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jBlogMvc : part 2 Editing, Deleting, Paging Posts and Rss feeds

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:01:02 GMT

In this part of the series I add editing and deleting posts, the blog posts now has feeds, I also use jquery and the jeditable plugin fot inline editing, I added paging for the posts as well

jBlogMvc : part 1 Building the Administration Area

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:31:03 GMT

In this part, I used some features of the ASP.NET MVC to build an administration area, jQuery too was used on client side (validator plugin). Used membership for validation, Model Binders, jQuery Client validation,Small validation framework for business rules and server side validation.(originally written by scott gu), Using nested master pages in ASP.NET MVC, Applying the "Post/Redirect/Get" (aka PRG) pattern.

Introducing jBlogMvc

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

In this part, I just announced jBlogMvc the ASP.NET MVC and jQuery blogengine which I build in order to learn more about the two new technologies (at least for me)

Building Custom Paging with LINQ,ListView,DataPager&ObjectDataSource

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:01:40 GMT

Custom paging is required by many application, and is implemented with different approaches. The approach represented here is using LINQ to SQL to construct database paging query. It is not the best, but it is effective because using this method you can custom paging and sorting with generic method. So you don't have to create stored procedure of each table you wish to page through.

Yet another BlogEngine.NET feature that I love

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Another feature I love about BlogEngine.NET :: The OpenSearch Handler

ASP.NET Security : 2- More Basics

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:46:03 GMT

Basic information on how the IIS worker process takes an identity to run within, IIS 5 and 6 process models.

ASP.NET Security : 1- Basics

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:01:07 GMT

how the Identity of the thread executing a website in IIS is determined

Exploring GDI+ : Using the Pen

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:01:02 GMT

This post describes how to use the Pen object in drawing and using sepcial characteristics of the pen like DashStyle and LineCaps.

Enabling Design Time Template Editing

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:16:03 GMT

This post describes how to enable design time editing for templated controls.

Adding Auto Format for ASP.NET Custom Controls Design Time

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

This post shows how to add Auto Format.. link in the Smart Tag of the ASP.NET web controls, to give the user of the control a variety of different styles in the design time.

Extracting Icons from Files

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:46:03 GMT

Extracting the icon of any file including executable ones.

Exploring GDI+ : Using The Brush

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

This post shows the different types of brushes built in GDI+, how to work with them and how they look.

The ASP.NET Configuration Model

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:16:05 GMT

This post describes the ASP.NET configuration model, shows the all the config files that are used when running an ASP.NET application, describes the merging process and shows some Tools for editing web.config.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 15: Debugging Design Time

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:46:03 GMT

The final part in the series describing how to debug design time support.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 14: Extra Property Tab

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:46:02 GMT

This post shows how to let your custom controls to have an extra tab in the property window by building a new PropertyTab.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 13: Adding Snaplines

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

This post shows how to add custom Snaplines for your custom windows controls. Includes a sample and source code.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 12: Adding SmartTag

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:01:02 GMT

This post describes how to add a smart tag panel to your custom control.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 11: Designer Verbs

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:01:02 GMT

This post describes how to use a control designer to add custom menu items on the custom controls by adding Designer Verbs.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 10: Filtering Control Members

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:16:02 GMT

This post shows how to filter metadata in the design time environment using designers and implementing PostFilter and PreFilter methods.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 9: Introducing the Designer

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:31:06 GMT

This post gives an introduction to designers and show what designers can do during the design time, and compares between web and windows controls designers.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 8: Implementing UITypeEditor

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

This post describes by steps how to implement a custom UITypeEditor and gives a brief introduction on the IWindowFormsEditorService, the sample introduced is a ColorEditor that uses the ColorWheel to pick from it colors from the drop down.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 7: UITypeEditor Introduction

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:01:03 GMT

This post gives a brief introduction on what is an UITypeEditor and what enhancements it gives for the design time environment, and some built in examples.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 6: Custom TypeConverter 2

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:01:03 GMT

This post shows how to implement a custom TypeConverter for Enums and how to use the SupportedValues to show a custom values list .

Facebook.NET Update

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

A quick update on the release of Facebook.NET 0.3 with support for new and changing Facebook APIs...

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 5: Custom TypeConverters

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:46:06 GMT

This post shows how to implement a custom TypeCoverter for a Point3D structure.