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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.

DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:15:00 GMT

DiffPlex is a combination of a .NET Diffing Library with both a Silverlight and HTML diff viewer. It is released open source on CodePlex under the MS-PL license.

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:14 GMT

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks - Lots of improvements and even more on the way!

MVC HtmlHelper for Google Charts

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:27:40 GMT

Asp.net Mvc has an awesome little class called the HtmlHelper class. I have only recently started to get into creating custom HtmlHelpers, and I thought that creating a small Google charting helper would be a good place to start.

Supporting OpenId in an asp.net MVC site

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:30:04 GMT

Introduction to OpenID on an asp.net MVC web site. On 3 minutes or so.

Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practises

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:30:04 GMT

A suite of good unit tests is immensely valuable: it documents your design, and makes it easier to refactor and expand your code while retaining a clear overview of each component's behaviour. However, a suite of *bad* unit tests is immensely painful: it doesn't prove anything clearly, and can severely inhibit your ability to refactor or alter your code in any way. How can you be sure to write unit tests that contribute positively to your project and don't end up being a liability?

ASP.NET MVC Tip 3: Implementing remote client-side form validation

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:45:00 GMT

Client-side form validation has become a de-facto standard for modern web applications. However, there are some validation rules which cannot be checked completely on the client side, for example because the validation depends on information stored in the server database. For those rules you need to implement remote client-side form validation. This article describes how to implement this so that you don't have to write any custom javascript for new validation rules.

Git For Windows Developers - Git Series - Part 1 - Jason Meridth -

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:40:55 GMT

A great tutorial on getting Git up and running on Windows (and a great introduction to Git).

ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:31:02 GMT

One of the propagated "great features" for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url's of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let's walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing.

File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:16:10 GMT

I had not messed around with file uploads in ASP.NET MVC for a while and so when I fired up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they had made it!

Whitehouse.gov: an ASP.NET site

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:46:03 GMT

This article looks into the JavaScript libraries, HTTP headers, platform and more of the new Whitehouse website. It includes statistics and some suggestions.

An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:16:03 GMT

"This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools."

Geek Food Drive

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:31:03 GMT

More than 35.5 million people in the United States and Canada will go hungry during the holidays. The Challenge: For all user groups to hold a food drive at their meeting this month. There is plenty of need, especially this year!

Lazy Loading with Linq to SQL POCO s

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:01:02 GMT

How to achieve Lazy Loading when using POCO s with Linq to SQL

Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:31:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman discusses a recent podcast with the team from StackOverflow where it was mentioned that they compress the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET, enabling them to store about 5-10x more data.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Creating Custom Configuration Sections fo

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:46:15 GMT

A short screencast on how to Creating Custom Configuration Sections for you App.config/Web.config

Unity - Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:01:14 GMT

Dependency injection is a programming technique to reduce component coupling. Dependency injection is also commonly known as "inversion of control" or IoC or sometimes as The Hollywood Principle - "Don't call us, we'll call you". The goal of dependency injection is to separate the concerns of how a dependency is obtained from the core concerns of a boundary. This improves reusability by enabling components to be supplied with dependencies which may vary depending on context.

Create PDF with C#

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Create PDF with C# on the fly

Add jQuery Intellisense To Your Visual Studio

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Enrich your working environment with free great jQuery intelisense addin

Replacing Loaded Assemblies - Paulo Morgado

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:46:02 GMT

Paulo shows us how to load, unload and replace assemblies at runtime.

Quick and dirty reporting with the Google Chart API

Fri, 09 May 2008 20:01:02 GMT

A quick example of how to quickly create a graphical report using the Google chart API, and driven off of your database.

Using NHibernate (years after I should have been)

Thu, 01 May 2008 18:31:11 GMT

Getting up and running with NHibernate.

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:01:02 GMT

Got more than 2GB of RAM in your machine? Get around the 2GB memory limit by making Visual Studio large address aware.