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Exception Handling Basics

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

The basics of exception handling and getting good stack traces.

Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:02 GMT

Maarten Balliauw announces his new book and provides a large retrospective on the writing process itself. Must read for everyone thinking about writing a tech book!

Use Bootstrapper in Your ASP.NET MVC Application and Reduce Code Smell

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

In this post, I will how you can use a simple bootstrapper to make your application more extensible. In a typical ASP.NET MVC application you will find there are lots of thing going on in Application_Start, like configuring your IoC/DI, registering routes, model binders etc. The following is the code snippet of latest Oxite...

ASP.NET MVC Result Caching

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:01:03 GMT

Different approach on MVC Caching. Cache the ActionResult through an action filter, without affecting the Session or other non-deterministic data to be shown in the View.

jQuery Fun: Greeting Your Site Referrals

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:16:21 GMT

This is a complete javascript example to detect your site visitors referrer and greeting them with a message based on their referrer url

Simple jQuery Delete Link For ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:01:11 GMT

Any time you allow a GET request to modify data, you're asking for trouble. The reason that delete operations deserve special attention is that it's the most common case where you would use a link to change information. If you are using jQuery, one simple way to turn any link into a POST link

What's New For MVC Tools in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:01:32 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC) is finally out, and we wanted to give returning MVC users as well as new MVC users an overview of what the tooling in Visual Studio provides.

jQuery Playground from Google

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Awsome tool to test jquery online

Introducing DotNetShoutout.com

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:18 GMT

Kazi announces the public beta of DotNetShoutout.com

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

DNK Community Guidelines - Suggestions welcome!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:01:10 GMT

Lets come up with some much needed community guidelines for DNK. Please post your suggestions and comments below, I'll update the community guidelines page on the Google group once we have reached a consensus.

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. During my work I fall into few issues that I resolved and wished to share them with you

Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:01:19 GMT

An Adobe partner have today announced a free plug-in to allow .NET developers to write Flex front-ends to their applications entirely within Visual Studio, with full debugging and editing support.

Donut Caching in ASP.Net MVC - Revisited by Phil Haack

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:01:04 GMT

In this article Phil makes an improvement to the Maarten Balliauw's MVC OutputCache substitution ActionFilter Attribute

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 - default and named parameters

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:16:03 GMT

New feature in C# 4.0 number 2, default and named parameters! Look at what they are, and how they are used in C# 4.0.

jBlogMvc : part 3 Themable View Engine, Archive and Filtering by year,

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:46:12 GMT

Now using beta 1, add a theme support, built a new viewengine to support themes pathes, added archive view

Leveraging the power of ActionName and AcceptVerbs in Asp.Net MVC

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:16:04 GMT

A short screencast on how to leverage the power of ActionName and AcceptVerbs in Asp.Net MVC

Building jQuery and ASP.Net AJAX Enabled Controls Part 2

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:16:11 GMT

In the previous part I talked about how to build the client control. In this part I'll show how to put it all together to build an ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Server Control

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."

New .NET logo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:13 GMT

Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need of a refresh to suite our future product positioning (I've been staring at this for a few weeks now and it's totally grown on me)....

Using jQuery to search Content and creating custom Selector Filters

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:46:02 GMT

jQuery makes it easy to search content of matched elements by using the :content filter which allows for some pretty cool search effects you can implement with a couple of lines of code. Unfortunately :contains is case sensitive though, but never fear jQuery allows creation of custom filters that allow you to provide a custom case insensitive version.

Blog Service Trackback Release 0.7

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:45:14 GMT

The seventh release of BlogSvc includes support for Trackbacks. Also, this release contains the following new or improved features: Updated to latest MVC Beta, A new theme: Hibiscus, Auto-ping links upon create/update entry, Trackback client and server support, Pingback client and server support, and more.

ASP.NET MVC: Simplified Localization via ViewEngines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:01:17 GMT

Thanks to Brad, he identified a few areas that made things MUCH simpler from my prior implementation. Notably, while you still have your ViewEngine specify "here's your view's path" there's no longer a need for having a new helper, derived classes, etc. This implementation goes back to the simplified HtmlHelper extension in which you can use in any ViewEngine regardless. It also allows you to "replace" the implementation by just changing the namespace, just as you can do with Html and Ajax.