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Visual Studio 2010 is faster if the Windows Automation API 3.0 is inst

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:30:52 GMT

Does your Visual Studio 2010 run slow ??? Here's David Berg , in his Developer Division Performance Engineering blog explains how to make your VisualStudio 2010 run faster on Windows XP machine by installing the new version of the Windows Automation API.

Entity Framework and Lazy Loading

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Some details on how to properly create POCO objects for using in Entity-Framework

The New Web App Architecture: ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery Templating with PU

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Good overview of using JSON bindings in MVC 3 preview with jQuery template rendering using PURE

First Look at the Razor CSharp HTML File in MVC 3

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:09:02 GMT

The day before I left for IEEE ICCSIT 2010, there was a huge announcement about a new view engine for ASP.NET: Razor. It was old news by the time I returned, but I couldn't help but sit down and play with it. I skimmed a few a blog postings on it, but I wasn't getting anything good. So, I downloaded the ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and began playing with it myself.

Auto Complete TextBox Jquery,Json,Asp.net

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:40:41 GMT

what is Autocomplete ? A feature that suggests text automatically based on the first few characters that a user types I'm googling for autocomplete using Jquery and Asp.net .finally i got a nice article regarding this but the example is provided in php .Then after sometime i migrated the code into Asp.net with Generic handler and with the help of jquery and json .. This will make a asynchronous call to the server side, with no post back

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts by ScottGu

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:15:52 GMT

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters. These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice "cheat sheet" tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio.

ASP .NET MVC 3 Preview

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:28:27 GMT

A preview of version 3 of the ASP .NET MVC framework is available before programmers have had time to settle in with version 2. Microsoft seems to be serious about making MVC the way to do ASP.

HTML 5 vs Silverlight : Sencha - The First HTML5 Mobile App Framework

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:30:52 GMT

While Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flex future on Apple iOS is still uncertain ExtJs released "The First HTML5 Mobile App Framework" called Sencha that works on both Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.

Entity Framework 4 - POCO Code Only

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:15:52 GMT

How to use Entity Framework 4 Code First

Building Great Windows 7 Apps

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:52 GMT

Jason Zander (GM, Visual Studio, Microsoft) gives a tour through some of Visual Studio 2010's new features, and how building great Windows 7 apps has never been easier.

Understanding URL Routing

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:30:52 GMT

You might be worrying what is URL Routing ?and how we will implement it? Read this article for digging into it in details

ASP.NET MVC and File Uploads

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:23:30 GMT

Managing file uploads with ASP.NET MVC.

Going Out Of Browser w/ Silverlight

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:30:52 GMT

Taking a look at how we can use the take our in-browser silverlight application and allow it to run Out of Browser (OOB). We will take a look at how we can let silverlight perform the lifting as well as how we can provide coding to create the OOB application.

Scott Guthrie on creating the .NET Framework

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:30:52 GMT

A behind the scenes look at Microsoft, interviewing Scott Guthrie and other key figures at Microsoft on the initial steps towards what became the .NET Framework. Scott Guthrie describes how he prototyped the first version of ASP.NET over one weekend in the Christmas of '97, and how Microsoft took the risky decision (at least at the time) to build almost all of it in C#.

Thoughts On Razor, Microsoft's New ASP.NET MVC View Engine

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:15:52 GMT

Thoughts on different blog posts and twitter conversations surrounding the new Microsoft View engine for ASP.NET MVC, called Razor, with some notes on Microsoft's relation with existing Open source .NET projects in general...

ScottGu: Introducing "Razor" - a new view engine for ASP.NET

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:30:51 GMT

"ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of "view engines" - which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The "default" view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC view engines used today include Spark and NHaml. The new view-engine option we've been working on is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. The codename for this new view engine is "Razor", and we'll be shipping the first public beta of it shortly."

Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:15:52 GMT

Here are some good Open Source ASP.NET Web CMS that are popular in the community

IIS Express

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:15:51 GMT

If like me you are sick to death of Cassini (whats that then? its the built in web server that visual studio uses) and also sick to death of playing around with IIS 7 then relief is at hand.

.NET 4.0 has 2 Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

While reading an article on Understanding The CLR Binder, I found out that .NET 4.0 has 2 distinct GAC's (Global Assembly Cache).In previous .NET versions, when I installed a .NET assembly into the GAC (using gacutil.exe), I could find it in the 'C:\Windows\assembly' path. With .NET 4.0, GAC is now ....

5 jQuery Calendar Plugins that can be used on Websites

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:00:51 GMT

Online calendars can be very useful to share and publish your schedules. One of the most common requests I receive from my jQuery readers is for of a good, free-to-use, jQuery Calendar control, similar to the Google Calendar, which can be added to a website or blog. Here are some of the freely available jQuery Calendar plugins, worth trying out

Getting started with bing map in silver-light

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:00:52 GMT

This post explains how to get started with Bing Map and Silverlight. This is first of a series of posts which explains how to build geo-spatial solutions using silverlight, bing maps based on the data stored in a SQL Server database.

dotlesscss v1.1 released

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:28:39 GMT

A new version of the dotless CSS framework has been released. New features include an all-around new parser and parameter passing.

ASP.NET MVC Charts

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:15:52 GMT

There are a few references online about how to get the new ASP.NET Charting controls working with the MVC framework. However, some of them are outdated, and the corresponding information to make it work with MVC2 are spread out. So in an effort to organize the info all in one place, here's a quick step by step guide on how to get this working

.NET Reflector Pro T-shirt Competition ends this Friday

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:45:52 GMT

Design a .NET Reflector Pro t-shirt, and win a .NET Reflector Pro license, a box of Red Gate goodies, and a T-shirt printed with your design!

DRY your CruiseControl.NET Configuration

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:45:52 GMT

A handy way to make good use of the CruiseControl.NET Configuration Preprocessor.