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Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:03 GMT

Taking a look at how to create a custom function for your NAnt script. After you have the basics of NAnt down you may quickly find out that there are features you need, but they are not part of the core library. The good news for you is that in very little effort or coding you can create your own custom assembly which will expose your newly created NAnt functions

Mocking LINQ To SQL Repositories

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:09:03 GMT

By using the Repository pattern and mocking the DataContext, we can use LINQ To SQL but still get the benefits of unit-testing an in-memory data source.

Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:21:17 GMT

Here is a sample we made at RunAtServer using Silverlight 3 Perspective 3D feature and the new Navigation API to create a nice navigation flip!

A 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:53:17 GMT

A guide, that takes about 3 minutes on how to wrap your IronPython code in a C# application. :-)

Keep Your IQueryable In Check

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There is a good chance that you have seen Oren's recent "Repository Is The New Singleton" post. I wanted to have a quick discussion of his approach, and discuss why I don't 100% agree with it. Let me first say that I don't have a problem with the repository pattern. I do have some issue with the way that it is implemented sometimes, but overall I think it provides a good layer in which to encapsulate the queries of your application.

Content Stealing Jerks

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:01:02 GMT

I've grown somewhat accustomed to seeing my articles regurgitated on some random blogger's site and passed off as their own. Usually I just send content stealing jerk (CSJ for future reference) an e-mail asking that they provide some sort of link back to my original article and leave it at that. Sometimes they comply, oftentimes they don't. In the end, life goes on. After all, it's not like I'm going to press charges over it.

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

100% Unit Testable Linq To Sql Repository - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:31:47 GMT

In this post, I will show you how you can architect your Linq To Sql repository which will have 100% code coverage. I will use our favorite Northwind database along with my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. First, lets add a Linq To Sql diagram in our project and drag n drop the Category and Product table that will look something like foll...

Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:02 GMT

Maarten Balliauw announces his new book and provides a large retrospective on the writing process itself. Must read for everyone thinking about writing a tech book!

Posting data to a REST service using C#

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:08 GMT

Taking a look at how you can post data to a REST service using C#.

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

Learning how to create a simple Fluent DSL via Method Chaining

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:01:10 GMT

Take a look at how to create a simple Fluent DSL which is built via Method Chaining. We will build this DSL from the ground up and talk about the various decisions which were made along the way. This is just a simple example of how you can create a internal DSL for your application with very little effort.

ASP Dynamic Data Preview - More ways to exploit ADO.NET Data Services

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:38:23 GMT

There's lots of interesting stuff going on in the ASP.NET team, and you can usually learn/glean/figure out most of it (if you're interested) by poking around the Codeplex ASP.NET site. They update it all the time, and you can watch their thinking. They put all sorts of stuff up there, ideas they are floating, directions they are considering and (really early) previews of those ideas and directions in the form of code. It's not production ready, more brainstorming - that's why it's on CodePlex, and why they don't exactly advertise the heck out of it.

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."

Learn how to consume a WCF Service

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:37:38 GMT

Learn how to setup your .net application to consume as WCF service. Take a look at how you can Visual Studio to create your service proxy as well as how to use SvcUtil to create the proxy.

Time released content in ASP.NET

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:01:17 GMT

"While working on the PDC2008 website, we had several time-critical updates. There were some announcements that needed to go live on the website at specific times to coincide with other marketing, there were updates to the list of of software being given to attendees that needed to go live right after the keynotes in which they were announced, etc."

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Talking with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxi

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:01:18 GMT

Http debugging is immensely useful and Fiddler is a nice tool that provides many options and an easy to use interface to monitor HTTP requests to get maximum information about each request. In order to monitor requests of .NET clients like WebClient, HttpWebRequest or WCF or Web Service proxies you need a little additional configuration to get Fiddler to monitor these requests.

Beyond SoundEx - Fuzzy Searching in MS SQL Server

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:01:20 GMT

In this post see how you can perform fuzzy deduping operations and fuzzy string matching by bringing the power of an open source string metric library (SimMetrics) into sql server

Using Adobe Flex in Visual Studio

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:16:08 GMT

You can now take advantage of the Flex framework from right within Visual Studio to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). We get you up to speed on what Flex is and a basic application talking to a web service.

Why ASP.NET Developers Should Care about Windows Azure

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:46:04 GMT

"Even though I sat in the audience at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference during the November keynote session when Azure was announced with great fanfare, I did not fully comprehend why Windows Azure should matter to me. Why, as an ASP.NET developer, should I care about Windows Azure?"

StructureMap 2.5.2 is Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:31:09 GMT

A fresh release of popular DI framework for .NET.

xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:03 GMT

xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

A fluent C# library for Twitter

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:16:10 GMT

This C# library allows you to compose queries to Twitter easily, as well as serialize responses into data classes, make asynchronous calls, and perform caching and URL shortening automatically. It covers 100% of the Twitter API.