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Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:46:02 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.

Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:16:06 GMT

Unfortunately, the [OutputCache] filter that ships with ASP.NET MVC is merely a thin wrapper around ASP.NET output caching. The MVC team have explained that they're aware of the issues, but it's very difficult to make ASP.NET output caching fit into MVC's design, and they are focusing on other things first. We can quite easily create a new caching filter that captures actions' output and uses ASP.NET's data caching facility to store it for next time. This filter will fit properly into the MVC pipeline, not strangely bypassing authorization or other earlier filters (it will run at the right time in whatever ordered set of filters you've using).

Fluent hierarchical construction

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:57:53 GMT

Building a hierarchy of objects doesn't happen that often in code, but when it does, it can get pretty ugly. Most of the time, the hierarchy will come out of the database. Recently, we had a hierarchy that needed to be built straight in code. We had something like this going on:

LightSpeed 2.1 Released - includes new search API

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:01:02 GMT

LightSpeed 2.1, the performance minded object relational mapping framework, is fresh from the oven with new features like database independent full text search capabilities using Lucene.Net, Visual Studio integrated designer enhancements and a bundle of other new features.

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Combining independent widgets on ASP.NET MVC pages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:46:02 GMT

As great as ASP.NET MVC is, it doesn't have such an easy way to set up reusable controls or "widgets". Steven Sanderson explains a technique similar to MVC Contrib's "subcontrollers", but much simpler.

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

IServiceLocator a step toward IoC container / Service locator detente

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:46:04 GMT

Today we launched an exciting project on CodePlex, namely the Common Service Locator library. What is it? It's a shared interface that applications and frameworks can reference in order to leverage IoC containers / service location mechanisms without taking hard dependencies.

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Unit Testing Coming to a Workflow Near You

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:05:27 GMT

If you've been working with Windows Workflow, you'll find it has some cool features for orchestration, long running operations, state machines, etc. However you won't find very much support for Test Driven Development (TDD) or unit testing in general. In fact the architecture that makes Windows Workflow powerful (strict separation of workflow, activities, and the host for example) really gets in the way of unit test.

Custom jQuery Selector for ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:16:13 GMT

My quest for a better way to select ASP.NET auto-generated IDs with jQuery.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

Building an ASP.NET MVC sitemap provider with security trimming

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:46:13 GMT

If you have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework, you possibly have been searching for something like the classic ASP.NET sitemap. After you've played with it, you even found it useful! But not really flexible and easy to map to routes and controllers. In this post, Maarten describes how to build a custom sitemap provider which uses ASP.NET MVC route data and AuthorizeAttribute to render MCS sitemap data with security trimming enabled!

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

Roland WeigeIt's GhostDoc for Visual Studio

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:31:12 GMT

I have been using Roland WeigeIt's GhostDoc 2.1.3 for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 for about six months, and I am hooked. Here's a quick tutorial to get up and running with this free tool.

Contact Form + Request.UserHostAddress = Country/State

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:43:47 GMT

A simple way to determine a users Country[State] using their Request.UserHostAddress. Can be handing in contact form data.

Create a Vista-Style File Size Formatter Using C#

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:08:35 GMT

When copying files, Microsoft Windows Vista shows a dialog box that indicates the size of the remaining items to be processed and the copying speed. The values are formatted with three significant figures. This article explains how to recreate this style.

New ASP.NET MVC Videos and Tutorials

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:01:02 GMT

15 new ASP.NET MVC videos were just published at the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. The first 10 videos are basic tutorials on the ASP.NET MVC framework. If you haven't had a chance to play with ASP.NET MVC yet, these tutorials are a great introduction. The second set of 5 videos is part of an ongoing video series: ASP.NET MVC Pair Programming. In these videos, I pair with a prominent community expert to build an entire ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish (because of time constraints - a very, very simple application). The goal is to emphasize the process of building a web application instead of the product.

Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:46:10 GMT

Shows a very simple and powerful way of serving .js files with the right localized text strings.

ASP.NET Futures: Generating Dynamic Images w/ HttpHandlers Gets Easier

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:31:12 GMT

I've done a lot of HttpHandlers that generate images. It's usually pretty tedious. When I was working banking, I wrote an example HttpHandler that would take two Check Images (back and front) and composite them into a single image on the server side, then serving up the composite. Usually you're messing around in with MemoryStreams and Images, and then you serialize the result out to the Response.OutputStream, making sure the MIME Types are set appropriately. If you're really clever, you'll remember to do some client-side and appropriate caching, but I rarely see that in the wild.

Visual Studio Tip: Split Views

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:01:08 GMT

There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about.

Clone Detective for Visual Studio

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:16:03 GMT

Clone Detective is a Visual Studio integration that allows you to analyze C# projects for source code that is duplicated somewhere else. Having duplicates can easily lead to inconsistencies and often is an indicator for poorly factored code.

Exception handling with Action Filters in Asp.Net MVC

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:01:03 GMT

A short screen cast on exception handling with Action Filters in Asp.Net MVC. We will create a custom Action Filter and have it perform our exception handling logic.