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Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:04:40 GMT

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007

Migrating to IIS7

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:38:29 GMT

Some good information on upgrading an ASP.NET site from IIS6 to IIS7 - example from Subtext on GoDaddy.

Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

The MSDeploy tool which will be included in Visual Studio 2010 includes some fixes for key painpoints like database deployment and managing different web.config settings in development, test, and production.

Episode 23: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 1)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:16:12 GMT

Phil haack interviewed about ASP.NET MVC Beta 1, answering questions like: will it make it this solar year? what's about components? And more...

SubSonic MVC Scaffold Addin

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:46:06 GMT

Scaffold your tables using SubSonic in asp.net mvc

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.

Herding Code #17:Matt Podwysocki on F# and Functional Programming

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:47:50 GMT

This week Matt Podwysocki puts the fun in functional programming with a deep dive into F#. We've heard plenty of high level discussions of F# and functional programming lately, so we tried to dig into the gory details as much as possible: * What is functional programming, and why should we care? * Types of applications that would and wouldn't benefit from F# * How F# differs from C# 3.x and Javascript * How F# is being used (games, scripting, data analysis and scrubbing, etc.) * F# pattern matching * Using F# in your C# or VB based applications today * Getting started: F# Interactive, reading the F# source, books and resources * Interaction with DLR * Functional features we'd like to see in C# and VB * Spec# and Sing#

MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:17:14 GMT

Jon Galloway shows us how we can switch to a low bandwith version of the MSDN website!

Subtext 2 supports OpenID

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Jon explains how OpenID works in Subtext 2 and how to configure it.

SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Handling "GO" Separators in SQL Scripts - the easy way

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:46:02 GMT

use SMO to run SQL scripts on .NET

Subtext 2.0 "Poseidon" Released!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Subtext 2.0 is hot off the CI Server and the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches.

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:29:31 GMT

If you've installed SP1 Beta, run this tool before installing SP1. The SP1 beta manual uninstall process is tedious and error prone, this does it automatically.

Getting Started with Inno Setup

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:24:29 GMT

Very nice overviewo of Inno Setup

StackOverflow.com - First Impressions

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:24:47 GMT

A good, balanced review of StackOverflow, a new developer community site that Jeff Atwood's been working on.

Why I'm Unimpressed With Rawness Of Skillz

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.

ASP.NET Themes Don't Like IE8's X-UA-Compatible header; Neither Do I

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:31:02 GMT

"I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I'll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I'll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible thing, and why I think the way that turned out was bad for everyone."

MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout With Jeff Atwood

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:01:04 GMT

Checkout With Jeff Atwood

Introduction to LinqPad - Intermediate Usage

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:01:02 GMT

Short screencasts that reviews LinqPad. This is an introduction to LinqPad (Intermediate Usage). This episode we will look at how to execute native .Net code.

Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:46:06 GMT

I've been hearing from several colleagues about how their Visual Studio solution files have many (i.e. more than 10, and usually more than 30 -- in one case, more than 100!). So far, none of them have been able to give me any good explanation for why this is and most of them hate it but they can't change it because their architect/lead/whatever won't let them. I'm hoping that by getting the discussion going on this in the greater community, we can try to discourage everyone from having lots of projects in a solution.

Herding Code Podcast: Episode 9 with Rob Conery

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:13 GMT

The Herding Code crew (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott "LazyCoder" Koon, and Jon Galloway) catch up with Rob Conery on SubSonic 2.1, Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion, Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky, MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer, and What else is Rob up to at Microsoft.

Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 1

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:31:06 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee sat down with the hosts Keith and Woody to discuss this growing design practice and also discuss how it could be used with the .NET platform.