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Event Log Monitor using C# and WebSocket(HTML 5)

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:00:52 GMT

This article is about creating a simple web based event log monitoring application that uses server push to update data. It shows how to use WebSocket to implement server push technology using C#.

Twitter authentication using OAuth

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:17:55 GMT

As of August 31,2010, Twitter has stopped using basic authentication. applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password. To learn more about OAuth, please visit @ http://oauth.net. Register your new application with Twitter You'll need a name and url for your application in order to register it, and you'll need to define a callback url. The callback url is the full url of the page Twitter should send the user to after it's done authe...

A simple RSS feed example

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:52 GMT

A simple RSS feed example using ASP.NET MVC and System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed class

Four Methods Of Simple Caching In .NET

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:00:52 GMT

Four ways to manage objects that expire in their container.

How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:02 GMT

By default, the ASP.NET MVC framework instantiate controllers calling their default constructor. This makes using Dependency Injection impossible. But, as almost everything inside that framework, the logic with which a controller is instantiated can be replaced with you own logic. This can be done creating your own ControllerFactory, which is pretty simple. But if you are using one of the many popular DI/IoC libraries, that task is even simpler, since there are already custom controller factories for almost all the IoC libraries available. In this post we are are going to see how to use the ControllerFactory that delegates to Ninject the creation of your controllers.

Don't wait for C# 5, use Nemerle Now !!!

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:01:02 GMT

Nemerle is a fantastic .net language with meta programming capabilities!

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC release candidate

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:16:02 GMT

Last week, the ASP.NET MVC framework release candidate was released (check ScottGu's post). Apart from some great new tooling support, form validation has never been easier. Here's a quick introduction.

Action, Func, Predicate - what's going on?

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:31:03 GMT

This post covers Action<T>, Func<T>, Predicate<T> and shows them in action. These delegates are generalization (abstractions?) over some common method signatures and you might find them very handy. Besides making LINQ possible, they should help you stop writing your own custom delegates and replace them with these generic ones.

A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:46:04 GMT

Now that the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate is available for download, how do you learn how to start using it to build applications? Here's Stephen Walther's guide to resources for learning about ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:16:03 GMT

"This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools."

Learn how to consume a WCF Service

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:37:38 GMT

Learn how to setup your .net application to consume as WCF service. Take a look at how you can Visual Studio to create your service proxy as well as how to use SvcUtil to create the proxy.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

10 Reasons ASP.NET Webforms Suck

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:46:05 GMT

I think the title says it all. A great rant from an experienced ASP.NET developer.

StructureMap 2.5.2 is Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:31:09 GMT

A fresh release of popular DI framework for .NET.

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:46:03 GMT

xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

A fluent C# library for Twitter

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:16:10 GMT

This C# library allows you to compose queries to Twitter easily, as well as serialize responses into data classes, make asynchronous calls, and perform caching and URL shortening automatically. It covers 100% of the Twitter API.

Activator.CreateInstance Performance

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:31:23 GMT

A look at the different forms of Activator.CreateInstance and the performance implications of each.

Verifying code and testing with Pex

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:46:05 GMT

Earlier this week, Katrien posted an update on the list of Belgian TechDays 2009 speakers. This post featured a summary on all sessions, of which one was titled "Pex - Automated White Box Testing for .NET". Here's the abstract: "Pex is an automated white box testing tool for .NET. Pex systematically tries to cover every reachable branch in a program by monitoring execution traces, and using a constraint solver to produce new test cases with different behavior. Pex can be applied to any existing .NET assembly without any pre-existing test suite. Pex will try to find counterexamples for all assertion statements in the code. Pex can be guided by hand-written parameterized unit tests, which are API usage scenarios with assertions. The result of the analysis is a test suite which can be persisted as unit tests in source code. The generated unit tests integrate with Visual Studio Team Test as well as other test frameworks. By construction, Pex produces small unit test suites with high code and assertion coverage, and reported failures always come with a test case that reproduces the issue. At Microsoft, this technique has proven highly effective in testing even an extremely well-tested component." After reading the second sentence in this abstract, I was thinking: "SWEET! Let's try!". So here goes.

Self Installing Windows Service

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:31:12 GMT

Reusable class that can be added to a Windows Service project to enable Install, Uninstall, Start and Stop functionality.

Hidden Features of C#

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:02 GMT

In this article, I'll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it.

Debugging With Tracepoints

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:31:04 GMT

Well, last week, while I saw John Cunninghams session at PDC 2008 about Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks, I learned something new about breakpoints. The Visual Studio debugger has another feature called tracepoints.

Compressing JS files as part of your build process

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project. Here's what we did

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 1

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:16:04 GMT

Need to use the Entity Framework but don't know how to fit it into your domain? Come check out this series on CodeThinked.com where you will learn how to keep your domain entities fairly clean while using the Entity Framework.