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Architecture of RIA from JAOO

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:16:03 GMT

In this amazing blog post, Josh describes the meaning of RIA, design patterns to consider when architecting RIA, as well as the top 10 best and worst practices. There are so many nuggets of information in this article that make it a _very_ important read for the beginner and seasoned RIA architect/developer.

How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A quick how-to on getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on Windows Azure.

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

Searching for files using LINQ

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:16:05 GMT

An LINQ example

New jQuery Rater Plugin - Auto Ajax Ratings

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:55:05 GMT

The existing star rating plugin for jQuery takes too much effort (client & server) so I wrote the jQuery Rater Plugin that should reduce the complexity of implementing an ajax rating scenario on the client side. The server side is easier as well since the markup doesn't change after a user has already rated. This plugin can also support multiple raters per page.

Snippet Designer for Visual Studio Released!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:01:11 GMT

An open source plug-in for Visual Studio which adds the ability to edit code snippets in a rich integrated way. It also adds the Snippet Explorer tool window which allows you to easily search for snippet files on your computer.

jQuery ajax with asp.net mvc preview 5

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:31:10 GMT

How to use the AjaxHelpers in preview 5 with jQuery as the ajax engine

Client & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Emad Ibrahim talks about Client (with jQuery Validation Plugin) & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC.

Enabling Javascript Intellisense In External Libraries

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:01:10 GMT

To get JavaScript IntelliSense working in VS 2008 SP1, you need to tell IntelliSense the location of the libraries that you're using. You do that by adding a special comment at the top of the .js file. Here's How..

Combining jQuery Validation with ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

See how the jQuery Validation plugin can be used with the MVC framework to validate all the inputs in a form before it is submitted to the controller.

jQuery for ASP.NET MVC unleashed!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:46:05 GMT

jQuery plugins for the ASP.NET MVC framework

Configuring and running ASP.NET 3.5 on Linux

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:16:02 GMT

This article is about running, configuring and debugging ASP.NET and AJAX.NET on Linux machine with Mono

Howto use jQuery with asp.net mvc preview 4's AjaxHelper

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:16:11 GMT

Working on jQuery4mvc preview 4, one of the first things I ofcourse wanted to do was to replace the ASP.NET Ajax library that's used by the AjaxHelper. Unfortunately the AjaxHelper itself is sealed, so atm we can't (easily) change how the AjaxHelper generates its links. So what I did is create a javascript library that uses the same methodnames as the MicrosoftMvcAjax version.

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Describes what is needed to add OpenID login as an option to traditional ASP.NET Membership and integrating both.

Learning To Drive a Stick Shift

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Ruby. Java. C#. VB.NET. And yes, even Haskell. Whatever you program in: C++ will make you better at it.

LINQ & Lambda, Part 4: Lucene.Net

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:46:10 GMT

This post demonstrates how to easily build a Lucene.Net search index from your LINQ to SQL data context and search for items within it using the LINQ to Lucene library.

Managed C++: Embedding Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:11 GMT

If you use a DLL written in Managed C++, you should a few DLLs from the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package installed. There are no usual ways to link these libraries statically (due to C++ / CLI restrictions). But there a way to include these DLLs into your application, see how in this article.

How to Build a Managed/Unmanaged Library

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Working with an unmanaged static library - with that, you can build a managed C++ wrapper that exposes the functionality that you need. The C++ compiler does some fairly amazing things in terms of knowing when to do unmanaged/unmanaged transitions, but sometimes it does some surprising things that will cost. [Sample code included in the post]

ActionDisposable in Action!

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:08:05 GMT

C# 3.0 Action's are applied to thread safe collections.

LINQ & Lambda, Part 3: Html Agility Pack to "LINQ to XML" Converter

Mon, 26 May 2008 06:09:13 GMT

In this part of the LINQ & Lambda series a pseudo LINQ to HTML parser is created with the HTML Agility Pack and extension method magic.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

LINQ.Flickr 1.3

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Just released another version of LINQ.Flickr. The release is out with several bug fixes, code optimization, new feature and overall mocking support. I have used Typemock for the unit test of the product. In coming posts, I will show how powerful mock can be in faking routine like upload photo. But, you can dig it right away, if you go by the release page and download a copy of the product. Truly speaking, testing was never fun for serviced API till mock engine is at my hand. ...

MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

In this episode I finally ready up the demo, setting up my CatalogController to work with my test repository, and using the DRY principle with Helpers so I don't repeat view logic.

LINQ & Lambda, Part 1: iTunes XML Querying

Sun, 04 May 2008 15:41:38 GMT

A simple iTunes XML Parser for finding a friends favourite artists using LINQ to XML.