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Mobilize! Adapting the ASP.NET MVC Project Template for jQuery Mobile

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:52 GMT

Without modifying any server side code and only tweaking the views I found I was able to create a fully jquery-mobilified version of the ASP.NET MVC project template. This is how I did it.

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.

IronRuby and IronPython to run by the Community, IR Tools for VS ++

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:15:52 GMT

So much going on in the DLR world - IronRuby and IronPython are officially handed over to the community, IronRuby 1.1.1 is released including IronRuby tools for Visual Studio and compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2. Good times!

A few thoughts on jQuery templating with jQuery.tmpl

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:15:52 GMT

Some thoughts on the current state of the jQuery.tmpl plugin, and suggestions for making it better.

MVC 2 Client Side Model Validation with ExtJS

Tue, 04 May 2010 04:30:52 GMT

One of the most exciting new features in MVC 2 is "Enhanced Model Validation support across both server and client"; this new enhanced support allows for client side validation to be dynamically generated into a view from DataAnnotations attributes on models. One minor problem: Out of the box, it only uses the Microsoft AJAX libraries. Good news, we fixed that: Ext.ux.MvcFormValidator

Creating RSS feeds in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:15:52 GMT

Simple and easy way to leverage .NET's built-in classes to provide RSS feeds from ASP.NET MVC.

Say Goodbye to NAnt and MSBuild With IronRuby

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:45:52 GMT

Tired of writing tons of XML in order to create automated .NET builds? Well, look no further... IronRuby, Rake, and Albacore are here to rescue you!

Download Free ebook - Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:45:00 GMT

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is a 10 chapter, 216 page book writtenby Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner. Microsoft has made it available as a free ebook

How to run, ON THE CHEAP, an IIS7 hosted website on Amazon EC2

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Its beautiful.... This article shows step by step, with clear instructions and lots of images, how to host your asp.net website on Amazon's EC2. I'm shocked at how easy it is. 1) Create account 2) Select image 3) do a little dance 4) publish your website to the cloud

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!

A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

An inside look at how SelectMany works, along with visuals to help you more easily understand it.

Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system.

Tekpub: Mercurial with Codeplex

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:45:02 GMT

A free TekPub episode about working with Codeplex and Mercurial.

Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:18:00 GMT

If you have been developing applications in ASP.NET MVC then you are probably familiar with the ActionResult class. The ActionResult is the most common type of object returned from an action. When building MVC apps, most of time you will use the ActionResult class. Last week while I was working on my open source project WeBlog, I built an HTTP Handler to serve up images. I started using an HTTP Handler for images because I needed a mechanism to prevent bandwidth leeching. The only bad thing about using an HTTP handler for images is that you end up with some pretty ugly URLS. By using a FileResult object with MVC you not only get a pretty URL but you also get a lot of flexibility on where you want your images to reside. You can store images anywhere you want and the URL will never need to change!

Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:00 GMT

I've been playing with WCF since .NET 3 came out. Sometimes I have to be reminded that not everybody is as familiar with all it's "cob-webby corners" as I am. And that's OK. Often (too often) I encounter someone who has NEVER used WCF and doesn't even know where to begin.That's not so OK.

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:45:03 GMT

How does BDD compare with TDD, and how can you use BDD-style tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow with ASP.NET MVC? Steve Sanderson considers the options, and provides an example of combining ASP.NET MVC 2, SpecFlow, and WatiN.

ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT

Getting friendly with HTML in ASP.NET MVC just got a whole lot easier. In this Code Magazine article, Donn Felker delves into the Spark View Engine, an alternate view engine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Spark's main goal is to allow HTML to dominate the flow of view development while allowing code to fit in seamlessly.

Authenticate a user against the Active Directory

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:15:00 GMT

This article serves as a guide to using System.DirectoryServices (SDS) ADSI to access user and group in the Windows Active Directory. Authenticate a user against the Active Directory using the user ID and password.

Understanding Public Clouds: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

In this blog post Keith Pijanowski describe Cloud Computing in terms of Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). To guide this discussion he answers the following questions for each of these Cloud offerings:Who is the customer? What service is being provided?, What is being hosted? What is the pricing structure? What are some real world examples?

Git For Windows Developers - Git Series - Part 2

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:30:00 GMT

If you want to use Git for a .NET project this is a MUST READ!

Finally Understanding the Merits of TDD

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:00:07 GMT

I'm not a TDD person...or at least I wasn't until last week. Up until then, I had read the blogs and looked at the examples to try to understand TDD and unit testing (with mocking) in general. Almost all of the examples I was shown demonstrated very basic scenarios that, in most cases, were too trivial to show value. I would ask people who would speak about unit testing in general how you'd do a specific scenario and would get mix responses ranging from "just try it" to "you should be using this tool and it'll just write the tests for you".

Automating .NET and NHibernate Development With IronRuby + Rake

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:15:01 GMT

Using IronRuby to automate .NET development tasks.

Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:05 GMT

I was happy to learn that jQuery provides an excellent solution for consolidating settings to be used in multiple instances of $.ajax. In this post, I'll show you how to use that consolidation feature, and exactly how I am now using that to more simply call ASP.NET AJAX services with jQuery.

What's new in NHibernate 2.1

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:45:01 GMT

NHibernate 2.1 features

Sharp Architecture RTM

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:45:01 GMT

A well worked and actively contributed lightweight framework to build ASP.net MVC apps with NHibernate.