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20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:00 GMT

In this article we presents a collection of best Silverlight tutorials.

OpenForum - A Free Forum for ASP.NET MVC Applications

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:01 GMT

One of the things that I really like about the MVC framework is that it offers some unique possibilities when it comes to third parties developing entire sub-systems that can easily be plugged into existing applications. Recently, I had some "down time" at my work and decided to take the opportunity to experiment with doing just that. Here are the results of that experiment. OpenForum is a forum that can easily be plugged into any MVC application with very little effort. In fact, there are only three steps to get OpenForum working with most MVC applications.

A Better SMTP Development Server

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Looking for a way to test the email sending functionality of your application? There's no need to install a full-blown SMTP server - not as long as you have Antix SMTP Server for Developers in your bag of tricks.

Presentation at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka - Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Presentation slide for the "Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data]" session on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

ASP.NET MVC UI Components (Continued) - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:15:00 GMT

In my last post, two important issues are raised 1. The justification of having server side components for jQuery UI. 2. The style of syntax. The intension of my last post was to get the feedback of the type of syntax the ASP.NET MVC developer prefers, so I did not mention anything on the server side side integration, this might be the reason why few people were unable to find the benefits of this server side support. In this post, I will try to show few simple examples of the server side integration, lets say that you are creating a Task submit form, you can use the Slider as completed percent field instead of regular input field, like the following....

Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project

Sun, 31 May 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Vici MVC (formerly known as ProMesh.NET) has been released as part of the new Vici Project, an open-source collection of .NET libraries and frameworks.

Kobe - MS New Web 2.0 Resource Kit in ASP.NET MVC and My thoughts

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

If you recently visited the home page of www.asp.net you will find that Microsoft has released a new Resource Kit for developing Web 2.0 Applications. The resource kit contains a sample reference application that is developed in ASP.NET MVC framework. Since both of these are my area of of interest, I downloaded the codes and give a quick walkthrough. Prior getting to the main discussion, I just want to remind you that it is the second reference application (after Oxite) that is named under Microsoft, so you are suppose to get some quality....

Unit Testable HttpModule and HttpHandler - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:31:11 GMT

With the new System.Web.Abstraction namespace we can now easily write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. In this post, I will show you how to write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. Prior the release of System.Web.Abstraction the problem with unit testing of these web infrastructural items is HttpContext, it is sealed, no way to mock it with Rhino or Moq. The only option is to create the wrapper objects of these non-mockable objects but it has a very long tail like HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpSessionState, HttpServerUtility etc etc. And this is the exact thing that the System.Web.Abstraction provides, all wrappers around the non-mockable objects of HttpContext. But still, both the HttpModule and HttpHandler depends upon the original HttpContext which I hope will change in ASP.NET 4.0. till then we need to create a super layer for making it Unit Testable.

Using ColorPickerExtender Client-side Events

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:29:10 GMT

Article describes how to subscribe to the colorSelectionChanged client-side event of the ColorPicker ASP.NET AJAX Extender control using both JavaScript or ASP.NET mark-up code and how to improve user experience by handling the event. Code examples provided.

The Open Source Projects on ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects developed in ASP.NET MVC. I am ordering it based ...

Implementing a Chain-of-responsibility or "Pipeline" in C

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:00:32 GMT

Anti-Patterns are interesting in showing you what you are doing wrong. However, patterns are also interesting in showing you how to do it well. This time, I want to show how to implement a simple Chain-of-responsibility pattern. Our example is going to be based on a simple e-Commerce data model.

DotNetNuke 4.9 en GB Language Packs Released

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:45:18 GMT

Last weekend while playing with DotNetNuke 4.9, i decided to create and publish language packs for en-GB locale. I duplicated default en-US locale of DotNetNuke and converted it to en-GB Language pack.

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:01:03 GMT

Recently, in KiGG/DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter, nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing for DotNetShoutout). Since it is a new requirement, initially I have modified the StoryService constructor to include the twitter client as a new argument and use it after the story is added in the database, the code is something like the following:...

Creating SOLID Code: Open/Closed Principle (OCP)

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:46:13 GMT

Taking a look at how to create SOLID Code: Creating SOLID Code: Open/Closed Principle (OCP). This is a second in a series where we will take a look at each of the parts the SOLID Principle

Wanna see ASP.NET MVC RTM-ed? Help test MVC RC2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:16:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC RC2 has just been released, and it includes a pretty big change in the installation process. Before it is RTMed they want to make sure it doesn't break anything, so, help test the installation procedure in as many machine as you can, and report problems.

Security Vulnerability of the Week #1: SQL Injection

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:01:13 GMT

This article begins a semi-regular series that will explores the most common vulnerabilities and the mind-set of the developers that create them and also explore how to deal with them. The first post in the series takes a look at the OWASP top number 2 vulnerability, Injection (specifically SQL Injection) - which has been a known and solved problem for over 10+ years, yet for some reason, it's still as common as ever.

Unit Testable Configuration Manager - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:31:19 GMT

If you are a TDD purist, you should know that accessing file system in Unit Test is violating the rule. But in our application, our infrastructural code often requires to access the configuration values form web.config/app.config. In this post, I will show you how can create a simple wrapper class which you can use in your unit tests without hitting the file ...

ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:01:03 GMT

The first in a series of posts detailing how to create ASP.NET MVC projects in a way that facilitates DDD. Fluent NHibernate, NHibernate.Burrow, and MVCContrib will be used.

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:46:02 GMT

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application In my previous post, I have shown how to create Linq to Sql Repository which will have the maximum code coverage, In this post, I will show a simple UnitOfWork class which will flash the changes back to your database. I will be again use my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. Lets assume that in your ASP.NET MVC application you have a method in your controller which will add a category and its associate product in the Northwind database.

SQL SERVER 2008 Interview Questions and Answers - PDF Download

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:01:02 GMT

I have listed all the series in this post so that it can be easily downloaded and used. All the questions are collected and listed in one PDF which is here to download. If you have any question or if you want to add to any of the question please send me mail or write a comment. Must Bookmark!

Visual Studio Tips Tricks Opening a blank Solution

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:31:03 GMT

This small post shows how to open a blank solution in Visual Studio 2008

SyntaxEditor for WPF - Completion list matched text highlights

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:23:55 GMT

Actipro reveals another great feature in their SyntaxEditor for WPF completion lists: matched text highlights.

100% Unit Testable Linq To Sql Repository - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:31:47 GMT

In this post, I will show you how you can architect your Linq To Sql repository which will have 100% code coverage. I will use our favorite Northwind database along with my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. First, lets add a Linq To Sql diagram in our project and drag n drop the Category and Product table that will look something like foll...

Improve your NHibernating with NHProf

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:31:03 GMT

A short review of experience using Hibernate profiling/debugging tool NHProf.

SQL Server 2005 Management Studio tips

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Two SQL 2005 Management Studio tips