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AtomSite 1.0 Admin Release New WordPress-like Administration Area

Sat, 02 May 2009 06:08:06 GMT

The tenth release of AtomSite contains a new administration area called AtomSite Manager. We've also improved compatibility with Live Writer and support more installation scenarios. The AtomSite Manager was heavily influenced by the WordPress Dashboard. AtomSite uses cutting edge technologies such as ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, dependency injection, IIS7, and more.

AtomSite 0.9 Modularity Release - supports plugins widgets composition

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:27:17 GMT

AtomSite is a standards-based web publishing platform. It is free, open, and built using ASP.NET MVC. This release has modularity built in. It has some really cool things such as composite widgets, a theme view engine, plug-ins, OpenID, and more. The source code is available on codeplex and google code.

BlogSvc 0.8 Wizard Release Get a ASP.NET MVC blog engine running fast

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:10:03 GMT

The new setup wizard will have your AtomPub based blog up and running in a matter of seconds. BlogSvc is a solid blog engine / content management solution built using ASP.NET MVC. It's code is clean and simple. And all content can be managed using Windows Live Writer.

LINQ to XML and LINQ to XML with XPath performance review

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:32:59 GMT

Using a huge XML file (over 54MB) containing more than 120000 records from the SalesOrderDetail table out of the AdventureWorks database I went ahead and done some profiling on a sample project to demonstrate the lack of performance of LINQ to XML with XPath compared to normal XML. Why you should still use XPath and why you definitely have to take a look at LINQ to XML? Please take the time and read a short performance review and find out!

Blog Service Trackback Release 0.7

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:45:14 GMT

The seventh release of BlogSvc includes support for Trackbacks. Also, this release contains the following new or improved features: Updated to latest MVC Beta, A new theme: Hibiscus, Auto-ping links upon create/update entry, Trackback client and server support, Pingback client and server support, and more.

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.

Using the New DateTime Support in .NET 3.5 via MVC & jQuery

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:49:39 GMT

Learn to utilize the new expanded support for date times with proper time zone support in .NET 3.5. Create some HtmlHelper extension methods for writing out dates and use the jQuery Time Ago plugin to show them relative to the user's time zone. There is also a bonus method for formatting dates anyway you like through a lambda expression.

BlogService MVC Release 0.6

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:30:39 GMT

This release marks the change over to ASP.NET MVC framework. BlogSvc aims to be THE blog engine for new technology. MVC has greatly reduced complexity and increased testability of BlogSvc. With this release the BlogSvc.net website was separated out of the WebMvc project. The MVC switch also allowed for improvements with jQuery.

ASP.Net MVC and Routing Default.aspx

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:51:55 GMT

In order to really 'grok' what's going on here in ASP.Net MVC the first few lines of code (and the first a lot of people are going to see when they start a new ASP.Net MVC project) ... you need to understand a couple of things. Firstly, there are several different classes named (in part at least) handler, or module in the System.Web.Routing and System.Web.Mvc namespace. It takes a little investigation...

Introducing SemanticEngine.NET

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:16:15 GMT

Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. They are used to create cross-site profiles of people and also represent relationships between them. XFN and microformats are somewhat easy to start using, but FOAF, APML and SIOC are a different story. Here's a new class library to make it easier..

New jQuery Rater Plugin - Auto Ajax Ratings

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:55:05 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.

FFlib.NET released!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Are you web developer? Are you looking for video conversion library for long time? So, be happy! We are pleased to introduce you the first release of our .NET & FFMPEG based video conversion library - FFlib.NET.

BlogSvc Supports Comments via AtomPub + WCF + jQuery = Crazy Delicious

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:40:50 GMT

Jarrett has added threaded annotation support to BlogSvc. This is a major new feature leading up to the next release. This feature uses jquery to do some tasty ajax communication with the WCF service.

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:16:07 GMT

It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en

BlogSvc AtomPub Release 0.3

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:54:44 GMT

This is the first release containing solid AtomPub support which works great with Windows Live Writer. The major new features are WSSE authentication, ETag and HEAD support. A new website has also been created for this release: http://blogsvc.net

BlogSvc - New Blogging Service for .NET 3.5

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:24:15 GMT

A new project has been started on CodePlex to create a blogging service using .NET 3.5. A community preview was recently released.

Matt'sFeedback on ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:16:02 GMT

Matt Berseth sharing his ideas and feedback about ASP.NET AJAX Future.

ASPNET MVC P4 is on codeplex

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:31:02 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC pre-preview 4 source code + installer is available on Codeplex. Enjoy!!

Creating a project in Team Foundation Server

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:16:03 GMT

A short screencast showing how to create a project in Team Foundation Server

Meet the C# 4.0 team

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:16:05 GMT

... and some dude from the VB team. Anders and the guys in room 2543, building 41 (where C# was born) talk about the new features that will be in the next version of C#. I so wanted to blogspam this one. Enjoy your direct link.

Comments Security Hole in BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:46:17 GMT

Jarrett describes the steps to reproduce a security hole in BlogEngine.NET for deleting and approving comments. He also provides the source code for a quick fix.

Add OpenID to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 Part 1

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:26:38 GMT

Jarrett describes the steps needed to modify BlogEngine.NET to support OpenID logins. He takes a unobtrusive approach by impersonating an existing blog user.

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:01:02 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

Creating widgets for BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:01:02 GMT

The new BlogEngine.NET 1.4 let's you easily create and distribute widgets like the ones you see on the right hand side on this page. Widgets are basically just small pieces of content and you can leverage the entire .NET Framework to create them. They can pull data from BlogEngine.NET itself or from external sources like web services or remote XML files. Everything is allowed and possible.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...