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Skip the Visual Studio Splash Screen

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:16:03 GMT

Anything to speed up Visual Studio.

Introducing a new large scale ASP.NET MVC project framework: Unifico

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:31:06 GMT

Written in C# against MVC Beta and ASP.NET 3.5.1 the code currently recreates the account 'component' of the MVC example template with a simple SQL Repository. The ASP.NET Membership Provider is completely replaced with a component written against the Unifico Framework's pattern. In this example several things are achieved: * A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ready to be remoted through Windows Communication Foundation while using StructureMap to provide dependency injection from WCF. * A repository based data source also protected with dependency injection that is exposed through in a pipes and filters manor. LINQ to SQL is used within a particular repository implementation, but is in no way exposed to the service. * A Model View Controller (MVC) pattern is also used. The only objects returned from a service are models, and all controller activity is within the service itself. Virtual Paths are used to store the views within the component's assembly. * Utility methods have been developed to provide paging across the service interfaces while leaving the 'control' in the hands of the service. The paging methods support multiple filters and multiple sorts within any paging method for a general service. * The framework supports unit testing, however unit tests need to be added specifically for the account service. A project has been setup to show where this is done. * 'Form' Models are used for requests to a service to allow all validation for a request to occur within the service. The responsibility of form validation is retained within a service in this manor, and prevents outside code from creating models.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

Extending the Visual-Studio Context-Menu

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:16:06 GMT

We can add features to the Visual-Studio context menu, without installing addins. Here is an example showing how to add "Explore" and "Execute" commands to any item in the Solution Explorer.

Yet another Singleton Yada-Yada

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:01:04 GMT

Using a static-constructor in a singleton, affects it's laziness. Here's a generic singleton that is thread-safe using a static-constructor, and still lazy.

SubSonic 3 Alpha Is Ready

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:01:14 GMT

SubSonic 3 is ready for Alpha. It's a pretty significant upgrade and I think I've tackled all the bugs and issues. Lofty hopes, but with your help maybe we can make this thing solid.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

Implementing a red black tree in C#

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:01:08 GMT

This article talks about how to implement a red-black tree in C#. The implementation is generic, and it also implements IEnumerable<T>.

Taking the Magic out of Expression

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:31:12 GMT

Concise introduction to expression trees.

Preventing Double Form Posts

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:01:09 GMT

Most posts on this topic focus on disabling the submit button that causes the post. This works fine when you only have one submit control. But, if you have multiple buttons and/or link buttons that can cause a post and want to avoid potential conflicts if a user clicks a second submit control before the first one has been processed then this is really simply approach.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

http://riderdesign.com/articles/Build-a-file-tree-explorer-with-jQuery

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:01:02 GMT

Create a file tree explorer with the jQuery File tree plugin and asp.net. With this plugin and a little server side logic, it is very easy to create a great looking client side file tree explorer. This article explains how to set up, configure and customize jQuery File Tree and use ASP.NET to retrieve the file structure.

C# future

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:06:55 GMT

Dynamic Lookup - Named and Optional Arguments - Features for COM interop - Variance, check out the full story over at msdn

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

OSS Licensing - Terms and Concepts

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:19:38 GMT

The first post in a series on OSS Licensing This post is about explaining some terms and concepts that will be used in following posts

Expression Tree vs Reflection.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:46:11 GMT

Expression Trees can be used to avoid Reflection poor performance when you need to invoke methods in object that you deos not know at runtime. In this post I show you how you can access to property of objects building and compiling an expression tree.

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

Removing unused CSS Classes from your web application

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:31:14 GMT

2 ways to clean up your Css by removing unused classes.

UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:16:02 GMT

The definite guide to the tricks and tactics employed by some IT recruting agents that made the UK software consultant's recruting process a nightmare.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

Persistence Ignorance (POCO) Adapter for Entity Framework V1

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:03:07 GMT

One of the limitations of Entity Framework V1 released as part of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is lack of support for POCO entity objects. POCO stands for Plain Old CLR Object and refers to an object that does not have any persistence concerns and is not aware of persistence framework. Modern development approaches such as DDD (Domain-Driven Design) and TDD (Test-Driven Development) prefer clear separation of concerns which implies persistence ignorance. [...] We have recently published a sample called EFPocoAdapter that includes code generator and a supporting library that implements POCO object tracking on top of Entity Framework V1

The Death of Software Engineering

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Why software engineering is fading away.

Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:31:05 GMT

If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams.

FFlib.NET released!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Are you web developer? Are you looking for video conversion library for long time? So, be happy! We are pleased to introduce you the first release of our .NET & FFMPEG based video conversion library - FFlib.NET.

jQuery Form Serialization without ASP.NET ViewState

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:31:10 GMT

When building AJAX applications that send client form content to the server, ViewState and EventValidation fields can get in the way. Using jQuery you can make short work skipping over these fields and send only the raw POST data to the server.