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Using BlogEngine.net as a general purpose CMS part I

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

In this series of posts, I will show how I converted a small website from just standard .aspx pages into a site where all pages are editable by Windows Live Writer and via an online interface. In Part I of this series I will just set some background on how I am approaching the creation of this lightweight CMS.

Perceptions of Quality

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:38:55 GMT

Quite some ago Intergen's Development Steering Group (DSG, a small group of senior developers/architects) went on a 'retreat' to discuss issues affected the development team as a whole and plan some strategy. Among the items up for discussion was the issue of quality - how to achieve it, and, in order to decide that, what on earth quality actually is. You might be thinking: "That's easy. Quality is making something good" which is all very well until you are asked to define what makes a piece of software 'good'. Is it that the code is well written, well documented, that the design is clean, tidy and understandable, that the GUI looks pretty, that the GUI is easy to use, that the system meets user requirements? All of the above?

Windows 2008 hosting is here!

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:17:22 GMT

We have flipped the big switch and activated the new Windows 2008 / IIS 7 hosting servers. DiscountASP.NET is the first shared hosting provider to offer IIS 7 complete with most of the features that make it attractive, rather than in some locked-down closer-to-IIS 6 version that other shared hosting providers may try to pawn off as Windows 2008 hosting.

Mono, a look forward

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:01:09 GMT

A brief look at where Mono is and where's it going.

.NET Basics : Explicit vs Implicit Interface Implementation

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:47:55 GMT

A simple look at implicit vs explicit interface implementaion

Video of Luke Hoban's In-Depth Look at C# 3.0

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:16:02 GMT

Last fall in Barcelona, Spain two PM's from the C# team gave talks on key parts of the new technology found in Visual Studio 2008. * Microsoft Visual C# Under the Covers: An In-Depth Look at C# 3.0 * LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data with Language Integrated Query

Creating Self Signed SSL Certificates on IIS 6.0 and Win Server 2003

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Step by step tutorial (with screen shots) on creating self signed SSL certificates on IIS 6.0 and Win 2003 development / test servers using the FREE SelfSSL tool which comes with IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. You can even use it to secure your local intranet.

.NET Namespaces

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:47:37 GMT

The sixteenth part of the C# Object-Oriented Programming tutorial describes the use of namespaces. Namespaces allow classes, structures and other items to be grouped and organised and remove the possibility of class-naming conflicts.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

20 Famous Software Disasters

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." -Paul Ehrlich

Dynamically Generating Lambdas

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:31:03 GMT

In this post you will see how to build expression trees and compile and call dynamically generated lambdas.

.NET Rocks! Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Miguel is back to talk Mono with Geoff Norton. Many things have changed since we last talked to Miguel about the Mono project, an open-source port of the .NET Framework that runs on Windows, Linux, and the Mac. The focus is mostly about running .NET apps on the Mac.

MonoDevelop goes to MacOS X - Miguel de Icaza

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:45:20 GMT

We have released an updated Mono 1.2.6 package for MacOS X that contains Imendio's Native Gtk+ for OSX, Gtk# and MonoDevelop with Mac support. It is now available from our downloads page.

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:16:03 GMT

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available, as posted to ScottGu's blog. Numerous fixes, including the "source code editor freeze" issue that a few people have experienced.

New ASP.NET Wiki

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:01:01 GMT

Check out the new ASP.NET wiki for a ton of resources on asp.net. Being a wiki, everyone can contribute so go ahead and give it a whirl! http://wiki.asp.net/

New BlogEngine.NET Extension - SlideShow Photo Gallery

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

I've wanted to build a BlogEngine.NET extension to display a photo gallery since I first starting using this product. Vertigo has made my job easier with Slide.Show, a rich Silverlight application that provides an elegant and simple photo sharing user experience. It also supports direct Flickr integration that I have included as a part of this extension. All you have to do is change one configuration value in the configuration.xml and you are all set to hook into your Flickr account. A live demo can be found at http://dannydouglass.com/page/photogallery.aspx. My website offers a popup version of this gallery (click the "photos" tab above) that I would be glad to explain in a follow-up post if there is any interest. [Requires Silverlight 1.0]

EntitySpaces 2008 Adds Subqueries

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:38:39 GMT

We're busy working on EntitySpaces 2008 (ES2008) and thought we would demonstrate to you how subqueries will work. If you are familiar with our Join syntax then subqueries will feel like a perfect extension. The EntitySpaces 2008 architecture allows subqueries on the Select, the Where, the From, and the Join statement. Before we look at subqueries take a moment to review how our join syntax works. The EntitySpaces DynamicQuery API has proven to be very popular, so much so that other architectures are following suit.

The Most Useful VS Feature No One Seems To Use

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Speed up your debugging time by using the Exceptions dialog box.

How to build a 3D game using XNA

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:16:03 GMT

Dan Waters has just published a 14 part video cast series on how to build a 3D game, complete with audio, input, and character animation. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes of total content!

That's right . "EntitySpaces running under Mono on Linux using MySQL"

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:01:03 GMT

EntitySpaces $1000 Mono Contest - We have a Winner !!

Why linux need Moonlight

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:34:31 GMT

Miguel makes the argument for moonlight: "... I do not want Linux on the desktop to become a second class citizen ever again."

EntitySpaces - $1000 Contest for a Mono Application

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:17:53 GMT

EntitySpaces, LLC is offering $1,000 U.S. dollars to the first person or company to successfully create an EntitySpaces application that runs under Mono version 1.2.5.1 or higher ...

LOLCODE DLR Edition on OS X and Linux using Mono

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:10:20 GMT

After reading Scott Hanselman's article about the DLR team's implementation of LOLCODE for the DLR, I wrote this article about getting it running on the latest version of Mono.

Mono Summit 2007

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:14:06 GMT

The Mono Summit will be held in Madrid, Spain from November 26th to November 30th of 2007. The Mono Summit is a place to come discuss using Mono to create new applications for Linux, Windows, MacOS or embedded devices or learn how to port your existing applications from Windows to Linux, learn what Mono and Linux have to offer for .NET developers. Mono is a cross-platform, open source implementation of the .NET Framework with its own ecosystem.