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

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:01:07 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

Some updates on the "Beginning ASP.NET MVC" book

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Finally the book has its cover designed, and it's available for pre-sale on Amazon. Keyvan also discusses the pro and cons of writing a book based on pre-release versions of a technology.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:16:12 GMT

For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and host it on github.

IronRuby In Action went into EAP

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:03:30 GMT

The book for Manning on IronRuby went in EAP today

Ninject (Part 2): Customizing your infrastructure for logging

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:11:15 GMT

Part 2 of a primer on getting started with Ninject. It uses NLog, Ninject, NSpecify and LightSpeed

Ninject: Getting all the stuff you'll need

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:16:03 GMT

A primer on getting started with Ninject. It uses NLog, Ninject and LightSpeed

Mindscape releases WPF Elements

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:01:04 GMT

WPF Elements is a suite of 12 controls that make WPF more approachable for developing line of business applications. Included is a MulticolumnTreeView (aka TreeListView) control, MaskedTextBox control, DateTime controls, Numeric text boxes and much more.

Updated my lightspeed model generator

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:54:52 GMT

An update on the ruby script to generate lightspeed models. It now includes support for the beta of version 2.0 . And announcement of hosting it on google code.

An IronRuby Digg Client

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:55:59 GMT

A port of the article by Scott Guthrie: A first look at silverlight 2 With all the code written in IronRuby and xaml.

Progress update on the IronRuby in Action book

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:01:02 GMT

A progress update on the IronRuby in Action and an attempt to get some feedback from the community on some doubts around the book

Using Ruby to generate LightSpeed models

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:16:02 GMT

The end of a 4 part series on creating a little ruby application to generate lightspeed models. It demonstrates usage and provides links to relevant information.

First Causes in Software Development: How do I decide what is good?

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Just another essential one from Jeremy (like every other posts on his blog). In this particular post, Jeremy describes what he finds valuable in writing software. Heck, I'm learning a ton from his blog.

WPF vs. Winforms - the showdown

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:46:02 GMT

WPF has been out for a couple of years but how is it staking up against Windows Forms development?

Italian Silverlight Competition: no go

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:31:02 GMT

NO application submitted to the Italian Competition (and looking at all other sites I counted at most 10 applications submitted in the whole European competition). What does this mean?

Mindscape ships the WPF Property Grid

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:31:02 GMT

The prolific Mindscape from Wellington (NZ) released another cool developer's tool: a property grid for WPF.

.NET Ajax Survey results

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

I just published the results of the Ajax survey... and the winner is...

Implementing filters in asp.net mvc

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:01:02 GMT

This post demonstrates how you could go about implementing filters for the asp.net mvc handler

ASP.NET MVC XsltViewEngine, patch submitted to the contrib project

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:16:03 GMT

I just submitted a patch to the mvc contrib project that contains the xslt view engine I wrote for Xero without any of the dependencies from our own libraries or commercial components. The bulk of the work is done in a class called XmlResponseBuilder which builds the xml document that is going to be transformed by the xsl stylesheet. Almost all the rest of the code is there just to build up this document. The implementation of IView and IViewFactory were the easy bits :) To use the View engine you need to take the following steps:

Sample + Notes on using the Parallel Extensions Library

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:46:03 GMT

Recently Microsoft released the Parallel Extensions Library to aid developers in building solutions that leverage multi-core machines that are becoming the norm. This post provides a sample solution that highlights the benefits of running parallel code but also highlights some warnings about why this library is not a silver bullet.

LightSpeed 1.1 Released

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:31:06 GMT

A new version of the popular O/RM framework LightSpeed is up. The new release includes soft delete, polymorphic querying, validation improvements, performance enhancements and even better documentation and samples. And the framework library is still only 125KB.

Mindscape LightSpeed on ARCast.TV

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

LightSpeed is a domain modeling and O/R Mapping framework. This ARCast.TV show discusses the framework with Jeremy Boyd and John-Daniel Trask.

Yet another ALT.NET opinion

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Everybody is saying his words about the ALT.NET movement, so I thought I should something as well.