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Bundler.NET

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:44:37 GMT

An API for combining, minifying, compressing, and caching CSS and JavaScript for .NET websites.

What's new in Razor v2?

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:00:41 GMT

Check out some of the new features and changes in the upcoming Razor view engine v2.0. Don't forget the source code is also now available on Codeplex!

Token Based Asynchronous Socket Server On .NET 4

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:53:26 GMT

An asynchronous token based socket server, which means that server and client will use token exchange as a handshake to confirm that all of the messages were correctly delivered.

HTML5 Offline Web applications as an afterthought in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:03:15 GMT

Recently I prototyped a mobile web application using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery Mobile and some HTML5 features. One of the key goals was to find out how far you can push a web 'application' until the browser starts getting in the way. Working disconnected is one of these things that appear to be a major showstopper at first. However - to my surprise honestly - the HTML5 Offline Web applications API seems to be widely implemented across modern browsers already. Not of all of them though. Looking into the spe...

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Roundup

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:52:52 GMT

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!

WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two cents on the subject

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:31:55 GMT

A couple of weeks ago (around Feb. 16) the WCF WebAPIs - a framework for building RESTful/Hypermedia/HTTP services, which was in development over the past 1.5 years as a side-project on CodePlex, has been formally integrated into ASP.NET and its name changed to the ASP.NET Web API. These past two weeks, there has been a lot of questions among WCF developers: What does it mean that the Web APIs are no longer a part of WCF - is WCF dead? Has SOAP gone bankrupted? is HTTP the new way to go for interoperability? This post will try to answer those questions.

Stumped by .Net Memory Management?

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:52:57 GMT

seems intimidating, but the fundamentals can be easily understood. Here is the beast explained...with a little humor.

MS WebAPI in ASP.NET MVC 4 - HTTP Communication got a whole lot easier

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:32:10 GMT

In this article, we will see what it takes to use the newly launched WebAPI in an existing MVC 3 application by upgrading it to ASP.NET MVC 4 and extending it to provide http services using the WebAPI

Using jQuery to tidy up missing Images Part 2

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:33:05 GMT

Next post in this 3 part series. Allowing users to report missing images with jQuery.

Google reCAPTCHA in ASP.NET MVC 3 using the Razor engine

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:42:49 GMT

Adding Google's reCaptcha to an MVC 3 form.

Why is RAID So Important for Databases?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:36 GMT

A good server design has no, or very few, single points of failure. One of the most common server component that fails, are disks. So data redundancy becomes essential to recoverability. Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a disk system that provides better fault-tolerance by making use of redundancy of disk(s).

Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:55 GMT

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"

HTML5 Native Video Streaming With WebRTC

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:20 GMT

A short introduction to using the getUserMedia API in the newest builds of Chrome Dev channel and Canary.

Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with AutoBox

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:26:50 GMT

This will post will show how you can use AutoBox to easily write a bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC. I have used the latest version of AutoBox (available from nuget, this version also includes Castle.Windsor internally for managing dependencies rather using its own resolver and does not require interface to type naming convention [IAccountRepository -> AccountRepository]) .

Clickable Tag Cloud using HTML 5 Canvas Elements

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:45:57 GMT

Learn how to create a tag cloud and in process, learn a bit of HTML5 Canvas. However on the way also see how LINQ and ASP.NET MVC routing can be added to the tag cloud

Find the jQuery Bug 3: Give Me Truth

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:18:25 GMT

In this open-ended series I'll be showcasing a snippet of buggy jQuery code that you might encounter, explain what the problem is, and then identify how you can easily resolve the issue.

Using RavenDB in Brown-Field ASP.NET MVC projects

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:43:02 GMT

In this article, we will see how RavenDB can be used as Auto-Save cache in an ASP.NET MVC application. We will explore a use case that is typical of brown-field projects (projects involving enhancements to an existing application), where a handy functionality in an ASP.NET MVC application can be achieved by using RavenDB

MVC Asynchronous Controller : The Basics

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:43:37 GMT

When I first saw the Asynchronous Controllers introduced in MVC 2, I couldn't wait to start playing around. I thought that it would be a really easy to get up and running with a simple example, but after searching online for a few working examples - pretty much all of them used an event based pattern that wasn't easy to understand. In this blog post I am going to run through a really simple example that will show you the basics of Asynchronous Controllers, and show you how easy they really are.

Simple explanation of the Repository pattern

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:36:50 GMT

One of my favorite design patterns is the 'repository pattern'. That's why I decided to dedicate a complete blog post to it. Using the repository pattern in your application can yield a lot of benefits, such as improved testability, easier ways to implement caching and transactions, avoidance of code duplication and it allows you to replace the data source easier (although that probably won't happen too often).

Joost's Dev Blog: The lamest bug we ever encountered

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:08:58 GMT

Yesterday we resolved by far the lamest 'bug' I have ever encountered. We spent almost two whole days with the entire programming team (5 coders) trying to find it, and once we discovered what was happening, it felt so incredibly lame, that I figured it would be a nice story to share. So here's what happened!

jQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:26:46 GMT

For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some "new submission process." This happened very suddenly, and we're sorry to everyone who's been inconvenienced.

Best of DNK - November 2011 - What's All the Hubbub, Bub?

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:01:58 GMT

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!

How to add Automated Error Reporting to an application

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:27:15 GMT

3 ways SmartAssembly will improve your software Discover how your application is being used, get detailed reports of any errors your users encounter, and make sure your carefully crafted code is protected from malicious reverse-engineering

Contour Analysis for Image Recognition in C#

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:27:33 GMT

Here is an interesting article about Contour Analysis, a set of image recognition libraries for C#. The articke includes description, video, code, and sample projects. As the author states at the end of the article something like this could easily be incorporated in a Kinect application, a robot, or a standard app.

JustCode Q3 2011 is Here

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:46:38 GMT

We are proud to announce the official release of Telerik JustCode Q3 2011. This release contains many features that we have launched over the past few months in internal builds, including Razor and CSS support, Visual Studio 11 support, a key mappings window, and many new refactorings!