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How To: Validation Using ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Validation using ASP.NET MVC.

MVC or MVP Pattern - Whats the difference?

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

This awesome post explains differences between MVP and MVC patterns using VS Class Diagrams

Please Fix This Window

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:35:36 GMT

This has to be the worst window in VS2005, but it doesn't have to be the worst one in VS2008.

.NET Application Extensibility-article about the upcoming System.Addin

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:01:01 GMT

An msdn article about the upcoming System.Adding namespace in the Base Class Library (BCL), available in the next release of Visual Studio® (code-named "Orcas"). This is the first one. Check the second one too: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx

Run ASP.NET applications on Ubuntu

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:31:05 GMT

The ASP.NET development environment on Ubuntu Linux is called XSP. This is a simple webserver written in C# that can be used for either ASP.NET 1.0 or 2.0 applications. You can install both environments side by side if need be.

Just Ask Google

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:24:33 GMT

We've all used Google to help us figure out problem code. Now, they've launched Google code search: http://www.google.com/codesearch

What You Should Dispose When Using ADO.NET

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:31:02 GMT

An article pointing out what should be disposed while working with ADO.NET but often is not!

Use Web Resources To Fix PNG Transparency in IE

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:01:01 GMT

PNG Transparency is broken in IE 5.5 and 6. There are a number of ways to fix it, but here's one that is easy for developers to re-use once set up.

Sandcastle - July 2006 Community Technology Preview Download

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:31:01 GMT

The Sandcastle CTP is now available for download...

NDoc 2.0 is Dead!

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:01:01 GMT

Apparently, the chief developer of the new version of NDoc is quitting the job. He cites lack of support as a primary motivation, as well as targeted (electronic) attacks on him personally.

SSW Rules to Better ...

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:31:01 GMT

I don't know how I don't found it before. These are A FANTASTIC SET OF RULES in a lot of areas. A Must Check for you and your team.

Microsoft Blinq Prototype

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:01:01 GMT

blinq is an ASP.NET Sandbox project that takes advantage of the upcoming Linq technology to automatically generate ASP.NET forms and UI based on your database schema.

The simplest error reporting in ASP.NET

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:01:01 GMT

In ASP.NET 2.0 I'll show you how to get notified by e-mail when an unexpected error occurs - ONLY by editing the web.config. No C#/VB.NET code needed!

Using Generics For Custom Providers To Reduce Code Duplication

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:21:03 GMT

A discussion on making good use of generics to reduce code duplication when implementing custom providers. Provides some code snippets that are useful for other provider developers.

ASP.NET 2.0 Page Life Cycle

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:21:01 GMT

A repost of the diagram by Léon Andrianarivony.

Introducing Regulazy: Point & Click Regular Expressions

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:51:01 GMT

Roy Osherove has released a new Regular Expression (alpha) tool: "Regulazy is an attempt to build a small "Expert System" for creating .NET Regular Expressions. It lets the user create an expression based on a real life example of text they would like to parse. As the user interacts with Regulazy using the mouse, Regulazy offers the user possible expressions that would fit the currently selected text. As the user selects "rules" to apply on various parts of the text, a regular expression is built automatically in the lower application pane. The end result is a visual expression builder, that for most simple parsing operations, requires the user only to know what they would like to parse, and what the parsing rules should be - Regex Syntax is *not* needed."

Hundreds of 'Kick Start' Data Models

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:11:01 GMT

Over 300 kick start data models. They look well designed, although the mention of Access Database at the top of each page is a little unsettling

Bulletproof Sql Change Scripts Using INFORMATION_SCHEMA Views

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:21:01 GMT

Discusses how to use the Information_Schema views to write idempotent schema changes. The Information_Schema views are a Sql-92 standard that Microsoft SQL Server supports.

.NET 2.0 Documentation Coming Next Week?

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:17:01 GMT

Anand Raman posts to a forum thread about the need for a NDoc-like tool for .NET 2.0: <em>We did a code complete of "Sandcastle" CTP on June 15th and currently we are testing the tool building our .NetFramework documentation. We would like to release the CTP in Microsoft download center by next week.</em> Also on the forum, a link to alpha bits for NDoc 2.0 with Generics support.

CodePlex comes out of Beta

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:54:52 GMT

"From this point we will release a new version of the site every three weeks to continue to incorporate more improvements and any resolve any issues. You can watch the version number displayed in the bottom right corner to see when a new version has been released."

Create Unlimited Subdomains with HTTP Modules

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:17:01 GMT

Brendan Tompkins show us how to map incoming subdomain HTTP requests to a HTTP Module

Image Processing Lab in C#

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:33:01 GMT

Image Processing Lab is a simple tool for image processing, which includes different filters and tools to analyze images. It's easy to develop your own filters and to integrate them with the code or to use the tools in your own application. The following filters are implemented in the library: Color filters (grayscale, sepia, invert, rotate, channel extraction, channel replacing, channel filtering, color filtering, Euclidean color filtering); HSL filters (linear correction, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue modifier, HSL filtering); YCbCr filters (linear correction, YCbCr filtering, channel extraction/replacement); Binarization filters (threshold, threshold with carry, ordered dithering, Bayer dithering, Floyd-Steinberg, Burkes, Jarvis-Judice-Ninke, Sierra, Stevenson-Arce, Stucki dithering methods); Automatic binarization (simple image statistics); Mathematical morphology filters (erosion, dilatation, opening, closing, hit & miss, thinning, thickening); Convolution filters (mean, blur, sharpen, edges, Gaussian); 2 Source filters (merge, intersect, add, subtract, difference, move towards, morph); Edge detectors (homogeneity, difference, sobel, canny); Blob counter, connected components labeling; Pixellate, simple skeletonization, jitter, shrink, oil painting; Levels linear filter, gamma correction; Median filter, adaptive smoothing, conservative smoothing; Resize and rotate; Texture generators based on Perlin noise; Texture filters (texturer, textured filtering, textured merging); Fourier transformation (lowpass and hipass filters).

Fireball Framework - Free .NET Syntax Highlight Control and More

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:09:01 GMT

Fireball Framework is project that aim to create the best controls and libraries for developer, the project already contains some control, CodeEditorControl with Syntax Highlight, Collections,Outlook Navigation bar and etc.. Here are some compiled examples: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dotnetfireball/FireEdit_Bin.zip?download Simply Excellent !!