ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation (weblogs.asp.net)

published 25 days, 18 hours ago, submitted by Jemm(9400) 26 days ago

"Validating user-input and enforcing business rules/logic is a core requirement of most web applications. ASP.NET MVC 2 includes a bunch of new features that make validating user input and enforcing validation logic on models/viewmodels significantly easier. These features are designed so that the validation logic is always enforced on the server, and can optionally also be enforced on the client via JavaScript" read more...

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Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 28 days ago

BizTalk is notoriously hard to test. But I just came a cross a couple of interesting solutions to do unit testing for biztalk related logic and orchestration. read more...

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Service Broker Basics (sqlblog.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 1 month, 3 days ago

"I'm currently implementing a Service Broker solution at a client site, and it's been an interesting challenge, because there's not a lot of information out there to help guide you through the process. Here I'd like to walk you through the basics." read more...

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Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping (elegantcode.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 1 month, 25 days ago

"In this post I want to take a look a simple mapping scenario, and how that looks using the new Code Only API. By using the code only API I can have complete control over my entities, giving me the most flexibility in my mapping strategies, better testability and extensibility, and ultimately greater maintainability. No generated code. No XML files." read more...

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Silverlight 4 Beta - A guide to the new features (timheuer.com)

published 2 months, 21 days ago, submitted by Jemm(9400) 2 months, 22 days ago

"This beta release is a developer release. This means that this is a preview mostly for developers to understand the new features and continue to get feedback. No “end-user” runtime is available for this release, nor is a “go-live” license for customers wishing to put their applications into production. If you have questions on this, feel free to leave a comment here. Enough blabbing, here’s the goods. WARNING: Long post ahead…but filled with information." read more...

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Magellan framework (www.paulstovell.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 2 months, 30 days ago

"Magellan is a lightweight framework that makes it easy to build WPF navigation applications. The design is drawn deeply from the ASP.NET MVC framework, and it should feel familiar to anyone who has worked with ASP.NET MVC." read more...

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Functional Programming for Everyday .NET Development (msdn.microsoft.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 4 months, 5 days ago

"In this article I'd like to examine in particular how the new support for functional programming techniques in .NET 3.5 can help you do the following: Make your code more declarative, reduce errors in code and write fewer lines of code for many common tasks." read more...

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ScottGu: Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 4 months, 17 days ago

"I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others. It enables you to get software, support and business resources from Microsoft at no cost for three years, and enables you to expand your business and build great web solutions using ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint and PHP, and the open source applications built on top of them." read more...

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ScottGu: Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (weblogs.asp.net)

published 4 months, 25 days ago, submitted by Jemm(9400) 4 months, 26 days ago

"Today’s post covers a small, but nice, new feature that you can now optionally take advantage of with ASP.NET 4 - the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without having to wait for an external client to hit the web server. This can help you provide a faster response experience for the first user who hits the server, and avoids you having to write custom scripts to “warm up” the server and get any data caches ready." read more...

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ScottGu: Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 13 days ago

"Today’s post discusses VS 2010’s enhanced multi-targeting support – which allows you to use and target multiple versions of .NET. We did significant architectural work in the VS 2010 release to enable a number of new multi-targeting features, and provide a much better experience." read more...

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DamienG: LINQ to SQL resources (damieng.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 20 days ago

A quick round-up of some useful LINQ to SQL related resources that are available for developers. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Resources (blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 20 days ago

A compilation of ASP.NET MVC -resources. read more...

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Haacked: Simpler Transactions (haacked.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 21 days ago

"My idea was to write a method that accepts an Action which contains the code you wish to run within the transaction. " read more...

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Top 10 T-SQL Code Smells (sqlblog.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 21 days ago

Ten indicators of possibly bad T-SQL read more...

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ASP.NET MVC, TDD and Fluent Validation (richarddingwall.name)

published 5 months, 20 days ago, submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 21 days ago

"Yesterday I wrote about ASP.NET MVC, TDD and AutoMapper, and how you can use them together in a DDD application. Today I thought I would follow up and explain how to apply these techniques to another important (but boring) part of any web application: user input validation." read more...

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A Developer's Introduction to Workflow Foundation 4.0 in .NET 4.0 beta (msdn.microsoft.com)

submitted by Jemm(9400) 5 months, 30 days ago

"In version 4 of the Microsoft® .NET Framework, Windows Workflow Foundation introduces a significant amount of change from the previous versions of the technology that shipped as part of .NET 3.0 and 3.5. In fact, the team revisited the core of the programming model, runtime and tooling and has re-architected each one to increase performance and productivity as well as to address the important feedback garnered from customer engagements using the previous versions." read more...

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