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Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:04:40 GMT

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007

Handy web.config snippet for sending email in a development environmen

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:46:36 GMT

Hi there, A really handy thing I can use in my web.config while developing is something a collegue of mine pointed me to, and was already mentionded here by Donn Felker: Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server <system.net>  <mailSettings> <smtp deliveryMethod='SpecifiedPickupDirectory'> <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\tmp" /> </smtp> </mailSettings> </system.net> This is very usable to test mail messages even when you don't have an SMTP server available. Hope this is usefull! gr, Robbert

3D in Silverlight from Telerik

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:30:06 GMT

It's an absolute pleasure to share some bit of good news with all our customers and fans. One of our secret Telerik Labs projects is shaping up pretty well. As the title suggests, its a homebrew Silverlight 2 3D engine with perspective and lighting (more features are in the works). Since the movie Pink Panther 2 is coming out soon we decided it will be cool to show off the technology with our own 3D Silverlight pink panther. Enter the panther! While this is only a pink panther you can probably imagine the slick products this technology can translate to. I am not at liberty to spit it out, but you can expect some seriously cool Silverlight stuff to come out from Telerik. Actually I can do better than that - the first person to nail in the product that will make use of the engine will win a Telerik t-shirt! If you are late don't despair - particularly good ideas will also net you a shirt!

Adding streaming video content to your site

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:39:55 GMT

In my last post, I showed how to turn on Amazon S3 support in Sitefinity. In this post, I will show how to create a simple video site using the video library support that is bundled with 3.6 release. It is often required that you want to add a streaming video content to your site, either it could be a product demonstration or a getting started tutorial. Using third party video provider is one way to get the job done but sometimes it requires a lot of manual work, thus headache for managing them as the library grows bigger. 3.6 release breaks you free from all these and provides an easy way for creating , uploading and managing video content.

What's new in Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:40:42 GMT

A list of the new features in Visual Studio 2010

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.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010 (2) - Historical debugger

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:56:44 GMT

My first look at the new Debug History window in Visual Studio 2010.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:31:06 GMT

My first look at Visual Studio 2010 codename "Rosario". I showed some screen shots and and some new features of the new visual studio.

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.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control - CTP Release

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:46:10 GMT

Finally at long last we have released the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control (CTP Release). I spent a few minutes with Angus Logan from the Windows Live Platform Team to show off the control and give a quick demo to get you started. Go get the control from http://dev.live.com/tools, download the Windows Live Tools July CTP Release then watch the video and go build some maps. -Enjoy.

Five Common ASP.NET SEO Mistakes

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:16:06 GMT

Here's a checklist of five common mistakes that ASP.NET and the Viewstate/Postback model of development make it far too easy for unsuspecting developers to make:

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

How to compress viewstate in ASP.NET 2.0

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:45:36 GMT

This article demonstrates how to extend the functionality of the new System.IO.Compression namespace to compress and decompress viewstate information in ASP.NET 2.0 pages.

How to disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications?

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration Inheritance and it can cause serious headaches if you are not fully aware of how it works...

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:16:02 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Today we released an updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview. This new dynamic data preview now works with the standard built-in ASP.NET data controls (GridView, ListView, FormView, DetailsView, etc). The dynamic data support enables these controls to automatically handle foreign-key relationships.

ASP.NET Google Charts Implementation

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Implementation of Google Charts wrapped in server controls for easy consumption by asp.net developers.

Let's tag all ASP.NET MVC contents with aspnetmvc

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:01:08 GMT

I saw using a lot of different tags for tagging ASP.NET MVC related contents: why don't we just standardize the way we do it and tag with aspnetmvc?

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:01:03 GMT

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of my blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this list.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

HttpHandlers

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:31:02 GMT

A pretty useable article on how to use HTTP Handlers and why not.

.NET Ajax Survey results

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:31:02 GMT

I just published the results of the Ajax survey... and the winner is...

Ajax usage among .NET developers

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:31:03 GMT

Ajax usage survey, but targeted only on ASP.NET developers

LINQ and Deferred Execution

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:51:30 GMT

This post covers one of the most important and frequently misunderstood LINQ features. Understanding deferred execution is a rite of passage that LINQ developers must undergo before they can hope to harness the full power of this technology. The contents of this post assumes an intermediate understanding of LINQ.