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jQuery Form Serialization without ASP.NET ViewState

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:31:10 GMT

When building AJAX applications that send client form content to the server, ViewState and EventValidation fields can get in the way. Using jQuery you can make short work skipping over these fields and send only the raw POST data to the server.

Easy way to improve your image gallery using jQuery

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Let's say you are browsing a CSS gallery and you want to check out some new and beautiful website designs. And you are of course interested in some details - for example, which category design belongs to, what's the rating or whatsoever. This information could be rendered below thumbnail, but there are other, more attractive ways of displaying additional data. In this article we'll see how to improve image gallery with a simple trick.

Partial Rendering View Engines in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team just dropped CodePlex Preview 5. It contains a whole raft of new stuff, but there are two highly related features that I worked on. Since I have one foot in the "Dynamic Data" space and one foot into the "MVC" space (being the guy working on "Dynamic Data for MVC"), it means I get to have conversations like this:

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:07 GMT

It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en

Introduction to Moq

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:01:04 GMT

In this post, I provide an introduction to Moq which is the newest of the Mock Object Frameworks. Moq is promoted by its creators as easier to learn and use than other Mock Object Frameworks such as Rhino Mocks and TypeMock Isolator.

SubSonic 3.0: IQueryable Update

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:16:03 GMT

News from Rob on SubSonic: One thing I've learned is I can't stay quiet for too long on this stuff :), so here's an update on what I'm working on...

jQuery UI v1.5 Released

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Focus on Consistent API and Effects

Introducing LINQ to LightSpeed

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:31:02 GMT

LightSpeed 2 incorporates LINQ (Language Integrated Query) support. LINQ to LightSpeed means that if you know LINQ, you can get these benefits without having to learn a new API. You can continue to write LINQ queries as if against LINQ to SQL or another LINQ provider, but you'll get database independence (effectively LightSpeed gives you LINQ to Oracle, LINQ to MySQL, LINQ to PostgreSQL and LINQ to SQLite as well as LINQ to SQL Server, all in the one box), advanced eager loading functionality (avoiding the so-called "n+1" problem which affects some LINQ implementations) and of course the blazingly fast LightSpeed query engine.

SubSonic: Using Migrations

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery has a nice post (and video!) of the new Migrations support that will be included in SubSonic 2.1 (Pakala)

LightSpeed 2.0 Released

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:16:02 GMT

LightSpeed 2.0 has been released. It includes a full, round-tripping Visual Studio designer and support for LINQ!

Loading and Executing JavaScript Files From JavaScript, ASP.NET AJAX

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:28:37 GMT

Quite often we need to load js files dynamically right from javascript. With ASP.NET AJAX it is simple. ASP.NET AJAX library has internal ScriptLoader class that can be used to load js files, specify callbacks that will be invoked when script is downloaded and ready, and execute functions inside newly loaded files.

AutoComplete for Silverlight TextBoxes

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:16:02 GMT

An implementation of AutoComplete functionality that you can add to your TextBoxes in XAML... ala Google Suggest and the ASP.NET AutoComplete control extender (built on top of the behavior framework).

Json.NET 2.0 final released

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:46:02 GMT

The final version of Json.NET 2.0. Includes all the new features introduced during the betas such as LINQ to JSON and JsonSerializer improvements in addition to all new API documentation.

Writing a Simple Role Playing Game with C# .NET and the State Pattern

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Learn how to use the State design pattern in C# .NET by writing a basic role playing game, with a main character who explores a forest, finds magical items, slays monsters, and gains experience points.

Silverlight: The First Rich Text Editor

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:01:04 GMT

Many people are waiting for a way to type rich text. Even if I think that Microsoft will bring out their own one, nobody knows how long to wait for and which features are included. My RTE ships with various common features and an extensive documentation. Please note that the whole thing is still in BETA state and there are some weird bugs on XP and different ones on Vista. It seems as if they are not caused by my component at all, because Visual Studio would notify me. So wait for the final version of Silverlight 2, until you use this component in any production environment! It is of course possible that some things are still undocumented or documented ones will not behave as expected. Don't hesitate to report such incoherencies.

Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and MultiCore CPU

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Title says enough or you're just dead from the neck up if you're not interested...

Write Your First Silverlight Game

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:16:05 GMT

Palermo shows us how to build a game using Silverlight. Should be excellent!

ReSharper 4.0, I love you but it may be time we break up

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:01:03 GMT

What's happening with R# 4? Every build has more issues than the previous one...

LightSpeed 2.0 Gets Visual Studio Designer

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

First it was LINQ support, now LightSpeed 2 gets a complete Visual Studio design experience.

Ninject: Getting all the stuff you'll need

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:16:03 GMT

A primer on getting started with Ninject. It uses NLog, Ninject and LightSpeed

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:53:05 GMT

Training kit from Microsoft containing six hands-on labs for: 1. ADO.NET Data Services 2. ADO.NET Entity Framework 3. ASP.NET AJAX History 4. ASP.NET Dynamic Data 5. ASP.NET MVC 6. ASP.NET Silverlight controls

Silverlight DOM Integration Sample

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:31:59 GMT

Silverlight v2 introduced managed code into Silverlight but it didn't forget that JavaScript is still important. Silverlight 2 has a feature which allows the Silverlight application and its host page's JavaScript can communicate with each other.

Encrypting Passwords in a .NET app.config File

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:16:09 GMT

Here's how to use DPAPI to encrypt entire sections or specific settings in your configuration file.

ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 2 : Rob Conery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:02 GMT

The second in a series of screencasts documenting the building of an eCommerce storefront using ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC: Introducing The MVC Storefront Series : Rob Conery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:16:19 GMT

The first in a series of screencasts documenting the building of an eCommerce storefront using ASP.NET MVC.