DotNetKicks.com : Stories kicked by ronjintsu

Behind the kicks - multiple hosts within one ASP.NET application

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:25:11 GMT

This is the first in a series of planned articles which cover the implementation of these sites. You may have seen the website in the guise of www.dotnetkicks.com, but it also can be viewed from the following domains: www.kick.ie, www.javakicks.com & www.mozillakicks.com. All of these hosts are mapped to the same ASP.NET application in IIS.

Transactions made easy with .NET 2.0

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:31:00 GMT

One of the more significant improvement in .NET 2.0 is in the area of transactions. Now with a single line it becomes extremely easy to support transactional code blocks using the concept of "ambient" transaction thanks to TransactionScope in the System.Transactions namespace.

Channel9: Expression Interactive Designer (Sparkle)

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:31:00 GMT

A new video on Channel9 demonstrating the recent CTP release of Sparkle

The Expression Designers: Graphic, Interactive, Web

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:39:00 GMT

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer CTP has been released.

Using .NET to make your Application Scriptable

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:01:00 GMT

Shows how to use the built-in compilers in the .NET framework to allow users of your product to write script to control and hook in to the application.

.NET Reflector 4.2 Released

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:31:00 GMT

Now with Web Proxy support, String search, Fonts and Generics fixes.

Sparkle January 2006 CTP Released

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:01:00 GMT

No more manually coding XAML!

Designing Web Services

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:01:00 GMT

These articles provided a series of walkthroughs related to designing Web services in the Distributed System Designers

Credential Management with the .NET Framework 2.0

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:01:00 GMT

Summary : 'Get an introduction to the Credential Management API that includes functions for user interface handling and lesser-known functions for managing a user's credential set. Also see a .NET class library that dramatically simplifies the task of credential management, for languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET, and provides a more elegant and robust approach to credential management for C++ developers.'

A comparison of AJAX frameworks for ASP.NET

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:31:00 GMT

A comparison of 5 AJAX frameworks for ASP.NET

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:01:00 GMT

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 has many features to help you design and build Web sites that are compliant with XHTML and accessibility standards. This (long) article looks at how and why you should be building these standards-compliant sites.

Open Source C# Software

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:31:00 GMT

This site lists various open source C# projects including IDEs, servers and libraries.

ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorial : The Page Object Model

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:31:00 GMT

In this tutorial you will learn about Page Object Model, the Attributes of the @Page directive, the properties of the Page Class, Methods of the Page Class, Page Class Events and the Page Scripting Object Model.

RegEx-based URL Rewriting Module

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:31:00 GMT

HttpModule for rewriting URLs using regular expressions.

Flexible and Plug-in-based .NET Application using Provider Pattern

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:01:00 GMT

This paper demonstrates creating a flexible, extensible, plug-in-based .NET application (JOM - Smart Job Manager). JOM is an asynchronous job processing engine built using the MS Provider design pattern and the .NET technology available today.

Test-Driven Development in .NET - Introduction & Unit Tests

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:01:00 GMT

Introduction to Test-Driven Development in .NET.

ViewState Analyzer for ASP .NET 2.0

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:01:00 GMT

Scott links to Cristian Civera's ViewStateAnalyzer ASP .NET 2.0 utility.

New ASP .NET 2.0 SQL Site Map Provider

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:31:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie talks about Jeff Prosise' new SQL-based SiteMap Provider (article in the February MSDN Magazine) and also points out a few other useful Site Navigation pieces that he's blogged about.

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:31:00 GMT

This is a must read for anyone concerned about scalability. Topics are a bit redundant but overall very thorough.

Web Applications: N-Tier vs. N-Layer

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:01:00 GMT

One of the best posts presenting the pro's AND con's of layers and tiers in an application. Additionally gives some solid references to external resources.