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ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

Organize Usings Across Your Entire Solution

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:01:06 GMT

One of the features I worked on for the Visual Studio 2008 release was the new "Organize Usings" feature. This feature allows you to: Remove Unused Usings - Determines which using directives are not used in the current file and deletes them. Sort Usings - Sorts the using directives in a file.

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

How to Send Trackbacks and Pingbacks in ASP.NET

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

This is an excellent article from Keyvan Nayyeri showing how to create trackbacks and pingbacks in ASP.NET.

My Favorite .NET Link Blogs

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:01:09 GMT

Link blogs are one of the common types of blogs that are actually a list of links to other resources in a specific field. At first glance, it seems easy to collect some links and present them in a blog post and somehow this statement is right but there are some people who don't take it easy and put a good effort to present great link blogs.

Create PDF with C#

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Create PDF with C# on the fly

Add jQuery Intellisense To Your Visual Studio

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Enrich your working environment with free great jQuery intelisense addin

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 links collection

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:16:03 GMT

A list of all the posts talking about the new features and changes coming with the interim ASP.NET MVC P4

Hammett is joining the MEF team at Microsoft

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Hamilton Verissimo, aka Hammett is joining MS as PM inside the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team, but will keep on working on Castle.

Getting Started with TDD

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Getting started with Test Driven Development can be challenging. In this blog post, Steve offers some advice on how to get started either for a brand new project or one that already in maintenance mode.

Waegis - The Web Cleaner

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:54:22 GMT

Tired of Spam? Spammers are disturbing our dear web! How do you feel about them? Do you have a site, blog, forum or Wiki? Have you been affected by lots of spam content on your site? How much of time do you spend to remove them everyday? How can they affect the look and feel of your site? How can they affect your database size? Do you use CAPTCHA control and think it is a good solution? We're here to take care about everything for you and save your time, energy and effort. We're here to make a better and cleaner web with your help. Waegis (pronounced veejis) is a professional online service that assists you to block spams.

.NET Developers' Reference Card Round-Up

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:31:09 GMT

I thought I would share this list of reference cards / cheat sheets that I have compiled over the last year or so. If I am missing any good ones, please post them in the comments.

Sending SMTP Email Asynchronously

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

Sending email using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) can be a slow process, particularly when sending large numbers of messages using, for example, a bulk email tool. This process can be accelerated with considered use of asynchronous sending.

Chris van de Steeg's blog - » jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:31:10 GMT

So, quite some things have changed in preview 3, which made me decide to change a lot in the jQuery for Asp.net mvc (jqmvc) too. To start with most radical one: I ditched the ajax.master. This little 'framework' does not rely on a special masterpage in your website from now on. Since things have radically changed, I'll start all over again on how to use this project.

SimpleTemplate

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:44:18 GMT

Great example of how nvelocity can be used in conjunct with tdd. pretty cool.

2 Easy Steps To Turn Your Blog Into An OpenID Gateway

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:01:14 GMT

Many of you probably have heard of OpenID, but have never had a chance to use it. However, I predict that most of you reading this will have used it by the end of the year. I can make this prediction with an almost 100% certainty because there is a growing movement behind it that has many big players actively buying developing and integrating their platforms with the OpenID protocol. To facilitate my prediction, of most of you using OpenID by the end of the year, I am going to give you 2 easy steps to turn your blog, or any website, in to a OpenID gateway. That will work for OpenID 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 versions of the protocol.

Introducing Waegis

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:04 GMT

A new spam blocking service just hit the .NET space: Waegis. It's a service similar to Akismet, but written entirely in .NET

Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:31:03 GMT

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well.

Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler.

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 4

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:36:52 GMT

In the fourth part of this series, Keyvan talks about the unit testing concepts related to the MVC pattern and how Microsoft has adapted these concepts for its ASP.NET MVC framework. He shows these principles and the process that should be followed to unit test an ASP.NET MVC application.

RestLess - A Simple REST Framework Part 2 : ndepth.net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

An updated to Jayme's RestLess framework with some general improvements (better URLs) and some new properties.

Credit card validation - regular expressions

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Validation (regexp) for credit cards (Visa, Master Card, Discover, Diners Club, American Express).

SQL SERVER - 15 Best Practices for Better Database Performance

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:01:02 GMT

I have written 14 best practices here, read them all and let me know what is as per your opinion should be the 15th best practice.

Some Thoughts About Random Generation

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:59:32 GMT

Generating string values is a type of random value generation which is more common than the past in the modern programming scenarios. However, there are several ways to generate random integers and strings based on your development platform and your requirements.

The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

I think an awful lot of creation is made out of, also, the self-criticism of a developer, and very often I think probably what makes one seem better than another his that his critical sense is more acute. It may not be that he is more gifted in any way but just that he has a better critical sense.