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Compressing JS files as part of your build process

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:16:02 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

Dynamically Loading ASP.NET User Controls with jQuery

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:48:57 GMT

"jQuery.DynamicLoader is a simple jQuery plugin that allow a parent page to dynamically load User Controls and their corresponding script files on demand."

Intellisense in Spark ViewEngine is coming

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:46:02 GMT

On the other hand if you look at the feedback from people who wouldn't consider it a viable alternative there's a definite theme surrounding Visual Studio integration in general and Intellisense in particular. So I decided a few weeks ago to muster up my courage and take another pass at the task of making a Visual Studio integration package to provide a Spark language service.

TortoiseGit 0.1.0.0 Preview

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:16:02 GMT

TortoiseSVN is being ported to TortoiseGit

Is F# faster than C#

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:16:11 GMT

I had a bet with a co-worker that C# would out perform F# for a simple counting exercise. This turned out to be quite a surprise for many reasons. In this blog post I will try to explain why.

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

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.

Declare your ObjectDataSource using lambda expressions

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:55:47 GMT

Configure your ObjectDataSource TypeName, SelectMethod, SelectParameters from a lambda expression. Here is a simple example: ObjectDataSource ods; ods.SetSelectMethod<ProductController>(ctrl => ctrl.FetchAll());

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>.

Pimp My Debugger - DebuggerDisplay Attribute

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:46:10 GMT

The other day I was reading some friends code, and I saw that he used a DebuggerDisplay attribute. It allows you to create a custom view of your objects in the Visual studio debugger. This attribute is very straight forward, but very powerful in the amount of time it can save you when debugging your application. I'll show you a cookie cutter example, but you can use your imagination as to how to use this particular attribute.

The Next 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Here is another setup of top 20 .NET Developers on Twitter that you should consider following... This is the second installation from his previous post of top 20 .NET Developers on Twitter... These two posts equal 40 people you might want to follow!

Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:31:21 GMT

Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented.

Fluent NHibernate's AutoPersistenceModel: I Love it!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:16:04 GMT

I checked out the latest version of Fluent NHibernate today and noticed the AutoPersistenceModel. I looked at the unit-tests to see what it's supposed to do and I loved what I saw.

Implementing a REST service with WCF (part 1)

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:46:14 GMT

A short how to on implementing a REST service with WCF.

Taking the Magic out of Expression

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:31:12 GMT

Concise introduction to expression trees.

Software usability is like eggnog

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:09:30 GMT

Creating a proper usability study is hard.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

MVC: TextBoxFor(u => u.Name) - Unleash the power

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:01:10 GMT

I figured I'd share my implementation of something Chad and Jeremy talked about: the TextBoxFor control. Now I don't know exactly how they implemented their version, and mine just provides the necessary basis to get started, but hopefully it'll help people bake some of this goodness within their own code.

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.

Data Access With The Entity Framework

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:09:15 GMT

A post that shows how we use the repository pattern with the Entity Framework

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.