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Introducing NHaml - An ASP.NET MVC View Engine

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:01:03 GMT

NHaml (pronounced enamel) is a pure .NET implementation of the popular Rails Haml view engine. From the Haml website: "Haml is a markup language that's used to cleanly and simply describe the XHTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding XHTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the XHTML, with some code to generate dynamic content." In other words, NHaml is an external DSL for XHTML. It's primary qualities are it's simplicity, terseness, performance and that it outputs nicely formatted XHTML. Additionally, the NHaml view engine provides support for Rails style layouts and partials.

ASP.NET MVC Preview: Using The MVC UI Helpers

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:31:02 GMT

Rob Conery goes over the new UI Helpers in the asp.net MVC framework.

Official ASP.NET MVC framework will get first CTP in "next few weeks"

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:31:02 GMT

Microsoft's Matt Gibbs announced today that the first CTP for ASP.NET MVC will appear in "the next few weeks". At last we can get our hands on the bits and try out the biggest shift in ASP.NET since its birth!

Rob Conery going to Microsoft

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery (SubSonic) just got hired by Microsoft. This has to be one of the coolest posts of his as well.

ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu.

Scott Hanselman hired at Microsoft.

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:01:02 GMT

I think this is a great news for him and for the community

SubSonic: SonicCast #1

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:31:02 GMT

The inaugural SonicCast is all about Code Generation, and how to alter our Code Generation templates to suit your (or your project's) code needs.

SubSonic Starter Site is Out!

Fri, 11 May 2007 13:01:01 GMT

Check out the new SubSonic starter site, complete with CMS, membership, and more.

WinMerge - visual text file differencing and merging tool.

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:46:01 GMT

Tool for visual comparison text documents in Windows to change them

Critical update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:31:02 GMT

If you downloaded SQL Server 2005 SP2 before March 5, 2007, and installed that download package, existing SQL Server 2005 maintenance plans and Integration Services packages that contain cleanup tasks run those tasks at shorter intervals.

Video: Creating An N-Layer .Net Application

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:01:01 GMT

Well spoken and informative video.

ASP.NET ActionPack

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:31:01 GMT

Ruby On Rails is propelling a new wave of programming - one that drives "Convention Over Configuration". This simple, elegant approach is attracting many developers who find the intricacies and complexity of Java and .NET to be daunting. The ActionPack for .NET is our attempt to bring this simplicity to the .NET platform.

Video of CodeRush 2

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:37:01 GMT

A video of the recently released CodeRush 2 product.

Handling Dynamic Business Rules

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:05:01 GMT

Short intro, that discusses the topic of how to manage business rules that can change in the domain layer.

Understanding and Using Exceptions

Fri, 26 May 2006 10:25:01 GMT

Great article that discusses how to do exception handling (try/catch) and try/finally properly. The article gives big-picture advise too such as "In a well-written application there's a ratio of ten to one ... try/finally to try/catch blocks." (a quote from Anders Hejlsberg)

Validation In The Domain Layer - Take One

Thu, 25 May 2006 22:53:01 GMT

Take a look at one strategy for performing rich validation in the domain layer of your application. And learn how effective use of generics and dependency injection can provide you with flexible validation scenarios that can be context based.

NAnt Starter Series

Thu, 25 May 2006 02:17:01 GMT

A series of articles that will walk you through the layout of your project directory, compiling your projects and test projects with NAnt, as well as dealing with multi-developer scenarios (regarding databases).

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 6

Fri, 26 May 2006 16:05:01 GMT

Learn interesting ways to deal with the database in a multi-developer, continuous integration environment. You will learn how to be able to quickly rebuild the database from the command line, as well as deal correctly with managing scripts between mulitple developers with differering machine configurations.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 5

Fri, 26 May 2006 22:53:01 GMT

Learn how to automate the running of unit tests against your application so that you can get quick feedback regarding the health of the codebase.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 4

Sat, 27 May 2006 00:01:01 GMT

In this article you will learn about separating test dll compilation from production dll compilation.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 3

Sat, 27 May 2006 01:09:01 GMT

In this article you will learn how to compile your VS2005 projects using NAnt. This can be a huge time saver vs. waiting for long compile times inside studio when projects get bigger.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 2

Fri, 26 May 2006 17:13:01 GMT

In the last article, the focus was on a proposed structure for the base directory. We move on now to talk about creating a build staging area as well as actually using NAnt and creating our first build targets.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 1

Thu, 25 May 2006 03:25:01 GMT

Ever wondered how to get started with NAnt? Thinking about a good directory structure that will support and automated build process nicely. Take a look at this article that will get you started thinking about how NAnt can help streamline your build process.