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New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:16:06 GMT

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).

Combining independent widgets on ASP.NET MVC pages

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

As great as ASP.NET MVC is, it doesn't have such an easy way to set up reusable controls or "widgets". Steven Sanderson explains a technique similar to MVC Contrib's "subcontrollers", but much simpler.

Client Templating with jQuery

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:16:05 GMT

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.

Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:31:10 GMT

An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback.

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

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.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

Dynamically Create a Zip File Your Users Can Then Download

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:46:03 GMT

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.

Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A guide on how to easily script out an entire database (schema and data) using the Database Publishing Wizard. A tool that you may not know you have access to. And if you have Visual Studio 2008, you already have installed!

Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:46:10 GMT

Shows a very simple and powerful way of serving .js files with the right localized text strings.

Implementing a Repository and Specificaiton pattern using Linq

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:31:03 GMT

In my previous post I put down some thoughts on the Repository and Specification patterns and in the end said that with the introduction of Linq and the growing popularity of ORM frameworks and their support for Linq, it's time to look back at these two patterns and see how we can leverage Linq to simplify the patterns and make them infrastructure agnostic.

Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:16:02 GMT

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.

jQuery.UI Messenger\Outlook like message notification Widget

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Messenger like notification widget using jQuery.UI, following Matt Berseth post about ProgressBar Widger using jQuery.UI

Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:02 GMT

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.

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

Standalone Silverlight Apps with Full Trust

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:42:46 GMT

Laurent shows that it is possible to distribute Silverlight Apps as a single .hta file that can run in full trust.

Umbraco rocks and this is why

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:32:19 GMT

I had a little trouble getting ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX working in Umbraco. The incredible community makes it the best CMS out there.

Tag property without inheritance

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:46:04 GMT

The article show how to add support for Tag property without using inheritance

WCF REST Configuration for ASP.NET AJAX and plain REST Services

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

.NET 3.5 includes WCF REST service functionality that allows for cleaner HTTP access to services. For AJAX applications this means that WCF can now be used both for MS AJAX clients as well as non-MS AJAX clients like jQuery or Prototype. This post focuses on setting up and configuring WCF for REST operation with a focus on AJAX scenarios looking at some of the different configuration options available.

Compressing your audio in XNA

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:05:45 GMT

An easy to use guide for a setting everyone can use until comression of audio becomes a real feature in XNA.

Simple Trick to Test Your Silverlight Web Pages

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Test how your web page appears to users without Silverlight in a second, with this useful tip.

Client Side Templating with jQuery

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:16:03 GMT

When building AJAX applications there's often the requirement to choose between client and server side rendering. Server side ASP.NET controls provide rich templating, but updating those controls on the client can be difficult. Or is it? Here's one approach using jQuery and HTML templates in markup script to dynamically create complex layout on the client without writing reams of script code.

Great Little Silverlight Tool Every .Net Developer Need

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A light and handy Silverlight utility which allows you to select through all the possible String.Format options. And provides you with a code snippet to paste into your code.