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A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 learning guide by Stephen Walther

LINQ'ing the Future of Development with Jim Wooley

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:31:02 GMT

The latest version of the .Net Framework includes a technology called LINQ. Developers are digging their teeth into it and Deep Fried Bytes is here to help with them work out the KINQs in LINQ. Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Wooley and discuss the truths, gotchas and a few rusty washers about LINQ.

Are you going the way of the Dinosaur???

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:01:12 GMT

Some great advice for your career.

Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

inline asp.net tags... sorting them all out (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:46:02 GMT

There are all sorts of different inline tags, and I haven't found a place that explains them all in one place, so here is the quick and dirty...

The Entire Patterns and Practices catalog in one place

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:01:02 GMT

The P&P group at MS is dedicated to enabling YOU, the developer, implement the best patterns and follow practices designed to increase your chances for success. At this link is a full list of the P&P group's catalog, including application blocks, reusable code, factories, guides, patterns and tools. Sweet.

Compiling VS and generating project version based on SVN revision.

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:31:02 GMT

Solution for dynamic and automatic AsseblyInfo generation with version number based on SVN revision. It is using just csproj file.

Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages.

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

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.

Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Demonstrates the easiest way of generating and parsing Xml available in the .net framework. No more XmlNodes and no more CleanStringForXml custom utility functions.

.NET Rocks! Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Miguel is back to talk Mono with Geoff Norton. Many things have changed since we last talked to Miguel about the Mono project, an open-source port of the .NET Framework that runs on Windows, Linux, and the Mac. The focus is mostly about running .NET apps on the Mac.

New ASP.NET Wiki

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:01:01 GMT

Check out the new ASP.NET wiki for a ton of resources on asp.net. Being a wiki, everyone can contribute so go ahead and give it a whirl! http://wiki.asp.net/

The Most Useful VS Feature No One Seems To Use

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Speed up your debugging time by using the Exceptions dialog box.

Agile PM Tools

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:01:02 GMT

Nice list of Agile project management tools.

Hundreds of design patterns, antipatterns and refactorings listed

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Good source of common patterns (GoF etc), antipatterns and refactoring types. The examples are good and clear, but the code samples are only in Java/C++. However, the articles and samples are platform neutral enough to be useful even for .NET-purists like us ;)

A Sorted Affair: History of the C# Sort

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:16:02 GMT

I often have the joy of dealing with other people's code that was originally written in C# 1.0 and am continually amazed by how much better the language has become in a few short years. This example represents the evolution of sorting a simple list in C#. From 50+ lines of code, down to one. Wow, what a change!

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:31:02 GMT

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers.