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NUnitit: Visual Studio Addin to support NUnit and some customizations

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:45:30 GMT

Customizations to NUnitit addin to run tests on the selected project and to run a single selected test from Visual Studio IDE.

Generate Dto with T4 engine

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:34:10 GMT

This is a simple post that shows how to use T4 code generator engine to create a Dto Factory that can be used to generates Dto with a few lines of code.

Create a buld integration machine with team foundation server

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:35:01 GMT

Simple post that shows how you can create a Continuous Integration machine defining a build definition in Team Foundation Server with few clicks.

jQuery to the rescue - some numbers

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:49:38 GMT

... I immediately notice is that the old version does a lot of traffic. Since the new version only does GET reques it reduces the upload payload from 178k to zero !!!!!

Java versus .Net programmers

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:16:08 GMT

I think that there is the right tool for each problem and I always worry about the syndrome of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". There are such a great amount of different techniques in programming science, that we cannot reduce everything to the classic "DI IOC AOP ORM".

Wcf appender for log4net

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:13:48 GMT

It is an old post but it is interesting because shows how to intercept queries issued by nhibernate using log4net and a custom logger that communicates in wcf.

Create a simple menu in asp.net mvc

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:46:02 GMT

Simple code to create a menu in asp.net mvc using a master page and a master controller.

Send attachments with jQuery

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:01:03 GMT

This little post shows how to send attachment to the server with ajax and jQuery

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

Reshaper 4.5 beta

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:12:11 GMT

Today I decided to install the beta of the new version of Resharper. I must admit that I cannot work without reshaper now I'm so used to it that if I work with computers with no R# I spent some second Hitting shortcut and wondering why nothing happens :D. Here is my impression

Managing tree with entity framework

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:45:20 GMT

With a couple of triggers you can manage trees structure with entity framework with little problems.

Windows SharePoint Services - Developing and (Remotely) Debugging a We

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:17:26 GMT

Third part of this SharePoint first approach user guide, this time we see how to develop a Web Part and how to use remote debugging to debug it.

SharePoint Services - Setting up a Website with Forms Authentication

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:49:20 GMT

How to create a website in SharePoint and enable Forms Authentication

Windows SharePoint Services - first setup

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:09 GMT

A simple guide on how to setup Windows SharePoint Services for the first time

An extension method to load entities by key in Entity Framework

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:31:51 GMT

Are you tired to having an object key like "ALFKI" and need to do a query to entity framework just to retrieve the object corresponding to that key? You can easily build an extension method that will do everything to you.

Sixth in a series of post about doing AOP and IoC with unity

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:43:46 GMT

If you like enterprise library or if you are forced to use microsoft code in your projects, you can use unity to do IoC or AOP. In this little series of posts I explain the basic of unity configuration and usage.

Install SQL Server (Express) with your Application

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:31:03 GMT

A bootstrap to allow the deployment of SQL Server Express along with your Application

Optimize asp.net web application

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:03:20 GMT

As title suggests, useful tips to optimize ASP.NET applications.

Best of 2008: 5 most popular posts

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta, MVP, has gathered his favorite blog's posts in this post. Don't miss it!

A randomizer addin for nunit

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:09:20 GMT

With nunit addins you can write a simple randomizer that executes the test in random order.

Serialization Exception: PropertyChangedEventManager is not serializab

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:41:12 GMT

How to solver the SerializationException called when you are trying to serialize and de-serialize and object that is involved in a binding.

create a report in excel 2007 with open xml sdk 1.0

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:08:53 GMT

With few lines of code you can create cool report in excel 2007 thanks to linq to xml and open xml sdk.

Wrap IList<T> and use it for effective binding in Silverlight and WPF

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:12:44 GMT

If you use some ORM tool like NHibernate and your business entities or DTOs have to support collections of other elements, you are forced to use the interface notation IList<T> or ICollection<T> to hold a reference to the real collection implementation..here is how you can wrap them to take full advantage of the binding mechanism in WPF and Silverlight.

How to add filter support to basic BindingList<T>

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:16:50 GMT

This post shows a possible implementation of a BindingList<T> that support Filtering.

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:31:20 GMT

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.