Developer Poetry Series: SharePoint How Sad Are We

codezest.com — SharePoint SharePoint how sad are we Your marketing promise me everything under the sun & as far as my eyes can see A hidden cost, a nasty toss, a huge 5 year loss Go hire a whole team, 3rd party pugs-ins, SharePoint consultants with nothing BUT cost read more...

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Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

devlicio.us — 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. read more...

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Creating an ItemDataBound Event Delegate for a Nested Repeater

codezest.com — Today I needed to create a nested grid using repeaters. Pretty common but always a pain in the ass with all Microsoft controls. I needed to nest my repeaters just like you’d nest any other control like the DataGrid or GridView. The issue came up for me when I wanted to create a delegate for my nested repeater (repeater inside my parent). Since a nested control within a control (the nested repeater in this case) is not available at the page level, Intellisense or the compiler will not know that it exists. Because it’s nested inside a parent, it becomes pat of that parent’s collection of objects. read more...

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Partial Mocks with the StructureMap AutoMocker

devlicio.us — If you have not checked out the new AutoMocking Container that is part of StructureMap 2.5 I would highly suggest you do, it rocks. I thought I would show how simple it is to create a PartialMock on the Class under Test (CUT) when using the RhinoAutoMocker. Our Class we want to mock read more...

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Initial Server 2008 Pains – Infamous UAC

codezest.com — Remember to do one of two things if using Server 2008 for the first ti read more...

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Visual Studio/Intellisense Doesn’t Recognize Web Controls & Code

codezest.com — Intermittently at times, Visual Studio for some odd reason, refuses to recognize web controls or C# syntax during a build/compile that you know is fine. You’ve included all the right usings, assembly or project references, and the syntax you know worked before, but for some reason it just decides to piss you off when you try to compile by stating it is not familiar with the syntax or control. There are a slew of things one can try in order to sort of kick Visual Studio in the pants when you try to build, and it still can’t seem to notice those web controls even when they are in the designer file and there are no conflicts or syntax issues. Today I has such an issue again. When you exhaust all the tricks of the trade, the next best thing to do is ultimately just recreate the file itself and paste back in your code. read more...

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Microsoft Gold Partner Program as a General Selling Point is a Complet

codezest.com — I don’t know how many shops I’ve seen, interviewed with, or even worked at that wave the “We’re a Microsoft Gold Partner” geek flag waved around as if without knowing the place, we automatically are supposed to assume the shop is a credible development shop. Most of these are waved by non-technical managers that know nothing about quality code. This means nothing to me in terms of credibility & quality, and it’s clearly just a marketing term that only benefits Microsoft and somehow makes employers think they should be proud that they are a Gold Partner. It’s like giving an office worker a Certificate because they passed the HTML For Dummies course to hang on their cubes at work. read more...

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N-Layered != N-Tiered: Know the Difference!

codezest.com — I hear a LOT of developers refer to what are essentially N-Layers as “N-Tiers”. This kind of bugs me a little when I see or hear it from developers. First of all, they are not even close the same thing, and it’s important as a developer to get this straight so that you are using the terminology properly. The difference is simple but very important when you’re talking about your applications. They should not be loose terms and intermingled as about probably 90% of the developers out there that I’ve worked with seem to do. read more...

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