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MVC Membership with Preview 3

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to work with Preview 3 of the ASP.Net MVC framework.

Visual Studio Power Toys Are Back! : Visual Studio Hacks

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:46:10 GMT

The missing power toys have been found and are now on MSDN Code Gallery.

MVC Storefront, Part 15: Code Review With Ayende

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:31:14 GMT

Normally I would have gone through this many times already, however I have the good fortune of all your comments :). Even so, it's always a good idea to take a timeout and make sure you're not going off the deep end. In this episode I do a code review with Ayende and Steve Harman and have a really nice AHA! moment.

Rhino Mocks 3.5 beta released

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:16 GMT

Odd this hasn't been submitted before. Rhino Mocks is one of the leading mock frameworks for unit testing in the dotnet world. This version fully supports the 3.5 fx.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

Performance: IEnumerable<>.Sum

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A article about the performance hit created by the IEnumerable<>.Sum extension method!!!

Using C# 3.0 (.Net 3.5) syntax in a .Net 2.0 application

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

An overview of using C# 3.0 syntax in a .Net 2.0 application.

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

A jQuery Client Status Bar

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Status bars are very useful in client applications to display well status information and having a reusable and easily callable and configured status component to display messages is extremely handy. Here's an implementation that uses jQuery plus a bit of CSS to make short work of displaying status content.

Updating from ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 to Preview 3

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:08:33 GMT

Outlines the steps taken to upgrade an ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 application to Preview 3.

Unit tests are for functionality, not code!

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Unit tests are meant to test functionality, NOT code! That means if you write your unit tests after the fact, you're probably not focusing on the functionality.

Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:02 GMT

This article shows how to highlight a current context on a complex web forms using jQuery. You can see how to highlight current row or current group of rows, and how easily it could be done by uisng powerful jQuery selectors.

Test Driven Development Naming Conventions and Guidelines

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:31:12 GMT

New TDD and experienced TDD developers will find this list of naming conventions and guidelines useful.

MVC Storefront, Part 12: Mocking

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:16:04 GMT

In this episode I implement mocking so I can test my Authentication action for my UserController. In order to do this, however, I have to mock up the HttpContext... Not much else to say here - it's all about Mocking!

RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 2 - Configuration

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:16:11 GMT

Configuring the application.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

Using Binding.StringFormat

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:01:04 GMT

.NET 3.5 SP1 added a new StringFormat to the Binding object... This article shows how to use it!

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring

Tue, 27 May 2008 07:16:04 GMT

Architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate 1.2 and Spring.NET 1.1.1.

MVC Storefront, Part 10: Shopping Cart Refactoring and Membership

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:01:11 GMT

Robs new MVC Storefront WebCast

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

public beta of upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases is published

Great Silverlight 2.0 example application

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Great example of how to make rich line-of-business apps using Silverlight 2.0. Scalable UI, DeepZoom, animation etc.

MVC Storefront, Part 9: The Shopping Cart

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

In this episode I dive into implementing the Shopping Cart in a basic way so I can run a spike to make sure my pattern can push data nicely back into the DB without problems.

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

In this episode I finally ready up the demo, setting up my CatalogController to work with my test repository, and using the DRY principle with Helpers so I don't repeat view logic.