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Create Portable Applications With Ease

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:16:15 GMT

BoxedApp SDK 2.0, a DLL library from Softanics enables developers to take advantage of the next generation technology - application virtualization to create a portable application with zero installation that relies on the virtual environment to run.

Object Oriented Programming With JavaScript

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:01:03 GMT

In this article we are going to take an introductory look at how OO JavaScript works. I am going to assume you are familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Client Templating with jQuery

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:16:05 GMT

Client templating in Javascript can be a great tool to reduce the amount of code you have to write to create markup content on the client. There are a number of different ways that templating can be accomplished from a purely manual approach to a full templating engine. In this entry I'll look at several different approaches.

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

last.fm ASP.NET User Control

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:16:03 GMT

If you are using last.fm and ASP.NET then this User Control is for you!

Touchless - A webcam multi-touch SDK

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:01:02 GMT

That brings us to today, releasing Touchless to the world outside Microsoft, as a *FREE* *OPEN-SOURCE* SDK with a low barrier to entry for developers and users. Touchless makes developing multi-touch capable software easy, and the results can be enjoyed by anyone with a webcam (and some M&Ms :))! Touchless has come a long way, but its journey has just begun. I can imagine a variety of great directions to explore using Touchless. Perhaps support for the forthcoming Windows multi-touch API, video chat white-boarding, implementing mouse/game/hotkey/media control, and designing decked out Minority Report style file/media browsers.

Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:31:10 GMT

An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback.

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.

Coding Instinct: CodeSaga - The TFS & Subversion Storyteller

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:43:29 GMT

CodeSaga is a source code repository analyser, it makes viewing history logs fun and productive! Instant access to logs and diffs make it easy to keep track of what is happening in the repository. CodeSaga connects to any TFS or Subversion repository and scans it's history log. This enables fast viewing and filtering of logs and diffs because everything is stored in a local SQL server. The scanning process will also analyze line changes, this allows for interesting charts and stats.

How to Install Your Own Subversion Version Control Server Using Visual

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

LINQ'ing the Future of Development with Jim Wooley

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:31:02 GMT

The latest version of the .Net Framework includes a technology called LINQ. Developers are digging their teeth into it and Deep Fried Bytes is here to help with them work out the KINQs in LINQ. Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Wooley and discuss the truths, gotchas and a few rusty washers about LINQ.

Ideavine - An open source hosting project

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Nate Kotahri and James Alveri has launched a new open source hosting service for .NET. it's currently hosting only two projects, Subtext a famous open source blogging engine and NInject, a dependency injection framework.

My MVC Starter Template

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:31:05 GMT

I've been toying around with reorganizing the default MVC template and thought I would share it with people. I like the way it's come together.

Social Timeline - Twitter Provider

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:37:55 GMT

I've updated the timeline so that you can view your - or anyone else's - tweets on the timeline. I also added an additional band to provide easier navigation on a day-by-day continuum in addition to the previous (and somewhat confusing at times) hour-only snapshot. Despite the growing number of FriendFeed users there are a lot of people prefer to use Twitter as their only method of microblogging. I know I never update FriendFeed via its own GUI but rather just allow it to aggregate the contents of my social subscriptions. Anyway, the updated, Twitter-enabled Social Timeline is live, so check it out.

JSON Formatter

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:07:22 GMT

Nice online tool that lets you drop in some JSON text and see a nicely-formatted output. Helps visualize the data you'll be getting back from a JSON API.

bblog: How to Parse DateTimes from the Twitter API

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:45:04 GMT

This excellent post saved my day, when I was developing a tool to read Tweets. Excellent!

Check username availability with JQuery & ASP.NET

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:04 GMT

This article shows how to use jQuery in a real world practical situation - to check username availability - by making an AJAX call to a WebMethod. In this artcle we examine how to make the call, how get the desired username and pass it correctly as well as using jQuery to style and display firnedly notification messages.

Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Working with other colleagues, I found these C# syntaxes are still not well-known and used

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:16:13 GMT

After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams, it is completely online and...

Project Suvius.Famingo

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:17:04 GMT

Kyle starts up an interesting project through which he'll be tinkering with the ASP.NET MVC model. Not a bad idea, for sure.

More Efficient SyntaxHighlighter

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:31:02 GMT

No more preloading SyntaxHighlighter when you don't need the scripts. I used the power of jQuery to dynamically load only the necessary brush scripts.

Introducing SemanticEngine.NET

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:16:15 GMT

Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. They are used to create cross-site profiles of people and also represent relationships between them. XFN and microformats are somewhat easy to start using, but FOAF, APML and SIOC are a different story. Here's a new class library to make it easier..

Social Timeline

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:46:45 GMT

I've come up with a little demonstration app that shows how MVC can integrate with JQuery and maybe even an additional javascript framework. This example specifically targets the SIMILE Timeline widget. I saw SIMILE a few weeks ago, then I saw a really nice mimic of it used on Plurk. I figured, there's no reason for the Plurk users to have a corner on the social timeline market. We FriendFeed and Twitter addicts need our timeline too, don't we? So was born this pet project. The timeline only supports the FriendFeed API right now. I'd like to add Twitter next, then maybe an RSS provider, and so on.

jBlogMvc : part 1 Building the Administration Area

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:31:03 GMT

In this part, I used some features of the ASP.NET MVC to build an administration area, jQuery too was used on client side (validator plugin). Used membership for validation, Model Binders, jQuery Client validation,Small validation framework for business rules and server side validation.(originally written by scott gu), Using nested master pages in ASP.NET MVC, Applying the "Post/Redirect/Get" (aka PRG) pattern.