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Release of a simple validation framework for ASP.NET

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:58:38 GMT

SimpleValidation is a framework that enables you to tag your entities' properties with attributes, and it will generate web validators based on those attributes, and add them to your edit form. No more manual adding of those numerous RequiredValidator!

July 2008 MSDN mag on-line

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:36:32 GMT

Come and get it. ;-)

MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo With OpenID

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Robs new Screencast - the focus in this screencast is the membership system.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:46:11 GMT

Sure, SQL Server 2008 is getting ready to drop, but are you familiar with all of the new features that 2005 gave you? Or maybe you haven't used 2005, well, this is a good article to introduce to you several of the new features in SQL Server 2005.

IIS7 GAC Viewer

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:15:13 GMT

DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our platform - including IIS Manager Remote Delegated Access to the Web Site and many other cool tools - has just built and released yet another cool module that extends the IIS Manager capabilities by having a GAC Viewer for their customers.

Dependency Injection is Dead!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:46:10 GMT

The author claims that AOP-assisted Dependency Resolution, where dependencies are resolved on-demand without plumbing code and use of factories, can supersede Dependency Injection... at least in some scenarios. A refreshing view on a topic that tends to become sanctified and therefore undiscussed in our community.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Upgrade Guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:01:04 GMT

The upgrade process is fairly easy but there are a few things to be aware of. more....

Some concepts to know before you use an IoC tool

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:09 GMT

The baseline understanding required to effectively implement dependency injection

Google App Engine: the Goods and the Bads

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:43:58 GMT

After trying Google App Engine for some time, there are goods and bads to it. Here's a list:

MVC Storefront, Part 15: Code Review With Ayende

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:31:14 GMT

Normally I would have gone through this many times already, however I have the good fortune of all your comments :). Even so, it's always a good idea to take a timeout and make sure you're not going off the deep end. In this episode I do a code review with Ayende and Steve Harman and have a really nice AHA! moment.

Replacing Loaded Assemblies - Paulo Morgado

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Paulo shows us how to load, unload and replace assemblies at runtime.

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

Batching WCF calls

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Great approach to overcome unnecessary roundtrips to a WCF service!

donjon - an agile project management web app

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

From hammet - the man behind the castle project "Our first goal is to make an agile project management web app. Why? We are not happy with the apps we have been using. They clearly are clueless regarding usability, and the pricing is unreasonable - not to mention the drug dealer selling model. The one that has a very decent UI is just not flexible. Also, I'm not a total fan of SaaS model, so I'd rather host my and my clients projects and important data."

Using GIT with CodePlex

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Blog post by Ayende Rahien on using GIT with CodePlex through a combination of git-svn and SvnBridge.

An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:46:50 GMT

A nice essay from 37signals on designing UIs.

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:16:05 GMT

Internal email from Bill Gates detailing his difficulties with Microsoft.com, Windows Update, and more.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Let's Do a Code Review With SlickEdit Tools (Part 1) » "Hello World" -

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:46:06 GMT

An interesting approach to code reviews using the SlickEdit Tools, the Version Control visualizations are particularly cool.

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

DelegateMarshaler - Replace Control.InvokeRequired and Control.Invoke

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

This is the third revision of the ThreadBarrier implementation that simplifies UI and worker thread interaction. This implementation (DelegateMarshaler) supports the original thread encapsulation concept as well as provides capability for replacing Control.InvokeRequired and Control.Invoke.

Recommendations From My Developer Toolbox (June 2008)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:31:03 GMT

This is an updated version of my January 2008 list of must have software for your developer toolbox. Kudos to Scott Hanselman for the inspiration.

Dime Casts - Great Ten Minute Development Tutorials

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:01:11 GMT

Derik Whittaker has started a great video tutorial site called Dime Casts. The tutorials are just the right length to fit into a busy day.