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Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:16:12 GMT

The goal was to get some Mono project templates working with Mono assemblies and the Mono compiler in Visual Studio. The trick was to do it in a way that would be able to survive upgrades of Mono installations.

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 . . .

WPF: Ribbon in Prism Applications

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:38:38 GMT

Microsoft some time ago published its Ribbon(known from Office 2007) control library for Windows Presentation Foundation. This article contains steps necessary to implement ribbon view region in Composite Application Library(aka Prism) .

Windows comming soon to Amazon EC2

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:01:15 GMT

This is big news! Amazon are to enable Windows Support on EC2. this will allow users to kick of Windows images for running SQL Servers, IIS instances and anything else (even HPC stuff) in the cloud! SWEET!

PostSharp4ViewState: make your C# properties persistent in ASP.NET

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:27:58 GMT

This PostSharp plug-in turns your C# properties of ASP.NET pages or control persistent just by putting a custom attribute on them.

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Getting started with Managed Extensibility Framework

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:01:44 GMT

Last Friday Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 2 (MEF) was published on CodePlex. MEF is a new library in .NET that will simplify adding extension points to your applications. It enables discovery, loading and composition of the extensible components.

Client & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Emad Ibrahim talks about Client (with jQuery Validation Plugin) & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC.

Working with .NET 1.1 in Visual Studio 2008 and Team Server

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:49:07 GMT

I was trying to write that post for so long that I've started worry that there will be new version of the Visual Studio before I will even start. Finally, I found some time and here it is. What I'm going to write about here is how to use the latest IDE to work with a .NET 1.1 applications. Before you will start asking why one would like to do so, there is an answer: because you can. But seriously speaking, I prefer to use much more matured IDE than the very 2003 version. There is also other, even more important reason - TFS. By importing your 1.1 projects into VS2008 you can use full benefits of TFS. That is worthwhile. So let's get started.

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Got more than 2GB of RAM in your machine? Get around the 2GB memory limit by making Visual Studio large address aware.

Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

DotNetOpenId 2.0 Released!

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:46:02 GMT

This release adds full support for OpenID 2.0 while preserving full backward compatibility for OpenID 1.x. It is a mature library with lots of help for diagnostics and debugging, and a balance between simplicity and extensibility.

Dino Esposito - Communities to Communities 2008 - Poland

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:27:09 GMT

Video created on conference "Communities to Communities 2008" in Poland (Warsaw) (05.04.2008). More about conference: http://c2c2008.pl

MVC: Membership Starter Kit Updated

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:31:02 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to include OpenID, MVC components, password recovery, and basic client-side validation.

MVC: Error Handler Action Filter

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

An Action Filter for the MVC Preview 2 release that allows you to say "hey, Mr. Action, if you throw [ThisException], please show [ThisPage]".

ASP.NET MVC Framework out on CodePlex

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:46:02 GMT

This morning, I was browsing the new projects page on CodePlex and noticed something nice! The ASP.NET MVC team already rumoured around making the ASP.NET MVC framework source code available on CodePlex, but here it is: the ASP.NET MVC project on CodePlex.

Microsoft Sync Framework Support in Visual Studio 2008

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:01:03 GMT

How to add synchronization framework to your app in several mouse clicks in Visual Studio 2008.

WPF Bootcamp

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:47:51 GMT

Excellent video resources for learning WPF

Disabling Configuration Inheritance For ASP.NET Child Applications

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:57:05 GMT

Configuration inheritance is a very robust feature of ASP.NET that allows you to set configuration settings in the Web.Config of a parent application and have it automatically be applied to all of its child applications. There are certain situations, however, when there are configuration settings that you don't want to apply to a child application. The usual course of action is to override the setting in question in the child application's web.config file, which is ideal if there are only a handful of settings to deal with. This is less than ideal when there are a significant number of settings that need to be overridden, or when you simply want the child application to be largely independent of its parent.

Rob Conery going to Microsoft

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery (SubSonic) just got hired by Microsoft. This has to be one of the coolest posts of his as well.

Windows Firewall Exceptions

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:42:26 GMT

How to create Windows Firewall Exceptions with C#

SQL Server: Notify client of progress in a long running process

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:16:02 GMT

In long running scripts it's usefull to notify the client of the progress. Here's a simple solution.

Effective user interface testing

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:46:02 GMT

User interface tests are a bit tricky - it is easy to get carried away and waste quite a lot of time, without getting any real benefits. However, if planned properly, automated UI tests can have a great effect on the project. Here are a few tips on how to make the most of automated user-interface tests.

MonoRail #3: Unit Testing and ViewComponents

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:02:50 GMT

Ensuring that I'm doing unit testing correctly, using the new BastControllerTest, and also how to setup a simple ViewComponent

Creating a PHP 5 Extension with Visual C++ 2005

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:20:40 GMT

This article describes the steps to create a custom PHP extension DLL for the Windows platform. The Zend API documentation that comes with PHP 5 on Windows (see php_manual_en.chm) does a good job explaining how to write extension methods, parse method parameters, and return values. But there is not currently a good step-by-step tutorial on how to get your first extension project up and running on Windows. The aim of this article is to fill that gap.