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Zodiac.NET 1.0 - Survey Engine

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:27:30 GMT

Zodiac.NET is a .NET web based survey and form engine software toolkit for Microsoft .NET written in pure managed C#. Zodiac.NET help you to add questionnaires, surveys and exam wizards in your .NET web application. The engine provides you with several types of questions to fit the different needs of the survey makers. The questions and users answers are created and collected in XML format in order to facilitate the integration with custom analysis and reporting services in your application.

ASP.NET MVC Routing Using XML Custom Configuration Settings

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:15:03 GMT

To configure the routing of any ASP.NET MVC application, you need to add some routing code in the Global.asax file. However, it would be better if we can transfer all these configuration stuff to be a neat XML configurations in web.config. I came through a solution to make the MVC configuration editable through custom configuration settings in the web.config file.

Quick Tip: Invoke A URL From SQL Server Agent

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:06:06 GMT

Perform batch jobs from a web context.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

Enterprise Service Bus Messaging Using nServiceBus

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:25:29 GMT

I have been working lately with a big group of fellow developers here in SilverKey on the architecture and design of a relatively big project that required much services and messaging work. We thought that we should implement our public services the REST way using WCF for .NET 3.5, with so many customizations, and that we'll use a library called nServiceBus for internal messaging. nServiceBus is a framework for handling publisher/subscriber (pub/sub) model of messaging. It provides reliable messaging via the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) pattern, and uses MSMQ as the physical bus.

Thinking In REST

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:26:36 GMT

REST or WS-*? The debate which will never end. While REST is taking the lead gradually, the community see many drawbacks in using the traditional WS-*. The complexity and overhead in using WS-*, REST simplicity and how they fit the web architecture are always the main points of the argument.

jQuery Validation Plugin

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:55:48 GMT

Today, I have the chance to work a bit with jQuery. Actually, we start to see many plugins in the web based on the library. One of the interesting plugins is: jQuery Validation Plugin by Jörn Zaefferer - which enables you to apply client validation to the web forms using jQuery.

ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Many people on the forums want to know how to best protect Actions on their Controller using Forms Authentication. The MVC Team has done a nice job introducing Filters (using Attributes) to this latest drop of MVC, and in this post I'll show you how to create a filter that can handle security.

Digitally Signing an XML Document and Verifying the Signature

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Signing an XML document and then validating the digital signature of the document doesn't involve a lot of code - once you know how it works, but arriving there is quite the journey. This post describes setting up a certifcate for testing, signing an XML document with the Private key and then validating it with the Public key.

Securing Configurations

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:37:56 GMT

Have you ever wanted to provide a level of protection to your values in the configuration files? Using aspnet_regiis will help you in encrypting the configuration section(s) in the config files. The executable resides in: "<windows_root>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<framework_version>" and It was common to be used in installing ASP.NET on IIS. However, you can use it as well in encrypting/decrypting the configuration files.

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:16:03 GMT

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available, as posted to ScottGu's blog. Numerous fixes, including the "source code editor freeze" issue that a few people have experienced.

Delegates to LINQ [passing logic as a parameter] (part I)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:05:34 GMT

it's normal to pass data to a function just thow in a parameter of the type of data you want to pass and ur set

SQL Injection through cookies

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:35:18 GMT

Through my career as a developer I've seen many developers that are not aware about the possibility of SQL injection through cookies. Cookies in fact is a user input and as any input it must be validated and because normal users don't see cookies that doesn't mean attackers won't temper with it.

Auto Implemented Properties

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:33:27 GMT

code will act as a full blown property that maintains its instance value internally the compiler creates a member and maintains the value for the property

Top 10 Code Review Tips & Tricks

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:41:30 GMT

Top 10 Code Review Tips & Tricks that worked with me ;)

PLINQ = Parallel FX = PFX = The new Concurrent World

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:01:02 GMT

?Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

Overview - Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:01:37 GMT

This is a brief post introducing Windows Workflow Foundation - We will try to introduce basic concepts and definitions. We will try to discuss why Workflow Foundation can be useful for building large scale projects.

Silverlight, BLED and VisualStudio Orcas Updates

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:01:03 GMT

this is a brief post about microsoft's new updates for it's developers/designers tools in august 2008 tha update contains bunch of fixs and new additions includes VisualStudio Beta 2 and BLEND august Preview and much more

New ASP.Net PageFlow Framework available for Download

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:03:38 GMT

New UI Workflow Framework was recently available for download. The framework brings Workflow and UI applications together - This includes ASP.NET applications as well.

Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:31:02 GMT

This is a post I wanted to write really long time ago, but I never had enough time to sit and write. The following listing will be my agenda for this post 1. Why Javascript for ASP.net developers is different ? 2. Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers * Reading ASP.net controls values from Javascript * Passing values calculated by Javascript to the server side. * Passoing values from ASP.net to Javascript 3. Javascript development tools

.net Framework 3.5 is not just about LINQ

Wed, 09 May 2007 21:41:22 GMT

.net framework 3.5 is the next version of .net framework which is going to be shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio codename "ORCAS", which you can find a Beta 1 of it on msdn, and also a beta 1 of .net framework 3.5 Most people thinks that this version is all about LINQ integration, which is not the complete story, may be LINQ is the one of the important new API's that ships with 3.5, but not the only thing.

Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3 Ships

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3 Ships, enough said

How to Create a WebService Based on a Workflow

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:16:01 GMT

Keyvan describes how to create a webservice that runs a workflow.

LINQ To Flickr

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:16:02 GMT

I had some free time at last, so I implemented a LINQ extension to Flickr, so you can query for photos by tags, creation date, user id or title, the implementation was really easy because I didn't have to use the Flickr API's directly as I found a good open source library for this called FlickrNet which I used as my infrastructure. So this is a sample of a query