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20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:00 GMT

In this article we presents a collection of best Silverlight tutorials.

OpenForum - A Free Forum for ASP.NET MVC Applications

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:01 GMT

One of the things that I really like about the MVC framework is that it offers some unique possibilities when it comes to third parties developing entire sub-systems that can easily be plugged into existing applications. Recently, I had some "down time" at my work and decided to take the opportunity to experiment with doing just that. Here are the results of that experiment. OpenForum is a forum that can easily be plugged into any MVC application with very little effort. In fact, there are only three steps to get OpenForum working with most MVC applications.

How to: Drag and Drop Silverlight Views between Regions in Prism-v2

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:15:01 GMT

This blog post explains how to drag and drop SL views between regions in Prism. It also provides a code sample.

A Better SMTP Development Server

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Looking for a way to test the email sending functionality of your application? There's no need to install a full-blown SMTP server - not as long as you have Antix SMTP Server for Developers in your bag of tricks.

Presentation at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka - Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Presentation slide for the "Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data]" session on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls

Sat, 30 May 2009 18:52:27 GMT

Client-side ID-s of ASP.NET controls have been problem for a long time. They are hard to predict and guess. Fool-proof method that uses JavaScript block that defines client-side ID-s as variable values is not very elegant. Today's web applications use client-size scripting heavily and now ASP.NET 4.0 provides us with elegant features to handle client-size ID-s of controls to make client-side scripting easier for us.

ASP.NET MVC UI Components (Continued) - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:15:00 GMT

In my last post, two important issues are raised 1. The justification of having server side components for jQuery UI. 2. The style of syntax. The intension of my last post was to get the feedback of the type of syntax the ASP.NET MVC developer prefers, so I did not mention anything on the server side side integration, this might be the reason why few people were unable to find the benefits of this server side support. In this post, I will try to show few simple examples of the server side integration, lets say that you are creating a Task submit form, you can use the Slider as completed percent field instead of regular input field, like the following....

Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project

Sun, 31 May 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Vici MVC (formerly known as ProMesh.NET) has been released as part of the new Vici Project, an open-source collection of .NET libraries and frameworks.

Kobe - MS New Web 2.0 Resource Kit in ASP.NET MVC and My thoughts

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

If you recently visited the home page of www.asp.net you will find that Microsoft has released a new Resource Kit for developing Web 2.0 Applications. The resource kit contains a sample reference application that is developed in ASP.NET MVC framework. Since both of these are my area of of interest, I downloaded the codes and give a quick walkthrough. Prior getting to the main discussion, I just want to remind you that it is the second reference application (after Oxite) that is named under Microsoft, so you are suppose to get some quality....

Unit Testable HttpModule and HttpHandler - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:31:11 GMT

With the new System.Web.Abstraction namespace we can now easily write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. In this post, I will show you how to write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. Prior the release of System.Web.Abstraction the problem with unit testing of these web infrastructural items is HttpContext, it is sealed, no way to mock it with Rhino or Moq. The only option is to create the wrapper objects of these non-mockable objects but it has a very long tail like HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpSessionState, HttpServerUtility etc etc. And this is the exact thing that the System.Web.Abstraction provides, all wrappers around the non-mockable objects of HttpContext. But still, both the HttpModule and HttpHandler depends upon the original HttpContext which I hope will change in ASP.NET 4.0. till then we need to create a super layer for making it Unit Testable.

Things we wish Microsoft would fix in Visual Studio 2010

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:30:24 GMT

Now I know we are probably only one of ten companies in the world who actually need to write data plugins for Visual Studio. But there are a few things that are so broken they tend to really drive me nuts. I had a chance to speak with other DDEX developers at TechEd last year and asked them about these things. Almost universally they said "Yep, it's broke". And when I asked how they dealt with these issues, they almost all said that they ended up having to write custom wizards, dialogs, etc for Visual Studio because the built in ones are broke or don't know how to use Data Providers correctly.

The Open Source Projects on ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects developed in ASP.NET MVC. I am ordering it based ...

Log4Net Wrapper

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:24:02 GMT

In this post you can download a wrapper class for log4net.

Exponentially Improve Performance to Start ASP.net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Debug

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:46:05 GMT

Stop the waiting when debugging your ASP.Net Web Applications! Here's a complete RAM Disk solution to save your sanity.

Eager loading a One-to-Many collection w/ NHibernate

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:01:07 GMT

A quick overview on how to resolve a common one-to-many issue with eager loading when you get multiple records back from the child collection.

Dynamic inequality check

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:20:41 GMT

How to do dynamic inequality check in SQL without having to write dynamic SQL as a string and execute it.

Version Tracker.NET v 1.0 released

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:53:27 GMT

A simple WPF app that can be used to maintain the versions of a C# solution

Dynamic Content Rotator for DotNetNuke 5

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:26:47 GMT

Content Rotation Module for DNN 5 lets you rotate any type of content on your DotNetNuke 5 website. Rotating content gives you an easy way to attract attention to your message while optimizing use of your precious screen real estate.

New DotNetNuke Skin Template Available

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:42:14 GMT

Jon Henning posted about a new dotnetnuke skin template. New template is available as both DotNetNuke Skin VB and C#. After creating the project, users will be able to create a source and installation package by entering requested information in the wizard. Here are some of the new features listed: * Rounded glossy corners * Animation * Substitution of items for images * More control over Menu with CSS Selectors

Implementing a Chain-of-responsibility or "Pipeline" in C

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:00:32 GMT

Anti-Patterns are interesting in showing you what you are doing wrong. However, patterns are also interesting in showing you how to do it well. This time, I want to show how to implement a simple Chain-of-responsibility pattern. Our example is going to be based on a simple e-Commerce data model.

DotNetNuke 4.9 en GB Language Packs Released

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:45:18 GMT

Last weekend while playing with DotNetNuke 4.9, i decided to create and publish language packs for en-GB locale. I duplicated default en-US locale of DotNetNuke and converted it to en-GB Language pack.

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:01:03 GMT

Recently, in KiGG/DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter, nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing for DotNetShoutout). Since it is a new requirement, initially I have modified the StoryService constructor to include the twitter client as a new argument and use it after the story is added in the database, the code is something like the following:...

100% Unit Testable Linq To Sql Repository - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:31:47 GMT

In this post, I will show you how you can architect your Linq To Sql repository which will have 100% code coverage. I will use our favorite Northwind database along with my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. First, lets add a Linq To Sql diagram in our project and drag n drop the Category and Product table that will look something like foll...

Use Bootstrapper in Your ASP.NET MVC Application and Reduce Code Smell

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

In this post, I will how you can use a simple bootstrapper to make your application more extensible. In a typical ASP.NET MVC application you will find there are lots of thing going on in Application_Start, like configuring your IoC/DI, registering routes, model binders etc. The following is the code snippet of latest Oxite...

Use jQuery to Show a Link's Address After its Text When Printing In IE

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:31:10 GMT

I found a cool trick in a post by Remy Sharp that appends the address of a hyperlink to the end of the link's text when the page is printed. Unfortunately the trick only works in browsers that support the CSS2 pseudo selector :after. Firefox, Safari, Chrome*, Opera and now IE8 all support the selector. IE6 and IE7 don't though and that is a huge percentage of users. I came up with a way to achieve the same thing with IE6 and IE7 using jQuery and the proprietary IE events onbeforeprint and onafterprint though.