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Creating an MVC Project in Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:44:20 GMT

Earlier today Phil Haack announced that the Asp.Net MVC installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available on CodePlex along with the bonus of some basic snippets for use with MVC projects. This is exactly what I have been waiting for before installing Visual Studio 2010, so I decided to give it a shot and report back on my experience. I'm happy to say that the basic experience went flawlessly for me, though it appears that may not hold true for everyone.

Return of the PagedList<T>

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:00:21 GMT

It has been nearly a year since I posted an updated version of the PagedList<T> functionality originally created by Scott Guthrie and posted by Rob Conery. Since then I have used the class in a number of projects and find it indispensable. A few days ago, Craig Stuntz reported an interesting observation: when the first page is returned, the class performs a Skip(0). Suprisingly, this is not free. With that in mind, I set out to correct that issue as well as incorporate a few changes I've made over the past year. The result is nearly identical to the last posted version, just a bit more readable.

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:46:02 GMT

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch!

Using complex types to make calling services less... complex

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:46:03 GMT

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

SELECT TOP N Rows Per Group/Category in SQL Server

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:01:03 GMT

I call this a query with the 3S - Short, Sweet and Simple - Check this cool example by SuprotimAgarwal to select top 'n' rows for each group or category..

ASP.NET - YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points "A" grade is possible

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Just in case if somebody doesn't know what YSlow is? YSlow is Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. You can run it on you project and see your grade. You can do some easy improvements and maybe even get D grade. However to get higher then D grade becomes a real challenge. Below I will describe how I got A grade (100 points) on my web blog application.

xVal 0.8 improves client side validation in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:01:16 GMT

xVal is an open source validation framework bridge for ASP.NET MVC. Its new release, version 0.8, became available this morning and adds the following features: Support for NHibernate.Validator, Internationalization, Custom validation logic, Fluent syntax for defining ad-hoc validation rules, Comparison validators, and more.

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.

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

Azure - Performance, IoC, and Instances

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:01:04 GMT

My experience so far working with Azure. Some performance testing, IoC container incompatibilities, and frustration with instances.

Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:02 GMT

Maarten Balliauw announces his new book and provides a large retrospective on the writing process itself. Must read for everyone thinking about writing a tech book!

ASP.NET MVC Result Caching

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:01:03 GMT

Different approach on MVC Caching. Cache the ActionResult through an action filter, without affecting the Session or other non-deterministic data to be shown in the View.

Extending Ninject to inject dependencies into Action Filters

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:16:09 GMT

In this last post of the series Simone shows the changes he did to Ninject to make it transparent for the developer to inject dependencies into ASP.NET Action Filters. And he also release the small integration library as opensource

NHV.Loquacious : fluent-configuration for NHV

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:16:10 GMT

The new EMBEDDED configuration, based on fluent-interface implementation, for NHibernate.Validator.

BackgroundWorker complete example

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:16:03 GMT

Cancellation support, progress report and error handling. Example project in C#

How to use Ninject to inject dependencies into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilte

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:01:03 GMT

Simone shows us how to use Ninjet to inject dependencies to ASP.NET MVC.

Using C# "Yield" for Readability and Performance

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:46:30 GMT

I must have read about "yield" a dozen times. Only recently have I began to understand what it does, and the real power that comes along with it. I'm going to show you some examples of where it can make your code more readable, and potentially more efficient.

"Quality Doesn't Matter That Much" -- Jeff and Joel

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:16:02 GMT

I was riding my exercise bike, listening to Stack Overflow #38 when I heard Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky say "Quality just doesn't matter that much." I nearly fell off my bike.

Recommending revisions with the new SVN-Monitor

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:01:03 GMT

A new version of SVN-Monitor is out with some new features. One new exciting feature allows developers to recommend revisions and make all team-members coordinated. Don't miss it! It's 100% free!

NHibernate.Linq Alpha Released

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:16:08 GMT

NHibernate.Linq is a Linq provider for NHibernate 2.0.1 GA. It processes Linq expressions using NHibernate's Criteria API. This release is meant as a stopgap release pending an implementation not reliant on the Criteria API. Most queries are supported with the exception of the following: - Group Joins - Subqueries in select clause

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

How would the CLR Be Different?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:03:06 GMT

Matthew Podwysocki explores the question "Knowing what we know now, how would you change the CLR?"

xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:03 GMT

xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

Pex - Software Cracker?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:16:02 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?