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[Mono-list] Announcing DbLinq 0.20.1

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:45:00 GMT

An open source implementation of Linq2SQL that runs against most popular databases.

Composition versus Inheritance

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Discusses the benefit of Composition versus Inheritance. Touches on IoC Containers and how they can help you achieve more granular bits of code that make your applications more flexible and easier to maintain.

jQuery 1.4 Released!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:00:07 GMT

In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we're really quite proud of it.

Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:15:00 GMT

Ever worked with the templated helpers provided by ASP.NET MVC 2? Templated helpers provide a way to automatically build UI based on a data model that is marked with attributes defined in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace. For example, a property in the model can be decorated with the attribute [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:c}")], and the templated helpers will always render this field formatted as currency. If you have worked with templated helpers, you must agree: they can be useful! There's one thing which is impossible in the current version: ordering fields. And that's what this post will accomplish.

Why You Should Use the Null Coalescing Operator

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:52:43 GMT

Introduced in C# 2.0, the null coalescing operator (??) allows one to program in a concise, declarative fashion when performing null checks. This was important in 2005 as it made it easier to utilize another important feature: nullable types.

Hacking the ASP.NET Parser

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:15:02 GMT

A while ago I blogged about using external templates in an asp.net application. The problem with that was it wasn't natively supported, so I had to create a derived SpecialRepeater in order to take advantage of the external template system. In this latest parser hack I've managed to "trick" the asp.net parser into letting me declaratively set any template property to be a virtual path in order to load a user control into that template at runtime. The ASP.NET compliation system is pretty complex. There are all kinds of extensibility points, including BuildProviders, PageParserFilters, ControlBuilders, ExpressionBuilders and the list goes on. One unknown *feature* of the parser is it's ability to generate code from something called an InstanceDescriptor.

Visual Studio: Automatically increment assembly build version

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:15:01 GMT

I always wanted to have automatic build version increment for my apps and libraries to avoid setting it manually again and again. Additionally there should be support inside Visual Studio and possibility for custom settings because I like the "date sigining" where 3 last fields are just YYYY-MM-DD. A dream come true ;) in form of Build Version Increment add-in for Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Creating a Html.DisplayForMany Helper for MVC 2

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:05:24 GMT

The Html helper in ASP.NET MVC 2 comes with some handy methods called "DisplayFor" and "EditFor" - please see Scott Gu's article if you are not familiar with these new features. Long story short, they provide an ASP.NET Dynamic Data-like mechanism which uses reflection and templating to render a display form or an edit form. This article explains how to take it one step further by creating a Html.DisplayForMany() helper.

Windows 7 Code Pack v 1.0 Released

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:45:06 GMT

The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides support for various features of Windows 7 and previous releases of that operating system. The Code Pack has reached version 1.0 and has been published on Code Gallery:

Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 2: How (Theory)

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:00:03 GMT

Great high level description of merging in changes from different features as they are being developed.

Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:45:01 GMT

Derick Bailey starts a new series on Source Control, specifically looking at the idea of having a branch of source code for every feature being created. In Part 1: Why he looks at traditional approach, and the many down sides of working this way, and looks at how Branch Per Feature addresses those problems

LINQ to SQL and Transactions

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Using explicit Transactions with Linq to Sql is fairly rare but when you need them you'll find that it natively doesn't provide manual transaction management. Rather you have to rely on the TransactionScope class to provide transaction wrapping. Here's a contrived example, and a couple of different transaction scenarios using TransactionScope to manage multiple L2S data operation as a single transaction.

Test with multiple IE Rendering Engines

Fri, 30 May 2008 02:01:03 GMT

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

Implementing Interfaces: ICloneable and IComparable

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:31:02 GMT

A friend of mine was showing me about some common interfaces and some good use cases for them the other day. A discussion arose of how to accurately create a deep copy of an object and the best way to go about it. Shortly after that discussion we got into the Sort() method and how to dictate how that method will sort your objects. This is when he spilled into telling me all about these common interfaces.

Custom Entity Classes Using LINQ to SQL Part 1 - DataObjects

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Want to use LINQ without using th LINQ to SQL Classes file? Maybe even add it into an existing object model you already have set up?

MvcContrib now offers four alternative view engines for ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Jeffrey Palermo on the new view engines available for ASP.NET MCV in the mvccontrib project.

VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

ASP.NET 3.5 by Scott

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:46:02 GMT

The blog entry from Scott

ASP.NET MVC Framework and December CTP of Extensions released

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:03 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC Framework is now available as part of the December CTP for the ASP.NET and ADO.NET 3.5 Extensions.

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:46:02 GMT

Here it is! Go get some MVC goodness. Official download page.

TDD and Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:31:03 GMT

Great post from Phil Haack about unit testing, mocking, injecting dependencies using an IoC container with the new MS MVC framework (delayed to the next week).

SQL Server 2008 will have IntelliSense

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Hurray!

ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged the first in a series of posts I'm going to write that cover the new ASP.NET MVC Framework we are working on. The first post in this series built a simple e-commerce product listing/browsing scenario. It covered the high-level concepts behind MVC, and demonstrated how to create a new ASP.NET MVC project from scratch to implement and test this e-commerce product listing functionality.