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jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:31:20 GMT

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.

Functionally Dynamic?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:50:55 GMT

A simple (weird looking) functional programming pattern used in todays c#

Dynamically Loading an assembly at Runtime and calling its methods

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:16:07 GMT

This article explains how to load an assembly dynamically and call its method.

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. During my work I fall into few issues that I resolved and wished to share them with you

How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? This article guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure with no friction.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

WPF Themes Released

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:05 GMT

A collection of 8 free themes to be used in WPF!

Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:01:02 GMT

question that often comes up is how do you group controllers when building a large application with ASP.NET MVC. Often, the question is phrased as whether or not ASP.NET MVC supports "Areas", a feature of Monorail. According to the Monorail documentation, MonoRail supports the concept of areas, which are logical groups of controllers. All controllers belong to an area. The default area is an empty (unnamed) one

Scott Guthrie on Smack and Meth (or was it MEF?)

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:58:56 GMT

In this video, Scott Guthrie (aka ScottGu), explains how his team originally used Smack (their nickname for Simple Managed C or SMC) to write ASP.NET. However, they later decided to write it in C# on the CLR. Scott explains why the decision was "important", "super risky" and the "single biggest" they made in regards to server-side .NET. It is (in my view) a really interesting bit of .NET history.

VEToolkit: Virtual Earth Toolkit Open Source Project

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:46:04 GMT

A couple weeks ago I started the new VEToolkit (Virtual Earth Toolkit) Open Source project. This project spawns out of the need for more helpers to make Virtual Earth Map development much simpler, and follows inspiration from the Ajax Control Toolkit. This is a JavaScript library, so it's all client-side code; just like the Virtual Earth AJAX API itself. The project is also meant to play nicely with any client-side, JavaScript library you want to use within your application (such as jQuery, Prototype, etc.)

Live Mesh + Flash == Adobe AIR

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:43:30 GMT

Live Mesh apps officially support Silverlight and DHTML. But they also support Flash! Check out how easy it is to build a Flash Mesh app.

A Couple VB.NET Language Tips for C# Developers

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:18:21 GMT

Originally, I started out as a Visual Basic developer, and have since moved mostly to C#. However, when doing consulting work, I do need to cross back and forth quite often. Here are a couple VB.NET tips that you probably aren't aware of if you're mostly a C# developer. Some VB.NET developers may not even know about them either.

Common Problems with rendering Bitmaps into ASP.NET OutputStream

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:09:18 GMT

helped me solve a problem of dynamic website thumbnail rendering

Difference between NULL and DBNull

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:34:50 GMT

I have always misunderstood the difference between NULL and DBNULL until recently while I was working on ASP.NET web application, and was talking to a Webservice and I found an exception coming from one of the web methods inside the Webservice which is using the SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar() method.

Silverlight Progress Bar

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:35:29 GMT

One such puzzling absence from the Silverlight tool chest is a progress bar control. WPF has a progress bar, WinForms has a progress bar, but not Silverlight. Fortunately implementing one is not that hard and provided a great introduction to Silverlight's layout model.

jBlogMvc : part 3 Themable View Engine, Archive and Filtering by year,

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:46:12 GMT

Now using beta 1, add a theme support, built a new viewengine to support themes pathes, added archive view

Delete entity or collection in Linq to SQL without getting them

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:16:15 GMT

In order to delete an entity or a collection of entity in Linq to SQL, you have to first get them and then delete them. This requires additional database roundtrip. Here's a strongly typed maintenance free way to delete entities directly using their primary key.

You Can Watch PDC'08 Sessions Online!

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:31:06 GMT

If you couldn't attend PDC'08 (like me) then you'll probably be interested in learning that you can go watch all the PDC'08 Sessions online for Free! This is awesome! Go Watch PDC'08 Sessions Online: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

Custom logic in C# automatic properties

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:03:54 GMT

The article tries to make an argument in favor of having support for introducing custom-logic with automatic properties in C#. It also shows a possible solution and asks for ideas for refinement.

7 Steps To Shameless (Successful) Self Promotion

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:46:13 GMT

How do you get yourself known in the community and in the industry? Jeff offers 7 steps on how to get yourself out there.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 1.1 - dynamic keyword second look

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:16:11 GMT

A second look at the dynamic keyword and an update on the performance statistics that we looked at in Part 1.

Silverlight 2 for Mobile - Why you should start using a MVC pattern

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:08:13 GMT

Silverlight 2 for Mobiles has been announced. Here is a quick post on how the MVC pattern can help your save you time and enable you to target the Mobile platform faster.

WPF Toolkit adds Ribbon Control to .NET 3.5 SP1

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:31:03 GMT

The first release of the new WPF Toolkit was released today. This toolkit includes a new Ribbon control as well as the following: new WPF DataGrid, DatePicker/Calendar, and VisualStateManger. The coolest feature of this Toolkit (IMO) is the new Ribbon control. In .NET 4.0 there will be a ribbon control baked in, but thanks to the WPF Toolkit we have access to utilize the new Ribbon control today in WPF with .NET 3.5 SP1!