A recipe for Dev to Production with ASP.NET MVC and RavenDB(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 1 month, 25 days ago

Been meaning to spend time looking into a NOSQL solution, but don't have time to do the research? Now is your chance! We've broken it down for you so you can get at this topic from dev to production. So, don't be tentative and let procrastination hold you back. Learn this stuff! You'll be happy you gave it the time it deserves... read more...

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5 things to learn about ASP.NET MVC 4(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 2 months, 1 day ago

MVC took 3 versions to become a stable and widely usable web application development framework, but still had you doing many things from the ground up. Version 4 now comes with plenty more in the box and it's looking more and more like a web framework to be reckoned with read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 665

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5 things you never thought about doing with MVC 3(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 2 months, 1 day ago

Let's face it - there are a lot of sites out there now running MVC3, probably mostly using the same patterns. This is a taster of some of the creative ways that this versatile platform is being used. read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 591

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Roundup(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 18 days ago

In case you’ve been living under a rock, you should probably know that Microsoft released a Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 this week. We've dug through some of the more interesting links and digested them for you here. Check out the build and let us know what you think of it! read more...

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Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch(www.laurentkempe.com)

submitted by laurentkempe(317) 3 months, 21 days ago

I love TeamCity and use it since a while to automate my build/release processes. As human we should never do the work a machine can do, we have certainly better and more interesting things to do. The habit I saw in the different projects I worked for is to create new TeamCity builds for the branches you work on. It take quite some work to do, even with templates… So I came with another way of doing it. It is leverage Git, PowerShell and the possibility to run TeamCity builds by “Accessing Server by HTTP” read more...

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NCrunch, The Incredible TDD Tool!(www.ellogical.com)

submitted by elroydsilva(100) 3 months, 21 days ago

A review of the TDD tool 'NCrunch'. read more...

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Lucene.net - Ultra-fast search for MVC or Webforms(www.codeproject.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 3 months, 25 days ago

Mikhail T. has put together an article showing how you can integrate the Java-based Apache Lucene project with your .Net based MVC or WebForms sites, giving you ultra-fast and slick search capabilities. read more...

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Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6(coderjournal.com)

submitted by zigamorph(3319) 5 months, 13 days ago

Provides an article detailing how to clean up the packages directory to get your project and repository ready for NuGet 1.6. read more...

1 comment |category: Open Source |Views: 35

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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN: Testing Asynchronous AJAX calls(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 5 months, 14 days ago

Concluding his look at combining MbUnit and Watin to produce clean web integration tests, Yann Trevin looks at testing asynchronous calls read more...

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NetBash – An Alternative to Admin Pages in Asp.Net Web Apps(lukencode.com)

submitted by lukenlowrey(288) 5 months, 15 days ago

NetBash is a drop in (think mvc mini profiler) extendable command line for your web application. read more...

17 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 317

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SpecsFor.com Launched, SpecsFor 2.2 Released!(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 5 months, 15 days ago

I’m pleased to announce that SpecsFor.com is now live. I’ve also shipped a new version of SpecsFor that simplifies the painful task of creating multiple mocks of the same type for injection into IEnumerable parameters. read more...

8 comments |category: Unit Testing |Views: 116

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Best of DNK - November 2011 - What's All the Hubbub, Bub?(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 months, 18 days ago

We’re closing in on the new year; it’s hard to believe the next time we put together a best-of it will be 2012! It’s been a fantastic year thus far and November was no exception. We’ve had a lot of fresh blood join the ranks lately, as well as a few familiar faces who’ve come back for more, hot .Net action! Check out our picks after the jump! read more...

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The Fastest Webserver? - Web Performance(www.webperformance.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 5 months, 20 days ago

Looking for the snappiest, fastest web server software available on this here internet? So were we. Valid, independent, non-synthetic benchmarks can be difficult to find. Of course, we all know that benchmarks don’t tell us everything we need to know about real-world performance; but what’s the fun of having choices if we can’t pick the best? Exactly. I decided to do a little research project of my own. read more...

3 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 488

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Building a Windows Azure App using Azure Queue, Azure Table (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by mvcguy(265) 5 months, 26 days ago

Demonstrate a Windows Azure app using Azure Queue, Azure Table and a ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Role application. This post is explaining few initial steps for building a demo Azure app where asynchronous commands (write operations that changes the data) put into Azure Queue and an Azure Work Role will persist the data into Azure Table from Queue messages for the read operations. read more...

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Home Security with Kinect, Azure Service Bus, and SignalR(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 6 months, 1 day ago

Suppose you had a some scary-looking hoodlum walking around your house when you were out? You’d want to know about it, wouldn’t you? Take one Kinect, mix in a little Windows Azure Service Bus, sprinkle in some SignalR, and mix it all together with some elbow grease, and you could watch in near-real-time as sinewy folks romp through your living room. Here’s how. read more...

1 comment |category: Other |Views: 71

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JSON-based WCF in Windows Azure(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 6 months, 7 days ago

Developers need to grok Windows Azure, especially developers who want to distribute consumption of an application in a web-based API. A great use for Microsoft Azure, obviously, is to use it to host an application’s web service API layer. This post will demonstrate how to host WCF services in an Azure worker role in a manner that will offer REST-like JSON API support. read more...

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