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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed CIO.com a sneak peek, and the author invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

Social Timeline

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:46:45 GMT

I've come up with a little demonstration app that shows how MVC can integrate with JQuery and maybe even an additional javascript framework. This example specifically targets the SIMILE Timeline widget. I saw SIMILE a few weeks ago, then I saw a really nice mimic of it used on Plurk. I figured, there's no reason for the Plurk users to have a corner on the social timeline market. We FriendFeed and Twitter addicts need our timeline too, don't we? So was born this pet project. The timeline only supports the FriendFeed API right now. I'd like to add Twitter next, then maybe an RSS provider, and so on.

Avoiding Dependencies

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:46:03 GMT

As a rule, code should not directly depend on external resources such as System.Net.Mail's email sending capabilities. Having code that directly calls out to System.Net.Mail is difficult to unit test as well as difficult to walk through in a test or stage environment without having actual emails sent. Two design patterns can be used to reduce this dependency: Facade and Strategy. The Strategy pattern offers a host of benefits above and beyond what the facade layer provides, as this articles demonstrates with code examples.

Lossy Logging with a buffer

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:27:07 GMT

rid the logging noise - just check the logs when something bad happens.

lambdas and delegates

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:49:04 GMT

cool code

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now.

Writing code that you're proud of

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:46:03 GMT

Are you proud of the code you write? Take some extra time now and save yourself time down the road.

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by batching javascripts downloads

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:01:12 GMT

Hack for the .Net script manager to pull all needed javascript files at once and push them to the bottom of the html to speed up rendering.

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

public beta of upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases is published

FormatWith 2.0 - String formatting with named variables

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

An improved version of the string FormatWith extension method. It now has the ability to also work with named variables, e.g. "{UserName} last logged in at {LastLoginDate}".FormatWith(user)

ScottGu tells about the new IIS7 Admin Pack

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:16:03 GMT

"Last week the IIS team shipped the first technical preview of some really cool administration modules that I think web developers will find super useful." Database Manager, Log Reports, Configuration Editor, Request Filtering UI, .NET Authorization, FastCGI UI

ScottGu: IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module Released

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:32:27 GMT

The blog post below provides a quick overview of some of the options you can use to reduce the cost of delivering video, and discusses a new free download - the IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module - that was released a few days ago and which enables you to easily save money when serving video from an IIS web server using any video technology (including Silverlight, Windows Media Player and even Flash).

DeepZoom in C# - Not just possible, but easy

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

DeepZoom is a new technology which has been added to Silverlight 2 which gives you a new and unique way of managing images within your application. It is implemented by the <MultiScaleImage> element in XAML, which, as its name suggests, gives you the facility to control scale and zoom of your images, with Silverlight providing a huge virtual space on which these images can be drawn. This is best described by example. Here you can see an image of a kids science project.

My Presentations in Arizona this Tuesday

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:16:02 GMT

1) Developing Applications using Silverlight 2: This will be a drill-down into the new Silverlight 2 Beta1 release, and how you can build applications with it using VS 2008 and Expression Blend. You'll leave this session with a good understanding of the basics of Silverlight programming and how to start building applications with it. 2) Developing Applications using ASP.NET MVC: This session will be a drill-down into the new ASP.NET Model-View-Controller framework option (which last week was updated . You'll leave this session with a good understanding of what it is, how it works, and how to start building ASP.NET web applications with it.

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:16:03 GMT

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available, as posted to ScottGu's blog. Numerous fixes, including the "source code editor freeze" issue that a few people have experienced.

Dependency Injection Example - Constructor Injection and Service Orien

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:00:01 GMT

An attempt to understand DI by implementing a testable custom dependency injection framework.

Silverlight vs. ActiveX

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:57:39 GMT

While Silverlight is cool, the new kids on the block should learn a few things from the veterans.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu.

Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Some more information from ALT.NET on the new ASP.NET MVC framework.

Tip/Trick: Building a ToJSON() Extension Method using .NET 3.5

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie shows a practical example of extension methods by creating some easy methods to automate generating JSON or XML serialized strings for any .NET object.

How to tell if a .NET Assembly is debug or release

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Explains how to tell if a .NET Assembly is built for debug or release by using .NET Reflector and programmatically using System.Reflection.

Nested Master Pages in VS 2008

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:31:02 GMT

A short example video of Nested Master Pages in Visual Studio 2008.

The Yield Statement in C#

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:16:03 GMT

The yield statement is another often overlooked keyword that was introduced in .NET 2.0. It is used to return items from a loop within a method and retain the state of the method through multiple calls.