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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 ...

6 SEO Tips For ASP.NET URL's

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:31:55 GMT

If you are building a new ASP.NET application, SEO has become a big factor in how you plan the structure / code of the site. But quite an important part of the site which are often overlooked are the URL's, and a lot of people do the basics which I'll show below but there are a few common things people tend to miss or never thought could be a problem...

6 Things Developers Should Know By 2010

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

A list of 6 things I think asp.net developers should know by 2010

12+ open source projects for .NET you probably didn't know about.

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Here's a few of the better .NET open source projects which are making a difference to .NET developers worldwide, and it just shows that the open source .NET community is alive and well.

Exponentially Improve Performance to Start ASP.net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Debug

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:46:05 GMT

Stop the waiting when debugging your ASP.Net Web Applications! Here's a complete RAM Disk solution to save your sanity.

Back to Basics: Interfaces

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:46:09 GMT

When it comes to object-oriented programming there are few concepts as basic and important as interfaces. Only recently though, and at a snails pace, have .NET developers started to take advantage of the simple benefits interfaces have to offer. This interest stems from the core role interfaces play in some pretty hot topics, including: dependency injection, unit testing and mocking (to name a few).

jQuery $document.ready() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Combine ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery and make $document.ready execute even after an asynchronous postback took place.

A cool puzzle game for programmers, written in Silverlight

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:31:13 GMT

The goal of the game is to program a robot to pick up stars. The puzzles are submitted by other users, and ranked by difficulty based on votes.

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);

Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Form With jQuery

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:16:03 GMT

Since many people who are being introduced to ASP.NET MVC are being simultaneously introduced to jQuery I felt like I'd give you a quick introduction to a few jQuery plug-ins that will help you make better forms. But most importantly make your forms better without you really having to do too much to them.

Subtext 2.1 - A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:31:02 GMT

If you are looking for a free .NET based open source blogging application, Subtext may be for you or your company. It's a mature and established blogging framework founded by MS employee Phil Haack. My site is using Subtext and I've been very happy with it as compared to solutions such as Telligent Community Server which are not free and are quite heavy and complicated just for running a simple blog for you or your company. Here is the rundown of its current benefits as I've experienced:

8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:31:06 GMT

It's always nice to read a post where you already follow some of the suggestions but find the odd useful nugget, I dislike seeing literals in my source code and the hint about making them stand out with nasty color coding is something I'll be giving a go!

ASP.NET MVC Validation - The Definitive Guide (in my eyes)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:16:03 GMT

After trying a ton of techniques, I bring you the tried & tested definitive guide to ASP.NET MVC validation utilising both CLIENT (jQuery validator plugin) and SERVER validation ready to go with strong object model validation AND compatible with LINQ 2 SQL. What more could one want?!

"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.

Cheap way of speeding up Visual Studio I/O

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Visual Studio loves file I/O. It really, really does, and it cares very little about caching and the like. What this means is that, when you open a solution file, it always reads it from disk. Which means that the speed of operation when generating lots of files (e.g., via T4 transformations) is typically atrocious. The fact that file I/O in VS does not appear to be multithreaded is another hindrance. In short, it's a mess.

Action, Func, Predicate - what's going on?

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:31:03 GMT

This post covers Action<T>, Func<T>, Predicate<T> and shows them in action. These delegates are generalization (abstractions?) over some common method signatures and you might find them very handy. Besides making LINQ possible, they should help you stop writing your own custom delegates and replace them with these generic ones.

A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:46:04 GMT

Now that the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate is available for download, how do you learn how to start using it to build applications? Here's Stephen Walther's guide to resources for learning about ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1.

Top Visual Studio Add-ins

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:31:02 GMT

I am often asked what my favourite development tools are, so I thought I'd write down a few that I use and why. I have split this list in 2 as some of these are add-ons for visual studio and others are just standalone applications here are the VS Add-ins.

Application Architecture guide 2.0 released by Microsoft

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:46:09 GMT

Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.This guide is a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, product teams, and industry experts. It is a must read for all technical architects and .net developers.

jQuery Playground from Google

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Awsome tool to test jquery online

Kigg - A great example of ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:31:02 GMT

Kigg which is a clone of Digg has been one the best starter kits for ASP.NET. Now Kigg guys udated it using ASP.NET MVC and of course it can be a good example for ASP.NET MVC learners.

ASP.NET MVC - Think Before You Bind

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:31:20 GMT

ASP.NET MVC is a powerful and simple framework, but there are a few things that ASP.NET developers will need to pay careful attention to when moving to MVC. This post discusses the automatic binding abilities in ASP.NET MVC and why you need to think before you bind.

DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Find out why the DotNetNuke project moved to CodePlex from SourceForge.

10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:46:13 GMT

This is part B of the 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot article. In this article I will talk about another 5 issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. In other words, I will try to prevent you from programaticly shooting yourself in the foot.

Tip about jQuery $.extend

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:46:18 GMT

The story, about how to use $.extend jQuery method, to derive classes