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WCF Services - Let's Get Started

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:48:55 GMT

In connection with testing WCF services I had to get the services to work under IIS on my development computer. The default WCF services library created by Visual Studio does not automatically include IIS support. There were other small glitches that I was able to overcome nicely, in spite of everything.

Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:25:57 GMT

Windows WorkFlow Foundation 4.0 has some new cool things to offer. I visited one of David Chappell sessions where he told us about "Dublin", "Oslo" and WF 4.0. It was very interesting session and I got all information I expected.

Visual Studio 2010: Brief view at debug history

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 introduces also some new debugging features. One of them is debug history. Debug history enables you to track all the points on track of control flow and it also monitors activities that you cannot see otherwise. It makes debugging of hard to find problems much easier, I think. Of course, there are many other new and cool debugging features available.

The Data Model Resource Book - Universal Data Models

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:59:14 GMT

Couple of years ago I brought two books for my company. Today I can say that I made a small investment that still works pretty well. These books are titled as The Data Model Reosurce Book and author of these books is Len Silverston. First volume of Data Model Resource Book introduces common models that are used by almost all industries. Second volume offers us industry specific models.

CSS Tooltips

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:11:16 GMT

Nice little brief on how to achieve tooltips using pure css

Displaying Twitter Updates in a Page by Page fashion with ASP.NET

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:05:58 GMT

In this tutorial, we will develop a technique to retrieve and display a page full of Twitter updates to the user, giving him the ability to move to the next page. The user will be able to browse all the pages using 'Previous Page&apos and &aposNext Page&apos links. Our technique will be highly efficient as we will be retrieving only enough number of Twitter updates from a given screen name, to display on a single page. Only when the user browses to the next page will another set of Twitter updates be retrieved. At the same time we will cache the results, page by page, giving seamless and smooth performance to the end user.

Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:39:39 GMT

A demo that I added to my MVVM talk is one that compares a "Ball of Mud" application with a componentized MVVM application with the exact same set of features. I do this to contrast a messy, un-testable work of code to a cleanly separated, testable work. The application I chose to write is a Twitter search application in WPF. When you download the code, you will see two folders: "BallOfMud" and "MVVM".

Silverlight Math Creativity Part I.II

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:29:43 GMT

Third post in a series on Silverlight animations based on the book Flash Math Creativity

Silverlight Math Creativity Part I.I

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:27:48 GMT

Second post in a series on Silverlight animations based on the book Flash Math Creativity

Silverlight Math Creativity Part I

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:26:59 GMT

First post in a series on Silverlight animations based on the book Flash Math Creativity

Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:23:21 GMT

During the Olympia Software Craftsmanship Workshop last weekend, Jeff Olsen (@olsonjeffery) demonstrated the use of the web testing framework Selenium. I was really impressed with the Selenium IDE and how easy it was to use in Firefox. One of the menu items of the IDE is to export a test as C#. I wanted to find out exactly what it takes for a .NET developer to get started using Selenium. This post is intended to help others get started.

Javascript Equality Nothing Is What It Seems.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:58:29 GMT

Comparing objects and value is javascript is trickier than you think.

New Eco Theme For BlogEngine.NET

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:00:00 GMT

We have released the first of many new themes for BlogEngine.NET 1.5 (SubText version to follow soon) - The n3o Eco theme, it's various tones of green and features some fancy swirly graphics

Reducing Code Coupling - Service Locator

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:33:51 GMT

The second part of a series that shows how to reduce code coupling. This part discusses the Service Locator.

MVC support in existing ASP.NET control suites

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:35:35 GMT

One of the problems with embracing MVC is that the toolsets we may have used in our standard ASP.NET web forms projects may now not work in a new MVC project. However, do not fear! some of the big guns in the control suite market already have MVC support, so you may not need to re-invest in new MVC versions of the same suites or have to start re-inventing the wheel building MVC controls yourself.

NHibernate - query only properties

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:33:14 GMT

With most applications, there is some difference between the domain model and the data model. Probably the most common scenario that I run into can be expressed in the usually Blog & Posts example. In our domain model, we don't want to have a Blog.Posts collection, we want to only have a Post.Blog.

Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC using partials

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:00:00 GMT

The goal of these control helpers is to reward you for developing MVC with the Model first. Yeah there is a reason that Model View Controller starts with the Model. Using the strongly typed views in the aspx view engine we can carry the type down to the control helpers with intellisense and then build html input control based on conventions for rendering specific CLR types to specific HTML output.

Changing Prompt And Execution Policy in PowerShell

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:39:04 GMT

In this article I am going to show you, how to change the prompt of your PowerShell and few lines about Execution Policy in PowerShell.

Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts-Some new VS 2010 shortcuts included too

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Here's a compilation of some Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts that I personally find useful. I have included some that may make their way into the Visual Studio 2010 release.

SubSonic 3.0: The SimpleRepository « Rob Conery

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:45:01 GMT

Rob is adding a very nice simple repository to SubSonic 3.0 that will give SubSonic top-notch POCO support and very slick migrations. Mapping files be damned!

Permanently Redirecting a Page in ASP.NET 4.0

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:52:30 GMT

Web applications commonly move the pages and content around the servers. This results to accumulation of old links in search engines. Traditionally this was handled in ASP.NET using the Response.Redirect method to forward the request to the new URL. However Redirect method issues an HTTP 302 found (temporary redirect) response. Redirect method results in extra round trip when user accessing the old URLs.

Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:45:00 GMT

How to create a Double Click Trigger in Silverlight 3 to compose rich interactive experiences.

How to localize Silverlight Applications the smart way

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:05:41 GMT

A very common task when developing business applications is to localize them for english, german and other languages. The most common approach is to use ResX files in order to create resource classes which can be used to bind the silverlight controls to. Due to a bug in the resource generator from Microsoft, you always have to change the created resource class from internal to public, which is very annoying . That's why I was searching for a better solution to localize silverlight applications - and I think I found a really smart way to do that task.

Validation in a MS MVC application, revisited

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:41:23 GMT

A while ago I posted a approach to validating you´r model and one to add captcha validation in a MS MVC application. You can find those posts here: Mvc, validate controller action input and Asp.net mvc captcha validation made easy. They both use a attribute approach to declare what to validate and how. I then find the attributes in a base controller and validate, then I put any error in the modelstate of the controller. Later, after thinking a little bit about this, I figured that I might just as well use action filters. Then I will not have to inherit from my BaseController everywhere I want to use this approach. So I sat down and rebuild it.

IIS SEO Toolkit: Sitemaps overview (illustrated)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:29:20 GMT

IIS SEO Toolkit provides us besides site analysis also with sitemaps management. We can create sitemaps, sitemaps indexes, add URLs to sitemaps and sitemaps to sitemap indexes. Sitemap indexes are useful when you have more complex sitemaps structure (by example, you may have multiple sitemap files for different modules in you system).