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Client Templating with jQuery

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:16:05 GMT

Client templating in Javascript can be a great tool to reduce the amount of code you have to write to create markup content on the client. There are a number of different ways that templating can be accomplished from a purely manual approach to a full templating engine. In this entry I'll look at several different approaches.

Lutz Roeder's Weblog: The Future of .NET Reflector

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:16:02 GMT

After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities. I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new features, and Reflector fits nicely with other .NET tools the company offers. Red Gate will continue to provide the free community version and is looking for your feedback and ideas for future versions.

Lutz Reflector now owned by Red Gate

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:05 GMT

Lutz Reflector, the free .NET disassembler every developer developer should have, has been purchased by Red Gate software. Red Gate has stated they will continue to provide the tool for free.

Sql 2008 Management Tools: Can't save changes that require Recreation

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:52:34 GMT

New default in SQL Server's Management Tools: When you design a table in a database and then try to make a change to a table structure that requires the table to be recreated, the management tools will not allow you to save the changes.

Enabling Javascript Intellisense In External Libraries

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:01:10 GMT

To get JavaScript IntelliSense working in VS 2008 SP1, you need to tell IntelliSense the location of the libraries that you're using. You do that by adding a special comment at the top of the .js file. Here's How..

SQL SERVER - Get Date Time in Any Format - UDF - User Defined Function

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:22:25 GMT

If you have struggled with your datetime format with your application or database. This is one script you will need. Bookmark it.

Software development dogmata - good practices gone bad

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Many practices in the software development world are widely accepted at some moment in time as the "true way". The trouble starts when the "true way" is forced down the throats of people who need a "new way". Usually popular practices follow a similar path between the moment somebody discovers/creates them and until they get massively popular.

On Fluent NHibernate : Ayende as always provides the immutable line

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:42:33 GMT

There has been some noise lately about Fluent NHibernte. This gives you a fluent interface to configure NHibernate mapping. I don't really see the point, frankly. Fluent NHibernate, at least in its current stage, requires a mapping class per entity. At this point, I might as well use the XML again. In general, anything that requires me to touch two places to make one change is suspect. That is part of the reason that I like ActiveRecord, the change is highly localized.

ASP.NET Browsers Filter!!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:07 GMT

It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en

Combining jQuery Validation with ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

See how the jQuery Validation plugin can be used with the MVC framework to validate all the inputs in a form before it is submitted to the controller.

Update to: Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:31:02 GMT

The original story (http://www.dotnetkicks.com/csharp/Microsoft_cracking_down_on_community_extensions) got quite a bit of traffic from here. There've been some clarifications and updates from Microsoft and the StyleCop team that, I think, make their position clear and reasonable -- also, the original how-to that had been taken down "at Microsoft's request" is back up. A lot of people kicked the original story, so I hope you'll all take the opportunity to read Microsoft's responses and give them fair consideration.

BREAKING NEWS! Castle Project Lead Hamilton Verissimo Joins Microsoft

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

In a strategic move on Microsoft's part that has the open source community buzzing, the well-known and respected founder of the Castle Project Hamilton Verissimo has accepted a position with Microsoft's MEF group.

Hammett is joining the MEF team at Microsoft

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Hamilton Verissimo, aka Hammett is joining MS as PM inside the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team, but will keep on working on Castle.

Inclusion of JavaScript Files

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

How do you deal with JavaScript inclusion into the page given that you have a fair number of JavaScript files that are bound to change frequently and across multiple projects/applications?

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

NHIbernate 2.0 Goes Beta 1 after Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' receives

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:01:09 GMT

The first official beta for NHibernate 2.0 was released today. This comes on the heels of the damaging 'boycott' of the Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' upcoming release, which was anticipated to be a serious competitor to NHibernate. LAST MINUTE UPDATE FROM THE NHIBERNATE TEAM There has been a change in how NHibernate is packaged as the core and contrib aspects now have dedicated locations. Since NHibernate 2.0 Alpha 1, ONLY THE CORE of the project is included at the link above. The Contrib Projects are now in a dedicated location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib There are a few new projects that are essential to investigate for your needs (for example the Burrow project). Also be sure to visit the wiki for these significant projects: http://nhcontrib.wiki.sourceforge.net See the end of this post for a partial list of these contrib efforts. The team at domain.dot.net has been working with 2.0.X since the first alpha, and following the progress of the trunk. In our opinion this beta has the high quality of prior betas and we recommend it for non-critical systems immediately as your risk policy allows. We're working on a more detailed analysis coming soon on some of the key improvements. To download the code direct from the trunk use this SVN URL: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate This is no minor update, as with this release they will align with the widely used and praised 'Hibernate 3.2' for Java. Here is a listing of the planned new features which are represented to varying degrees of complexness in this beta:

The criticism of the Entity Framework - not just around DDD

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Describing the historical context for the criticism for EF>.

Microsoft PM responds to Entity Framework "petition of no confidence"

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:08 GMT

Tim Mallalieu tries to explain the EF situation - basically he says, "we'll try to do it in the next version" when responding to Entity Framework critics

VisualSVN 1.5 Released

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:31:02 GMT

We are glad to announce new version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.5. This release brings to you the new release of Subversion 1.5 with a bunch of great fetures and bug fixes.

ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Over the past year, Microsoft and the Entity Framework team have received a tremendous amount of feedback from experts in entity-based applications and software architectures on the .NET platform. While Microsoft's announcement of its intention to provide framework support for entity architectures was received with enthusiasm, the Entity Framework itself has consistently proved to be cause for significant concern.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

Programmatically Change the Visibility of a DotNetNuke Module

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:51:42 GMT

How to programmatically change the visibility of a DotNetNuke module.

Getting up to speed with the Castle.MonoRail trunk

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:17:52 GMT

Over the last couple of months there have been a slew of great refactorings done on the castle monorail trunk. Some of these refactorings were inspired by ASP.Net MVC changes such as the new routing module...

What's Wrong with this?

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Every time I read a C# book or an article or just a code sample in MSDN I can't stop wondering why don't people use this qualifier unless it's absolutely required? What do we sacrifice code readability for?