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World of Warcraft Meets Visual Studio 2008

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:18:21 GMT

The AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft project has just been released on CodePlex, enabling you to create WoW addons using LUA and FrameXML from a customized Visual Studio 2008 based environment (based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell.)

Using reserved keyword as member names

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:04:20 GMT

show how to use language specific reserved keywords in fields and properties names and the reason why you might want to do that.

Why you should always remember to set Debug="false" !

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:16:02 GMT

Scott explains why it's so important to remember about this little parameter.

Don't be clever

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:01:03 GMT

Please people, write clear and concise code, not some clever crap that you think is going to impress someone.

ASP.NET MVC: Prevent XSS with automatic HTML encoding

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Tired of having to remember to HTML-encode all your strings to prevent cross-site-scripting? Here's a way to change the ASPX page compilation process so that output is correctly encoded by default.

ASP.NET MVC: Choosing Your Data Access Method

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery discusses the pros and cons of using Linq To Sql, SubSonic, and NHibernate with MVC (and ASP.NET in general).

MVC Membership Basics

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:46:03 GMT

Getting Register, Login, and Logout working in the recently released ASP.Net MVC framework. Downloadable code samples included.

Code behind anywhere

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:31:43 GMT

show how to use the file nesting feature of visual studio.

ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged the first in a series of posts I'm going to write that cover the new ASP.NET MVC Framework we are working on. The first post in this series built a simple e-commerce product listing/browsing scenario. It covered the high-level concepts behind MVC, and demonstrated how to create a new ASP.NET MVC project from scratch to implement and test this e-commerce product listing functionality.

Web Application Project 2008 still not working with new Web Deployment

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:53:47 GMT

As from my first post, the web application project didnt work with the web deployment project in 2005, and after the release of the web deployment project for visual studio 2008 it is still not working!

Type casting - the difference between as and () operators

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:16:02 GMT

In C#, you have two different ways to perform type casting (a.k.a. explicit type conversion) - as and () operators. The difference between the two operators is not limited to just syntax, they work differently. It is subtle enough to trap even experienced developers

ScottGu and his team strike again

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:31:04 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project for VS2008

Why throw; is not allways the best way to rethrow exceptions

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:01:02 GMT

This blog post explains why the standard throw; approach of rethrowing exceptions is not the best in case you care of the full stack trace information

Using the visual studio connection dialogs on your apps.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:15:51 GMT

show you how to add the visual studio data source connection dialogs to your applications. No more umanaged sql discovery code.

Parallel Extension + PLINQ

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:25:22 GMT

Parallel extension for download.

another visual studio feature overlooked.

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:20:56 GMT

Linked files.

Parallel Extensions to the .NET FX CTP

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:16:03 GMT

Today we released an early preview of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework (ParallelFX) technology, available for download on MSDN. This release contains new APIs to make programming on the .NET Framework simpler as well as supporting documentation and samples.

Silverlight Roadmap

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

check out the details

Testing ScottGu: Alternate View Engines with ASP.NET MVC (NVelocity)

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Exploring the use of non-WebForms view engines with the new ASP.NET MVC framework (example: NVelocity)

LINQPad

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

Tired of querying in antiquated SQL? Well, you don't have to! LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio! LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5: * LINQ to SQL * LINQ to Objects * LINQ to XML LINQPad is also a terrific tool for learning LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the recently released C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. There's no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and functional programming.

Free Camtasia & SnagIt downloads! (full function)

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:16:03 GMT

TechSmith is now offering Camtasia 3 & SnagIt 7.2.5 (see the first blog comment for link) as free downloads.

Security Security Security

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:49:30 GMT

with this code if you ar enot trusted you wont even be able to load the protected dll, class, method etc.

Re-throwing an exception in .NET; the right way.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

This is one of those "Yeah I've always seen people use it differently but I don't know why!" questions. Re-throwing exceptions can be misused, although it may not cause any harm to your application - there are multiple ways of re-throwing an exception, most likely for the purpose of bubbling it up to a higher level. Note to Java developers: It is different in your world.

VS 2008 Compatibility with Older VS 2005 Add-in Packages

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:40:58 GMT

Having issues with Visual Studio 2008 on machines with VS 2005? If so, then it could be caused by an incompatible plugin. ScottGu explains how to resolve this.

Undocumented .Net: UnOfficial Asp.Net MVC

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:56:23 GMT

Unofficial implementation of the ASP.NET MVC which mimics the features seen so far in demos and samples.