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ASP.NET MVC Tip 3: Implementing remote client-side form validation

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:45:00 GMT

Client-side form validation has become a de-facto standard for modern web applications. However, there are some validation rules which cannot be checked completely on the client side, for example because the validation depends on information stored in the server database. For those rules you need to implement remote client-side form validation. This article describes how to implement this so that you don't have to write any custom javascript for new validation rules.

Git For Windows Developers - Git Series - Part 1 - Jason Meridth -

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:40:55 GMT

A great tutorial on getting Git up and running on Windows (and a great introduction to Git).

ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing

Fri, 15 May 2009 02:31:02 GMT

One of the propagated "great features" for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url's of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let's walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing.

File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:16:10 GMT

I had not messed around with file uploads in ASP.NET MVC for a while and so when I fired up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they had made it!

Whitehouse.gov: an ASP.NET site

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:46:03 GMT

This article looks into the JavaScript libraries, HTTP headers, platform and more of the new Whitehouse website. It includes statistics and some suggestions.

An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:16:03 GMT

"This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools."

Geek Food Drive

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:31:03 GMT

More than 35.5 million people in the United States and Canada will go hungry during the holidays. The Challenge: For all user groups to hold a food drive at their meeting this month. There is plenty of need, especially this year!

Lazy Loading with Linq to SQL POCO s

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:01:02 GMT

How to achieve Lazy Loading when using POCO s with Linq to SQL

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.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Creating Custom Configuration Sections fo

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:46:15 GMT

A short screencast on how to Creating Custom Configuration Sections for you App.config/Web.config

Unity - Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:01:14 GMT

Dependency injection is a programming technique to reduce component coupling. Dependency injection is also commonly known as "inversion of control" or IoC or sometimes as The Hollywood Principle - "Don't call us, we'll call you". The goal of dependency injection is to separate the concerns of how a dependency is obtained from the core concerns of a boundary. This improves reusability by enabling components to be supplied with dependencies which may vary depending on context.

Create PDF with C#

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Create PDF with C# on the fly

Add jQuery Intellisense To Your Visual Studio

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Enrich your working environment with free great jQuery intelisense addin

Replacing Loaded Assemblies - Paulo Morgado

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:46:02 GMT

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

Quick and dirty reporting with the Google Chart API

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:01:02 GMT

A quick example of how to quickly create a graphical report using the Google chart API, and driven off of your database.

Using NHibernate (years after I should have been)

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:31:11 GMT

Getting up and running with NHibernate.

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Got more than 2GB of RAM in your machine? Get around the 2GB memory limit by making Visual Studio large address aware.

How I Explained REST to My Wife

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:31:02 GMT

Nice explaination of REST

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:46:02 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.

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Craig Shoemaker highlights some of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available.

The insanely scalable ReaderWriterGate lock

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Wintellect's Jeffrey Richter, the Win32 threading guru, has written a library containing a new kind of lock: the ReaderWriterGate. Unlike other locks, this lock is highly scalable and fast with very few thread context switches. Works well with ASP.NET web apps as well.

How to Branch Properly

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:31:02 GMT

Good discussion of source code branching specifically with Subversion.