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MVC Storefront Screencasts

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:48:05 GMT

This post lists all of Rob Conery's ASP.NET MVC screencasts in order.

How I've put my wife into SVN

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:46:37 GMT

SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to keep track of it's files. The problem is that these tools are planned for developers. Using the file-system in windows is not a trivial task for everyone. In fact, sometimes people tend to be afraid of it. Not only using the file-system, but also using some client application that does not even have a window? And where do I get an SVN server anyway?!? Keep reading. you might find it useful.

Using ReCaptcha with Asp.Net MVC

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:12:46 GMT

For all the debate regarding if Captcha's are a good thing or a bad thing one thing is certain (in my book). If you do not have some way to stop spam-bots your site will become overridden with junk in a hurry. This post will walk you though how to add reCaptcha to your Asp.Net MVC site.

Scott Gu's Links for Nov 2nd

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:46:15 GMT

Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF

Who Called Me?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:16:08 GMT

Sometimes it is important to understand what method called other method. In ths post I will show you an easy way to do that.

Taking the Magic out of Expression

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:31:12 GMT

Concise introduction to expression trees.

Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder (screencast)

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Abstract: "This screencast demonstrates how code can be made more maintainable and testable by delegating binding to client data to the ASP.NET MVC model binder architecture."

Haacked: ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:58:24 GMT

"In this post, I want to provide a definitive guide to getting ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6. I will walk through using the .mvc or .aspx file extension for URLs first, then I will walkthrough using extension-less URLs."

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

Addicted To MEF - Part 1

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:16:12 GMT

A quick look at the basic features of the Preview 3 of the Managed Extensibility Framework.

HowTo: First steps with ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:13:22 GMT

In my last post I wrote about why you should take a look at ASP.NET MVC. With this blogpost I want to go a little bit deeper into the MVC universe.

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!

Distributed envinronment

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:20:39 GMT

I've integrated NHibernate.Search into our company platform DAL and it's works very fine. Compliments! Since two months ago, our backend servers, where the DAL with NHibernate runs, are in a NLB environment so different servers can update the Lucene file base indexes at the same time. I've encountered a problem in the NHibernate.Search.Impl.Workspace file because it is not able to correct manage the lock: (Monitor.Enter & Monitor.Exit) and when it try to close the writer in the Cleanup proc of the same class. Is there a new version that is able to run on distributed environments or can I do anything to solve the problem? Thank u very much. --Vito

Don't Be Afraid of Easy

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:13:27 GMT

Software development isn't easy, so why don't we do everything we can to make it easier on us?

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.

Emergent Complexity

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

Why is it that our well designed systems seem to fall into chaos so easily?

Authorization in ASP.Net MVC using XML Configuration

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:09:21 GMT

A simple application to demonstrate how you can xml based configuration to apply authorization in MVC application

Learning how to turn an Anonymous object into a Dictionary

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:31:17 GMT

Learning how to turn an Anonymous object into a Dictionary via a short screencast

The fallacy of IRepository

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:55:53 GMT

The cause for this post is a post by Rob Conery where he suggests removing the RDMBS from the equation, at least during development. In particular, he suggests using an OODB during development and switching to RDBMS late in the game, when going to production. The reason for doing so in order to reduce the friction of having to maintain a database during development.

Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:19 GMT

An Adobe partner have today announced a free plug-in to allow .NET developers to write Flex front-ends to their applications entirely within Visual Studio, with full debugging and editing support.

What if your contact form fails?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:16:18 GMT

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message? Read in this article.

Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

Useful HtmlHelpers for ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:49:32 GMT

HtmlHelpers are super tiny weapons in ASP.NET MVC and they are growing day by day. In this post you will find a list of most useful HtmlHelpers for ASP.NET MVC and this list will be completed and completed! So you can join me to enlarge this list ;-)

C# 4.0 New Features Part 4 - Generic Contravariance

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:01:13 GMT

A simple and easy to follow example of Contravariance in C# 4.0

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.