Saving time and effort with advanced Monorail features

gojko.net — In the third part of the Castle tutorial, we look into the features of Monorail that allow us to save a lot of time and effort when developing web applications. We explore advanced Monorail concepts that help us delegate error processing and authentication to the framework and reuse templates. We also look into how Monorail integrates nicely with ActiveRecord to automatically load and modify database objects based on HTML forms. read more...

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Using AjaxRepeater Control, ASP.NET AJAX

blog.devarchive.net — Recently after reading blog post Ajax Templates by Nikhil Kothari I really liked the idea, the source code is great, and the control is huge help for AJAX development. In this blog post I want to share what I learned after investigating sample more carefully, and in what scenarios I feel this control is doing it's job quite well. read more...

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A C# fluent repeater

published 5 months, 19 days ago, submitted by AdrianAisemberg 5 months, 20 days ago

sharpregion.com — A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff! read more...

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FormatWith 2.0 - String formatting with named variables

published 6 months, 9 days ago, submitted by JamesNK 6 months, 9 days ago

james.newtonking.com — An improved version of the string FormatWith extension method. It now has the ability to also work with named variables, e.g. "{UserName} last logged in at {LastLoginDate}".FormatWith(user) read more...

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AJAX-style Asynchronous Progress Dialog for WinForms

codeproject.com — A base class for adding a rich asynchronous progress animation to any Form. My company develops a lot of rich-client applications and we have forever wanted a nice "slick" way to indicate to the user when activity is occuring in the background. Rarely do we know how long an operation will take (web services, remoting calls etc) so we always use to just stick a little barber pole type animation in the top-right corner of the main application window. This was never a perfect solution though because we still had to do all the nasty "locking" of the Control/Form to make sure they couldn't queue up another action. Moreover, setting Enabled = False on many WinForms controls can look quite ugly and inconsistent especially if the Form has got a variety of different controls. In recent years AJAX on the web has actually pioneered some interesting GUI concepts. I've always liked it when web sites pop-up with a central window that turns the background slightly darker and then ask you for some input. Then you type that input in and press an OK button and then you get a nice little barber pole animation to indicate it has gone off back to the server and is waiting for a reply for the next step (if any). That's basically what this project is about. Bringing that "cool" AJAX-style asynchronous indication behaviour to WinForms. read more...

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TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?

published 8 months, 6 days ago, submitted by powerrush 8 months, 13 days ago

scruffylookingcatherder.com — So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained. read more...

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New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework ( Part 1 of 3 )

shafqatahmed.com — Introduction to the addin framework in .NET 3.5 read more...

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RikMigrations - Starting from an existing database

rikware.com — Shows how to generate .NET migrations from existing databases using RikMigrations. read more...

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