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ASP.NET MVC - Think Before You Bind

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:31:20 GMT

ASP.NET MVC is a powerful and simple framework, but there are a few things that ASP.NET developers will need to pay careful attention to when moving to MVC. This post discusses the automatic binding abilities in ASP.NET MVC and why you need to think before you bind.

PhotoSuru released!!!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:16:05 GMT

PhotoSure, a photo-viewing application created by the WPF team is finally released! This is a excellent example of how rich client applications should look!!!

IoC libraries compared

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:01:06 GMT

A comparison of how to initialize various IoC libraries. Including AutoFac, Ninject, Spring.Net, StructureMap, Unity, and Windsor.

Pex - Software Cracker?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:16:02 GMT

I started thinking more about what Pex does, it generates tests for your code. It also generates meaningful values for your methods to get the most code coverage. So could Pex be used to generate a password for software, or find holes in lincese key generators?

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 3 - Url Routing

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:31:17 GMT

Url Routing has become a very common these days. In fact, at least among the websites I visit, it has become more common than not routing urls. Url Routing is part of the ASP.Net framework, both MVC and WebForms, that lets you easily rewrite and map your urls to make them look nicer and be more serach engine friendly.

Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

Hidden Features of C#

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:01:02 GMT

In this article, I'll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it.

Is lambdas syntatic sugar, or Turkish delight?

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:46:04 GMT

In this post, Tuna tries to clarify his points on whether lambdas are syntatic sugars or not.

Using JsonResult in ASP.NET MVC AJAX

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:31:02 GMT

In ASP.NET MVC you can write action methods that return a variety of types to be used in your views to obtain data for AJAX interactions. Most common types are string and ActionResult, but there is also an option called JsonResult which returns its values as JSON serialized data. The returned data can be used easily in client-side as appropriate.

Raising Events the right way, the easy way, with an Extension Method

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:16:19 GMT

Raising events takes 3 lines of code. Let's follow the DRY principal and get that down to one line. Less noise, more action, very tastey. Merry Christmas.

Filtering List Items, The Old, The New and the Slick

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:01:12 GMT

I was into filtering items lately and I have decided to write about some of the techniques out there

JavaScript And The rel Attribute

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:01:18 GMT

Working in JavaScript is one of my favorite things to do. I love how dynamic the language is and how powerful it can be. This programming dream is often turned into a nightmare by varying browser implementations, blatant disregard for accepted Web Standards (I'm looking at you IE), and a host of other odd things that can pop up.

Windows Azure Blob Storage

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:16:03 GMT

A video on Blob Storage with Windows Azure.

CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 4 - Membership and authentication

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:31:18 GMT

This post is part 4 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing authentication in CarTrackr. Other parts: Part 1 - Introduction, containg links to all other parts Part 2 - Cloud-enabling CarTrackr Part 3 - Data storage Part 4 - Membership and authentication (current part)

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!

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) - The Model-View-Controller Patte

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:16:02 GMT

About a month and a half ago I announced that I am writing a book, I was really overwhelmed by the amount of support that I received from this announcement. Both myself and Al are really looking forward to the day when this book ships, and we start receiving real feedback on all our hard work. However, both of us would like to start receiving feedback as soon as possible, so. In an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided to open source the last chapter, Chapter 2, that I have to write. I am doing this so I can receive feedback on this chapter as early as possible. Because this chapter, in my opinion, is probably the most critical of the book, it defines the context around ASP.NET MVC and how it differs from ASP.NET Web Forms, as well as giving a historical perspective of the MVC pattern.

Track your car expenses in the cloud! CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Par

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:46:07 GMT

As you may see in the title, I will be starting a series on modifying my CarTrackr sample application to a cloud-based, Windows Azure application. At this point, I don't know if it's easy nor do I know what it takes to achieve this goal. I only have some assumtions on how CarTrackr can be converted to a cloud application. This post is part 1 of the series, in which I'll describe the architecture of Windows Azure and what I think it takes to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application.

Contributing to OSS - Creating a test case & patch

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:01:01 GMT

In this post Tuna tries to show how one can contribute to OSS, specifically NHibernate, projects by creating tests.

Building a simple multiplayer game with ASP.Net MVC and jQuery

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:16:17 GMT

Last weekend I had presented a small multiplayer-game built in MVC and jQuery as a sample for a speaking engagement. There isn't much to the "game", as you currently can only move around, but it helps illustrate how easy it is to use jQuery and MVC together to make something interesting. Who knows, maybe the source could kick-start development on your own game?

jQuery Autocomplete JSON ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:01:02 GMT

Great overview of undocumented jQuery AutoComplete.

Is F# faster than C#

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:16:11 GMT

I had a bet with a co-worker that C# would out perform F# for a simple counting exercise. This turned out to be quite a surprise for many reasons. In this blog post I will try to explain why.

Yet another Singleton Yada-Yada

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:01:04 GMT

Using a static-constructor in a singleton, affects it's laziness. Here's a generic singleton that is thread-safe using a static-constructor, and still lazy.

Taking a look at how to create a application feature via TDD

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:16:21 GMT

This is the second part of 'Creating a new feature via TDD' series where we make our test logic pass by filling out our application logic.

One PowerShell Script to download PDC2008 Videos, Code and PowerPoints

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:46:08 GMT

Yes I did it. I downloaded all 65,563,667,714 bytes and saved them as 407 files on my nice new WD Passport hard drive that I brought home from the PDC2008. And, yes I did it the old fashioned manual way: Right-Click on link and Save-As. But you don't have to do it. In this blog post I provide the metadata of all the files I downloaded and a PowerShell script that will help you automating the download process. Besides the PDC content you also get to a treasure trove of PowerShell scripting techniques ranging from dynamically generating Regular Expressions to loading meta-data form XML and CSV files.

LINQ-to-Entities: The Blackberry Storm of ORMs?

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:31:17 GMT

Opinion article on how LINQ-to-Entities currently seems to compare unfavorably to LINQ-to-SQL.