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ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:01:11 GMT

ELMAH has been one of the most useful tools for ASP.NET developers to log errors on their web applications. Now Scott has a nice talk on how to use it even in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Cool!

Fluent NHibernate new style mappings - powerful semantics

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:01:06 GMT

So today I updated to the latest build of Fluent NHibernate. As any of you who might have done the same have discovered there are some breaking changes. I wasn't sure I liked the new class based conventions at first, especially since it wasn't clear at first how to tackle altering my mappings. Then it dawned on me how powerful the conventions would end up being while also promoting DRY.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:46:02 GMT

One of the best things about C# is that as the language and libraries expand thought is put into keeping things readable. Below I have listed 10 shorthands that you can use to make your code tighter and less wordy. No doubt you know one or more already - but do you currently use all ten of them ?

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

Back to Basics: Interfaces

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:46:09 GMT

When it comes to object-oriented programming there are few concepts as basic and important as interfaces. Only recently though, and at a snails pace, have .NET developers started to take advantage of the simple benefits interfaces have to offer. This interest stems from the core role interfaces play in some pretty hot topics, including: dependency injection, unit testing and mocking (to name a few).

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:46:02 GMT

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application In my previous post, I have shown how to create Linq to Sql Repository which will have the maximum code coverage, In this post, I will show a simple UnitOfWork class which will flash the changes back to your database. I will be again use my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. Lets assume that in your ASP.NET MVC application you have a method in your controller which will add a category and its associate product in the Northwind database.

Diving in NHibernate.Validator

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Surfing in the NET, to find some NHibernate.Validator (NHV) example, I saw that there are various things not so clear about how NHV is working. In this post I'll try to give you a more deep explication....

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...

jQuery Ajax Tooltip

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:01:04 GMT

Example of using jQuery 1.3 and the new live() method for creating an ajax tooltip.

Simple jQuery Delete Link For ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:01:11 GMT

Any time you allow a GET request to modify data, you're asking for trouble. The reason that delete operations deserve special attention is that it's the most common case where you would use a link to change information. If you are using jQuery, one simple way to turn any link into a POST link

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

Implementing a red black tree in C#

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:01:08 GMT

This article talks about how to implement a red-black tree in C#. The implementation is generic, and it also implements IEnumerable<T>.

Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - Part 2

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:46:05 GMT

This is the second in a multi-part series were we will guide you through various features of ReSharper.

jQuery and ASP.NET Article Posted

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:46:04 GMT

I've posted Part 2 of my jQuery with ASP.NET article series. Part 2 deals almost entirely with making AJAX callbacks to ASP.NET using several different mechanisms to retrieve data from the server for client side consumption. Covered are external content retrieval, same page callbacks, WCF/ASMX and a pluggable custom callback implementation that can be used with any application. Also covered is client side templating for managing HTML in one place.

Haacked: ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:31:10 GMT

"In this post, I want to provide a definitive guide to getting ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6. I will walk through using the .mvc or .aspx file extension for URLs first, then I will walkthrough using extension-less URLs."

ScottG:October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:46:09 GMT

Latest quality link collection by Scott

ASP.NET MVC Pro's and Con's

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:16:06 GMT

Some of the main pro's and con's of the new style for building web applications (ASP.NET MVC).

Client Templating with jQuery

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:16:05 GMT

Client templating in Javascript can be a great tool to reduce the amount of code you have to write to create markup content on the client. There are a number of different ways that templating can be accomplished from a purely manual approach to a full templating engine. In this entry I'll look at several different approaches.

Pluggable ASP.NET CacheManager

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:01:04 GMT

A CacheManager class that you can easily write your own providers (memcached, Velocity, etc.) for. Includes providers for request-length caching and ASP.NET's built-in Cache object.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Introducing SemanticEngine.NET

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:16:15 GMT

Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. They are used to create cross-site profiles of people and also represent relationships between them. XFN and microformats are somewhat easy to start using, but FOAF, APML and SIOC are a different story. Here's a new class library to make it easier..

Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:31:14 GMT

An in-depth example of using jQuery to build client-side paging, including progress indicators, to page into any server side data source that can be JSON serialized by ASP.NET AJAX.