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I Spose I'll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:21 GMT

I'm never shy about my opinion - why start now? I've been reading a lot of posts flying about on whether you should learn MVC, Summing up the differences so you can decide when to use it, I even found a post that offers a scorecard approach! I remember reading the latter post thinking to myself "how can you possibly put a number next to Testability? And why it is only 2 more points than "using a RAD designer"? Isn't this missing the entire point?

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible "big design flaw" in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode.

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:31:07 GMT

A look at the new ioDrive device and how devices like it will drastically change how you think about performance critical data storage applications.

The Open Source Projects on ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects developed in ASP.NET MVC. I am ordering it based ...

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

.NET - Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:31:02 GMT

I am a big advocate on less is more, and when it comes to writing code to monitor an ASP.NET application, less code is definitely more. As a developer, once you have finished developing your application and it's deployed into production, you'll need to monitor it and have it notify you when something goes wrong. There are several ways to do this, from utilising the global.asax file to writing custom classes. But a little known feature in ASP.NET is health monitoring. This gives you the ability to monitor the health of an ASP.NET application. This article won't delve into the specifics of creating your own custom health monitoring class, but it will focus on what is available to ASP.NET developers out of the box.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

A response to Validation in a DDD world

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:16:02 GMT

Jimmy Bogard presented a well written argument for always keeping validation out of entities in a domain driven design except in "the absolute worst case." But, IMO, there is simply no black and white verdict on where validation must live in a DDD application and must be carefully considered at the beginning of any project, taking into consideration the motivations behind validation, the scope of the project, the maturity of the development team, and the balance between philosophical purity and practical maintainability.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

Oxite Refactor, Take 1

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:46:02 GMT

I mentioned yesterday on Twitter that I'm helping out the Oxite team with some refactoring and tweaking of their codebase. I got started last night and people have been asking about it a LOT, so I thought that today I'd show you initially what I'm up to.

Oxitis - Acute or chronic anxiety toward sharing code online.

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:31:15 GMT

It was going to get defined sooner or later...

Oxite - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:01:16 GMT

Oxite is an open source application built on ASP.NET MVC and Karl Seguin raises some points related to the design/architecture/implementation.

MVC/JQuery meets X-Mas Music Project

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:31:03 GMT

My friend Dave and I embarked on a project a few weeks ago, initially just meant to be a audio CD for our family in what ended up being a potentially super-scalable ASP.NET MVC + JQuery site.

Fluent NHibernate's AutoPersistenceModel: I Love it!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:16:04 GMT

I checked out the latest version of Fluent NHibernate today and noticed the AutoPersistenceModel. I looked at the unit-tests to see what it's supposed to do and I loved what I saw.

Continuous Integration Display Wall

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:16:16 GMT

Awesome 4 monitor display wall for visualizing a CruiseControl.NET build process.

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:31:03 GMT

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

The Excitement that is C# 4.0

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:01:02 GMT

I just got back from the "Future of C#" talk at PDC by Anders Hejlsberg. This was a truly inspiring talk for a geek like me. C# is evolving into a much more dynamic language. I have always been a believer of strong typing. except when I'm not. and I have been wishing for something more dynamic (such as Duck Typing). In C# 4.0, we will be seeing some significant dynamic features.

jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:31:12 GMT

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."

Json.NET 3.5 Beta 1 - Big performance gains, Compact Framework support

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:46:04 GMT

New in this beta release of Json.NET 3.5 are big performance improvements (400%), Compact Framework support and lots more.

Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:31:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman discusses a recent podcast with the team from StackOverflow where it was mentioned that they compress the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET, enabling them to store about 5-10x more data.