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ASP.NET Best practices

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:03:21 GMT

The post gives some of the best practices that can be used while programming an ASP.NET web application.

Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:07:18 GMT

Dror Helper introduces us to three handy pieces of software that he uses in his daily .NET software development. He explains the utility of these three tools, which many .NET developers may not be aware of.

What is new in ASP.NET 4.5

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:11:32 GMT

This article is a good reference for the new features in the upcoming release of ASP.NET 4.5 / Visual Web Developer 11.

Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:02:15 GMT

This article discusses the different jQuery plugin patterns. The author provides suggestions, examples, and expands upon the differnt methods you might use while creating your plugin.

Top 10 features in classic ASP.NET

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:01:33 GMT

There are some good improvements in ASP.NET 4. With ASP.NET 4.5, there are more improvements in the Classic ASP.NET world (Webforms). This post gives a quick walkthrough of the top 10 features in ASP.NET. It is a good read for beginners trying to understand ASP.NET.

Best .Net Articles for September 2011 - Get 'em while they're hot!

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:46:11 GMT

September brought us another 500+ submissions, and once again we've put a number of our community members to the task of picking the very best. This time, in addition to sharing 8 of the top articles from last month, we're going to also share some of this month's hot topics.

Empowering Enums

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:58:14 GMT

When reading Steve Smith's articles on enums on ASP.NET Alliance and his blog, I couldn't help but think of a different approach to the issue. I've seen, used, and coded the enum class pattern before (and it works well), but we have new language features today to encourage reuse and empower true enums. I am going to show you techniques that won't require significant changes to your code if you have an existing base of enums.

Help Make Visual Studio Faster

Mon, 09 May 2011 16:47:44 GMT

One of the most difficult things about our job is trying to decipher why Visual Studio is slow for a customer. Often it starts with a vague complaint (e.g. "Visual Studio is sluggish") which we then have to narrow down to a particular action that's slow, and try and get a profile. Then we have to look through a large profile and figure out which code is running slower than it should be and why. Sometimes the problem is CPU intensive, sometimes it's disk or network, sometimes it's a different program altogether that just happens to be slow. I know the process is just as frustrating for customers, who have to try and figure out just where it is slow and get us a profile. And of course, if VS is just a little bit slow, then it's often much easier to live with it than go through the hassle of trying to help us isolate it. Visual Studio PerfWatson: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fa85b17d-3df2-49b1-bee6-71527ffef441

Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates &amp

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:17:57 GMT

Today's web sites need to be user friendly, interactive, and responsive. The date field is of particular interest because at this point in time, users pretty much expect too see nicely formatted dates on the site in general, and datepicker/calendar widgets to interact with when editing date fields. The best way to do this, of course, is with client side script; and when working in ASP.NET MVC, those scripts can work seamlessly with templates. What are MVC EditorTemplates & DisplayTemplates? Editor & Display templates behave a lot like partial views, since they're just .cshtml/.ascx files (so they technically are partial views), and they produce output inside of regular views, just like partial views. However, there are some key differences that distinguish templates from views: Templates render at an application wide scope, automatically. When you use partial views, you must call them from another view using helper syntax, e.g., @Html.Partial("_PartialViewName"). Templates render themselves only for the specific data types that they're setup to handle, e.g., DateTime, decimal or int, throughout the entire application. If you setup an EditorTemplate to render output for a particular data type, it will do so for every single field of that type in the application while partial views aren't tied to any particular data type. A DisplayTemplate renders itself only when its specific data type needs to display in an Index, Details, Delete, or custom view. An EditorTemplate renders itself only when its specific data type is in edit mode and while in Edit mode. A benefit of using Editor and DisplayTemplates is that you don't have to add repetitive code into views individually. More importantly you won't find yourself adding code to work with each field individually, as that creates code that's not DRY and harder to maintain. Just add your Html Helpers, widgets, & script to the templates directly and the Razor/ASPX view engine will take over to produce output based on those data types in templates.

Interesting jQuery Tutorials - April 2011

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:46:10 GMT

Moving Boxes Content with jQuery Expanding Image Menu with jQuery Animated Content Menu with jQuery How to Make a Slick Ajax Contact Form with jQuery and PHP Drag-and-Drop with jQuery: Your Essential Guide ... and Many More

Microsoft is eager to re-claim browser market share

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:47:30 GMT

Well, it's not many days passed Microsoft launched IE9 and they are already talking about IE 10. Does that shows Microsoft's eagerness to re-claim browser market share, I believe Yes.

ASP.NET web services mistake: manual JSON serialization

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:25:34 GMT

If you've spent much time working with the .NET platform, ASP.NET's simple, convention-based approach to exposing JSON endpoints seems just about too good to be true. After years of fiddling with manual settings in XML configuration files, it's understandable to assume that working with JSON in ASP.NET would require a similar rigmarole, yet it does not. Unfortunately, this unexpected ease-of-use isn't obvious if you don't already know about it, which has led some developers to build needlessly complicated solutions to problems that don't actually exist. In this post, I want to point out a few ways not to approach JSON in ASP.NET and then show you a couple examples of leveraging the frame work to do it "right".

Rounded Corners and Shadows

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:56:36 GMT

Well, it looks like we've finally arrived at a place where at least all of the latest versions of main stream browsers support rounded corners and box shadows. The two CSS properties that make this possible are box-shadow and box-radius. Both of these CSS Properties now supported in all the major browsers as shown in this chart from QuirksMode:

Integrating OpenID in ASP.NET Web Forms using DotNetOpenAuth

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:40:34 GMT

I recently started exploring OpenID/OAuth authentication/authorization concepts hoping to develop ASP.NET Web Form applications enabled for Single Sign One with OpenID Providers. A provider could be Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace etc ... In this article, I will show you how to enable an ASP.NET Web Form's application to authenticate/authorize with OpenID Providers like Google, Yahoo, OpenID, myOpenID, Wordpress, etc ... I won't go into explaining OpenID standards as there are so many articles out in the jungle that you can grab & read. Therefore, what I will do is offer you some useful material that I will recommend you go over them to get the details of OpenID and its extensions.

30 PRO JQUERY TIPS, TRICKS AND STRATEGIES

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:38:29 GMT

These tips and tricks all have one thing in common- they are all smashingly useful. With this stuff in your back pocket, you'll be ready to go change the world, and even better, write jQuery like you know what you're doing. It's gonna be fun. We'll start with some basic tricks, and move to some more advanced stuff like actually extending jQuery's methods and filters. Of course, you should be familiar with the basics of jQuery first. If you haven't used jQuery before, I highly recommend browsing the documentation and watching jQuery for Absolute Beginners Video Series. Otherwise, you're ready to dig in!

Test Emails in ASP.NET without a Mail Server

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:00:16 GMT

The tip I am going to share today is an old one but many developers do not know about it. Assume you are creating an application and need to test a module that sends out bulk mails, like a newsletter. Your first thought would be to configure an SMTP server to test the email module. However there is a trick that you can make use of while testing your code. Use the following setting in your web.config

Should I abandon VB.Net?

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:40:19 GMT

Is VB.Net still worth using or should you switch now that you have a change.

Things I really like about Telerik's JustCode

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:49:59 GMT

Review of JustCode by JVP

Data linking with jQuery

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:20:54 GMT

Data kinking provides us a way, to link our data/objects to UI controls. Means, if the controls get updated, the underlying data object would also be updated. In the same way, if the data objects get updated, the controls on UI will also get updated (In case of two way linking). Means once you linked your data with the controls, you don't need think about the data object. The syncing between data object and your UI will be taken care by the jQuery plug in.

Top 10 Reasons Web Developers Should Avoid Flash

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:03:21 GMT

Top 10 article explaining why Adobe Flash is becoming irrelevant in a Web 2.0 world.

My 10 favourite Programming Quotes

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:45:23 GMT

For this post , i decided to collect some of my favourite quotes related to the programming . These programming quotes were made by some of the famous personalities in the IT industry . So , without wasting any time , here are my 10 favourite programming quotes ...

Free MVC3 training and conference video

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:10:34 GMT

Opportunity to watch pluralsight excellent ASP.NET MVC 3 Fundamentals course free of charge for the next 48 hours. Also 27 great talks posted shortly so that everyone can watch them (for free).

JQuery UI 1.8.9 new version launch today

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:12:54 GMT

JQuery UI contains great controls and it's very useful when developing sites. Today a new version of Jquery UI is launched. You can find more details about that from following link. http://blog.jqueryui.com/2011/01/jquery-ui-1-8-9/ It's contains Bug fixes for Datepicker, Tabs and other things and also contains some localization improvements on the date picker.Technorati Tags: JQuery UI,ASP.NET

MINUS Keyword in SQL Server - Alternatives

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:12:00 GMT

MINUS operator (in oracle) is used to subtract the rows which are available in the second result, from the first result set. SQL Server does not have a built-in MINUS keyword, but in SQL Server, it's equivalent is the EXCEPT operator or using NOT EXISTS

Building an HTML5 App with ASP.NET

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:06:33 GMT

Describes how to create a JavaScript Reference by taking advantage of HTML5 features such as local storage, and offline manifests. Also demonstrates how to build server-side JavaScript unit tests for an Ajax application.