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Google's Chrome Shines

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:55:06 GMT

Short description of Google's new browser, and my first impressions.

SVN Bridge from CodePlex

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:30:12 GMT

Intro to the SVNBridge tool from CodePlex used to allow Tortoise SVN client access to the TFS server repository.

LINQ to Entities, what is not supported?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:16:13 GMT

A look at what LINQ to SQL support and not supported in LINQ to Entities.

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

RhinoMocks 3.5 AAA Model

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:34:54 GMT

A short introduction to some of the new features in RhinoMocks 3.5, by contrasting them with the tests written in old syntax...

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

fluent-nhibernate for creating entity mapping files

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:44:18 GMT

fluent-nhibernate is an API that creates nhibernate entity mapping files. This will prevent you from having to create the XML mapping files and provides testability. This API was part of the Shade Tree code base written by Jeremy Miller.

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Fri, 23 May 2008 01:01:04 GMT

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a request. Web application responded by displaying a yellow message box with an exclamation icon saying that data processing is still in progress. He checked several more times, but he didn't notice that at one moment the message changed to "Account available". But the message box hasn't changed. He continued to check a few more times and eventually he realized that the request was successful. I don't know what was in the minds of developers and designers who created this application, but it certainly wasn't the user. This poor bank official was really frustrated. I can't imagine what the rest of the application looks like.

ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:01:02 GMT

ScottGus Blogpost to the new MVC drop on Codeplex

MVC: Error Handler Action Filter

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

An Action Filter for the MVC Preview 2 release that allows you to say "hey, Mr. Action, if you throw [ThisException], please show [ThisPage]".

Json.NET 2.0 Beta 2 (aka LINQ to JSON)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:31:02 GMT

A huge update to Json.NET! Much improved syntax for creating and querying JSON objects.

Vista SP1: Terminal Services /console switch no longer working

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:31:02 GMT

One caveat of installing Vista SP1 if you use Terminal Services.

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:57:36 GMT

Getting jQuery to work with Intellisense in Visual Studio is now possible after Microsoft updated script parsing code in a recent hotfix. Although there are improvements in basic parsing and some Intellisense is supported, by making some very minor comment changes to jQuery.js can improve Intellisense support drastically.

Fluent Stubs

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:58:35 GMT

Describes the way to refactor your unit tests to make them more human-readable using Fluent Interfaces.

IoC with StructureMap

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:21:58 GMT

I nice intruction to Inversion Of Control using StructureMap framework

ScreenCast: MVC, jQuery and REST

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:45:08 GMT

Screencast showing how to use jQuery, MVC and REST to do AJAX calls and partial page updates.

DotNetKicks button extension for Blogengine.NET

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:46:02 GMT

An extension for Blogengine.NET which allows you to easily add a DotNetKicks button to posts.

Using script.aculo.us with ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:46:03 GMT

Chad Myers shows how to get Microsoft's new ASP.NET MVC framework working nicely with the open-source script.aculo.us JavaScript library.

ASP.NET 3.5 by Scott

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:46:02 GMT

The blog entry from Scott

TDD with ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:46:04 GMT

Doing TDD using the new ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.

Animating ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel Updates

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:01:10 GMT

The ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel simply replaces the panel contents when it updates. In this example we see how we can add some animation to the update.