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Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core)

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 09 May 2009 14:11:38 GMT

Introducing Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Published

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:46:05 GMT

Simone Chiaretta announces the availability of chapter 9 of Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book about Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications and shares some good news about the release date of the book.

ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:01:03 GMT

Simone writes about his impressions on ASP.NET MVC and why it has reactivated the motivation of developers on the .NET community for web development.

IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:00:20 GMT

Keyvan explains how to write a RouteHandler that checks for banned IPs and blocks any further processing

What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:01:31 GMT

I think the proper way to start this post is to ask How do you do eager loading with Entity Framework? And the basic native simple answer is by using ObjectQuery<T>.Include(string) method. No matter what you tried to do, you'll end up using this way. So there was ideas about how enhance the eager loading in our Entity Framework base applications. You can read about some of these ideas....

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible "big design flaw" in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode.

ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:16:11 GMT

Here's a list of all sample chapters of ASP.NET MVC books available to the community.

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

Introducing a worksheet from the upcoming book "ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Programming" to help developers make a decision to choose between MVC and Web Forms in ASP.NET.

5 blogs every asp.net programmer should know analyzed with 31-DBBB day

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:01:12 GMT

31-DBBB day 4 task is to analyze leader blogs in your niche. I do so here with some recommendation I hope you'll enjoy

DZone RefCardz

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:15:40 GMT

DZone RefCardz is becaoming more popular among community guys. In this post Keyvan has talked about it and his (and Simone's) decision to create a RefCard for ASP.NET MVC in near future.

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

Git/Github survival guide

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:16:10 GMT

Now that all the cool guys are moving to Git/GitHub, Ivan posts a survival guide, with all the most useful commands of git and how to get started with github/git

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

How to Learn ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:16:02 GMT

As we're getting closer to ASP.NET MVC RTM release, guys in the community are trying to prepare developers for this new framework. In this post Keyvan Nayyeri has explained a step-based procedure on how to learn ASP.NET MVC. Since he is the co-author of Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC I think his proposed procedure is useful for all ASP.NET MVC lovers.

Wanna see ASP.NET MVC RTM-ed? Help test MVC RC2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:16:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC RC2 has just been released, and it includes a pretty big change in the installation process. Before it is RTMed they want to make sure it doesn't break anything, so, help test the installation procedure in as many machine as you can, and report problems.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available

xVal 0.8 improves client side validation in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:01:16 GMT

xVal is an open source validation framework bridge for ASP.NET MVC. Its new release, version 0.8, became available this morning and adds the following features: Support for NHibernate.Validator, Internationalization, Custom validation logic, Fluent syntax for defining ad-hoc validation rules, Comparison validators, and more.

New ASP.NET Architecture

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:35:04 GMT

Keyvan has written a nice post about the new architecture of ASP.NET web applications by describing how Microsoft is dividing ASP.NET to ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:31:08 GMT

You probably have been working with Gmail or Google Docs. One of the features with those web applications is that they provide an "offline mode", which allows you to access your e-mail and documents locally, when an Internet connection is not available. When a connection is available, those items are synchronized between your PC and the application server. This offline functionality is built using JavaScript and a Google product called Google Gears. In this blog post, I will be building a simple notebook application using the ASP.NET MVC framework, and afterwards make it available to be used offline.

Interest in ASP.NET MVC is Rising

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:46:09 GMT

Simone Chiaretta extracts some Google Trends stats to show the rising interest in ASP.NET MVC in the past few months.