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What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:01:31 GMT

I think the proper way to start this post is to ask How do you do eager loading with Entity Framework? And the basic native simple answer is by using ObjectQuery<T>.Include(string) method. No matter what you tried to do, you'll end up using this way. So there was ideas about how enhance the eager loading in our Entity Framework base applications. You can read about some of these ideas....

Finding Text in SQL Server Stored Procedures

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:51:44 GMT

So, I'm sure you have been met with a similar scenario during development. You know the one that you have to rename a column or even drop a column in the database. This can be quite annoying if you are doing stored procedure based data access for your application.

Lazy Loading jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:46:16 GMT

This article looks at efficient use of jQuery tabs when displaying data. Specifically, it covers how to lazy-load data, so that it is only accessed and displayed if the tab is clicked.

MvcContrib v1.0 Released! Download now!

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:16:08 GMT

After official release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM it's time to release the first version of MvcContrib too! It's ready; download it ;-)

ExtensionMethods repository

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:39:33 GMT

.NET ExtensionMethods website. Support it, please. A good resource, worth expanding.

Sad Way To Do Business

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:01:03 GMT

how to make a bad impression with poor support and bad atitude and throw away thousands potential customers.

Upload and Crop Images with jQuery, JCrop and ASP.NET

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:58:34 GMT

Nice article that explains how to upload and crop images using jQuery and ASP.NET FileUpload. Very easy to follow.

jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:16:21 GMT

Lately, I've been demonstrating how to use jQuery. Both use a considerable amount of JavaScript so if there is some way we could eliminate or reduce the amount of code we had to load, performance would naturally increase.

Online DB Schema Editor

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:40:49 GMT

DB Schema Editor is a free RIA Web application that will let you design Database Schemas and generate scripts for SQL Server, My SQL, Postgre SQL, SQLite and Oracle directly from your Browser.

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:46:05 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!

BigTarget.js - Increase the size of click targets (hrefs)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:31 GMT

With all the positive focus on grid based web design these days, I started to identify a couple of standard design elements. The main pattern used in nearly every site (grid and non grid) was the "title, thumbnail, short summary, more link" pattern. This pattern is generally used for indexing blog post summaries in sidebars, listing services, or creating small calls-to-action.

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? This article guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure with no friction.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.

Blogengine.net running under IIS 7 causes Error 404

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:25:24 GMT

You need to make some changes in web.config file in order to get it work. The easest way is to download an updated web.config here http://wiki.aspone.cz/wiki/images/3/34/Web.config.

How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:31:02 GMT

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

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010 (2) - Historical debugger

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:56:44 GMT

My first look at the new Debug History window in Visual Studio 2010.

Enabling Trace in non-pages in ASP.Net

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:41:47 GMT

Quick tip how to enable trace for non-aspx pages (handlers etc.) in your ASP.Net application.

Json.NET 3.5 Beta 1 - Big performance gains, Compact Framework support

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:46:04 GMT

New in this beta release of Json.NET 3.5 are big performance improvements (400%), Compact Framework support and lots more.

A generic base class for LINQ to SQL Data Layers

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:24:00 GMT

A nice approach that I've been always thinking of implementing, but never had the time. Still needs some fine tuning though.

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

Screencast: Setting up Windows on Amazon EC2

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:46:03 GMT

I recorded a short screencast on how to set up a Windows instance on Amazon EC2.

Creating Live Templates with Resharper

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:46:17 GMT

A short screencast on how to Create a Live Templates with Resharper. Learn how to use LiveTemplates to increase your coding productivitly

Form Validation Simplified w/ Asp.Net MVC

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:16:11 GMT

A short screencast on how to simplify form validation w/ Asp.Net MVC

Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:16:06 GMT

Unfortunately, the [OutputCache] filter that ships with ASP.NET MVC is merely a thin wrapper around ASP.NET output caching. The MVC team have explained that they're aware of the issues, but it's very difficult to make ASP.NET output caching fit into MVC's design, and they are focusing on other things first. We can quite easily create a new caching filter that captures actions' output and uses ASP.NET's data caching facility to store it for next time. This filter will fit properly into the MVC pipeline, not strangely bypassing authorization or other earlier filters (it will run at the right time in whatever ordered set of filters you've using).

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:31:05 GMT

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