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4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy!

MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:01:04 GMT

Ryan plugs his Gravatar library into MVC in order to create a HTML view helper for building gravatar images.

Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part II

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:16:14 GMT

In this article, we will explore some common 'How Do I' kind of examples using LINQ to XML. This article is the Part II of the 3-part LINQ to XML series.

Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:46:11 GMT

Ryan Lanciaux discusses a class for retrieving Gravatar images -- this class was mainly written to facilitate using Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC.

XNA Game Studio 3.0

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:20 GMT

The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:46:02 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.

ScottGu:Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Great collection of links. Again.

Donut Caching in ASP.Net MVC - Revisited by Phil Haack

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:01:04 GMT

In this article Phil makes an improvement to the Maarten Balliauw's MVC OutputCache substitution ActionFilter Attribute

Building applications with DLinq Designer

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:01:02 GMT

DLinq designer is the visual design surface to create the entity objects and bound the controls to the dlinq objects with relationships. We can easily create the windows form using the designer. The developer need not take more time to design the User Interface. The designer itself suggests you the controls suitable for the selected fields.

Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:01:02 GMT

question that often comes up is how do you group controllers when building a large application with ASP.NET MVC. Often, the question is phrased as whether or not ASP.NET MVC supports "Areas", a feature of Monorail. According to the Monorail documentation, MonoRail supports the concept of areas, which are logical groups of controllers. All controllers belong to an area. The default area is an empty (unnamed) one

Using Active Directory to authenticate users to your ASP.NET Web Site

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET membership provides the ability to authenticate users to your web application using forms based authentication against a database of users or directory services. This article explains the steps required to provide authentication against Active Directory, either for new sites with no authentication, or for existing sites using database authentication.

Looking for a Lot of .NET Code Samples - They Are Right Under Your Nos

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:16:11 GMT

You have a wealth of code samples on your computer, here is how to find them!!!! An Easter Egg from Microsoft.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

My first experience with jQuery

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:22:10 GMT

A small post about my first JQuery experience and why I had to choose another Javascript library for the job.

Embeddable C# Compiler

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:46:05 GMT

Manuel de Icaza created an embeddable C# compiler for Mono.

jQuery ajax with asp.net mvc preview 5

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:31:10 GMT

How to use the AjaxHelpers in preview 5 with jQuery as the ajax engine

Codebehind Files in ASP.NET MVC Are Evil

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:46:05 GMT

Having Codebehind files for Views in ASP.NET MVC tempts developers to use web forms style programming in MVC applications. Removing them from the default application templates and new File->ASP.NET MVC View templates will help developers fall into a "pit of success" by eliminating the temptation to put code into codebehind files that should really go into Controllers.

C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation

EntitySpaces 2009 Preview - New Code Generation

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:16:10 GMT

EntitySpaces has teamed up with Justin Greenwood (shown left) of MyGeneration Software to create a brand new code generation engine for EntitySpaces 2009. Because of Justin's code generation expertise we contaced Justin and asked him to create a very simple, lightweight code generation engine whose only job is to execute templates (there is no user interface support by design). The code generation engine makes the EntitySpaces MetdataEngine available as an intrinsic object available to all templates through the "esMeta" property. We already have a working version of the code generation engine and thought we would share our progress with you.

101 Free Silverlight Controls

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Awesome collection of FREE silverlight controls.

Custom LINQ to SQL code generation templates

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:16:07 GMT

Free templates to allow full customization of the DBML to C#/VB.NET code generation phase of LINQ to SQL without additional tool dependencies!

Client & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Emad Ibrahim talks about Client (with jQuery Validation Plugin) & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC.