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Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2008/12/30/looking-at-oxite-the-ldqu

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta shares his opinions about Oxite, the CMS built by MIX team as a showcase for ASP.NET MVC, and talks how the downsides of the software can help you apply your knowldege in ASP.NET WebForms in ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:01:14 GMT

jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

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

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:16:18 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.

The Book Writing Process

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the writing process of a book, especially a programming book, based on his own experiences with Wrox when working on Beginning ASP.NET MVC.

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy!

Silverlight Plug-in and the Height Percentage problem in Firefox

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:02:14 GMT

... I added a small Silverlight application to an existing and styled website, the app was surrounded by the usual <div>. In IE7 all gone well but in FF the Silverlight application appeared to be completely collapsed and not visible at all. After some research I found the the problem is in the way Firefox renders the <object> tag when it's height is relative (that is it's a percentage). Since none of the containers around the Silverlight <object> tag had a Height defined Firefox assumed to use 0. Here's a workaround...

Silverlight Toolkit Overview and Examples

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:46:03 GMT

If you've used ASP.NET AJAX then you've likely used controls from toolkits such as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications. Microsoft has also released a Silverlight Toolkit with new controls and functionality that can be used in Silverlight 2 applications.

QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming...

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:01:09 GMT

QuakeLight - Silverlight Port of Quake... 3D with Silverlight - w00t!

Crack.NET - A runtime debugging and scripting tool for .NET

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:16:15 GMT

Crack.NET is a runtime debugging and scripting tool that gives you access to the internals of any .NET desktop application running on your computer. If you love Snoop and Mole for Visual Studio, you'll love Crack.NET, too. Crack.NET allows you to "walk" the managed heap of another .NET application, inspect all kinds of values on objects, and even manipulate those objects via IronPython scripts.

Speeding up ASP.NET with the Runtime Page Optimizer

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:31:08 GMT

An great new tool to automatically optimize your ASP.NET website.

Deep Clone of a business object: the quick and dirty way

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:17:27 GMT

...I needed a quick and dirty way to do the deep clone of an object, since my entity classes are shared between WCF, WPF and Silverlight (yes I'm one of the guys so crazy to build multi-target applications) I needed a method that could work in all the environments...

Problem with JSon serialization of Date in microsoft ajax.net

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:26:21 GMT

The Json serializer of the microsoft ajax can give you problems when you pass date value to webservice methods becuse it adjust to UTC, here I present a simple solution to the problem.

ASP.NET MVC and Json.NET

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Bringing Json.NET to ASP.NET MVC

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Object Oriented Programming With JavaScript

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:01:03 GMT

In this article we are going to take an introductory look at how OO JavaScript works. I am going to assume you are familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

10 Programming Proverbs Every Developer Should Know

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Proverbs are used to express universal truths or life lessons in a short and memorable fashion. I find that they are a great way to keep things in perspective, both in life and in work. Because of this, I have assembled 10 programming proverbs that every developer needs in their arsenal.

Faster inovke methods of unknown objects with expression tree

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:01:00 GMT

Expression Trees can be used to avoid Reflection poor performance as showed in last post, here I show an helper class that makes using Expression Trees reflection a breeze.

Expression Tree vs Reflection.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:46:11 GMT

Expression Trees can be used to avoid Reflection poor performance when you need to invoke methods in object that you deos not know at runtime. In this post I show you how you can access to property of objects building and compiling an expression tree.

Windows comming soon to Amazon EC2

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:01:15 GMT

This is big news! Amazon are to enable Windows Support on EC2. this will allow users to kick of Windows images for running SQL Servers, IIS instances and anything else (even HPC stuff) in the cloud! SWEET!

Store log information in database with Log4Net

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:59:11 GMT

Storing log info in database is a really better solution than using standard log files.

C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation