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Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

250+ .NET Interview FAQ's for Developers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:16:11 GMT

A comprehensive list of 'good' ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET and .NET Framework questions for beginners and experienced people. Also a good read for people who want to refresh their memory with .NET concepts or take interviews on a regular basis.

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.

ASP.NET Caching and Performance

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve's expertise in this area comes from first-hand experience as Lake Quincy's ad system serves over 60 requests per second and handles over 150 million requests per month.

Resyncing the apm model of Silverlight

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:56:17 GMT

An approach to simulate sync methods call to WCF from Silverlight

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page Hope these Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links will help your SILVERLIGHT development. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Awesome web development and web design articles and sites in May 2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:31:12 GMT

This article shows a reviews of 16 great articles and sites I found in May 2008. There are articles about web development with ASP.NET, Ajax and jQuery. There are also a great web design resources, tools, plugins, BlogEngine.NET extensions and one great usability article.

Detailed code metrics with NDepend

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:01:12 GMT

A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that!

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Here's an example of an animation where clicking a button will increase the size of the font of the button. First I've declared two constants of type double, one for the font size of the button at the initialization time, which is declared as initFontSize; and the other one at runtime when the button is clicked. When clicked, the event handler creates a DispatcherTimer that generates Tick events every tenth of a second. The TimerOnTick method here increases the FontSize by two units every tenth of a second until the size reaches 48 units, at which point the button is restored to its original size and the timer is stopped.

New York Times proves out Silverlight integration in a native Mac appl

Sun, 25 May 2008 03:41:58 GMT

New York Times has migrated their popular WPF-based New York Times Reader to the Mac, using Silverlight and native Cocoa windowing and application logic, and using the Safari / WebKit API as a Silverlight wrapper. (Darn it, I knew it was both doable and legal!)

Silverlight 2.0 almost WPF

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:03:11 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available now. So what's new in this version compared to Silverlight 1.0/1.1? In easy words: It's (almost) as powerful as WPF. This article will help you getting started with Silverlight 2.0 and VS 2008. We will explain the installation of the Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 and create a little Silverlight project using new Layout-functionalities and controls.

VE Sessions at Where 2.0

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:20:19 GMT

Chris' session was a deep dive on the Virtual Earth Platform and goes into some details about our UltraCam digital aerial camera that we use to capture imagery. He also talks about how we create 3D models and some cool demos as well on Virtual Earth. Finally he does the Silverlight VE control demo that he showed at MIX 08. Steve's session went deep on the Collections stuff that he works on in the Virtual Earth team. He also showed some of his favorite Map Cruncher Collection demos as well as others. There's also a little surprise at the end of this video that if you were around three years ago when Virtual Earth was created you might have seen.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Two

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:31:07 GMT

I mentioned in the first article that a Storyboard controls animations with a timeline, and provides object and property targeting information for its child animations. This is the cornerstone of Silverlight animation. A Storyboard is a set of one or more animations. It is comparable to a <TransformGroup> element. Storyboard does exactly the same things for animations that <TransformGourp> does for transformations. Storyboard has a Children property that enables you to access all the animation objects within a given Storyboard. Animations do not add or remove elements, they temporarily alter the property values of existing elements. If you create a new Storyboard and add a new rectangle to the canvas, that rectangle will be available to all Storyboards, not just the current one. The rectangle was added to the scene's base canvas and is not specific to the active Storyboard.

.NET Rocks! 342

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:08:44 GMT

In episode 342 of .NET Rocks! Dan Wahlin talks about his experiences with Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.

A Basic Hands on Introduction to Unity DI Container

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Sidar gives a basic introduction on how to utilize Unity and Strategy Pattern.

ALT.NET Podcast - Management Crisis!

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:16:05 GMT

The first ALT.NET Podcast discussed some interesting points but one stood out for me - apparently there is a Management Crisis. Read how this manager responds... crisis what crisis?

2 Easy Steps To Turn Your Blog Into An OpenID Gateway

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:01:14 GMT

Many of you probably have heard of OpenID, but have never had a chance to use it. However, I predict that most of you reading this will have used it by the end of the year. I can make this prediction with an almost 100% certainty because there is a growing movement behind it that has many big players actively buying developing and integrating their platforms with the OpenID protocol. To facilitate my prediction, of most of you using OpenID by the end of the year, I am going to give you 2 easy steps to turn your blog, or any website, in to a OpenID gateway. That will work for OpenID 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 versions of the protocol.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part One

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Animation allows us to create attractive user interfaces. Animation is used to apply dazzling effects such as spin a logo or video, make text scroll, make images grow when the mouse is over them etc. Animation is much like varying the property value over time as far as Silverlight 2.0 is concerned. This will be clear if someone takes a closer look at the animated stuff done in Silverlight/WPF applications.

Silverlight Behaviors

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:45:55 GMT

A framework for creating reusable and attachable behaviors in Silverlight, and a sample behavior that demonstrates using and building them... along with all the code.

Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Just released on the Popfly site is alpha of the new Popfly Game Creator feature, which provides a great way to create and share some interesting games without having to deal with some of the complexities normally associated with game creation, all using Silverlight.

Expression Studio 2 Ready For Download

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Expression Studio 2 is out of beta and has been released.

A WCF-WPF Chat Application

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Internet Chat Application with File Transefer, you can try the online demo to chat with me

Using Microsoft Expression Design to design the control in Silverlight

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

I've used Expression Blend in many occasions but I've never experimented with expression design since the release of this product. After the release of version 2.0 Beta of Expression Design this is the first time I'm using Microsoft Expression Design. In this demonstration I'll fix design of my control using Expression Design. Let's dig into the story .

Silverlight and Firefox 3

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:46:03 GMT

A post on the status between Silverlight 2 beta and Firefox 3 beta. (Hint: Beta + Beta = Crash)

Create a video player in Silverlight 2 - Part 2

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Part 2 of creating a video player in Silverlight.