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ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Another epic post by The Gu

IE8 Beta 2 is out and aggiorno express will help you get ready

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Just minutes ago Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest public available release of its Internet browser. Getting your sites ready for IE8 don't have to be an impossible task at first, it is as easy as launching the application, selecting the source folder of your web site, deciding where the new web site should be stored, choosing the flag you want to meta tag your pages with and hitting Start! This is a temporal solution while you get your site ready, then u can use aggiorno express as well to remove the tag.

Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:46:10 GMT

Shows a very simple and powerful way of serving .js files with the right localized text strings.

SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Organize Usings Across Your Entire Solution

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:01:06 GMT

One of the features I worked on for the Visual Studio 2008 release was the new "Organize Usings" feature. This feature allows you to: Remove Unused Usings - Determines which using directives are not used in the current file and deletes them. Sort Usings - Sorts the using directives in a file.

12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:01:18 GMT

"In this post we look at a dozen unit testing tips that software engineers can apply, regardless of their programming language or environment."

Rob Conery - How I Got Started In Software Development

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:14:09 GMT

How old were you when you first started in programming? I was 13 when I got a Radio Shack "computer" for my birthday. I wanna say it was a TRS-80, but this is before those - it didn't have any kind of floppy disc, and all it let you do was write BASIC apps on a TV screen. But it really doesn't count because all I did was let my big brother show me how to make a Christmas tree using some capital A's with BASIC. 136242-18_TRS-80-Model-1 I remember feeling extremely cool - my big brother is quite the genius and at the time was getting his PhD in computer science from UC Irvine.

Combining jQuery Validation with ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:31:02 GMT

See how the jQuery Validation plugin can be used with the MVC framework to validate all the inputs in a form before it is submitted to the controller.

Create PDF with C#

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Create PDF with C# on the fly

Phil Haack: Unit Test Boundaries

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:31:09 GMT

One principle to follow when writing a unit test is that a unit test should ideally not cross boundaries.

Is Managed Code Slower Than Unmanaged Code?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Ask anyone the question above and they will say that managed is slower than unmanaged code. Are they right? No they are not. The problem is that when most people think of .NET they think of other frameworks with a runtime, like Java or Visual Basic; or they may even think about interpreters. They do not think about applications, or what they do; they do not think about limiting factors like network or disk access; in short, they do not think.

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:31:02 GMT

This is a second post on the LINQ Set operators, the first being published while LINQ was still in beta. As mentioned in the previous post, there are four LINQ set operators: Union, Intersect, Distinct and Except. Like the other 50 LINQ operators, these methods are designed to allow you to query data which supports the IEnumerable<T> interface. Since all LINQ query expressions, and most LINQ queries, return IEnumerable<T>, these operators are designed to allow you to perform set operations on the results of a LINQ query. In this post I give four highly simplified examples of how to use each of the operators, and then end with a more complex example that shows how the operators might be used in a real world setting.

MVC Membership with Preview 3

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:03 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to work with Preview 3 of the ASP.Net MVC framework.

Visual Studio Power Toys Are Back! : Visual Studio Hacks

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:46:10 GMT

The missing power toys have been found and are now on MSDN Code Gallery.

MVC Storefront, Part 15: Code Review With Ayende

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:31:14 GMT

Normally I would have gone through this many times already, however I have the good fortune of all your comments :). Even so, it's always a good idea to take a timeout and make sure you're not going off the deep end. In this episode I do a code review with Ayende and Steve Harman and have a really nice AHA! moment.

Rhino Mocks 3.5 beta released

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:01:16 GMT

Odd this hasn't been submitted before. Rhino Mocks is one of the leading mock frameworks for unit testing in the dotnet world. This version fully supports the 3.5 fx.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

Using C# 3.0 (.Net 3.5) syntax in a .Net 2.0 application

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:16:02 GMT

An overview of using C# 3.0 syntax in a .Net 2.0 application.

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

A jQuery Client Status Bar

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:46:03 GMT

Status bars are very useful in client applications to display well status information and having a reusable and easily callable and configured status component to display messages is extremely handy. Here's an implementation that uses jQuery plus a bit of CSS to make short work of displaying status content.

Updating from ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 to Preview 3

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:08:33 GMT

Outlines the steps taken to upgrade an ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 application to Preview 3.

Unit tests are for functionality, not code!

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Unit tests are meant to test functionality, NOT code! That means if you write your unit tests after the fact, you're probably not focusing on the functionality.

Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

This article shows how to highlight a current context on a complex web forms using jQuery. You can see how to highlight current row or current group of rows, and how easily it could be done by uisng powerful jQuery selectors.

Using Linq for NHibernate in an ASP.NET MVC application

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Quick overview on using Linq for NHibernate in an ASP.NET MVC Application. RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 5