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jQuery Cycle Plugin on the Microsoft Ajax CDN

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Start using the jQuery Cycle plugin directly from the Microsoft Ajax CDN in your ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms applications. The jQuery Cycle plugin enables you to display fancy slide shows with over two dozen transition effects such as "toss", "shuffle", and "zoom".

ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binding

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:33:01 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to create a custom model binder to accept a strongly typed object from a HTML multi select control.

jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Ben Griswold gives an overview of working with the jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010, including how to get them to work with ReSharper

Entity Framework 4 - POCO Code Only

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:15:52 GMT

How to use Entity Framework 4 Code First

The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in SL4, Part 2

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:27:04 GMT

Next to the Http Polling Duplex binding to allow for duplex communication, Silverlight 4 has 2 other options to do duplex, namely sockets (TCP) and the net.tcp binding. Sockets are the focus of this part.

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!

VS2010 Built-in ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript Code Snippets Cheat Sheet

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:52:08 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 added support for HTML, JavaScript and ASP.NET code snippets. Here's a handy cheat sheet that lists out all of the new ones included in VS2010.

How to Query a User's del.icio.us Feed with RestSharp

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:30:52 GMT

Using RestSharp's smart deserialization capabilities to automatically parse an XML document (del.icio.us RSS feeds in this case) into POCO classes.

Dropbox API, RestSharp and C# Part 2: The Revenge!

Wed, 26 May 2010 07:34:47 GMT

How to use the DropBox API with RestSharp - Part2: Files

Dropbox API and RestSharp for a C# developer

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:52 GMT

How to use the DropBox API with RestSharp

Html Agility Pack 1.4.0 Released

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:06:41 GMT

After many years Html Agility Pack has a new release. It now includes better support for LINQ queries and has received many bug fixes since 1.3.0.

ANTS Profiler Saves Me From A Sordid Fate

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:15:52 GMT

"It's an ancient story of doing something dumb in haste, forgetting about it, and then regretting it at leisure." Carl Niedner recounts how he found his latest and greatest creation suddenly plagued with long loading times. He explains how he eventually achieved a 120x speed increase, fifteen minutes after downloading ANTS Performance Profiler. Read the full story.

No-SQL - MongoDB - From introduction to high level usage in C#

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:45:52 GMT

A good introduction to using MongoDB from C#

Build a group SMS app with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:43:24 GMT

A quick walkthrough on how to build a group SMS application using Twilio and ASP.NET MVC.

Moles: Mocking the Un-Mockable

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Taking at how to use Pex/Moles for .Net. Unit testing is great, but most free isolation frameworks require that your mocks implement an interface. But what do you do when the class you are trying to mock is static or sealed with no interface. If you can't modify the class then your unit testing efforts are usually stuck. Moles, the new free isolation framework from Microsoft, supports mocking almost any CLR based class (including sealed and static classes)

Google Weather API with RestSharp

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:55:40 GMT

Simple C# usage of RestSharp using the Google Weather API

ASP.NET- Using span tag instead of label for performance

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:36:49 GMT

In ASP.NET controls used in to the user controls are generate Client Id which unique for the control and If you have so many user controls hierarchy then you will have very long client id like 'ctl00_CPH_ctl02_BM_userLogin_UserName'.It will increase the Kilo Bytes of html rendered in the browsers. Label control is the control which is used to display text and its render as span tag in the html render by the browser. So in such type of scenario if you have so many label controls then your html is going to...

Ektron and Web Application Projects (Part 1)

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:04:45 GMT

Working with Ektron CMS

Postmark - Email delivery for web apps

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:34:43 GMT

I recently stumbled across the following site and looked at some of their applications that they have on offer. One of the great tools that they offer is a tool called Postmark. Postmark helps deliver and track transactional emails. The service basically replaces using SMTP, and allows you to send mails and track statistics for emails sent, bounces and spam complaints. Its pretty awesome if you are a blogger like myself and need to track your emails easily and with less cost.

Bundler Now Supports Css And .less

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:00:02 GMT

New version of (recently renamed) Bundler combines your javascript or CSS to save on server requests. Also adds support for .less!

Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DA

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:30:00 GMT

SQL SERVER - Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE March 17, 2010 by pinaldave | Edit Today, we are going to discuss about something very simple, but quite commonly confused two options of ALTER DATABASE. The first one is ALTER DATABASE .ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and the second one is WITH NO_WAIT.

Cartoon. A bit of refactoring

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:45:01 GMT

Next episode of programmers' life in comic strips. Does it look familiar?

Force Index Scan on Table - Use No Index to Retrieve the Data - Query

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:15:00 GMT

Recently I received the following two questions from readers and both the questions have very similar answers. Question 1: I have a unique requirement where I do not want to use any index of the table; how can I achieve this? Question 2: Currently my table uses clustered index and does seek operation; how can I convert seek to scan?

Calling an Interface Method using IronRuby in C#

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:05:38 GMT

Using IronRuby can be a lot of fun and with this little snippet you can get up and writing IronRuby that is designed to be hosted inside a .Net application. Just a decent sample of how to use a .Net Interface to ease calling IronRuby methods from C#

Tekpub: Mercurial with Codeplex

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:45:02 GMT

A free TekPub episode about working with Codeplex and Mercurial.