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Dave's Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2 released

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:06:28 GMT

I'm pleased to announce the availability of my first Silverlight 2 controls set: 'Dave's Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2'.

Coding Instinct: CodeSaga - The TFS & Subversion Storyteller

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:43:29 GMT

CodeSaga is a source code repository analyser, it makes viewing history logs fun and productive! Instant access to logs and diffs make it easy to keep track of what is happening in the repository. CodeSaga connects to any TFS or Subversion repository and scans it's history log. This enables fast viewing and filtering of logs and diffs because everything is stored in a local SQL server. The scanning process will also analyze line changes, this allows for interesting charts and stats.

IServiceLocator a step toward IoC container / Service locator detente

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:46:04 GMT

Today we launched an exciting project on CodePlex, namely the Common Service Locator library. What is it? It's a shared interface that applications and frameworks can reference in order to leverage IoC containers / service location mechanisms without taking hard dependencies.

ASP.NET MVC, What about SEO?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:31:05 GMT

Unfortunately, I've run into some alarming SEO (Search Engine Optimization) issues ASP.NET MVC.

Breadcrum menu using JQuery and ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:16:45 GMT

"In the application I am working on I wanted to create something similar, a mix between a breadcrum and a menu. I wanted the menu "dropdown" to be filled with an ajax call, and I wanted the solution to be general enough to be easy to use in all parts of the application and dynamic so the breadcrum/dropdown can be populated with what ever."

Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the MEF

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:09:15 GMT

The head of the MEF team, Brad Abrams, finally made me understand what MEF is all about!

Not doing TDD is worst than doing it wrong in the beggining.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Check this out, and make a learn from it.

Share anonymous types between functions

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:06:23 GMT

The first step is to create a seemingly innocent method: public static T CastByExample<T>(this object o, T example) { return (T) o; } Seems innocent enough right?

Setting up Continuous Integration for your Application with Team City

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:46:04 GMT

A short screencast on setting up Continuous Integration for your Application with Team City

Linq queries with parameters for your ORM IRepository

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:09:30 GMT

Code snippets and architectural concepts for abstracting away Linq queries from ORM IRepository interface

Codebehind Files in ASP.NET MVC Are Evil

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:46:05 GMT

Having Codebehind files for Views in ASP.NET MVC tempts developers to use web forms style programming in MVC applications. Removing them from the default application templates and new File->ASP.NET MVC View templates will help developers fall into a "pit of success" by eliminating the temptation to put code into codebehind files that should really go into Controllers.

WPF MediaKit - Make your own MediaElement or DirectShow based controls

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:02:47 GMT

The WPF MediaKit makes it easy to create your own DirectShow based WPF controls. The library uses the new D3DImage in .NET 3.5 SP1, so the performance is quite decent. It is also open-source and available on codeplex.

Get that sketchy look in your GUI mockups

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:04:00 GMT

Using Sofware to get cool sketchy looking GUI wireframes.

CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:03 GMT

No longer do you need to host SvnBridge yourself, or use the Team Foundation Client or the CodePlex client. Now you can use your favorite SVN client and connect directly to your repository!

Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Two interesting ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2008 performance tips that were not documented and discovered by chance

LightSpeed comparison to other O/R Mappers

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:01:57 GMT

A comparison of LightSpeed against other ORMs... or kind of, including L2S, EF but NHibernate was left out.

Building an IoC container in 15 lines of code

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:22:03 GMT

It interesting to see how far an IoC container could be minimized. The result is 15 lines of significant code (ignoring blank lines or line with just curly braces).

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

Thoughts on validation in ASP.NET MVC applications

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:54:55 GMT

MVC Preview 5 comes with two new API pieces that seem relevant to validation: ModelState. Controllers now have an official way to pass validation error information to views. Populate ViewData.ModelState, then you can use the built-in HTML helpers to render error message summaries, and to highlight input fields that correspond to errors. Model binders. Controllers are expected to populate model objects from form posts using the IModelBinder API. You can create custom binders - the framework calls your binder to obtain a value for each model property. (If you don't understand this, don't worry - it turns out not to be relevant.)

NHibernate Deep Grok - A dedicated NHibernate Resource Search

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:55:02 GMT

Recently launched search site for NHibernate. Come check it out!

Avoid the Managed Extensibility Framework

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:09:55 GMT

As a .NET developer, you should avoid using the newly released Managed Extensibility Framework as its license prevents its use beyond the Windows platform. This will prevent your .NET software from running on Linux or MacOS in the future. Luckily, there is a cross platform solution available today that has no platform limitations: Mono.Addins.

NHibernate and large text fields gotchas

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:34:12 GMT

There are two gotchas associated with working with large text fields with NHibernate.

Learning PRISM - 05/09/2008

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:31:45 GMT

A article about some of the basic building block making up PRISM. The first article covers unity... what is it, where is it used, ect.

Welcome to the NHibernate community site!!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:50:31 GMT

Finally a single place to look for NHibernate related stuff?! The challenge of NH Forge is provide a single centralized resource for all things related to NH offering a community blog, an easy to use WIKI, other related community-oriented tools.

FFlib.NET released!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:02 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.