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Efficient Paging with WebGrid Web Helper - ASP.NET MVC 3 RC

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:49:19 GMT

The following article demonstrates one way of performing efficient paging using the WebGrid WebHelper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC.

What's new in Subtext 2.5: full-text search, related posts and more

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

In Subtext 2.5 we changed the internal search provider from the "like %term%" SQL based one to a more mature and powerful one powered by Lucene.net. I wrote about how Lucene.net is implemented inside Subtext, but it didn't show the benefits for the users. In this post I'm explaining the visible features of the full-text search.

Validating a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:15:07 GMT

Steve Anderson follow up article on how to validate a variable elgnth list in MVC 2.

Editing a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:55:20 GMT

A while back I posted about a way of editing a list of items where the user can add or remove as many items as they want. Tim Scott later provided some helpers to make the code neater. Now, I find myself making use of this technique so often that I thought it would be worthwhile providing an update to show how you can do it even more easily with ASP.NET MVC 2 because of its strongly-typed and templated input helpers.

Web Asset Enhancements in Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:00:01 GMT

In the recent release, there has been few enhancements in the Web Asset Management. One of the new thing that we introduced which was actually requested by the community is Shared Web Asset. In this post, I will show you, how to use it in your ASP.NET MVC...

Solr 0.2.3-beta 1

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:13:36 GMT

Solr .NET client. Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features.

An Enterprise Authorization Framework: Part 2 - Why Rhino Security is

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:31:02 GMT

Originally this post was going to be titled "Part 2: Integrating Rhino Security" but upon reflection this wasn't what I was trying to acheive at all. This has been covered enough to get you started and if you need to know how to integrate Rhino Security into your ASP.NET WebForms project then read this post by Billy McCafferty. What I do want to discuss is the concept of Rhino Security, its simplicity, adaptability and extensibility and why it is "the shit".

Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit Released

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:30:06 GMT

Almost six months after the official release of Asp.Net MVC 1.0 and nearly a year after the last release of the starter kit, I've finally rewritten and released the Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit.

SQLite Has Been Ported to .NET

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:30:00 GMT

yes... that's it.

ASP.NET MVC StrongRoutes AppAir.Web Preview Release

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:15:05 GMT

Magic strings be gone! make your routes strongly typed today.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 is released!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 2 first preview is released to public now and you can download it from Microsoft download site. Here is short overview of technical requirements and main new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1.

Pay Attention to the Foreach Implicit Casting

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

In order to reduce an explicit conversion effort using the foreach statement, the C# developers decided to do an automatic conversion for us. We must pay attention to it...

NHibernate Linq Released

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:15:03 GMT

Official release announcement for NHibernate Linq 1.0 RTM. Congratulations!

What's new in NHibernate 2.1

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:45:01 GMT

NHibernate 2.1 features

Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:45:01 GMT

Derick Bailey starts a new series on Source Control, specifically looking at the idea of having a branch of source code for every feature being created. In Part 1: Why he looks at traditional approach, and the many down sides of working this way, and looks at how Branch Per Feature addresses those problems

How b-tree database indexes work and how to tell if they are efficient

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:06:21 GMT

A team member thought we should add an index on a 90 million row table to improve performance. The field on which he wanted to create this index had only four possible values. To which I replied that an index on a low cardinality field wasn't really going to help anything. My boss then asked me why wouldn't it help? I sputtered around for a response but ended up telling him that I'd get back to him with a reasonable explanation.

How we handle application configuration

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

We recently overhauled the way we handle configurable settings within our application (server names, email addresses, polling frequencies, etc) . I'm going to present our solution below, but its new enough that I'd like to hear feedback on how others approach the problem.

C# Inheritance Question

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:56:55 GMT

Are you sure you understand C# inheritance. Check yourself...

C# Protected Internal

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:55:42 GMT

I've noticed that most of the c# developers i'am talking to, know exactly what "public", "private", "protected" and "internal" access modifiers mean and how to use them, but when it comes to "protected internal" they start guessing the answer and it's never the right one.

C# Increment operator (++) question

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:54:41 GMT

Well, this is a nice one. We all familiar with incremental operators, but from what i saw yesterday. well, there is no need to give a developer some tricky assignment so he could find a way to make some bugs.

Dissecting the JQuery text method

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:03 GMT

An interesting question came up at work today. We had some existing code that was using the innerText dom method. It worked fine on IE, but not on Firefox (to be clear, I'm used to that working the other way around). If you look at QuirksMode you will see Firefox is the only browser that does not support this method as well. Turns out if you use innerText on any dom element in IE you will get the text inside the element (in this case a span tag), but in Firefox you just get nothing. Time to see how JQuery does what it does.

The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only - to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity...

Overview of .NET 4.0 features - ASP.NET 4.0 ClientIDMode

Mon, 25 May 2009 17:45:03 GMT

In pre 4.0 days, when a server control is rendered, the framework would assign an ID to the control based on the control hierarchy. For example, a textbox of id "txtTest" in a user control that is used on a page would be rendered with the ID "WebUserControl11_txtTest". Developers could use the ClientID property (ex: txtTest.ClientID) in the code behind to retrieve the ID assigned to the control by the framework. It was essential for the framework to assign the IDs this way to maintain uniqueness of the IDs on a page. In the prior example, the User Control that inherits from the System.Web.UI.UserControl implements the INamingContainer interface. Any control (either custom or a .NET control) that implements this interface would ensure unique naming scope for the child controls.

ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing

Wed, 20 May 2009 18:09:52 GMT

Ever since the release of ASP.NET MVC and its routing engine (System.Web.Routing), Microsoft has been trying to convince us that you have full control over your URL and routing. This is true to a certain extent: as long as it's related to your application path, everything works out nicely. If you need to take care of data tokens in your (sub)domain, you're screwed by default.

Custom Combo Box with colors and text

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:40:22 GMT

Code and video for creating a custom ComboBox with a colored rectangle and text