Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010 (www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1(1789) 3 months, 21 days ago

This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards update here to refresh your memories. read more...

1 comment |category: Products |Views: 59

tags: another

Recursive Ruby Script to replace File/Directory Names & File Contents(dannydouglass.com)

submitted by DannyDouglass(1260) 1 year, 3 months ago

Over this past weekend I began templating a project structure that we use at my day/evening/night job to allow developers to simply execute a script and provide a few parameters to initialize a new development project (including build script, fxcop analysis, unit testing, visual studio projects, etc.). I didn’t think this would take that long despite being relatively new to the Ruby world. Oddly enough, I had trouble finding similar examples on the interwebs – even StackOverflow didn’t have the answer! The horror, the horror! No matter, I’m a developer after all and should be, better be capable of handling this simple script. I decided to start simple and just use the directory global searching method to recursively get everything within my project template’s directory: read more...

add a comment |category: Open Source |Views: 5

tags: OpenSource another

Entity Framework: Intro to Database First Design(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 1 year, 4 months ago

Taking a look at how to use the Entity Framework via its database first design concepts. When building out an application which is based off of the Entity framework you have multiple options, you can either build your model off of your existing database or build your database of your existing model. This episode will explore how you start with your existing database and build your entity model. read more...

add a comment |category: C# |Views: 783

tags: Dimecasts.net EF EntityFramework C# ORM another

Building an HTML5 App with ASP.NET(stephenwalther.com)

submitted by Stephen.Walther(180) 1 year, 4 months ago

Describes how to create a JavaScript Reference by taking advantage of HTML5 features such as local storage, and offline manifests. Also demonstrates how to build server-side JavaScript unit tests for an Ajax application. read more...

1 comment |category: AJAX |Views: 661

tags: AJAX another

Regex Hero can now translate a regular expression into English(blog.regexhero.net)

submitted by BucketSoft(324) 1 year, 5 months ago

Regular expressions are one of those things that many programmers dabble with enough to understand the concept, but not enough to memorize the syntax. Code completion is a big step towards making things easier. Beyond that, sometimes an explanation written out in English is just what you need. read more...

3 comments |category: Regular Expressions |Views: 700

tags: RegEx another

Microsoft Visual Studio - From Past to Present(www.ironshay.com)

submitted by shayfriedman(1411) 1 year, 5 months ago

Recently I‘ve been working at a client site where they are using Visual Studio 2005 for their main project. I’ve gotta say that I was a bit surprised since I haven’t come across VS2005 for a few years… I immediately became nostalgic and decided to share. So I’m proud to present, Visual Studio – from past to present! read more...

1 comment |category: Visual Studio |Views: 613

tags: VisualStudio another

Slash your ASP.NET compile/load time without any hard work(blog.lavablast.com)

submitted by EtienneTremblay(5008) 1 year, 5 months ago

Tips & tricks to make your ASP.NET development more enjoyable (cut down compilation time / first load time). read more...

add a comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 721

tags: ASP.NET another

Top 6 Coding Standards & Guideline Documents For C#/.NET Developers(amazedsaint.blogspot.com)

submitted by amazedsaint(835) 1 year, 6 months ago

Some time back, I collated a list of 7 Must Read, Free EBooks for .NET Developers, and a lot of people found it useful. So, I thought about putting together my “Top 6” list of Coding Standard guidelines/checklists for .NET /C# developers as well...They are useful not just from a review perspective - going through these documents can definitely help you and me to iron out few hidden glitches we might have in the programming portion of our brain. So, here we go, the listing is not in any specific order. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 1154

tags: C# another

Simplify Using Xml Data with AutoMapper and Linq-To-Xml(dannydouglass.com)

submitted by DannyDouglass(1260) 1 year, 6 months ago

I recently ran into a scenario at work that required manually consuming several SOAP web services, which I’m sure you can imagine was rather monotonous. A co-worker (Seth Carney) and I tried a few different approaches, but we finally settled on a solution that simplified consumption of the xml and ultimately made the code more testable. That solution centered around leveraging AutoMapper, an open source object-object mapping tool, to create a link between the XElements returned in the SOAP messages and custom contracts we created – in a reusable manner. I put together a quick demo that shows how you could use the same approach to consume and display the Twitter Public Timeline (using the API’s Xml response type). read more...

add a comment |category: Tips & Tricks |Views: 76

tags: Tips another

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

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 1 year, 6 months ago

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 read more...

add a comment |category: Open Source |Views: 929

tags: OpenSource another

A Better Hg Command Line Interface: Console2 + PowerShell + Posh-Hg(dannydouglass.com)

submitted by DannyDouglass(1260) 1 year, 7 months ago

Moving from Subversion to Mercurial was more than a change from a centralized version control system to a distributed solution. I also found myself moving away from the explorer integration provided by the Tortoise products to the command line for the execution of my hg commands. This approach is dramatically faster once you get used to the syntax, which really only takes a hot minute. Certain features in TortoiseHg still provide visual advantages that I find useful, such as the visual repository log. During an Agile.Net Bootcamp with Jimmy Bogard he showed us an collection of tools he utilizes to provide an improved Mercurial command line experience. The final product is a more descriptive prompt that displays branch information, as well as the number and types of changes made since your last commit… read more...

add a comment |category: Tips & Tricks |Views: 64

tags: Tips another

Introducing 'Vingy' Add-in for VS2010 To search StackOverflow, Web etc(amazedsaint.blogspot.com)

submitted by amazedsaint(835) 1 year, 7 months ago

Vingy let you search the web (mainly sites like StackOverflow, CodeProject, MSDN etc) in a non intrusive way, with out leaving the IDE. Vingy is a simple, but effective add in for Visual Studio 2010 so that you can search the web in a non intrusive way, and can filter results based on sources. read more...

add a comment |category: Visual Studio |Views: 269

tags: VisualStudio another

8 Best open source alternative to NHibernate. (www.findbestopensource.com)

submitted by solidstone(500) 1 year, 7 months ago

NHibernate is one of the best ORM library in .NET to build data access code faster. We identified best open source alternative to NHibernate. According to the requirement pick any library and build the data access layer in .NET. read more...

1 comment |category: Database |Views: 760

tags: Database another

ASP.NET MVC: Using asynchronous controller to call web services(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by gpeipman(3145) 1 year, 8 months ago

Lately I wrote about how to make a lot of asynchronous calls to web services during ASP.NET page processing. Now it’s time to make same thing work with ASP.NET MVC. This blog post shows you how to use asynchronous controllers and actions in ASP.NET MVC and also you will see more complex scenario where we need to gather results of different web service calls to one result set. read more...

add a comment |category: MVC |Views: 291

tags: MVC another

OpenID for ASP.NET MVC, A Quick Setup(andrewblogs.com)

submitted by beckelmw(2755) 1 year, 8 months ago

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. read more...

add a comment |category: MVC |Views: 228

tags: MVC another

What’s Nu in the .NET World Part 2: Creating a Gem(dannydouglass.com)

submitted by DannyDouglass(1260) 1 year, 9 months ago

If you are not familiar with the Nu project start by reading my first post in this series that gives an introduction to getting started with this promising tool. As a quick reference I’ll post a paragraph from the last post introducing Nu: “Nu is an open source tool built by Dru Sellers (and several others) that aims at bringing Gems, one of Ruby’s most revered features, to the .NET world. If you are not familiar with Gems I suggest you take a minute to read up on them. I would venture a bet that you are already familiar with at least one gem – Ruby on Rails. The following line of code is all that is required to install the Ruby on Rails gem (after installing the Ruby library of course)…” This post is focused on sharing my experience in creating my first gem for the Spark View Engine. I would be doing you a great disservice if I did not start by saying how easy it is to create a gem. Actually easy is the wrong phrase – crazy easy is more telling. Since I would never ask you to take my word for it, it must mean it is time to show some code. read more...

add a comment |category: Open Source |Views: 10

tags: OpenSource another