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Cropping image using jQuery, Jcrop and ASP.NET

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:31:02 GMT

Fast and easy cropping image with ASP.NET, jQuery and Jcop (C#)

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

JQuery 1.3.2 Released with much better performance

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:01:02 GMT

The benefits of the new Sizzle selector engine are really starting to come to light as contributions from the larger JavaScript community come in. A number of additions have landed that have helped to improve the performance of the engine - especially in Internet Explorer.

Chapter 3 - Understanding Controllers

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:46:03 GMT

Excellent article by Stephen Walther explaining ASP.NET MVCcontrollers in a very clear example. Good stuff.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:16:02 GMT

Phil Haack talks about ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC.

Richard Campbell - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Richard Campbell of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Carl Franklin - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Saving DotNetKicks

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Keyvan wrote something about our popular social bookmarking site, DotNetKicks and talked about some spamming problems on DNK and discussed about saving DNK from this situation. A must read post for all DotNetKicks lovers!

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

VisualSVN 1.6 Released

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:11 GMT

VisualSVN team released the new and improved version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.6. This release brings significant usability improvements such as Quick Revert, editor-aware status and Hot Switch features.

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

A jQuery TwitterTicker Plugin

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:56:09 GMT

A jQuery plugin to display Twitter posts and display then in a news ticker.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

PagedList Sorted Edition

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:16:10 GMT

Sorted Edition of PagedList

http://riderdesign.com/articles/Build-a-file-tree-explorer-with-jQuery

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:01:02 GMT

Create a file tree explorer with the jQuery File tree plugin and asp.net. With this plugin and a little server side logic, it is very easy to create a great looking client side file tree explorer. This article explains how to set up, configure and customize jQuery File Tree and use ASP.NET to retrieve the file structure.

Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behi

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:16:11 GMT

In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects. The C# team just published a downloadable hotfix that addresses the issues.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Mono 2.0 Released

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:01:15 GMT

The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX.

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.

VSX Conference

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:31:13 GMT

Lou Franco's recollection of events at the VSX Conference last week. (Visual Studio eXtensibility)

JavaScript in Chrome

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:46:02 GMT

A full rundown of the JavaScript features and bugs in Chrome

Dear Alt.Net Developers: Stop blaming Microsoft and WebForms for crea

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:46:02 GMT

I am responsible for every website I create. If I create a site or application that is unmaintainable or that has poorly formed HTML or doesn't render well in all browsers, that is my fault. I chose my development tools/framework, or my employer, who I choose to work for, chose the development tools/framework. Either way, it is my responsibility, as a professional, to do my utmost to create the best possible application that is within my capability to create.

Firebug 1.2 Released

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:00:30 GMT

Firebug 1.2 which works in Firefox 3 has been released. If you are doing any AJAX development (JavaScript, jQuery, etc) this tool is invaluable. Updating Firebug to work in FF3 took quite a bit of effort and now it it works again with many new improvements and features planned to for the next release.