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How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A quick how-to on getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on Windows Azure.

Boy Scout Check-ins

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

How to leave your code campground cleaner than you found it.

Indispensable Wordpress Plugins

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:37:53 GMT

Another list of useful wordpress plugins

Remotely Log Off Remote Desktop Users

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

How to remotely log off remote desktop (terminal service) users when you get that annoying: "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections."

OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Introducing a new open source project whose aim is to bring the OMeta language to .net.

Rock the iPhone with ASP.NET MVC and iUI

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:16:10 GMT

An intro to using iUI and ASP.NET MVC to write web applications for the iPhone.

SubSonic: Using Migrations

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery has a nice post (and video!) of the new Migrations support that will be included in SubSonic 2.1 (Pakala)

Slice - Collection Slicing Extension Method

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:46:02 GMT

A recreation of Python collection slicing in .NET using extension methods.

ASP.NET MVC Screencast: Model-based client-side validation

Thu, 01 May 2008 15:31:08 GMT

A very sweet and simple way to get validation into an MVC app, just by specifying rules as attributes on model objects (e.g. [ValidateEmail]). Client-side validation happens automatically...

My "Better Know a Framework" Talk at IndyCodeCamp

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Today at the IndyCodeCamp I gave a talk in much of the same spirit as the "Better Know a Framework" series on ".NET Rocks!" The talk had no slides, but featured me in the debugger highlighting a few of my favorite (but lesser known classes). This code is included. As part of my preparation, I researched every topic covered on each show and included a brief summary as part.

From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

How to open a project file in Visual Studio 2008 for editing

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:34:46 GMT

Shows how to use PowerCommands to open a csproj file in VisualStudio for editing purposes instead of actually "opening" the project. This gives you the visual studio xml editor as well as the built in intellisense for the msbuild schema. Its a great set of tools to install.

ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Many people on the forums want to know how to best protect Actions on their Controller using Forms Authentication. The MVC Team has done a nice job introducing Filters (using Attributes) to this latest drop of MVC, and in this post I'll show you how to create a filter that can handle security.

Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals?

For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

A quest to move away from the 50 year old style of "for loops" and embrace newer ways of getting the same job done.

The Boo Language

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:02 GMT

Ayende on the Boo language.

Side-wide user controls in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

3 ways to handle "global" user controls in ASP.NET MVC.

OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Interested in adding OpenID to your .NET website?

Free Copy of VS 2008, SQL 2008 and Windows Server 2008

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Want a lot of free software from our friends at Microsoft?

Borrowing Ideas From 3 Interesting Internal Classes in the .NET 3.5

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:31:03 GMT

Improve your code by borrowing ideas from System.Linq.Strings, System.Linq.Error, and Microsoft.Contracts.Contract.

Create Web Sites+Services with ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:31:03 GMT

An example library that shows how, with one line of code and a few conventions, your ASP.NET web site can instantly serve up HTML, POX, or JSON. Very cool!