easy enough to start using Asynchronous Controllers with ASP.NET MVC 2.0. But how do you know whether it's giving you any benefits? You might be surprised to learn that, in many default scenarios, you won't get any benefit unless you also make some crucial configuration changes. In this blog post you'll see a simple way to load test your asynchronous controllers, and find a rundown of important configuration options that will dramatically affect their behavior.

Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:45:00 GMT

How to use a jQuery hosted on a CDN with a fall back to a local version in case of an outage.

Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor.

How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:45:01 GMT

How to modify the new ASP.NET Ajax Script Loader to inject jQuery 1.4 instead of 1.3.2, without waiting on the team to update Start.js. Also covers how to make it use jQuery Validate 1.6 instead of 1.5.5.

.NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:15:02 GMT

This is a walkthrough in automating Sandcastle to generate API documentation during an automated build process.

Are you ready to learn F#? Concepts to be familiar with before learni

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:15:03 GMT

This article covers the concepts (i.e., immutability, recursion, data structures) a developer should know before starting to learn the new F# functional language.

Supporting multiple submit buttons on an ASP.NET MVC view

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

A while ago, I was asked for advice on how to support multiple submit buttons in an ASP.NET MVC application, preferably without using any JavaScript. The idea was that a form could contain more than one submit button issuing a form post to a different controller action. The above situation can be solved in many ways, one a bit cleaner than the other. For example, one could post the form back to one action method and determine which method should be called from that action method. Good solution, however: not standardized within a project and just not that maintainable. A better solution in this case was to create an ActionNameSelectorAttribute.

Selective Unit Testing - Costs and Benefits

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Test Driven Development is widely regarded as a hallmark technique of professional software development, but should you really do it all the time? Steve Sanderson argues that unit tests yield significant practical business value only for certain kinds of code. This blog post suggests what might be the underlying forces that determine whether unit tests will justify the long-term expense of creating and maintaining them. These ideas are then applied to structuring an ASP.NET MVC application.

Firebug for IE,Safari,Chrome and Opera

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:15:00 GMT

Firebug is certainly one of the main assets for web development available. I know that is the plugin of choice for many others. An undesirable side effect of Excellent Firebug is that other similar tools for other browsers pale in comparison and seem inferior.You can use firebug in any other browser by following these steps: