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ObjectDataSource SOA Style

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:43:39 GMT

So here's the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool data access features, you decide to apply a liberal use of the ObjectDataSource for its ability to take care of the paging and sorting calls for you. Now, you begin to convert your site to a service oriented back end and you wonder how you're going to make calls against your web service. You have a few options in front of you. You can create a thin facade layer that will act as a liaison between your presentation code and your service layer calls, and hook your ObjectDataSource to that. This works especially well when you have a complex object model that makes use of the web service calls behind the scenes. It's also beneficial when you are generating your proxy classes from metadata or contacting a foreign web service.

skmMenu 2.3 IE 8 (beta 2), Google Chrome, FF 3.0.1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:35:07 GMT

skmMenu still rocks Here is the sample code which works on all the major browsers IE 8 (Beta 2), Google Chrome, Fire Fox 3.0.1 and IE 7

Master\Detail with CollapsiblePanel and HoverMenu

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:45:28 GMT

Master details GridView with CollapsiblePanelExtender and HoverMenuExtender

Details Popup Via jQuery clueTip Plugin

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:41:22 GMT

Just to prove there are a million ways to get something done I decided to try using the jQuery clueTip Plugin to provide more details about an item in an ASP.NET ListView via a popup.

ClientScriptProxy and JavaScript Linking In Headers

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:50:18 GMT

a great article on embedding scripts in the header of an aspx page.

Installing DotNetNuke 4.8.2 on a Remote Host

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:02:44 GMT

In previous articles on this site I have provided tutorials for installing DotNetNuke to a local machine, however, I typically avoid the topic of installing DotNetNuke to a remote web hosting provider. I have been asked many times why and the answer is simple; installations to remote hosts are not standardized, depending on the hosting providers environments the steps to install can differ greatly. However, due to popular demand I have created this tutorial which will provide you the basic overview of how to perform a clean installation of DotNetNuke on a remote web hosting provider. In the article I will try to point out the most common differences between different hosting providers, I will also be providing specific examples regarding the use of the Plesk control panel which is what my hosting provider (3Essentials) uses.

Retrieving Web Resources and Content Types in Code

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:44:36 GMT

One of my components requires to serve specific Web Resources directly and optionally compress them optionally. While serving resources is straight forward, also grabbing the content type to know what type of resource you're dealing with is a little more work. Here's how.

How to pass a value from User Control to the Page

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:43:06 GMT

In the process of developing an application, there are situations when you need to pass a particular value from user control to its calling page. This article describes solution to that type of problem in an easy to follow steps.

Url Routing Fluent Interface

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:03:38 GMT

Nice API for defining Url routes in ASP.NET MVC

SelfSSL, finally a easy way to ssl enable IIS ! - Oddur Magnusson

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:09:29 GMT

A tool in IIS resource kit to create temporary SSL certificates

How-To: Setup Subtext with Windows Live Writer for Localhost

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:19:36 GMT

Subtext is a great open source blogging application that is free and has simply been getting better and better over time. This allows you to post to your blog locally for whatever reasons that you may have a need to do so (testing custom code, etc.). To setup Windows Live Writer to work with Subtext for localhost, perform the following steps below.

Matt Berseth: Dynamic Data - Customizing the Delete Confirmation Dialo

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:20:19 GMT

Customizing the delete confirmation dialog in a Dynamic Data site. * replacing the browsers default confirm dialog with a jquery thickbox * displaying a confirmation message that includes contextual information regarding the row being deleted

ListView Control with DropDownExtender and Menu

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:31:28 GMT

This article describes how to display the Context Menu on each row of the ListView Control using DropDownExtender and Menu control

inline asp.net tags... sorting them all out (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:21:43 GMT

there are all sorts of different inline tags, and i haven't found a place that explains them all in one place, so here is the quick and dirty... *I know this was submitted before, but it is no longer pointed at the correct address. I moved everything to naspinski.net.

BlogEngine 1.4.5 and IIS7

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:56:54 GMT

FYI: BlogEngine source download is a solution with a core Web Application project and a Web Site project consisting of the main deployable part. I hate Web Site projects; they should be stamped out!!

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 - Create the Perfect App

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:46:03 GMT

n this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC Forums application from start to finish. The goal is to discover and promote best-practices for building applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this first entry, I discuss the overall goals for the forums application. I discuss the importance of avoiding code smells and how software design principles and patterns can help you write code that is resilient to future change. I also justify my choice to use test-driven development while building the Forums application.

Membership Administration with MVC Preview 5

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:17:49 GMT

Last weekend I posted a release of the MVC Membership Starter Kit that targets Preview 5 of the ASP.Net MVC framework. There was no packaged release targeting Preview 4 (though if you downloaded the latest source, it worked), so this release essentially packages the changes from both previews.

Web Deployment Project for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:09:55 GMT

Deployment of ASP.Net sites can be done through Copy Website and Publish Website feature of Visual Studio. Using Copy Website, we can copy the compiled version of the asp.net site to the target virtual directory location.These features does not have option for fixed assembly naming, lacks in post build option, can't modify configuration settings during build and etc. Thus, it lacks in some flexibility we require for deploying webapplications. At times, we might require providing some build actions, making single output assembly where the Publish option does not help in these scenarios. As an answer to the above difficulty, Microsoft developed a plug-in that has the entire features which we require for deploying web applications called Web Deployment Plugin.

A better JavaScript minifier

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:14:26 GMT

A complete C# port of Yahoo's YUI Compressor is now available on CodePlex. It also provides complete MSBUILD support.

Resetting your web application or web site without recycling app pool

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:25:42 GMT

If you don't know by now you can reset your web applications and or web sites with a simple change to the web.config. For example you can FTP(if remote or hosted) to your server and edit the web.config by adding a space or removing a space. Basically you want the application your using editing with think something has changed since you touched the document. Save the form after this has happened and IIS will recycle the application / web site.

Creating ActionFilters in ASP.NET 3.5

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:32:55 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Applications contains the action methods in the controllers. These actions are mapped through the routing when a user makes a browser request. In order to execute your logic before a action method is called or after an action method runs. ASP.NET MVC support this requirement through a concept called ActionFilters.

How to view information in ViewState using ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:16:13 GMT

ViewState is a Base64 encoded string and is not readable by the human eye. However it is also not difficult to decode the viewstate and view the contents of the viewstate when it is passed over the wire. In this article we will see how to decode and view the contents of a viewstate.

ASP.NET 3.5 URL Routing

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:04:58 GMT

This post speaks about basics of URL Routing and how URL Routing related to building a ASP.NET MVC Application. You can also use the URL Routing with the ASP.NET Web application if install the Visual Studio 2008 service pack1. This post specifically speaks about how URL Routing is used in ASP.NET MVC Application.

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - A tale of two techniques: The [Thread

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:37:37 GMT

Apparantly - according to The Hanselman: "the [ThreadStatic] attribute is only useful when YOU control the ThreadPool (and the lifecycle of the threads). It also reminds one to think about variable scope/lifetime especially in the context of ASP.NET."

Beware of using the ThreadStaticAttribute in an ASP.NET environment -

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:29:23 GMT

There are some gotchas when using ThreadStaticAttribute in ASP.NET, since ASP.NET uses thread pooling.