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CodeSmith Insight 1.3 Released, Supports MVC3

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:31:20 GMT

CodeSmith Insight is an Error Reporting and User Feedback Service, and it has added out of the box support for yet another framework: ASP.NET MVC 3. The MVC 3 client works with both the new MVC global HandleErrorAttribute as well as IIS error events, ensuring that all of your errors always submit a detailed crash report.

My 10 favourite Programming Quotes

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:45:23 GMT

For this post , i decided to collect some of my favourite quotes related to the programming . These programming quotes were made by some of the famous personalities in the IT industry . So , without wasting any time , here are my 10 favourite programming quotes ...

Queuing System

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:01:11 GMT

It is not a surprise that I have a keen interest in queuing system and messaging. I have been pondering building another queuing system recently, and that led to some thinking about the nature of queuing systems. In general, there are two major types of queuing systems. Remote Queuing Systems and Local Queuing Systems. While the way they operate is very similar, they are actually major differences in the way you would work with either system.

Multithreaded Apps Made Easy Using Aspects - Part 1

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:59:33 GMT

How aspect-oriented programming can make it easier to implement multithreaded WPF application (first part of a series of two). Think that your application does not need to be multithreaded? Think twice.

Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:52 GMT

The Apache Foundation wants to kill Lucene.net. If you use it please chime in and help. This post explains a bit more in detail why this is happening

Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:00:52 GMT

New async features for C# 5.

Marks asp.net / mvc blog: Zipping Build Outputs using a Build File - A

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:00:52 GMT

We are continuing ths msbuild series, this post will focus on zipping the outputs of the build. To recap so far we have setup a batch file that can build and version our project. The output of this build is placed inside a folder called "build" at the top of projects directory structure. We will zip up the outputs of the build so they can be easily distributed. To do this, the Zip build task that is part of the "MsBuld.Community.Tasks" library will be used. If you are not familiar with this library a...

Google Cannot Solve your Coding Problems

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:45:52 GMT

I imagine 80/90% of programmers, myself included, are guilty of this everday form of insanity.

ASP.NET and the Padding Oracle Attack: Wrap-up

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:00:52 GMT

Based on the news that was released at the time, it appeared that this vulnerability was just an issue AES. It turns out that this was false and that that this attack works against ANY BLOCK CIPHER meaning 3DES was also vulnerable. This wrap-up links to some mitigation techniques and also discusses how to protect against padding oracle attacks using Digital Signatures.

Asynchronous calls to web services during ASP.NET page processing

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:15:52 GMT

Some ASP.NET web applications use web services to get some data that they display to users. Some pages may lay hardly on web services and these pages need some optimization to work better. In this posting I will show you how to use web services behind your ASP.NET page asynchronously and perform a lot of queries to web services. Sample code included!

Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Script to calculate the Age in Years, Months, Days, Hours and Minutes

Understanding URL Routing

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:30:52 GMT

You might be worrying what is URL Routing ?and how we will implement it? Read this article for digging into it in details

Release of Google Analytics Dot Net

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:45:52 GMT

So today is the day that a little side project I've been working on sees the days of light. GoogleAnalyticsDotNet allows you to log a page view to Google Analytics from code behind of a website or from within a web service or win forms project without needing to use the Google JavaScript code, or even use web browser at all.

Using Tika in .NET for extracting text out of documents

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:45:51 GMT

Tika is an open source Java-based tool for extracting information out of various different document formats. It can be used with Lucene for indexing and searching documents, among other things. In this post, Kevin Miller talks about how use Tika in .NET via the IKVM.net utility.

IIS Express

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:15:51 GMT

If like me you are sick to death of Cassini (whats that then? its the built in web server that visual studio uses) and also sick to death of playing around with IIS 7 then relief is at hand.

.NET 4.0 has 2 Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

While reading an article on Understanding The CLR Binder, I found out that .NET 4.0 has 2 distinct GAC's (Global Assembly Cache).In previous .NET versions, when I installed a .NET assembly into the GAC (using gacutil.exe), I could find it in the 'C:\Windows\assembly' path. With .NET 4.0, GAC is now ....

5 jQuery Calendar Plugins that can be used on Websites

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:00:51 GMT

Online calendars can be very useful to share and publish your schedules. One of the most common requests I receive from my jQuery readers is for of a good, free-to-use, jQuery Calendar control, similar to the Google Calendar, which can be added to a website or blog. Here are some of the freely available jQuery Calendar plugins, worth trying out

Talking Architects - Kim Cameron and friends from AIC2010

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:52:25 GMT

With the growing interest in "cloud computing", the subject of Identity is moving into the limelight. Kim Cameron is a legend in the identity architecture and engineering space. He is currently the chief architect for Microsoft's identity platform and a key contributor to the field at large.

Applying Software Design Patterns - Free Ebook

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:45:52 GMT

A short Ebook on Design Patterns - The objective is to introduce software design patterns in a simple, human readable, and funny (?) way - in the context of designing a soccer engine - By discussing the thought process behind applying design patterns

Observer in .NET 4.0 with IObserver(T)

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:30:52 GMT

The IObservable(T) and IOberver(T) interfaces are part of base class library of .NET 4.0. It's great that there is now a out of the box solution to implement the observer pattern. The article shows with a simple example how the two interfaces should be used.

NNUG Presentation - Udi Dahan on NServiceBus

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:09:21 GMT

I've finally found the time to encode the recording we did when Udi Dahan visited us at NNUG Bergen and presented NServiceBus. In the first video, Udi talks about why or why not you should use a bus. The second video demos NServiceBus in action.

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.

Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:30:01 GMT

The challenge of uploading large files in ASP.NET through HTTP is not a new challenge. In addition to handling large files, users often request an experience that shows the progress of an upload as it occurs. When you have either or both of these requirements, or if you simply need direct control of a stream of file data uploaded from a browser, you invariably hit the wall. I set about solving the problem in an ASP.NET MVC-specific way.

Constructor over-injection anti-pattern

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:30:03 GMT

I'm interested in structure. We hear lots of talk about convention over configuration. I'm all for structure over convention (over configuration). This post is about laying out some code that is an anti-pattern. It uses 100% constructor injection. This code makes it easy for a container to bootstrap the construction of the objects, but let's take a look at why this specific scenario is an anti-pattern and what design would be better.

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.