Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

ayende.com — Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL. read more...

5 comments | category: Linq | Views: 1294

Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC

blog.codeville.net — Unfortunately, the [OutputCache] filter that ships with ASP.NET MVC is merely a thin wrapper around ASP.NET output caching. The MVC team have explained that they’re aware of the issues, but it’s very difficult to make ASP.NET output caching fit into MVC’s design, and they are focusing on other things first. We can quite easily create a new caching filter that captures actions’ output and uses ASP.NET’s data caching facility to store it for next time. This filter will fit properly into the MVC pipeline, not strangely bypassing authorization or other earlier filters (it will run at the right time in whatever ordered set of filters you’ve using). read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 136

Client Templating with jQuery

published 1 month, 20 days ago, submitted by rstrahl 1 month, 20 days ago

west-wind.com — Client templating in Javascript can be a great tool to reduce the amount of code you have to write to create markup content on the client. There are a number of different ways that templating can be accomplished from a purely manual approach to a full templating engine. In this entry I'll look at several different approaches. read more...

add a comment | category: AJAX | Views: 291

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

msmvps.com — A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application. read more...

3 comments | category: ASP.NET | Views: 449

Dynamically Create a Zip File Your Users Can Then Download

beckelman.net — I recently had a requirement to allow users to select a group of files and then dynamically create a zip file on the server of the selected files that they could then download. read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 309

Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET

published 3 months, 11 days ago, submitted by madskristensen 3 months, 12 days ago

blog.madskristensen.dk — Shows a very simple and powerful way of serving .js files with the right localized text strings. read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 195

Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

published 4 months, 5 days ago, submitted by janko 4 months, 6 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — We're all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details about it. This article will show you how you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting with just a few simple CSS tricks. read more...

add a comment | category: Other | Views: 635

Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery

published 5 months, 23 days ago, submitted by janko 5 months, 24 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — This article shows how to highlight a current context on a complex web forms using jQuery. You can see how to highlight current row or current group of rows, and how easily it could be done by uisng powerful jQuery selectors. read more...

3 comments | category: Other | Views: 326