Using shared DTO-s between ASP.NET MVC and Windows Phone 7 application(windowsphonedev.blogspot.com)

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I am building Windows Phone 7 application that asks information from ASP.NET MVC site. I had problem with getting DTO-s library in place to get both sides of communication use the same types of objects. Here is my solution. read more...

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Stream.CopyTo() extension method(weblogs.asp.net)

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In one of my applications I needed copy data from one stream to another. After playing with streams a little bit I wrote CopyTo() extension method to Stream class you can use to copy the contents of current stream to target stream. Here is my extension method. read more...

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ASP.NET: Serializing and deserializing JSON objects(weblogs.asp.net)

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ASP.NET offers very easy way to serialize objects to JSON format. Also it is easy to deserialize JSON objects using same library. In this posting I will show you how to serialize and deserialize JSON objects in ASP.NET. read more...

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ASP.NET and WIF: Showing custom profile username as User.Identity.Name(weblogs.asp.net)

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I am building ASP.NET MVC application that uses external services to authenticate users. For ASP.NET users are fully authenticated when they are redirected back from external service. In system they are logically authenticated when they have created user profiles. In this posting I will show you how to force ASP.NET MVC controller actions to demand existence of custom user profiles. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC: Using ProfileRequiredAttribute to restrict access to page(weblogs.asp.net)

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If you are using AppFabric Access Control Services to authenticate users when they log in to your community site using Live ID, Google or some other popular identity provider, you need more than AuthorizeAttribute to make sure that users can access the content that is there for authenticated users only. In this posting I will show you hot to extend the AuthorizeAttribute so users must also have user profile filled. read more...

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ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN(weblogs.asp.net)

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When developing cloud applications it is still useful to build them so they can run also on local machine without network connection. One thing you use from CDN when in cloud and from app folder when not connected are common JavaScript libraries. In this posting I will show you how to add support for local and CDN script stores to your ASP.NET MVC web application. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC 3: Using AppFabric Access Control Service to authenticate (weblogs.asp.net)

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I had Windows Azure training this week and I tried out how easy or hard it is to get Access Control Service to work with my ASP.NET MVC 3 application. It is easy now but it was not very easy to get there. In this posting I will describe you what I did to get ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to work with Access Control Service (ACS). I will show you also some code you may find useful. read more...

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Comparing and updating database schemas using Visual Studio 2010(weblogs.asp.net)

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During development it is possible that database schema changes and usually it changes are same sure to come as tax office and death. Later we need to reflect these changes also to live databases and it is not very easy task to do manually. In this posting I will show you how Visual Studio 2010 database tools can help you to update database schema. read more...

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Deployable dependencies in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta(weblogs.asp.net)

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One new feature that comes with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is support for deployment references. Deployment reference means that you can include all necessary DLL-s to deployment package so your application has all assemblies it needs to run with it in deployment package. In this posting I will show you how to use deployment dependencies. read more...

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta supports IIS Express(weblogs.asp.net)

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta and ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 were both announced today. I made a little test on one of my web applications to see how Visual Studio 2010 works with IIS Express. In this posting I will show you how to make your ASP.NET MVC 3 application work with IIS Express. read more...

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SSAS: Using fake dimension and scopes for dynamic ranges(weblogs.asp.net)

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In one of my BI projects I needed to find count of objects in income range. Usual solution with range dimension was useless because range where object belongs changes in time. These ranges depend on calculation that is done over incomes measure so I had really no option to use some classic solution. Thanks to SSAS forums I got my problem solved and here is the solution. read more...

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Getting MySQL work with Entity Framework 4.0(weblogs.asp.net)

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Does MySQL work with Entity Framework 4.0? The answer is: yes, it works! I just put up one experimental project to play with MySQL and Entity Framework 4.0 and in this posting I will show you how to get MySQL data to EF. Also I will give some suggestions how to deploy your applications to hosting and cloud environments. read more...

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DLL-s needed to run ASP.NET MVC 3 RC on Windows Azure(weblogs.asp.net)

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In this weekend I made one of my new apps run on Windows Azure. I am building this application using ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and Razor view engine. In this posting I will list DLL-s you need to have as local copies to get ASP.NET MVC 3 RC run on Windows Azure web role. read more...

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Windows Azure: Debug and redeploy your web applications quickly(weblogs.asp.net)

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My previous posting about Windows Azure introduced how to access web role instances using Remote Desktop. In this posting I will show you how your web applications are stored in virtual server where instance is running and how to debug and redeploy your applications quickly. read more...

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Windows Azure: Connecting to web role instance using Remote Desktop(weblogs.asp.net)

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My last posting about cloud covered new features of Windows Azure. One of the new features available is Remote Desktop access to Windows Azure role instances. In this posting I will show you how to get connected to Windows Azure web role using Remote Desktop. read more...

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Silverlight 5 announced!(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by gpeipman(3145) 1 year, 5 months ago

Just finished watching Silverlight Firestarter event where ScottGu made a keynote where he told about the future of Silverlight. There were some demos of Silverlight by SAP and IIS Media Server 4.0 new features by Chris Knowlton who demoed how to stream webcam pic to desktop, Windows Phone 7 and iPad. There was also demo about system called dayforce. But let’s go to new stuff now. In this posting I will introduce you fresh news I just got about Silverlight 5 new features. read more...

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