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Adding HTTPS/SSL support to ASP.NET MVC routing

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:02:52 GMT

Unfortunately, as of Preview 4, routing has a missing feature (oh noes!): it's got no support for absolute URLs. Everything it does works in terms of application-relative "virtual paths", so you simply can't generate links to other subdomains, port numbers, or even switch from HTTP to HTTPS (or vice-versa). As they say, the design is never perfect first time.

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

Ideas for Content Management in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:31:06 GMT

I've been working on quite a few projects where I'm either already directly developing within the ASP.NET MVC Framework or where the framework is prominently featured in my design/architecture documents. Because the framework is so new, there are still a few kinks and the patterns for how to do some common things haven't yet sorted themselves out. One of those areas is how to handle content in web applications.

4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:16:07 GMT

Well, it is about time we (Tim, Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC book with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is framework going to be smashing success.

VisualSVN 1.6 Released

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:46:11 GMT

VisualSVN team released the new and improved version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.6. This release brings significant usability improvements such as Quick Revert, editor-aware status and Hot Switch features.

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

Naming Collisions And The Using Directive

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:31:06 GMT

Are you familiar with the following C# compilation error: "CS0104: ClassA is an ambiguous reference between Namespace1.ClassA and Namespace2.ClassA"? Most software developer would solve that error by...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:05:37 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars:

Regular Expressions In MS SQL Server using CLR

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:59:36 GMT

In this post I'll show just how easy it is to make your SQL Server 2005 database support Regular Expressions through what is known as SQL CLR

How to Create a Reusable WCF Service Host for Windows Services and ...

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:09:19 GMT

In this article, I'll show you how to create a reusable service host that can be run from either from the console (self-hosted) or installed as a Windows service. I'll also demonstrate how to use a configuration file instead of code to control which WCF services the host starts. Finally, I'll show how you can make the Windows service installer flexible to allow you to run multiple versions of the service on the same machine. Before getting into implementation details, I'd like to share my motivations behind this solution.

.NET StockTrader Sample Application

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:52:54 GMT

An End-to-End Sample Application Illustrating Windows Communication Foundation and .NET Enterprise Technologies This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0) and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications. It is designed as a benchmark kit to illustrate alternative technologies within .NET and their relative performance.

Forgot that connection string?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Provides connection strings to many databases by many methods. An essential reference.

Create PDF with C#

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Create PDF with C# on the fly

C# Extension Methods for ASP.NET Query String Operations

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:44:49 GMT

Over the years, all the way back to the ASP 2.0 days, elegantly handling the Query String parameters between gets has been a challenge. With Web Forms for ASP.NET View State put this issue on the backburner, but with MVC on the rise and restful applications becoming hot[...]

25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:46:02 GMT

A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides, .NET blogs and how tos about improving .NET performance.

Does Google care about the quality of your markup?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:31:08 GMT

We are always discussing how to improve a page rank. But what about the basics? Does correct or incorrect HTML affect how google ranks a page? This article discusses a few issues that definetely affect your SEO.

Open Country Codes: ISO 3166 country names and Alpha-2 country codes

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:42:29 GMT

This simple and deliberately unstyled little app gives you the ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 country name and country code lists in a variety of ready-to-use formats.

So What's Your Personal (Developer) Brand?

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:46:02 GMT

I am increasingly being asked by members of my team how they can further themselves within the company. While this is certainly an option - and a popular one - it is not the only track to follow. You could choose to become a technical specialist, an architect or even a technical salesperson. But whatever path you choose to follow your ability to achieve it will be dependent on how you develop your own personal brand - in other words the way you portray yourself to others will directly reflect the opportunities that are presented to you.

Setting Up a Blog or Personal Website on a Home Computer with Vista

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:04:22 GMT

A walkthrough on hosting a personal blog on a WIndows Vista machine with ASP.NET. Includes setting up IIS 7, SQL Express, and a Dynamic DNS

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

Seam Carving for Resizing using SEAMonster

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:10:50 GMT

SEAMonster, small bug fix so that it can be used as a resizer.

Easily Injecting HTML into RadEditor

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:36:54 GMT

This is a demonstration on how easily client side content can be injected at runtime.

CLR Security team on Codeplex

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:01:02 GMT

The CLR Security Team just launched their CodePlex site which contains two assemblies that provide additional functionality to the security APIs shipped in v3.5 of the .NET Framework.