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Separating Concerns within Windows Applications

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:15:41 GMT

When coding, the Separation of Concerns (SoC) is a principal that basically will help organise your applications and make them more manageable. Dependency Injection (DI) typically goes hand in hand with SoC. I thought I would take a look at how to apply "SoC" and "DI" to a windows application...

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

How To Become a Development Team Leader

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Moving from being a developer to leading a team of developers is the ambition of many - and it's easier than you might think to achieve. In fact, there is only one thing you need to do.

ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

ScottGus Blogpost to the new MVC drop on Codeplex

ASP.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit alternative authentication

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC implementation of an OpenID consumer and Windows Live ID Web Authentication in the ASP.NET MVC Membership Starter Kit.

Official BlogEngine.NET Security Patch

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Over the weekend, we were alerted to a security flaw in BlogEngine.NET 1.3.0.0. We have created a new release 1.3.1.0 which corrects this issue and are making a patch available here for users running 1.3.0.0. For those people running development version of BlogEngine.NET (from the source tab on CodePlex), please note that the latest release 1.3.0.29 has the security fix as well.

Massive BlogEngine.Net Security Hole - Fix Provided

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A massive security hole in BlogEngine.net was just revealed that allows anyone to see your passwords... Danny Douglass explains the issue and provides a patched BlogEngine.Core assembly to resolve the issue until the next release of BlogEngine is available.

Coder Journal's MVC Toolkit

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:01:03 GMT

Today I decided to release a toolkit that I have been building over the past couple of months. Most of the code in the toolkit is related to MVC. The list of features includes many MVC ActionFilters, Routes, ViewEngines, and Extensions. Including ActionFilters for Cache, GZip Compression, CAPTCHA, HTTP POST Only. And an attribute to provide serialization of the ViewData to XML, JSON, or JSONP. I hope it helps everybody out.

ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 2 : Rob Conery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:02 GMT

The second in a series of screencasts documenting the building of an eCommerce storefront using ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC: Introducing The MVC Storefront Series : Rob Conery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:16:19 GMT

The first in a series of screencasts documenting the building of an eCommerce storefront using ASP.NET MVC.

Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls - Scott Gu

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes (either a Control base class or from a control like TextBox, Button, etc). Alternatively you can create re-usable User Controls - which make it easy to use a XAML markup file to compose a control's UI (and which makes them super easy to build). In Part 6 of my Digg.com tutorial blog series I showed how to create a new user control using VS 2008's "Add New Item" project item dialog and by then defining UI within it. This approach works great when you know up front that you want to encapsulate UI in a user control. You can also use the same technique with Expression Blend.

ScottGu: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC...

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:12 GMT

FormatWith 2.0 - String formatting with named variables

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

An improved version of the string FormatWith extension method. It now has the ability to also work with named variables, e.g. "{UserName} last logged in at {LastLoginDate}".FormatWith(user)

Rhino Mocks 3.4 Released

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Some great new features!

An NUnitForms testing strategy

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:34:10 GMT

A method of using NUnitForms to simplify GUI test fixtures

Beta Release of Mini SQL Query

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:33 GMT

A free, small and lightweight SQL query tool for MSSQL/access/oracle databases. Easily extenable, written in C#.

The Liskov Substitution Principle

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:16:02 GMT

The first S.O.L.I.D. principle

SubSonic: 2.1 Beta 2 Available Now

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

I spose there's not much more to add to that title. Eric and Shawn Oster have been hard at work while I pretty much have been under water for the last month, getting ready for MIX.

Retaining Good Developers - 10 Things To Keep Them Happy

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

This is a great article. I just wish some of my previous employers would have done just a few of these things. I probably would have stuck around longer.

ASP.Net MVC: Authentication & Error Handling via Filters

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:31:02 GMT

An extension to the ASP.Net MVC framework that allows you to add filters to controllers. Includes implementations of filters for easy authentication and exception handling.

An MVC Project Template for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:33:38 GMT

I have put together a simple C# project template for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.

Anonymous Types in C# 3.0

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

One of the most convenient features of C# 3.0 is the ability to create new types 'on the fly' using Anonymous Types. Here's a detailed post that describes how these generated types work, behave and where their use can be very useful.

OpenWinForms - open source windows forms and controls

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

OpenWinForms is a open source website for windows forms and controls. Here you can find windows controls and libraries for free. This is a non-commercial open source web site. This site mainly focuses on Microsoft technologies e.g. Microsoft .net, VB.net, C#.net etc. You may use these for any commercial or non-commercial purpose for free.

Tip - Use failing Unit Tests to mark your TODO Items

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:04:21 GMT

Programming tip to avoid losing notes in the process of getting on with the coding!

Regions == Evil

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:31:02 GMT

Bil Simser argues against using regions in your code.