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How to help yourself when NuGet goes down

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:47:03 GMT

Today will be remembered as the day that NuGet.org went down and broke quite some builds. While many people would love to see the NuGet team wearing a pink sombrero, there is something to say about wearing it yourself if you did not manage to work around this. Let me explain.

MessageBox - The jQuery Plugin

Thu, 05 May 2011 20:49:56 GMT

Now that I've been working more and more with ASP.NET MVC, I've been rewriting some of my server side controls with jQuery plugins. A while back I shared my version of Janko's popular MessageBox control. I've created a similar effect with a jQuery plugin based on the Highlight/Error examples on the jQuery UI Themes page.

IIS Express and Visual Studio 2010 without SP1

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:03:21 GMT

Here's how you can integrate IIS Express with Visual Studio 2010 without SP1. I'm taking advantage of External Tools again.

Another Repository

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:51:26 GMT

I think a theme of Repository pattern is common for many developer blogs. Certainly my blog won't be an exclusion. But I don't want to impose own implementation of this pattern. Instead, in this post we'll look at the pattern from a different side.

MVC 3's IValidatableObject

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:14:19 GMT

I've come across a couple ways to do validation in MVC. My favorite is the IvalidatableObject method. It's fairly simple to setup.

7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:00:52 GMT

Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

Interesting .NET Framework 4 Statistics

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:15:52 GMT

Some interesting statistics for the .NET Framework 4.0. There were a total of 44,346 types (loaded from 130 assemblies), with 33,152 classes, 2,398 interfaces, 4,828 enums, and 8,796 value types.

Is is as or is as is?

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:15:52 GMT

A short and concise post by Eric Lippert about the is and as operators in C#.

Getting Started with Code Contracts in VS2010

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:00:52 GMT

A good overview of the coding by contracts in visual studio

Deserialize JSON string and bind to ASP.NET DropDownList

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:11:28 GMT

This article demonstrates how to Deserialize JSON string and bind to an ASP.NET DropDownList control.

Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:30:52 GMT

Microsoft offers a free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft Press, 2011; 336 pages), written by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines.

Most popular .NET web frameworks

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:55:04 GMT

Most popular .NET web frameworks - ASP.NET MVC, ASP Webforms, Casttle project, FubuMVC and others.

Add OpenID Login Support In Your ASp.NET Application

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:00:52 GMT

A simplest and easiest way to implement OpenID login support in ASP.NET webform applications.

ReSharper Zencoding

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:30:52 GMT

I have to say I really like the new ASP.NET features in ReSharper 5 but in addition to all the goodness, the ReSharper Zen Coding Powertoy really rocks.

HTML5 Support In Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:45:52 GMT

I was trying to play around with HTML5 assuming that VS 2010 had shipped with HTML5 support but to my dismay it was not the case. Bummer! So I did a bit of homework and came up with an easy workaround.

Getting rid of null checks in property chains with - but not limited t

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:30:52 GMT

This article explains how to get rid of the annoying null checks you often have to do before you can evaluate expressions like Order.Customer.Address.ZipCode safely. The provided code builds and compiles an expression tree that does the job in an elegant and well performing manner. Specific extension methods for AutoMapper and S#arpArchitecture are provided as well.

The NEW DotNetKicks front page is in beta

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:45:52 GMT

We are working on totally reworking how the front page of DotNetKicks works and the new version is now in public beta. Check it out, use it, and give us your feedback!

Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:15:52 GMT

Here are some good Open Source ASP.NET Web CMS that are popular in the community

Build ClickOnce deployment packages using MSBuild and Team City

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:24:54 GMT

The other day I was requested to automate our build process to issue different ClickOnce setup for the same application. The main difference was some configuration files pointing to different back end web services.

AddThis.NET v3 for Blogengine.NET released

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

AddThis.NET is a Blogengine.NET extensions which adds social bookmarking buttons to your posts based on AddThis. A seperate DotnetKicks, DotnetShoutout and TweetMeme button will be displayed. All buttons can be hidden separately, so you can configure that custom social bookmarking button set.

Build and Deployment automation, VCS Root and Labeling in TeamCity

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:00:52 GMT

As you might now from reading my blog I tend to automate as much as I can. Why? Because I hate to do repetitive tasks. First because it is boring, at least for me, and as a developer we have more interesting things to do. Second because executing repetitive tasks tend to be error prone. So last week I decided that it was enough for me to have to create manually a subversion tag for Jobping web site then also took the time to do the same for my portal Tech Head Brothers.

Validation without ViewState

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:36:55 GMT

How to use ASP.NET validators on controls without ViewState.

Using Gmail as TeamCity smtp server

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Some time ago when I had to reinstall our Jobping Continuous Integration server, which is Team City I also decided not to reinstall any smtp server but to use Gmail server.

URL Rewrite - Multiple domains under one site. Part II

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:15:52 GMT

I believe I have it . I've been meaning to put together the ultimate outgoing rule for hosting multiple domains under one site. I finally sat down this week and setup a few test cases, and created one rule to rule them all.

Going Lazy<T> with System.Lazy

Tue, 25 May 2010 19:30:52 GMT

Taking a look at the how to use the System.Lazy namespace in .Net 4.0. One of the pretty cool new nuggets inside the .Net 4.0 framework is System.Lazy and System.Lazy. What System.Lazy brings to the table is a way to create objects which may need to perform intensive operations and defer the execution of the operation until it is 100% absolutely needed.