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Deploy ASP.NET MVC App on Windows XP (IIS 5.1)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:11:11 GMT

Deploying ASP.NET MVC application on Windows XP is definitely not easy; there are a lot of settings that need to be tuned. Not only that the application must be changed as well.

XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It's Important

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:46:04 GMT

No comments appeared in the Visual Studio tooltip. On In this article, I am going to explain why it is so important to generate XML documentation file for each one of your .Net projects.

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.

Using Lucene .Net to index and search website content

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:48:17 GMT

An elegant solution for adding content indexing and search in a .Net application.

MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:01:04 GMT

Ryan plugs his Gravatar library into MVC in order to create a HTML view helper for building gravatar images.

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.

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.

WPF: The best walkthrough of Model-View-ViewModel I have seen

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:27:15 GMT

Jason Dolinger a consultant for lab49 gives a great walkthrough on Model-View-ViewModel using WPF. He starts out doing things the traditional way and refactors the app to use ViewModels, Commands, and Unity.

Right or Left Click Context Menu Using jQuery Demo

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:46:23 GMT

In my seemingly never ending quest to find the coolest jQuery plugins I came across the jQuery Context Menu Plugin by Cory S.N. LaViska. According to Cory's site, the plugin "features easy implementation, keyboard shortcuts, CSS styling, and control methods." I would say he definitely delivers on all four. One thing I wanted to be able to do though that I didn't find baked in was to call the menu with a left click instead of the plugin's standard right click so I could cater to the user who might not know about right clicking. This was easy enough to change though with just a few lines in the plugin to include an override to look for a left click.

A first look at Duck Typing in C# 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

A complete end-to-end C# 4.0 example with source code using IDynamicObject and MetaObject in order to generate a fully dynamic type using a Dictionary as storage. It also shows how a dynamic type can enter the static typed world and act just like a typed class - dynamically. :)

Extension Methonds (A pretty way to HTML Encode)

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:52:17 GMT

This short entry depicts an example of using .NET 3.0 extension methods to extend the String class and HTMLEncode(). This means you can HTMLEncode() by doing something like .ToString().HTMLEncode()

Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behi

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:16:11 GMT

In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects. The C# team just published a downloadable hotfix that addresses the issues.

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

Modal Delete Confirmation Version Two Using jQuery SimpleModal Plugin

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:31:12 GMT

I finally got around to using the SimpleModal delete confirmation that I wrote about quite a while back. One of the first things I noticed was that I could cut down a lot of the html markup by not including the confirmation in each row of the table and instead just setup a single confirmation and call it each time one of the delete icons was clicked.

CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio announced

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:03 GMT

A free subset of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro is now available.

SubSonic MVC Addin

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:31:03 GMT

good work!

Solving common problems with Compiled Queries in Linq to Sql for high

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:01:02 GMT

If you are using Linq to SQL, instead of writing regular Linq Queries, you should be using Compiled Queries. if you are building an ASP.NET web application that's going to get thousands of hits per hour, the execution overhead of Linq queries is going to consume too much CPU and make your site slow. There's a runtime cost associated with each and every Linq Query you write.

Episode 23: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 1)

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:16:12 GMT

Phil haack interviewed about ASP.NET MVC Beta 1, answering questions like: will it make it this solar year? what's about components? And more...

Using events to improve testability and reduce temporal coupling.

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:54:34 GMT

Example of how event-based programming can keep your code and tests cleaner.

New .NET logo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:16:13 GMT

Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need of a refresh to suite our future product positioning (I've been staring at this for a few weeks now and it's totally grown on me)....

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong by Rachel Andrew

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:15:25 GMT

Applying table-related display property values to web page elements causes the elements to mimic the display characteristics of their HTML table equivalents. In this article, Rachel Andrew demonstrate how this will have a huge impact on the way we use CSS for web page layouts.

Insidious Dependencies

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Many dependencies in code are obvious, such as relying on a particular framework or database implementation. Others can easily be overlooked. This article exposes some of the more insidious dependencies that commonly exist within applications which may be overlooked as such.

ASP.NET MVC - View Model Inheritance

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:01:23 GMT

If you are new to MVC web development it can initially be tricky to figure out how to handle UI features that will be used by multiple views. In WebForms you would simply create a control that encapsulated this element's look and function. In order to handle the common view elements I organized the hard typed view models into an inheritance hierarchy.

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

Silverlight Conference Call Wrap-up

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:48:24 GMT

What was discussed in the Silverlight conference call today (nothing too crazy; pity).