continuous integration (CI) implements continuous processes of applying quality control - small pieces of effort, applied frequently. Continuous integration aims to improve the quality of software, and to reduce the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of applying quality ...

"ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of “view engines” – which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The “default” view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC ...

In this first post, I discuss what multi-tenancy means and how my implementation will be structured for use in ASP.NET MVC. Multi-tenancy is a technique used by many developers to increase IIS efficiency and reuse code. This is an introduction into some of the core elements of multi-tenancy and how ...

In this second part of my GData series I tried to explain how to use YouTube API for .NET to store/retrieve videos on/from YouTube.

Good collection of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2010 -related links.

This article shows you how to use Google Data API to interact with Google Analytics data and show your website's visitors statistics on your website.

In our last installment we converted the default tests to specifications for the Home and Account controllers. In this article we will be adding some meat to those specifications. There are several good articles on the net about writing your specs. I stumbled across a couple more while preparing...

This is the third post in a series related to build and deployment considerations as I’ve been exploring MVC Portable Areas. In the last post, I walked through a convention for managing static files. In this post I’ll discuss another approach to manage static files (e.g., images, css, js, etc.). W...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 just around the corner and the concurrent release of ReSharper 5, I thought I would share my experiences with the Release Canidate & nightly builds of ReSharper 5.

This is a full guide for localizing asp.net mvc 2 web application covering following aspects: views localization, simple culture switching mechanism, model validation messages localization, DisplayName attribute localization and problem solving with caching(OutputCache) and localization.

This is part 4 of this series which I don’t know when it will ends :o). In part 3 I started to to explore the Core of KiGG. In this part we are still inside the core, but we are going further deep to have a look inside the infrastructure. I’m going to talk about infrastructure for the next couple...

"Validating user-input and enforcing business rules/logic is a core requirement of most web applications. ASP.NET MVC 2 includes a bunch of new features that make validating user input and enforcing validation logic on models/viewmodels significantly easier. These features are designed so tha...

Over the last six months the ASP.NET team has been steadily releasing preview, then beta, and now release candidate builds of ASP.NET MVC 2. Given that the final release is not too far away, I thought it was a good time to start a new multi-part ASP.NET MVC 2 blog series that discusses the new fe...

Ever worked with the templated helpers provided by ASP.NET MVC 2? Templated helpers provide a way to automatically build UI based on a data model that is marked with attributes defined in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace. For example, a property in the model can be decorated with ...