How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 1: Introduction(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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“Once upon a time, Microsoft started a Windows Azure developing contest named new CloudApp();. While it first was only available for US candidates, the contest was opened for international submissions too. Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker and his fellow knightsmen at RealDolmen decided to submit a small sample application that could be hosted in an unknown environment, known by the digital villagers as “the cloud”. The application was called TwitterMatic, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. It would allow digital villagers to tell the latest stories, even when they were asleep or busy working.” read more...

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A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Azure)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 11 months ago

Hosting and deploying ASP.NET MVC applications on Windows Azure works like a charm. However, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have seen that I don’t like the fact that my ASP.NET MVC views are stored in the deployed package as well… Why? If I want to change some text or I made a typo, I would have to re-deploy my entire application for this. Takes a while, application is down during deployment, … And all of that for a typo… Luckily, Windows Azure also provides blob storage, on which you can host any blob of data (or any file, if you don’t like saying “blob”). These blobs can easily be managed with a tool like Azure Blob Storage Explorer. Now let’s see if we can abuse blob storage for storing the views of an ASP.NET MVC web application, making it easier to modify the text and stuff. We’ll do this by creating a new VirtualPathProvider. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing(blogs.securancy.com)

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One of the propagated “great features” for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url’s of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let’s walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a .NET library (released on CodePlex) that enables greater re-use of application components. You can do this by dynamically composing your application based on a set of classes and methods that can be combined at runtime. Think of it like building an appliation that can host plugins, which in turn can also be composed of different plugins. Since examples say a thousand times more than text, let’s go ahead with a sample leveraging MEF in an ASP.NET MVC web application. read more...

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Easy embed workflow in your application(blogs.securancy.com)

submitted by SickDotNet(200) 3 years, 3 months ago

Whilst enterprise architectures mostly focus on BizTalk as a standalone server, WF is meant to be a more core-based addition for embedding within application. Embedding is not always as intuitive as it should be, though. To this end, I’ve created the following self-titled "WorkflowExecutive" helper class. It allows you to easily start any referenced Workflow, pass along parameters to it and handle exceptions. read more...

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Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

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Maarten Balliauw announces his new book and provides a large retrospective on the writing process itself. Must read for everyone thinking about writing a tech book! read more...

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