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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 24-27, 2009

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:43:16 GMT

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies.

Dew Drop - June 25, 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:29:35 GMT

Today's fresh links for .NET developers, courtesy of The Morning Dew.

Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:02 GMT

Ever had a team of developers using your ASP.NET MVC framework? Chances are you have implemented some action filters (i.e. for logging) which should be applied on all controllers in the application. Two ways to do this: kindly ask your developers to add a [Logging] attribute to the controllers they write, or kindly ask to inherit from SomeCustomControllerWithActionsInPlace. If you have been in this situation, monday mornings, afternoons, tuesdays and other weekdays are in fact days where some developers will forget to do one of the above. This means no logging! Or any other action filters that are executed due to a developer that has not been fed with enough coffee. Wouldn't it be nice to have a central repository where you can register application-wide action filters? That's exactly what we are going to do in this blog post.

WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

WPF doesn't apply the CurrentCulture to bindings by default, which is a little... unexpected to say the least. As it turns out there's an easy solution to this problem, but it does require using code to apply the culture specifically in every document.

Microsoft deprecating Oracle client in Dot Net 4

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:30:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced through a blog that the ADO.NET 4 spec will mark the Oracle client as deprecated with plans for removal. They are also recommending that users go to a third party Oracle provider. Stop Helping the Competition? Wow, this will mark the first time an ADO.NET provider has been removed from the .Net framework. Is this a case of Microsoft trimming the fat, or pushing Oracle? I always thought it a bit of a free ride that Microsoft was helping Oracle by building their provider for them...

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 13-15, 2009

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:11:11 GMT

Daily tech links for dotnet and related technologies.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 11, 2009

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:29 GMT

Daily tech links for dotnet and related technologies.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 10, 2009

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:53:44 GMT

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 9, 2009

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Daily tech links for dotnet and related technologies.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 6, 2009

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies.

Daily Tech Links for .net and related technologies- June 5, 2009

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:36:49 GMT

Daily Tech Links for .net and related technologies.

Daily Tech Links - June 4, 2009

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:27:25 GMT

Latest links for .net and related technologies

Daily Tech Links - June 3, 2009

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:26:48 GMT

Daily dotnet related technologies links

Daily Tech Links - June 2, 2009

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:44:35 GMT

Daily Tech links for web based applications.

Creating a quick and dirty jQuery contentEditable Plugin

Tue, 26 May 2009 06:57:42 GMT

Inline editing content is a feature that's novel and highly useful at the same time. I've been using it in a number of admin interfaces to provide very easy and quick text updates to existing content. There are a number of ways to accomplish this but in this post I'll discuss a contentEditable jQuery plugin that makes any content inline editable using the DOM's contentEditable attribute that maintains text formatting in the editable text.

Get last-modified header from response in ASP.NET

Fri, 22 May 2009 03:58:01 GMT

I've been working lately with some ASP.NET performance optimization automation HTTP modules. In one of them I needed to know if the last-modified header had been set through the Response.Cache.SetLastModified(DateTime) method. For some reason, there is no API available anywhere within the BCL to retrieve the last modified date of a response - you can only set it. Since the module wouldn't work without a way to read the last modified date of the response, I had to use Reflector to figure out how to pull the information out using reflection. The result became a simple little method to retrieve the date

Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework Part -2

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:01:02 GMT

Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework's caching entries with rollback features

Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework Part -1

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:46:12 GMT

Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework's caching entries.

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:01:20 GMT

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List in a format allowing easy search & download

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

15 Most Interesting jQuery Tutorials

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:01:04 GMT

This time we collected the most interesting jQuery tutorials.

Unit Testable Configuration Manager - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:31:19 GMT

If you are a TDD purist, you should know that accessing file system in Unit Test is violating the rule. But in our application, our infrastructural code often requires to access the configuration values form web.config/app.config. In this post, I will show you how can create a simple wrapper class which you can use in your unit tests without hitting the file ...

Tips for Managing ASP.NET MVC Views

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:46:09 GMT

The author gives some tips on managing asp.net mvc views and organizing files withing an asp.net mvc project. Includes suggestions on keeping code out of views.

Plunging into the sea of jQuery plugins - Part I

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:31:03 GMT

We take a look at how to create jQuery plugins and the official jQuery interaction plugins in jQuery UI library.