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ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing

Wed, 20 May 2009 20:09:52 GMT

Ever since the release of ASP.NET MVC and its routing engine (System.Web.Routing), Microsoft has been trying to convince us that you have full control over your URL and routing. This is true to a certain extent: as long as it's related to your application path, everything works out nicely. If you need to take care of data tokens in your (sub)domain, you're screwed by default.

ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:16:03 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the ASP.NET MVC source code is being released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.

Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for natural DateTime operations

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

FluentDateTime is a open source library of Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for easier and more natural DateTime handling and operations in .NET that allows you to write code like this: DateTime.Now + 1.Week() + 3.Days + 14.Minutes(); 3.Days().Ago(); 5.Days().After(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1)); DateTime.Now.NextDay(); DateTime.Now.WeekAfter(); DateTime.Now.Midnight(); DateTime.Now.SetTime(11, 55, 0);

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

How Do Locks Lock?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:31:02 GMT

A detailed explanation of how a locks like ReaderWriterLockSlim really work.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:01:03 GMT

Another epic post by The Gu

Clone Detective for Visual Studio

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:16:03 GMT

Clone Detective is a Visual Studio integration that allows you to analyze C# projects for source code that is duplicated somewhere else. Having duplicates can easily lead to inconsistencies and often is an indicator for poorly factored code.

Skip lists are fascinating!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:16:03 GMT

Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees. In this article, I discuss the asymptotic efficiency of operations on skip lists, the ideas that make them work, and their interesting use cases. And, of course, I give you the source code for a skip list in C#.

Foundation of Programming FREE EBook - CodeBetter.Com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:46:05 GMT

The Foundation Of Programming Series Free ebook By Karl Seguin

Code based ASP.NET MVC GridView

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:31:05 GMT

Maarten Balliauw shows you how to build an ASP.NET MVC html helper extension method which generates a nice gridview-like control using pure code and MVC framework.

DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:31:03 GMT

John Papa created a plugin for WIndows Live Writer that will customize a DotNetKicks link in a blog post.

A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!

Great Little Silverlight Tool Every .Net Developer Need

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:31:02 GMT

A light and handy Silverlight utility which allows you to select through all the possible String.Format options. And provides you with a code snippet to paste into your code.

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

Source Control and Continuous Integration On The Cheap

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Setup source control (Subversion via VisualSVN Server) and a continuous integration environment (JetBrains' TeamCity) in less than 3 hours!

OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:01:02 GMT

Interested in adding OpenID to your .NET website?

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

ASP.NET 3.5 by Scott

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:46:02 GMT

The blog entry from Scott

Free Google Charts API Released

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:46:05 GMT

I'm not sure if this is .NET related enough, but it's got the potential to be very useful for any web development. You just pass the data and chart parameters on the QueryString and it returns a PNG with your chart. Pretty nifty.

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.