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Self Installing Windows Service

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:31:12 GMT

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

Secure ASP.NET MVC Applications

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:16:07 GMT

One of the greatest advantages of ASP.NET MVC is that it provides a "Close to the Metal" programming experience and you have full control over the HTML. It aslo means that you should care about the vulnerabilities regards with your HTML. In webform, server controls would be automatically HTML-encoded their outputs. While developing ASP.NET MVC apllications, you should filter your HTML to avoid XSS attacks. Use the following HTML helper methods to avoid vulnerabilities in your ASP.NET MVC applications.

NH Prof is in public beta

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:13:35 GMT

Ayende's NHibernate Profiler is in open beta now!

What is Microsoft waiting for providing a decent path API?

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:31:13 GMT

I was recently browsing the code source of Managed Extensibility Framework and realized that this future part of .NET 4, full of tricky and advanced ideas, was naively relying on strings to describe files and directories paths. It seems that the version 4 of .NET will miss the need for a descent path API. There is the class System.IO.Path but it is feature limited, full of flaws and pitfalls (to not say bugs) and it fosters users to encode their paths into raw strings. It seems to me that using strings to encode paths is as primitive as using String.IndexOf("<tag>") to parse some XML.

TheBeerHouse MVC Beta Now on CodePlex

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:01:14 GMT

Tired of bitching about Oxite? Here's a new MVC sample application to sink your teeth into -- an MVC version of the famous TheBeerHouse Starter Kit.

Spark Language Package - Preview 1

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:46:02 GMT

This is a very early copy of a msi which installs a Spark language package for Visual Studio 2008. It will put dlls into a Program Files\Spark directory and add just enough registry keys to add color and intellisense to files with a .spark extension.

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

The Dynamic Programmer - Sharp Architecture approaching version 1.0

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:22:29 GMT

Sharp Architecture is a web application architecture that uses the ASP.NET MVC with Castle.Windsor as the IoC, NUnit for Testing, NHibernate as the ORM and propose a et of rules on how to develop an application. This release include project templates for Visual Studio 2008.

Oxite Refactor, Take 1

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:46:02 GMT

I mentioned yesterday on Twitter that I'm helping out the Oxite team with some refactoring and tweaking of their codebase. I got started last night and people have been asking about it a LOT, so I thought that today I'd show you initially what I'm up to.

Commit to a svn repository while being offline

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:02:21 GMT

This article explains how to use git for offline commits to a subversion repository

Oxite - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:01:16 GMT

Oxite is an open source application built on ASP.NET MVC and Karl Seguin raises some points related to the design/architecture/implementation.

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

The Perfect Storm Botnet

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery talks about the power of a bot net and why developers should be aware of XSS attacks and other nasties should an app be allowing users to post into the system.

SCRUM in 10 Minutes - HD Video

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:46:03 GMT

Covers backlogs, burn-down charts, daily scrum, team roles and more. If you are new to SCRUM or want to teach someone else about SCRUM, this is a great resource.

What Constitutes Ethical SEO?

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:31:02 GMT

As a web developer / someone who has a blog, I understand dealing with spam is one of the necessary evils of having a comments enabled on my site. Too often, SEO companies use unscrupulous tactics in the name of website optimization. What is the best way to prevent link spammers from overrunning your site?

AssemblyVersion Vs AssemblyFileVersion

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:01:48 GMT

So, what is the different between the two? Well the difference lies in their name itself. One is the version of the assembly the other is version of the file, wait, am I making it complex? Ok let me explain.

Genesis: Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:31:03 GMT

About the Genesis methodology and toolkit for software developers, that links unit tests to requirements in the functional analysis document...

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.

jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:46:04 GMT

Do you want your HTML file upload controls to show a progress bar during the upload? That's always been tricky. Here's a cool jQuery plugin that gets the job done, along with a demo app written in ASP.NET MVC.

Test Driven Development & Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:05:16 GMT

Up to now, Visual Studio did a great job helping us develop applications and tests based on existing classes and methods, but when you don't have your API ready, the IDE will fight you. TDD is out there for some time now and is popular, however the IDE gives all those developers who use TDD hard time. Visual Studio 2010 IDE has some improvements to allow test first style.

BigTarget.js - Increase the size of click targets (hrefs)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:00:31 GMT

With all the positive focus on grid based web design these days, I started to identify a couple of standard design elements. The main pattern used in nearly every site (grid and non grid) was the "title, thumbnail, short summary, more link" pattern. This pattern is generally used for indexing blog post summaries in sidebars, listing services, or creating small calls-to-action.

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.

Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A quick overview of cloud computing options and benefits from a web hosting standpoint.

Using Castle Validators with ASP.NET MVC Model Binders for Automatic V

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:24:16 GMT

Model Binders in MVC is a cool concept to map your form values to parameter objects of your Action. There's also this automatic error message display capabilities in MVC. Here's my take on validating a model object during the binding process. Castle project has a validation framework and a range of validators which can be used standalone. It would be cool to use it with MVC to ease the validation pain a bit, huh?