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How Do You Deal With Exceptions?

Fri, 15 May 2009 04:01:09 GMT

A little post on my ideas about handling exceptions within applications. How do you handle them?

ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:01:11 GMT

ELMAH has been one of the most useful tools for ASP.NET developers to log errors on their web applications. Now Scott has a nice talk on how to use it even in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Cool!

ASP.Net - Never again fear publishing your website with debug=true

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

What makes the deployment element special is that it is a machine level configuration element. When its retail attribute is set to true, it will disable the <compilation debug="true"> for ALL ASP.Net applications running on that machine. In addition, it turns of detailed errors messages being sent to remote machines and disables the ability to trace output.

Reducing Duplicate Content with ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:13 GMT

As you're all no doubt aware, ASP.NET MVC recently went RTM. This brings the MVC-style of coding, made very popular by Ruby-on-Rails to the ASP.NET world. I've been eager to start using MVC for months, but I've been holding off until I knew the API was locked down so I don't have to change anything. Unfortunately, like WebForms, MVC has some "issues" with regards to duplicate content, making it not all that SEO-friendly.

Don't Get Bit By Lazy Evaluation

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:01:12 GMT

A very good explanation of how delayed evaluation can cause subtle problems in your code.

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Open Source MS-PL

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:07:18 GMT

Today, ASP.NET MVC is now Open Source and licensed under MS-PL. That means you can change it, redistribute your changes, even fork it if you want. MS-PL is an OSI-Approved Open Source License and you can read the legalese on their site.

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything.

Putting the "M" Back in MVC

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:46:14 GMT

"Trying to keep up my end of the bargain with respect to MVC and SubSonic :). I did a walkthrough of it and decided that I was talking too much and, in honor of everyone telling me "SubSonic is dead" I thought it fitting to toss in some Rob Zombie."

NHibernate POID Generators revealed

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:31:02 GMT

In this post author shows some differences among identity generators for NHibernate.

Late-Bound Invocation with Expression Trees

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:46:20 GMT

Avoid the cost of reflection for late-bound invocation by using expression trees.

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.

JQuery Shortcuts: $.showhide(length > 0)

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:18:53 GMT

Eliminate boolean situations like if (length > 0) { $('div').show() } else { $('div').hide() }

Calling Page Methods and Web Services directly using jQuery.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:53:33 GMT

For calling Ajax Page Methods from Javascript using jQuery use the below jQuery method to set type, url, input data empty braces if no input data is available to avoid errors. Data transfer will done in JSON format.

xVal 0.8 improves client side validation in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:01:16 GMT

xVal is an open source validation framework bridge for ASP.NET MVC. Its new release, version 0.8, became available this morning and adds the following features: Support for NHibernate.Validator, Internationalization, Custom validation logic, Fluent syntax for defining ad-hoc validation rules, Comparison validators, and more.

jQuery $document.ready() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Combine ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery and make $document.ready execute even after an asynchronous postback took place.

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:16:12 GMT

The goal was to get some Mono project templates working with Mono assemblies and the Mono compiler in Visual Studio. The trick was to do it in a way that would be able to survive upgrades of Mono installations.

JavaScript, 5 wyas to call a function

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:01:04 GMT

Get a hold of what can seem confusing when invoking functions in JavaScript.

Sending Domain Objects Across the Wire

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:31:03 GMT

or Using NHibernate and WCF

Action, Func, Predicate - what's going on?

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:31:03 GMT

This post covers Action<T>, Func<T>, Predicate<T> and shows them in action. These delegates are generalization (abstractions?) over some common method signatures and you might find them very handy. Besides making LINQ possible, they should help you stop writing your own custom delegates and replace them with these generic ones.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

What Part Of The Process Are Your Tools Optimized For?

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:16:02 GMT

I'm writing this post because I am getting tired and weary of people pointing to "drag and drop tools", "visual designers", and "wizards" as reasons to use a particular tool. Only in Microsoft-land are developers so enamored with "wizards" and "drag and drop" and I think this is because Microsoft is the proverbial "crack dealer" when it comes to providing these tools.

Announcing jQuery.Firebug

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:10:38 GMT

jQuery.Firebug is a jQuery plugin that simply exposes the Firebug Console API to the jQuery object.

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 2

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:46:03 GMT

In the first part I talked about getting up to the point where I realized that without going IPOCO I would not be able to use the Entity Framework with any sort of approximation of a real application domain. In this post we are going to go over the entity that I have created and talk about the issues that I had along the way.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

10 Reasons ASP.NET Webforms Suck

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:05 GMT

I think the title says it all. A great rant from an experienced ASP.NET developer.