New ASP.NET MVC Videos and Tutorials

published 5 days, 18 hours ago, submitted by jamesewelch 6 days, 1 hour ago

weblogs.asp.net — 15 new ASP.NET MVC videos were just published at the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. The first 10 videos are basic tutorials on the ASP.NET MVC framework. If you haven’t had a chance to play with ASP.NET MVC yet, these tutorials are a great introduction. The second set of 5 videos is part of an ongoing video series: ASP.NET MVC Pair Programming. In these videos, I pair with a prominent community expert to build an entire ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish (because of time constraints – a very, very simple application). The goal is to emphasize the process of building a web application instead of the product. read more...

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Egoless Programming - Developing Without the Attitude

submitted by jamesewelch 1 month, 11 days ago

mikebernat.com — One of the most common threads that all programmers share is that of an ego. Some are much worse than others and some have found a way to control or manipulate their ego into a great benefit. Beyond skill-sets and other programming-specific talents I believe the greatest room for personal improvement in programmers as a whole is that of the ego. read more...

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How to prevent web.config inheritance in ASP.NET child virtual directo

submitted by jamesewelch 1 month, 24 days ago

jamesewelch.wordpress.com — If you add a new ASP.NET web site as a virtual directory/application under an existing ASP.NET web site, then you’ll probably be having some problems with web.config inheritance. Even if the sub-webapp is physically separate, just being in a virtual directory located within another webapp will result in many of the settings being inherited and messing up your sub-webapp. read more...

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ASP.NET Rich Text Editor Control

published 9 months, 13 days ago, submitted by jamesewelch 9 months, 13 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Kannan Sundararajan, Microsoft, has written a Rich Text Editor control using ASP.NET and JavaScript and shared it under the MS-PL license on CodePlex. It has a very rich feature set and Kannan hopes to enhance it further in the future. Features: * Clipboard support: You can copy and paste content from other programs like Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio into the RichTextEditor and it will persist the formatting. If you copy code from Visual Studio it will preserve the code coloring scheme. * Context sensitive Toolbar: The ToolBar buttons will reflect the properties of that content automatically when you select it or navigate through it using the mouse or keyboard . * Code Block: It allows you to format text as code blocks. Simple select the text and format it by clicking the "Code Block" ToolBar button. * Emoticons: You can express yourself better by adding emoticons to your rich text. * HtmlView: If you would like to have more control over the look and feel of your text then you can edit it in HtmlView as well. * Text in multiple languages: The control currently supports several languages. * Browser support: The control works well in two of the most widely used browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. read more...

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Prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in your web application

submitted by jamesewelch 10 months, 11 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — Web services are the most attractive target for hackers because even a pre-school hacker can bring down a server by repeatedly calling a web service which does expensive work. Ajax Start Pages like Pageflakes are the best target for such DOS attack because if you just visit the homepage repeatedly without preserving cookie, every hit is producing a brand new user, new page setup, new widgets and what not. The first visit experience is the most expensive one. Nonetheless, it’s the easiest one to exploit and bring down the site. read more...

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Convert street address to longitude and latitude via web service

published 10 months, 10 days ago, submitted by jamesewelch 10 months, 22 days ago

jamesewelch.wordpress.com — Demonstrates how to convert a street address to a geographic position in longitude and latitude coordinates by using a free REST web service provided by GeoCoder.us. Web service only works for addresses within the United States due to the source (US census) data. read more...

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Keeping Pulse on Your Site With ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring

published 10 months, 24 days ago, submitted by jamesewelch 10 months, 25 days ago

aspnetresources.com — One of the best, yet often overlooked, features of ASP.NET 2.0 is health monitoring. When it is absolutely essential to be notified of any problems with your web application, and this is where health monitoring comes in handy. read more...

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Super easy SQL Server 2005 Database Schema change auditing

published 10 months, 21 days ago, submitted by jamesewelch 10 months, 25 days ago

blogs.geekdojo.net — Here's a very simple way to make use of xml type in SQL Server 2005: audit all the object/schema changes to the database with a simple database-level trigger. It's like a poor man's source control for schema changes. But also, it could come in very handy for forensic purposes when diagnosing post-rollout issues or accidental schema changes. Anyway, it's simple and handy for what it does. read more...

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