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Developing Kigg - Part 1

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg-like application with ASP.NET MVC, LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX. The first part of the article goes here.

Kigg - A Digg like application developed in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg/DotNetKicks like application in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ To SQL and ASP.NET Ajax.

The LINQ Farm

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:14:16 GMT

Various sample, videos, and other resources from Charlie Calvert.

Adding a Policy Injection extension to Unity

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:57:59 GMT

Post on how to combine Policy Injection and Dependency Injection in Unity.

Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A nice wrapup of IoC

File System search via LINQ to Objects

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

LINQ provides a standard way for developers to query data in diverse locations, ranging from in memory objects, XML data, or relational data living in an Oracle Database.Lets take a look at a scenario where we use Linq to objects to query a directory on the local drive for files that match a given extension, and show the results in a Datagrid control.

Understanding IoC Container

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Very nice explanation of base principles of IoC container with sample implementation.

HTML 5, the Dialog Tag, and Microformats

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:37:21 GMT

More HTML 5 thoughts, and how microformats might apply here in expressing semantics without new tags.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 10: Filtering Control Members

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:16:02 GMT

This post shows how to filter metadata in the design time environment using designers and implementing PostFilter and PreFilter methods.

CLR Fun Stuff: How is my C# code converted into machine instructions?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:31:01 GMT

This post describes how a function's MSIL instructions are compiled into native code and when. Anyone writing .NET code should know this basic thing.

Keep your CSS files clean with a tiny HttpHandler

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:16:02 GMT

CSS, is the heart of any web application today. Writing cross browser CSS is really a hell of an art and including CSS files selectively and writing CSS hacks that will work out in one browser but wont in other is also a tedious job...

ScottGus Jan 24th links: ASP:NET, ASP.NET AJAX, VS, IIS, .NET

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:31:04 GMT

New linklist from Scotts Blog

Designing Master Pages

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:08:27 GMT

The complete guide to designing Master Pages, and how to overcome the problem that you might face when using Background images in the master pages.

Creating a Yellow Fade with ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:39:22 GMT

It highlights the changes in a page using a yellow background, then fades out to the normal background. This gives a visual cue to the user that something has changed on the page. You can also use it to get the user's attention (which is what I use it for).

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

SubSonic And MVC: Introducing Makai

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Rob shows off upcoming features for SubSonic and MS MVC

FileUpload and Ajax UpdatePanel

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

FileUpload and Ajax UpdatePanel

Dll heaven: Executing multiple versions of the same assembly

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:56:33 GMT

How to load multiple versions of the same dll to a single executable

Stopwatch Writer - Simplify Your Performance Testing

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:16:03 GMT

A small utility class that makes it easy to quickly analyze code time performance

The Stopwatch Class

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Stop using DateTime to time long sections of code. The 2.0 framework introduced the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class to do the dirty work for you.

AjaxDataControls v1.0 Goes Live

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:31:06 GMT

The Final release of v1.0 of AjaxDataControls goes live.

AjaxDataControls GridView Drag and Drop

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Shows how to add Drag and Drop and Persistence support in the GridView Control.

Ajax Control Toolkit - Multipart Series Article

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:01:02 GMT

A multi-part series article on Ajax Control Toolkit.

Is rooting for Visual Basic like rooting for the Red Sox?

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:19:02 GMT

Visual Basic programmers, historically, have tended to be a bit long suffering, patiently enduring the wrongs and difficulties of VB while being mocked by the C# folks. "VB's a toy." "VB's not performant." "VB programmers aren't real programmers."