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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.

5 Most Common Asked Questions When Using .Net RIA Services

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:01:03 GMT

From the comments on my previous articles on .Net RIA Services and from the search queries that lead to those articles, a pattern of a recurring set of questions showed up and I am sure that most .Net RIA Services enthusiasts face the same issues. This post address a few of these issues

WorkGrabber.com - Sweet ASP.NET MVC 1.0 + jQuery Application

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:24 GMT

Mike Bosch shows us his latest creation using ASP.Net MVC: WorkGrabber.com is a social marketplace for local contractors and customers to interact and get projects done.

Setting up a minimal ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio, part 2

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:31:15 GMT

Second part on how to set up a minimal asp.net mvc solution, without the craft of the default template.

Being a software startup in a recession

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

Setting up a minimal ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:46:02 GMT

In this post we will walk through the required steps to create a project that contains the minimal amount of configuration and code to get ASP.NET MVC running. In the course of this post you will get a better understanding of Routing and the MVC framework.

Verifying and Restoring a Differential Backup using T-SQL In SQLServer

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:31:15 GMT

Quick guide to verify and restore a differential database using T-SQL.

A Little More Sugar for Testing Routes in asp.net MVC

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Building on the Fluent Route Testing from MVC Contrib, this is another extension for testing ignored Routes.

Query Data with Parallel LINQ

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:18:56 GMT

The code shown in this post uses a pre-release version of PLINQ called the Microsoft Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5. When PLINQ finally ships, it will run only on .NET 4.0 or later. The version I'm using that runs on top of 3.5 is for evaluation purposes only. There will never be a shipping version that runs on .NET 3.5.

99.99% available ASP.NET and SQL Server SaaS Production Architecture

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:46:58 GMT

Best practices for designing production architecture for a highly available ASP.NET website running on SQL Server. Guarantees 99.99% availability for Level 3 SaaS.

LINQ To SQL is Dead - Read Between the Lines

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:46:13 GMT

David Hayden with some great points on the Linq to SQL announcement and some ideas on how the project could be saved.

Lawson's Smart Office: WPF Eyecandy heaven

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:54:07 GMT

WPF at everything else: "who's your daddy?". Be check the video interview to see this baby LIVE

Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Fold

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:16:03 GMT

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells.

What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:31:02 GMT

The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder.

TypeLibBuilder.exe Frequent Crashes in Visual Studio 2008 FIX

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:34:30 GMT

I first thought it was due to ASP.NET MVC being still in alpha phase (using preview 5) but the root-cause was something not related to .net or windows or anything!

Google Chrome and Web Standards

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:16:02 GMT

How does the adoption of Google Chrome affect cross browser compatibility? Are web standards a solution? How can I easily move to standard compliant pages?

Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Sidar discussing the need for more agile documents in business environments.

List of countries, cities, languages

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:31:03 GMT

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:

FxCop for Ajax Code

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:31:03 GMT

FxCop is a great tool to help ensure consistency of .NET code and to help push quality upstream in the development process by reinforcing design guidelines and flagging some potential issues that can be detected through static analysis of your assemblies

Yonkly: Open source twitter built on ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:46:05 GMT

A cool new open source microblogging (twitter clone) platform.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data - Simple 5 Table Northwind Example

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:31:09 GMT

Excellent summary of what you can do with Dynamic Data - a huge timesaver for most common CRUD-style sites

How to Search And Replace values in SQL across All Tables

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:15:50 GMT

My website got hacked. I got several html code injections inside the database. Here is how i fixed the issue very quickly.

Courting a Developer

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:05:15 GMT

How to get developers to adopt new technology, and maybe get some action too.

New Image Generator control in ASP.Net 3.5

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:16:02 GMT

This week Microsoft have released a new control called ASP.NET Generated Image control to display image in ASP.Net page. This article will give you a kick start on this control and some of its features.

Exploring System.Web.Routing

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:31:11 GMT

An overview of the new System.Web.Routing namespace that was included in .net 3.5 SP1.