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Activator.CreateInstance Performance

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:31:23 GMT

A look at the different forms of Activator.CreateInstance and the performance implications of each.

Interesting use of XML Literals as a View Engine

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:52:47 GMT

Dmitry, who's the PUM for ASP.NET, recently wrote a blog post about an interesting approach he took using VB.NET XML Literals as a view engine for ASP.NET MVC...

BlogEngine.NET Backup Manager

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A simple Backup Manager for BlogEngine.NET in order to perform some entire Weblog Backups.

Editing a variable-length list of items in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:16:02 GMT

It's always awkward to create the right UI for variable-length lists, because you don't know how many input controls to render. How would you do it with ASP.NET MVC? Steven Sanderson shows a fairly elegant technique, including a live demo.

Generic Repository

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:16:08 GMT

The purpose behind the repository pattern is to provide a layer of abstraction between your domain and data layer. For smaller projects, this typically isn't needed. However, larger projects can really benefit from a broker that specifically handles the back and forth between the two layers. With repositories your domain objects aren't burdened with infrastructure details and can therefore better focus on domain-specific behavior.

Apply Expand All & Collapse All to Collapsible Panels in ASP.NET AJAX

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Apply Expand All and Collapse All to Collapsible Panels in ASP.NET AJAX

BlogEngine.NET Ad Rotator

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:16:47 GMT

BlogEngine.NET Ad Rotator Control provides simple interface for managing and rotating ads on the blog

BlogEngine.NET Unofficial Forums

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:01:02 GMT

The name says it all - forums you can use to discuss BlogEngine.Net.

Separate trackbacks and comments (and do it in BlogEngine.NET)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:21:44 GMT

It could be really annoyng when you try to read comments on a blog post with large number of trackbacks. To allow your readers better user experience you can separate trackback from your comments. This short tutorial will show you how to do it in Blogengine.NET quickly (and dirty).

Sueetie - The Future in .NET Open Source Online Community Development

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:07:11 GMT

Sueetie is an open source community engine that merges some projects such as BlogEngine.NET, YetAnotherForum.NET, Gallery Server Pro, and ScrewTurn Wiki together...

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

BlogEngine.NET Theme Pack released

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:41:28 GMT

Finally a new Theme Pack for BlogEngine.NET has been released

Announcing Sueetie - the Open Source .NET Community Platform

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:43:57 GMT

Sueetie is a open-source community platform/framework built on open-source .NET applications. It currently integrates great open-source .NET applications such as BlogEngine.NET, ScrewTurn Wiki, YetAnotherForum.NET, Gallery Server Pro, & WSAT Website Starter Kit into a single-themes cohesive community.

ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery at www.ASP.net

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:43:41 GMT

We just launched a new Design Gallery for ASP.NET MVC websites at: http://www.ASP.net/mvc/gallery

BlogEngine.NET Christmas update

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:16:03 GMT

Some exiting things have been going on with BlogEngine.NET lately...

Saving DotNetKicks

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:16:03 GMT

Keyvan wrote something about our popular social bookmarking site, DotNetKicks and talked about some spamming problems on DNK and discussed about saving DNK from this situation. A must read post for all DotNetKicks lovers!

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:01:14 GMT

jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

Top 100 Blogs for Developers

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Jurgen Appelo outlines 100 blogs developers should be paying attention to.

JankoAtWrapSpeed: Animate your message boxes with jQuery

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:16:19 GMT

A few months ago he posted an article on creating message boxes. No question, you should really take care about it. But this time he wants to make fun with it and add some animations using (you guess) jQuery.

jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Video Series

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:46:02 GMT

This is a 9 parts video series for beginners to learn jQuery.

The Academic Background of the .NET Community Leaders

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:01:10 GMT

In this post Keyvan demonstrates the Academic background of most famous guys in the .NET community and talks about the various aspects of academic knowledge and its effect among technology leaders.

Refresh BlogEngine.net Posts - Clear Cache

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:21:07 GMT

From now on, whenever you need to edit your blog post files offline, you can clear the cache at the push of a button.

DNK Community Guidelines - Suggestions welcome!

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:01:10 GMT

Lets come up with some much needed community guidelines for DNK. Please post your suggestions and comments below, I'll update the community guidelines page on the Google group once we have reached a consensus.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC XForms released on CodePlex

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:01:01 GMT

Just noticed there's a new project on CodePlex related to the ASP.NET MVC framework: MVC XForms. MVC XForms is a simple UI framework for ASP.NET MVC based on the W3C XForms specification. It provides a set of form controls that allow updating of complex model objects.