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Top 10 .NET Twitterers

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:46:11 GMT

If your not on Twitter you are missing out - here are some .NET tweeps to get you started.

Building a Twitter Client as an Internet Explorer Add On using SpicIE

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:31:05 GMT

I came across the (Simple Plug-in Creator for Internet Explorer) SpicIE project this weekend and wanted to give it a try. So what's a better example than to build a twitter client since it seems to be getting all the hype lately

Extract properties to style

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:31:04 GMT

A article on how to use the "Extract properties to Style" feature of the new XAML Power Toys

ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:31:07 GMT

A look at the new ioDrive device and how devices like it will drastically change how you think about performance critical data storage applications.

Hosting your OSS project on github

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:31:09 GMT

Aaron walks through hosting an oss project on github and how to use git as the SCC system.

Unit Testable HttpModule and HttpHandler - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:31:11 GMT

With the new System.Web.Abstraction namespace we can now easily write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. In this post, I will show you how to write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. Prior the release of System.Web.Abstraction the problem with unit testing of these web infrastructural items is HttpContext, it is sealed, no way to mock it with Rhino or Moq. The only option is to create the wrapper objects of these non-mockable objects but it has a very long tail like HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpSessionState, HttpServerUtility etc etc. And this is the exact thing that the System.Web.Abstraction provides, all wrappers around the non-mockable objects of HttpContext. But still, both the HttpModule and HttpHandler depends upon the original HttpContext which I hope will change in ASP.NET 4.0. till then we need to create a super layer for making it Unit Testable.

SQL Server Five methods converting rows to columns

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:16:03 GMT

Five methods converting rows to columns

The Open Source Projects on ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects developed in ASP.NET MVC. I am ordering it based ...

The Bare Minimum

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:16:32 GMT

When it comes to project management, I tend to favor the less-is-more approach...

C# Design Patterns - The Facade Pattern

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:16:10 GMT

In our city dog registration application lets assume there are a few things that need to be done when a new dog is registered. First the new dog and it's owners must be entered into the system. Next the registration fee must be processed. Finally, we want the system to send the owners the welcome email. This is a very simple example but this action requires 3 separate systems to do something in order to complete this one task of registering a new dog.

.NET - Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:31:02 GMT

I am a big advocate on less is more, and when it comes to writing code to monitor an ASP.NET application, less code is definitely more. As a developer, once you have finished developing your application and it's deployed into production, you'll need to monitor it and have it notify you when something goes wrong. There are several ways to do this, from utilising the global.asax file to writing custom classes. But a little known feature in ASP.NET is health monitoring. This gives you the ability to monitor the health of an ASP.NET application. This article won't delve into the specifics of creating your own custom health monitoring class, but it will focus on what is available to ASP.NET developers out of the box.

Select top n rows from a table for each group

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Suppose you want to get the top two products from each manufacturer which have the best promotional price

Using SQL Service Broker in NET applications

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Javi discusses the pitfalls you might encounter while trying to use SQL Service Broker from a .NET application

Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:01:02 GMT

I was a bit surprised at first to hear Jeff and Joel's comments because they are some smart guys that have produced some successful software. I highly doubt, regardless of how it came across, they intended to imply that you should ignore all guidelines and just string together your code. Unfortunately, the comments of their posts make it all too clear that this is exactly the way a lot of programmers took it. What's worse is bad programmers will use this as a defense for their resistance to improving their skills.

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:

Building a Nant Script -- Part 4: Running SQL Scripts w/ SqlCmd

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:46:08 GMT

Taking a look at how to build a Nant Script. In this episode we will take a look at how to run SQL Scripts w/ SqlCmd.

SQL SERVER - Disable Windows Authentication - Remove Windows Authentic

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:31:03 GMT

I just received following email from one of the blog reader. Question : "How to disable Windows Authentication?" Simple answer to this most asked question. Bookmark it.

ASP.NET MVC Action Filter for Localized Sites

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:46:14 GMT

If you've got or want a site which supports multiple cultures using ASP.NET you need to be familiar with setting CultureInfo values for the current thread and UI. This post details an ASP.NET MVC Action Filter to assist with localized site development.

Diving in NHibernate.Validator

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Surfing in the NET, to find some NHibernate.Validator (NHV) example, I saw that there are various things not so clear about how NHV is working. In this post I'll try to give you a more deep explication....

How to Integrate with Facebook Connect

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:01:04 GMT

This article demonstrates how to integrate Facebook Connect into your existing ASP.NET site in just a few simple steps. It teaches the basics of integration with full sample code included for download.

A better, easier way to make sure you've globalized everything

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:46:18 GMT

A better, easier way to make sure you've globalized everything in your application

EntitySpaces 2009 Persistence Layer Official Release (Q1)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:46:13 GMT

We are pleased to announce the official release of EntitySpaces 2009 Q1. The Trial Version has also been upgraded to the official release. Features of EntitySpaces 2009: * Complete Visual Studio integration. * Stand alone executable for those not using Visual Studio. * No third party code generation tools required (No need for MyGeneration or CodeSmith). * Project files to record and play back your code generation process with a single click. * Command line tool that can execute your EntitySpaces projects in continuous integration builds. * Debugger Visualizer and other debugging enhancements. * Totally updated Web Admin Templates.

SSMS Tools Pack 1.5 is out with Window Connection Coloring

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

This new version of this popular SSMS add-in brings Window Connection Coloring feature and a few improved old features.

Googleman - Quite possibly the best WPF application ever

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:01:03 GMT

Googleman is a fun and pointless application for launching Google.com in the style of the Batman 60s TV show, complete with spinning Google logo and sound effects. Now when a friend or co-worker says "To Google!" you can open your favourite search engine in style. Googleman uses WPF and is written using the MVP pattern.

ASP.NET Chart with MVC and Google Spreadsheet API

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:46:17 GMT

Learn how to integrate ASP.NET charting controls with ASP.NET MVC and Google Spreadsheet Data API. It shows a sample ASP.NET MVC application that uses data retrieved from a Google Spreasheet to feed an ASP.NET charting control.