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Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:32:23 GMT

A slick little ASP.NET MVC + JQuery example.

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Describes what is needed to add OpenID login as an option to traditional ASP.NET Membership and integrating both.

Public Speaking - Great Beginnings

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:39:27 GMT

With a good opening comes a good closing. All that's left is the stuffing in the middle.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 3: Twitter War Stories

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:31:06 GMT

A group of Twitter power users met up on the last day of the TechEd 2008 Conference. They sat down with Deep Fried Bytes host and Twitter user Keith Elder to discuss their ideas, experiences and observations of the online service. Each person has their own reason for using Twitter but they all share a common theme. They all use Twitter to keep in touch with their friends and stay connected to keep relationships thriving.

MVC Storefront: Dependency Injection

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:01:02 GMT

This is a long one! I sat with Jeremy Miller (of StructureMap/CodeBetter fame) for over 2 hours, talking about DI, Singletons, kids, and other things and what came of it is, in my opinion, the best webcast in this series.

When the Going Gets Tough or How to Improve

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

How to improve yourself as a developer.

ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:16:13 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 introduced a new concept that I'm calling "dot" notation expressions off of your ViewData. See how these expressions can be used and how powerful they are.

ASP.NET MVC framework preview 3 released!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:16:03 GMT

Don't know how I do it, but I think this blog post is yet again the first one mentioning a new release of the ASP.NET framework (preview 3) The official installation package can be downloaded from the Microsoft site. Source code is also available from CodePlex.

Create an ASP.NET MVC site with UnitOfWork & NHibernate QueryGen

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:01:27 GMT

Part 4 of the RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC series. Here everything is tied together to create a simple MVC application.

MVC Storefront, Part 12: Mocking

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:16:04 GMT

In this episode I implement mocking so I can test my Authentication action for my UserController. In order to do this, however, I have to mock up the HttpContext... Not much else to say here - it's all about Mocking!

RestLess - A Simple REST Framework Part 2 : ndepth.net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

An updated to Jayme's RestLess framework with some general improvements (better URLs) and some new properties.

RestLess - A Simple REST Framework : ndepth.net

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A small framework to make exposing objects through a REST API extremely simple.

What is wrong with the ASP.NET Community

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:03 GMT

Dan Hounshell expounds on the state of the ASP.Net community. Weigh in using his commenting system with your own thoughts.

Graffiti 1.0 Released

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:16:02 GMT

Telligent released the first final version of its new CMS product, Graffiti. Graffiti 1.0 can run under Mono and provides powerful features with simplicity.

Multi-targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects - A Gotcha

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:31:03 GMT

Tips on Multi-targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects

Adding a DotNetKicks image via Javascript

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:46:02 GMT

Simple Javascript function which adds the DotNetKicks counter button to your pages.

Tips: Using Strong Typed DataSets with Web Services

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:16:01 GMT

The articles covers several tips to increase performance when using datasets with web services.

What's In A Closure

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:16:01 GMT

Closures are an important concept to understand as they underpin many functional programming techniques. This article peeks under the hood to see how closures are implemented in C# and discusses some ways in which they are extremely useful for producing robust code.

Fibonacci Numbers, Caching and Closures

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:31:01 GMT

In this article, I tinker with the classic Fibonacci number sequence and how to calculate them with lightning fast, thread-safe code using closures in C# 2.0.

CodeSmith 4.0 Public Beta 2 Released

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:01:02 GMT

CodeSmith 4.0 Beta 2 has been released and is now available to the public. Here are just a few the new capabilities in CodeSmith 4.0: * CodeSmith Projects (.csp) - This feature makes automating your code generation process really easy and consistent whether you are working from inside of Visual Studio 2005, MSBuild, Windows Explorer, a command line / batch file, or CodeSmith itself. * ActiveSnippets - Imagine Visual Studio 2005 snippets, but with the full power of CodeSmith available to execute any logic or access any complex metadata (including database schema and xml data) to control the output of your snippets. * CodeSmith Maps (.csmap) - This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings. * .netTiers 2.0 - The .netTiers templates have been greatly enhanced and included with CodeSmith 4.0. * Extended Property Management - You can now edit and add new schema extended properties inside of CodeSmith Studio. * Property Persistence - CodeSmith now remembers the property values from the last time you executed a template.