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Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:07 GMT

read and learn

$("Microsoft").append("excitement");

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:46:14 GMT

Right now is honestly the most excited that I have ever been about the .net platform. With IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC on the horizon and jQuery being integrated as part of the official Microsoft development platform, I think that Microsoft is finally "getting" web development.

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.

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed CIO.com a sneak peek, and the author invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. We'll also ship a version includes Intellisense in Visual Studio.

Friendly "maintenance" page for your ASP.NET application

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

ScottGu demonstrates a nice and easy way to show a maintenance page for your ASP.NET application while you're working on it.

But I like my dependencies!

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:15:43 GMT

"Recently I've been talking about dependency injection and ASP.NET MVC. Each are interesting technologies and are "hot topics" in the ASP.NET world right now. I had decided that my newest project would utilize these, if for nothing else but to learn them in more detail."

Dependency Injection was made for ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:49:45 GMT

"It's not that you can't use dependency injection in any .NET application, because you can. It's just that dependency injection fits so well in the ASP.NET MVC programming model. While building up a simple example for how my new application would be architecturally designed, I found using dependency injection with Web Forms as troublesome as trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. After some modifications and adjustments, I could get it to work, but it just didn't feel like a solid fit and certainly didn't make me any more productive."

Congrats! Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform. Previously general manager, Guthrie will continue to oversee several development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

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

Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:46:03 GMT

While writing type-safe queries is great for most scenarios, there are cases where you want the flexibility to dynamically construct queries on the fly. For example: you might want to provide business intelligence UI within your application that allows an end-user business analyst to use drop-downs to build and express their own custom queries/views on top of data.

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:02:06 GMT

"By now we've nearly all heard of the ASP.NET MVC framework available in CTP form. The Model View Controller architecture has been around for quite some time but more popularly in the desktop world. Java has seen its share of MVC web frameworks over the years and just a few years ago Ruby on Rails crashed the party with its own MVC implementation for a rapid development environment..."

Call for help with the Code Camp server written using ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

Jeffrey Palermo has announced a call for participation in the open source "code camp" server project. If anybody has been involved with code camps before, they know there's limited resources out there for organizing one - this promises to be a great resource. But it'll only be as great as you want it to be! Contribute!

LINQ In An N-Tier Architecture

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:49:01 GMT

Brainstorming an n-tier architecture using LINQ.

DotNetKicks "Kick It" plugin for Windows Live Writer

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:46:02 GMT

I want a DotNetKicks "kick it" image+link on some posts, but not all - and there is no automated way to do that. So I created an "Insert Kick It Counter..." plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert a placeholder, and a Wordpress plugin to insert the image+link when the placeholder is found. Hopefully somebody else will find it useful also!