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XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It's Important

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:46:04 GMT

No comments appeared in the Visual Studio tooltip. On In this article, I am going to explain why it is so important to generate XML documentation file for each one of your .Net projects.

Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:02 GMT

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. During my work I fall into few issues that I resolved and wished to share them with you

Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:19 GMT

An Adobe partner have today announced a free plug-in to allow .NET developers to write Flex front-ends to their applications entirely within Visual Studio, with full debugging and editing support.

What if your contact form fails?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:16:18 GMT

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message? Read in this article.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.

ScottG:Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:02 GMT

"One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects. Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful code-focused .NET development environment, and designers can use Expression Blend 2 SP1 to open and edit the exact same project and use a creative tool to sculpt and create optimal user experience designs."

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy!

MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:01:04 GMT

Ryan plugs his Gravatar library into MVC in order to create a HTML view helper for building gravatar images.

Preventing Double Form Posts

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:01:09 GMT

Most posts on this topic focus on disabling the submit button that causes the post. This works fine when you only have one submit control. But, if you have multiple buttons and/or link buttons that can cause a post and want to avoid potential conflicts if a user clicks a second submit control before the first one has been processed then this is really simply approach.

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

Introduction to NHibernate: Collection Relationships (Part 5)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:16:12 GMT

Another screencast on how to use NHibernate: Collection Relationships (Part 5)

Anders Hejlsberg Video on C# Dynamic

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:46:02 GMT

In this Channel 9 video C# architect Anders Hejlsberg answers some commonly asked questions about the new Dynamic features that will be included in C# 4.0. Building on the talk that he gave at PDC, Anders chats with C# Community PM Charlie Calvert. They discuss questions that community members have asked and riff on themes of import to developers who have been following the latest news from the C# team.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 1

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:16:04 GMT

a quick look at building an application using the new ASP.Net MVC Beta, part one will handle the database

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? This article guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure with no friction.

RadControls for Silverlight Official Release

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Telerik announced the official edition of their RadControls for Silverlight

Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that it is very easy to leak memory -- just keep a referencing object around longer than the referenced object, and you can leak. Here is a way to write tests to catch leaks.

Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A quick overview of cloud computing options and benefits from a web hosting standpoint.

Use jQuery and quickSearch to interactively search any data

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

A complete example of how to implement progressive search in ASP.NET, using the jQuery plugin quickSearch. The source download includes a customized version of quickSearch for use with ASP.NET.

Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part II

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:16:14 GMT

In this article, we will explore some common 'How Do I' kind of examples using LINQ to XML. This article is the Part II of the 3-part LINQ to XML series.

Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:46:11 GMT

Ryan Lanciaux discusses a class for retrieving Gravatar images -- this class was mainly written to facilitate using Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC.