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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.

Live Twitter stream of notable people in the .NET community

Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Built with ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and TweetSharp

Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:06 GMT

Found on tangible blog, that the new tangible T4 Editor 1.4 FREE EDITION now includes full Intelli-Sense support for MVC Host and related namespaces used in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM T4 Templates. In addition it provides a nice highlighting for ASP.NET and T4 Code. Seems like anyone can now edit MVC T4 Templates with full comfort without investing a penny. Awesome!

Git, SSH, PuTTY, GitHub, Unfuddle, the kitchen sink

Fri, 08 May 2009 02:31:03 GMT

After reading a good number of the guides for getting Git/ GitHub/ Unfuddle working correctly in Windows, I finally got it sorted out. I had to use a bunch of things I had not used before so I realized it's probably a good idea to share my findings, hoping to help someone else (and maybe myself again) in the future.

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

Top 5 SQL System stored procedures every developer should know

Wed, 13 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

There are a number of documented and undocumented system stored procedures in MS SQL Server that are helpful for every web developer working with databases. From the developer's perspective, here's a list of 5 System stored procedures that are my favorite.

Learning resources for .NET 4.0 new features

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:16:03 GMT

A comprehensive list of articles for .NET 4.0 new features

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It's time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it's useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world.

C# 4.0: What's next

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:31:07 GMT

An overview on C# versions and a discussion on latest features in C# 4.0

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

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.

WorkGrabber.com - Sweet ASP.NET MVC 1.0 + jQuery Application

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:24 GMT

Mike Bosch shows us his latest creation using ASP.Net MVC: WorkGrabber.com is a social marketplace for local contractors and customers to interact and get projects done.

Being a software startup in a recession

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:16:03 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the ASP.NET MVC source code is being released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.

SQL SERVER - Find All Servers From Local Network - Using sqlcmd

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:46:02 GMT

Very simple and very quick. Something when ran on your command prompt will surprise you with result. You may find servers running and active, which you are unaware of. Try it. Bookmark it! This is corrected link.

Silverlight 3: AVAILABLE!

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:46:03 GMT

Looks like Silverlight 3 is rolled-out: Runtime, SDK and documentation are already available for download. See the Client / Server libs?

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

AnkhSVN 2.0.6310 Released - Subversion Plugin for Visual Studio.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:31:20 GMT

New features include: Experimental support of Visual Studio 2010, Overall performance improvemens, and much more...

SVN-Monitor's source-code is now available at Google-Code

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:16:02 GMT

SVN-Monitor's source-code is now available at Google-Code. You can now use SVN-Monitor to monitor SVN-Monitor's code-changes!

Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for natural DateTime operations

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

FluentDateTime is a open source library of Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for easier and more natural DateTime handling and operations in .NET that allows you to write code like this: DateTime.Now + 1.Week() + 3.Days + 14.Minutes(); 3.Days().Ago(); 5.Days().After(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1)); DateTime.Now.NextDay(); DateTime.Now.WeekAfter(); DateTime.Now.Midnight(); DateTime.Now.SetTime(11, 55, 0);

SVN-Monitor is going Open-Source

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:31:04 GMT

You can start downloading the latest beta version and it's source-code (C#).

Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:01:05 GMT

"We wanted to have an RSS feed so customers could keep up to date with new or recently updated Dovetail Knowledge Base articles. My personal mental gate was that I really didn't want to try to figure out how to properly create an RSS or Atom feed and I didn't want to bother with complex heavy handed frameworks like Argotic. Then one day Josh introduced me to the System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace (introduced in .Net 3.5) and my life was never the same. "

Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:13:53 GMT

"While the MVC RC has brought with it many improvements, it has also taken a step towards breaking down the clean separation of concerns with the introduction of the JavaScriptResult ActionResult. .JavaScriptResult puts more power into the hands of the developer, but also assists in shooting yourself in the foot if used improperly."

A Failure in Microsofts Open Source Strategy

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:16:13 GMT

If they want their development tools to be the tools to develop with and they want Windows to be the platform to deploy solutions on (open source and otherwise), then they need to consider, very carefully, how they expect to achieve that. You've got to do more than release open source software . . .

Moonlight 1.0 Release

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:16:03 GMT

Now Linux lovers can enjoy Silverlight streaming media with Moonlight 1.0. Read what Scott Guthrie tells us about this open source implementation of Silverlight.