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The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only - to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity...

The Dynamic Programmer - Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:00:06 GMT

If you ever played with some language that have the Tuple type I bet you miss it in .Net. Well 4.0 adds it. Let's take a look at the implementation and how to use it.

More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:16:02 GMT

In this post, I'll share some of the best practices and guidelines which I have come across while developing ASP.NET MVC web applications. I will not cover all best practices that are available, instead add some specific things that have not been mentioned in any blog post out there. Existing best practices can be found on Kazi Manzur Rashid's blog and Simone Chiaretta's blog.

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit

Mon, 04 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit today!!!!

Regex Hero to the Rescue

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:16:14 GMT

From BucketSoft comes an online Silverlight regular expression tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine. Features instantaneous highlighting of regular expression matches. It's a great way to test iterations of your .NET regular expressions quickly.

ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:01:11 GMT

ELMAH has been one of the most useful tools for ASP.NET developers to log errors on their web applications. Now Scott has a nice talk on how to use it even in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Cool!

I Spose I'll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:21 GMT

I'm never shy about my opinion - why start now? I've been reading a lot of posts flying about on whether you should learn MVC, Summing up the differences so you can decide when to use it, I even found a post that offers a scorecard approach! I remember reading the latter post thinking to myself "how can you possibly put a number next to Testability? And why it is only 2 more points than "using a RAD designer"? Isn't this missing the entire point?

Kobe - MS New Web 2.0 Resource Kit in ASP.NET MVC and My thoughts

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

If you recently visited the home page of www.asp.net you will find that Microsoft has released a new Resource Kit for developing Web 2.0 Applications. The resource kit contains a sample reference application that is developed in ASP.NET MVC framework. Since both of these are my area of of interest, I downloaded the codes and give a quick walkthrough. Prior getting to the main discussion, I just want to remind you that it is the second reference application (after Oxite) that is named under Microsoft, so you are suppose to get some quality....

Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:46:02 GMT

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch!

Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:01:02 GMT

In this screencast Rob Conery and Brad Wilson talk about continuous integration with TeamCity, Unit Testing with xUnit and TDD in general. "This screencast went from a simple idea - talking to Brad Wilson about better Unit Testing - to some pretty broad topics such as source control, unit testing, and continuous integration. I seriously could have written a whole book based on the stuff flying through my mind. I reigned it in a bit and decided to focus on two things that I don't think get enough press: writing a good Unit Test coupled with Continuous Integration."

Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:16:17 GMT

As a follow up to the last podcast that featured Mike Moore and Scott Bellware discussing Alt.Net I spoke with Jeremy Miller to put out a vision for what he feels Alt.Net should represent and how it can be a positive thing in the community. This will be the last episode here on this topic, I promise to get back to normal technology discussions (next episode is about BDD and TDD).

ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:16:03 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the ASP.NET MVC source code is being released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything.

Bits in Motion: Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:41:09 GMT

From the post: "Today we are releasing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6. Lots of new stuff, including new features and performance enhancements. Highlights: * Parallelizable tests. * One-click test debugging from Icarus. * Auto-reload and auto-run tests from Icarus after each build. * ReSharper 4.5 beta support with improved performance."

Expression Blend 3 is...

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:16:18 GMT

This article highlight some of my favorite new features in Expression blend 3 (including silverlight 3 support, perspective 3d, intellisense, etc)

A lap around MIX09 keynote announcements

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:31:09 GMT

Simone collects all the big announcements from MIX09 and provides links to get deeper into the new stuff

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

FizzBin - The Technical Support Secret Handshake

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:46:04 GMT

I hate that 5 minute to 5 hour long "ramp up" when I'm on the phone with any kind of technical support as they realize that we both know what we're doing. Or at least, one of us does.

Northwest Arkansas Code Camp 2009

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:02:05 GMT

This is just a short post to let everyone know about our local Code Camp. The code camp will be April 25, 2009 at the Shewmaker Center in Bentonville, AR. If you have not registered or need more details please go to http://codecamp.nwadnug.org. The current session list is below.

Hosting your OSS project on github

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:31:09 GMT

Aaron walks through hosting an oss project on github and how to use git as the SCC system.

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 17: The State of Alt.Net

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:01:04 GMT

Mike Moore talks with Scott Bellware about the state of Alt.Net

Late-Bound Invocation with Expression Trees

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:46:20 GMT

Avoid the cost of reflection for late-bound invocation by using expression trees.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available