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ASP.NET MVC Validation Refresh: Best Techniques & Frameworks

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:30:52 GMT

I just wanted to do a "refresher" post regarding ASP.NET MVC validation as many things have changed over the last couple of months and there is a lot of information out there. I wanted to aggregate my known validation options and recommend them in one tabular list.

Fun C# Cuckoo Clock (Practical Joke or Useful App!)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:23:11 GMT

Good Morning All! (At least here in Aus). Today I'd like to share with you an off topic, fun application I put together from inspiration I got off a StackOverflow.com thread entitled "What's Your Favorite Harmless Computer Practical Joke?". If you click this link you'll jump right to the prank I'm talking about. Basically..

What & Why Choose F#?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:48:59 GMT

I am becoming more interested in F# lately, learning a little more on what it's all about and in my travels I have stumbled across a few links and topics on why one should use F# and what it's all about. I thought I might share. Shamefully, I personally have still been too flat out to use it myself, but hoping that will change very soon!

Var Wars - Abuse of the CSharp var

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:04:49 GMT

CSharp 3.0 introduced the var keyword for declaring variables without having to explicitly specify the type. This was done for using anonymous types returned from LINQ queries. Now, I am seeing many developers use it all over their code and think its a good thing.

Multiple Events Fired for File System Watcher Event

Fri, 29 May 2009 01:13:02 GMT

My FileSystemWatcherclass was raising multiple events when hooked into the Changed and Created events for monitoring files today. I found out why!

Stretching Lambda's Legs: Single Statement String Concatenation

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:43:51 GMT

So let's get started, supposing you wish to compile a list of song titles separated by a comma, ordinarily you would for each loop them, then assign the comma as ", " on the second iteration. Well, I wanted to get tricky of course...

DataGridView Tricks #2: Set Tooltip on Individual Cell or Entire Row

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:16:42 GMT

Here's another gem if you wish to display ancillary data in a tooltip to your users, this method can be used to display varying information dependant on which cell they have hovered over, or could be used to display a tooltip over the entire row, no matter what cell they are on.

DataGridView Tricks #1: Set Hand Cursor for Entire Cell

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:15:33 GMT

I remember trying a few different solutions for this a couple of weeks ago, none of which would work enabling me to set the "Hand" cursor when hovering your mouse over a particular DataGridView row's cell.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 - Complete with Blurry WPF Font Rendering!

Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:58 GMT

I love Visual Studio, in fact it's my FAVOURITE IDE, and not to mention one of my favourite tools of all time. and that's why I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH, how I'm hoping Microsoft will fix the WPF font rendering / blur / fuzziness whatever you may call it 'bug' by..

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:04:40 GMT

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007

Friends Don't Let Friends catch (Exception)

Tue, 19 May 2009 02:05:15 GMT

Catching Exception, SystemException, or ApplicationException; or coding empty catch blocks, aren't just bad practices - it's just plain wrong. Here's why you shouldn't do it.

Weekly Tool Tip: Introducing .NET Reflector

Fri, 15 May 2009 23:56:09 GMT

An introductory look at .NET Reflector

BEncoding and Torrent files with .Net

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:36:45 GMT

Some code I wrote to help when working with bencoding/decoding and torrent files.

The Wonders Of InternalsVisibleTo

Fri, 08 May 2009 04:19:43 GMT

Demonstrates how to expose an assembly's internal parts to "friend" classes using the InternalsVisibleTo attribute.

Certificate Authentication & Transport Security in WCF

Thu, 07 May 2009 07:50:52 GMT

I think I understand more about setting up a WCF service from this article then from about 10 links I found previously; and that's saying something coming from an MSDN article.

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Book Released!

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:37:33 GMT

The longly anticipated ASP.NET MVC book entitled "Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0" has just been released and available over at Amazon.com right now. Published by Wrox and content put together by some of our greatest names in the .NET community, Scott Guthrie, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack.

Regex Hero to the Rescue

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:16:14 GMT

From BucketSoft comes an online Silverlight regular expression tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine. Features instantaneous highlighting of regular expression matches. It's a great way to test iterations of your .NET regular expressions quickly.

System.Object

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:41:43 GMT

All .Net types are derived from System.Object. Therefore every object of every type has a minimum set of method from System.Object class.

Launching .NET Applications From Memory

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:01:05 GMT

An interesting idea of how to run a .net application from memory directly.

Rethrowing Exceptions in C#

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:54:18 GMT

I've been somewhat surprised by this topic in the past few weeks, since it is one that has comed up in a number of circles. Basically, the comments I've heard have related to the lose of stack trace information when "rethrowing" an exception from withing a catch clause in C#.

Designing .NET Class Libraries

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

The Designing .NET Class Libraries series presents design guidelines for developing classes and components that extend the .NET Framework. The goal of the Designing .NET Class Libraries series is to encourage consistency and predictability in public APIs while enabling Web and cross-language integration. The guidelines presented in Designing .NET Class Libraries are intended to help class library designers understand the trade-offs between different solutions. There might be situations where good library design requires that you violate these design guidelines. Such cases should be rare, however it is important that you provide a solid justification for your decision.

.Net RIA Services Metadata Programming Model

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:16:03 GMT

.Net RIA Services Metadata offers a strong validation framework that makes it easy to validate user input and extend the behavior of your objects through Metadata. This is an introduction to using the Metadata Model as well as a how to.

IL DASM 4.0.11001.1

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:45:34 GMT

This is the IL DASM extracted from .NET Framework 4.0 CTP ILDASM is a tool contained in the .NET Framework SDK. It can be used to disassemble PE files containing Common Intermediate Language code.

What's new in Beta 1 for the Task Parallel Library? (Part 1/3)

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:29:16 GMT

Some of the changes that are coming for the Task Parallel Library in Beta 1 of .NET 4.0 (no dates to announce) .

Untie LINQ to SQL Connection String from Application Settings

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:10:30 GMT

Did you know that by default LINQ to SQL compiles your connection string and defines it in more than one place if you define your LINQ to SQL classes out from a web app, such as a data access layer class library?