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A look at Dependency Injection and Inversion

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:25:53 GMT

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around this topic, a particularly useful tool in the SOLID toolbox, but in the wrong hands can go horribly wrong. Let's try and set the record straight now...

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

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:52 GMT

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

Practical jQuery Mobile with ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:15:52 GMT

I wanted to write a post about creating a basic jQuery Mobile app but as I started putting the code together MVC became more and more involved so I combined the 2.

Using ModelMetaData in MVC 2 to wire up sweet jQuery awesomeness

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:00:52 GMT

I recently came up with an approach to wiring up some jquery plugins that modify the behavior of standard input text boxes. The approach is not original by any means.I got the idea from the built in client side validation for MVC2, which was inspired by Steve Sanderson's xVal framework.

NoSql No Problem - NoRM and MongoDB Tutorial - Querying

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:15:52 GMT

MongoDB offers a rich query environment with lots of features. Queries in MongoDB are represented as JSON-style objects, very much like the documents we actually store in the database. If you're moving to MongoDB from a relational databases, you'll find that many SQL queries translate easily to MongoDB's document-based query language. This tutorial is based on MongoDB's documentation and its goal is to show how easy is querying MongoDB database using NoRM.

jQuery Mobile alpha and jQuery 1.4.3 released

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:30:52 GMT

A quick preview of the releases by the jQuery Team

Config management with Rake for .net projects.

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:25:01 GMT

Managing configuration for multiple environments in .net projects with Rake and Configatron

Create a Build File for a Visual Studio Solution - MsBuild Series

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:45:52 GMT

A build file automates the process of building, testing, analyzing, packaging, & deploying your project. Build files can be used to give you a single click solution to perform mundane tasks in a consistent way.

Free Continuous Integration Toolkit

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:15:52 GMT

continuous integration (CI) implements continuous processes of applying quality control - small pieces of effort, applied frequently. Continuous integration aims to improve the quality of software, and to reduce the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of applying quality control after completing all development. My personal definition is: "Giving a damn that the code you write is not breaking the app considering that other developers are working on the code base at the same time and realizing that you are not infallible."

Adding reCAPTCHA to asp.net MVC

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:48:11 GMT

How to add reCAPTCHA to your asp.net MVC site

ASP.NET MVC 2 Fundamentals

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:30:52 GMT

I did a presentation at work today on ASP.NET MVC 2 fundamentals. I covered the basics of creating an ASP.NET MVC 2 website. Here is what I covered: 1.) Entity Framework for our data access layer 2.) POCO entities 3.) Repository pattern with abstract and concrete classes 4.) Creating our first controller 5.) Creating our first view (modifying to use partials) 6.) Altering the default route 7.) Discussing differences between GET and POST 8.) Creating our own controller factory utilizing Unity

HTML 5 Intellisense In Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:45:52 GMT

Someone recently asked me if Visual Studio 2010 supports HTML 5 Intellisense. Well the answer is not out-of-the-box, but there is a free tool that makes it possible.

Improved JavaScript Model Binding in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:15:52 GMT

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ASP.NET and the Padding Oracle Attack: Wrap-up

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:00:52 GMT

Based on the news that was released at the time, it appeared that this vulnerability was just an issue AES. It turns out that this was false and that that this attack works against ANY BLOCK CIPHER meaning 3DES was also vulnerable. This wrap-up links to some mitigation techniques and also discusses how to protect against padding oracle attacks using Digital Signatures.

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

Overriding a .svc Request With Routing

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:45:52 GMT

One useful feature of routing in ASP.NET is that requests for files that exist on disk are ignored by routing. Thus requests for static files and for .aspx and .svc files don't run through the routing system.

Inline Recursion in ASP.NET Template to Print a Tree's Node List

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:30:52 GMT

Here's a neat & clean way to perform a recursion in ASP.NET, inside the .aspx/.ascx file. Suitable for ASP.NET MVC as well as WebForms. No <asp:Repeater> + OnItemDataBound event or concatenating strings recursively in the code behind involved. [...]

Creating your own ModelMetadataProvider to handle custom attributes

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:08:07 GMT

In this post we're going to create our own metadataprovider for mvc to handle our custom attributes or other situations.

Rotate Ads using jQuery and ASP.NET AdRotator Control

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:45:52 GMT

The ASP.NET AdRotator control is a useful control to randomly display advertisements on a webpage. However the ads in the adrotator control are rotated only when the user refreshes the page. In this article, we will use a single line of jQuery code to rotate ads using the adrotator control, at regular intervals and without refreshing the page.

ASP.NET click tracking

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:30:52 GMT

How to create an intermediate page for hyperlinks plus a user control for easy implementation using ASP.NET. Very useful for creating click through tracking solutions or session keep alives in a hybrid server environment like Classic ASP to ASP.NET.

Tying it Together : WCF, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:57:19 GMT

I've been working through a project recently that I ended up creating an interesting abstraction of an assembly/classes between multiple web services projects. I wrote about it initially in Aggregated Web Services Pt I. In this blog entry is going to cover a few things, based on a full end-to-end implementation of a project from the WCF RESTful Web Services, to the ASP.NET MVC Site, and finally the jQuery calling those same services.

Unit Testing Entity Framework 4.0: A-Z in 3 Easy Steps

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:45:52 GMT

This article gives you an ultra-fast run down on how to start Unit Testing in Entity Framework 4.0 using C#; applying a suitable Code Generation Item to your Entity Data Model (EDMX) file, and building a Unit Test Project in Visual Studio 2010. No external test harness is required, it doesn't rely on having a Repository pattern being implemented and you don't need to buy any new products. Just Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition, Premium Edition or Ultimate Edition out of the box.

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.

Repository and Unit of Work T4 Template for Entity Framework

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:22:37 GMT

Two weeks ago I wrote the Revisiting the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework post. One thing that I thought would be nice was to have an automatic code generation that will help me to build these patterns without sweating. So I sat down and created a T4 Template to auto generate the same patterns.

Release of Google Analytics Dot Net

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:45:52 GMT

So today is the day that a little side project I've been working on sees the days of light. GoogleAnalyticsDotNet allows you to log a page view to Google Analytics from code behind of a website or from within a web service or win forms project without needing to use the Google JavaScript code, or even use web browser at all.