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Using the Velocity Distributed Cache with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:45:39 GMT

Improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC applications by taking advantage of the Velocity distributed cache. In this tip, I also explain how you can use Velocity as a distributed session state provider.

SQL Server 2008 Express with Management Tools

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:01:02 GMT

SQL Server 2008 Express database was released last week; but now Microsoft just released the Management tools and the Advanced Services additions that give you SQL Server 2008 Express Reporting Services

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

SQL Server 2008 Express is now live!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:16:09 GMT

I promised an update on SQL Express availability in my last post about the release of SQL Server 2008 so here it is. SQL Server 2008 Express is now available along with the release of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is a prerequisite and Visual Studio Express SP1. As I mentioned, there are two more editions of SQL Express on the way. There are a number of prerequisites for SQL Server 2008 that you will have to install on your own before installing SQL Express. Here is the list and basic instructions:

The Onion Architecture

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:16:08 GMT

The fundamental rule is that all code can depend on layers more central, but code cannot depend on layers further out from the core. This architecture is unashamedly biased toward object-oriented programming, and it puts objects before all others.

Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:46:10 GMT

If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered in the Foundations series.

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.

My first impressions with Rhino Mocks 3.5 (beta)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:51:31 GMT

First impressions with Rhino Mocks 3.5 (beta)

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring

Tue, 27 May 2008 07:16:04 GMT

Architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate 1.2 and Spring.NET 1.1.1.

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

Official BlogEngine.NET Security Patch

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Over the weekend, we were alerted to a security flaw in BlogEngine.NET 1.3.0.0. We have created a new release 1.3.1.0 which corrects this issue and are making a patch available here for users running 1.3.0.0. For those people running development version of BlogEngine.NET (from the source tab on CodePlex), please note that the latest release 1.3.0.29 has the security fix as well.

ASP.NET MVC Framework out on CodePlex

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:46:02 GMT

This morning, I was browsing the new projects page on CodePlex and noticed something nice! The ASP.NET MVC team already rumoured around making the ASP.NET MVC framework source code available on CodePlex, but here it is: the ASP.NET MVC project on CodePlex.

.NET Event Techniques

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

Fantastic NHibernate Overview from Karl Seguin

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:46:06 GMT

Great overview of NHibernate from Karl at CodeBetter.Com. He goes over everything you need to know to get started integrating NHibernate into your projects

ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged the first in a series of posts I'm going to write that cover the new ASP.NET MVC Framework we are working on. The first post in this series built a simple e-commerce product listing/browsing scenario. It covered the high-level concepts behind MVC, and demonstrated how to create a new ASP.NET MVC project from scratch to implement and test this e-commerce product listing functionality.

What's Ailing ASP.NET Web Forms

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:31:03 GMT

Rick Strahl summarises the disadvantages of the current ASP.NET WebForms model, and how the new ASP.NET MVC framework might address some of these issues.

Silverlight Roadmap

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

check out the details

Visual Studio 2008 RTM available for download

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:46:03 GMT

MSDN subscribers can now download final RTM version of Visual Studio 2008.

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.

Create elegant code with Action delegate and List.ForEach method

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:46:02 GMT

Small example of how to use Action delegate to perform some action on all elements of a collection.

Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Some more information from ALT.NET on the new ASP.NET MVC framework.