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

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:49:07 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 05:01:02 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

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:03 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 14:46:02 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

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:27:09 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

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

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

Is It Possible? .NET Applications for iPhone?

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:31:09 GMT

It seems that soon we will be able to write .NET applications for the iPhone

MVC: Error Handler Action Filter

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:46:02 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 12:46:02 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

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:03 GMT

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

WPF Bootcamp

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:47:51 GMT

Excellent video resources for learning WPF

Disabling Configuration Inheritance For ASP.NET Child Applications

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:57:05 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

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:16:02 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 02:42:26 GMT

How to create Windows Firewall Exceptions with C#

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

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:16:02 GMT

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

Effective user interface testing

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:46:02 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 03:02:50 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 05:20:40 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.

Upgrading a DotNetNuke Site to 4.5.5 from 4.x

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:07:29 GMT

A great tutorial on how to upgrade a site from DotNetNuke 4.x to 4.5.5.

How to tell if a .NET Assembly is debug or release

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Explains how to tell if a .NET Assembly is built for debug or release by using .NET Reflector and programmatically using System.Reflection.

ASP.NET Charting with NPlot

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:46:03 GMT

There are several commercial charting libraries available for ASP.NET. They are extensively advertised, and can certainly do the job. However, frugal developers like me may prefer freeware alternatives. In this article we will examine using NPlot to create charts in an ASP.NET application. NPlot is a free, .NET native charting engine that excels at scientific charting. Read on to learn more!

ASP.NET jobs vs Ruby & PHP

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:16:02 GMT

How many job listings on the major job boards for the different programming languages - Who Wins? Click to Find Out.

Mobile Web Forms in Visual Studio 2005 SP1

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:40:30 GMT

Mobile web form templates for Visual Studio 2005 SP1 are missing for web application projects.

Good bye NUnit.Behave hello Behave#

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

Most of you who read my blog know that I have been working on NUnit.Behave which was meant to mirror the functionality of rbehave in .Net. My initial spike was a success but it required that you inherit from an base NUnit Test Fixture. Even I wouldn't use it! So I spent some time decoupling it from NUnit into it's own framework. At the same time my idea caught on and Jimmy Bogard decided to do the same thing. Well to make a long story short we have been collaborating on the differences between our two frameworks over the last week and have decided to go with Behave#. I love OSS, where else could this be possible!

Nant Task for Creating IIS Application Mappings

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:46:02 GMT

Very useful Nant task for creating custom IIS Application mappings (.rails, .jpg, etc)