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BlogEngine.NET Christmas update

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:16:03 GMT

Some exiting things have been going on with BlogEngine.NET lately...

Preventing Double Form Posts

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:01:09 GMT

Most posts on this topic focus on disabling the submit button that causes the post. This works fine when you only have one submit control. But, if you have multiple buttons and/or link buttons that can cause a post and want to avoid potential conflicts if a user clicks a second submit control before the first one has been processed then this is really simply approach.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Workflow Foundation 4.0

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:50:21 GMT

My first look at Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 and the new features in Visual Studio 2010 related to WF applications.

Do We Need Another Open ID Provider?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:31:07 GMT

Microsoft recently announced that Windows Live ID will be an Open ID provider, but not an acceptor. Does this really do anything to further the Open ID movement?

Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set, By Janco

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed and Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels

Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:02 GMT

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther lists the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. The list is kept brief. The list focuses on only those tips and tricks that can be used on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC application.

Copy text from a MessageBox

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:31:02 GMT

How many times you wished you could copy text from the MessageBox. YOU CAN.

DebuggerStepThroughAttribute

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:27:26 GMT

love to check out somebody else his or her code. I always learn something from it. Just a couple of days ago I had an example from Scott Allen about WWF and ASP.Net. In his code example I found a class with different small data checks. Each static method was decorated with the ´DebuggerStepThroughAttribute´.

Windows Workflow Foundation Overview

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:45 GMT

Windows Workflow Foundation is Framework for building the workflow enabled applications on windows. It consisting the workflow engine and designer. Workflow foundation supports both human and system workflow.

Unit Testing Coming to a Workflow Near You

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:05:27 GMT

If you've been working with Windows Workflow, you'll find it has some cool features for orchestration, long running operations, state machines, etc. However you won't find very much support for Test Driven Development (TDD) or unit testing in general. In fact the architecture that makes Windows Workflow powerful (strict separation of workflow, activities, and the host for example) really gets in the way of unit test.

Tips & Tricks: Use DebuggerDisplayAttribute for easier debugging

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:01:02 GMT

When debugging, it's common to hover over an object to get a quick view of what its properties are. This is where DebuggerDisplayAttribute comes in. The format string looks similar to normal .NET format strings in that the values to replace are between curly braces, but instead of being told what to substitute the debugger treats these values as expressions and attempts to evaluate them using the current context.

Comments Security Hole in BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:46:17 GMT

Jarrett describes the steps to reproduce a security hole in BlogEngine.NET for deleting and approving comments. He also provides the source code for a quick fix.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...

vOptimizer reduces VMs to smallest size

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:22:21 GMT

vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a virtual machine's virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible while optimizing Windows guest operating systems for speed and performance. vOptimizer offers many new functions for enterprise level customers while improving the interface and ease of operation for smaller, desktop oriented users. vOptimizer is available in Desktop Edition oriented for optimization of local VMs, and an enterprise ready Network Edition for optimization of VMs located anywhere on the network.

LINQ To SQL and the Web.Config ConnectionString Value

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:16:02 GMT

This saved me a lot of time. Great post.

Introducing TextBox Limiter Control Ajax Control Toolkit Extender

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:16:08 GMT

An extender that overcomes the inability to limit the multiline textboxes

SubSonic BlogProvider for BlogEngine.net

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:01:02 GMT

Here is a new BlogProvider for BlogEngine.net which uses a SubSonic generated data access layer. It uses the same schema as the existing MSSQLBlogProvider. SubSonic + BlogEngine.net = .net Open Source goodness!