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Windows 7 Tricks and Keyboard Shortcuts

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:01:03 GMT

A summary of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts and tips.

A lap around MIX09 keynote announcements

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:31:09 GMT

Simone collects all the big announcements from MIX09 and provides links to get deeper into the new stuff

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.

How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:16:02 GMT

By default, the ASP.NET MVC framework instantiate controllers calling their default constructor. This makes using Dependency Injection impossible. But, as almost everything inside that framework, the logic with which a controller is instantiated can be replaced with you own logic. This can be done creating your own ControllerFactory, which is pretty simple. But if you are using one of the many popular DI/IoC libraries, that task is even simpler, since there are already custom controller factories for almost all the IoC libraries available. In this post we are are going to see how to use the ControllerFactory that delegates to Ninject the creation of your controllers.

Windows 7 Product Lines Announced

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:18:57 GMT

Microsoft today announced the new product line for Windows 7. In some ways the new Windows 7 product line follows the same ideas of Windows Vista, but the big differences are that each Windows 7 edition is a superset of the previous edition (which means that each higher edition will have every feature of all lower editions) and they will be focusing primarily on two editions of Windows 7: Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional.

Adding custom assertions to MSTest

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:12:29 GMT

Even though MSTest does not provide the same extensibility capabilities as NUnit, it is still possible to add these missing Assert methods by creating your own class library to reference in your unit test project. In order to help ease any potential issues in migrating from NUnit to MSTest caused by the lack of these Assert methods, I have created a class library that includes all of them except the FileAssert methods and StringAssert.IsMatch. These methods should behave exactly like they do in NUnit. (In fact, the unit tests are the same ones used in NUnit, with only a few minor differences.)

http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2008/12/30/looking-at-oxite-the-ldqu

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta shares his opinions about Oxite, the CMS built by MIX team as a showcase for ASP.NET MVC, and talks how the downsides of the software can help you apply your knowldege in ASP.NET WebForms in ASP.NET MVC.

The Book Writing Process

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the writing process of a book, especially a programming book, based on his own experiences with Wrox when working on Beginning ASP.NET MVC.

How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.

Silverlight 2.0 RTM available from Oct 14th, on a Linux machine next t

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 will go RTM tomorrow morning, with an Eclipse plugin to allow development of SL app on Linux to Java developers

Some updates on the "Beginning ASP.NET MVC" book

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:31:03 GMT

Finally the book has its cover designed, and it's available for pre-sale on Amazon. Keyvan also discusses the pro and cons of writing a book based on pre-release versions of a technology.

.NET Application Modeling Language (nAML) Specification and Tools

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:31:03 GMT

Understanding the architecture and code in software application plays as major factors while building good software products. This free e-book introduces a new visual modeling technique, termed as "nAML" (.NET Application Modeling Language) which overcomes the limitation of typical modeling languages by providing revolutionary way! Nothing much to say, just download it and you can get to know how POWERFUL it is!

Which is faster? Silverlight or Flash?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:46:11 GMT

Benchmarks of RIA performances: Flash/Flex is faster when it comes to graphic rendering, but Silverlight is faster when it comes to pure computation speed.

Visual Studio Optimizations

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:18:53 GMT

There are always a lot of posts about various add-ins, code snippets, macros, and other utilities that are designed to make you, the developer, more productive within Visual Studio as an editing environment. However, there seem to very few posts that talk about how to actually improve the performance of Visual Studio itself. Here are some settings that you can change which will help speed up Visual Studio.

Visual Studio and Code Analysis

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:18:08 GMT

Even with the newest releases of StyleCop, FxCop, and Visual Studio 2008, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the suite of technologies and products that make up what should probably be termed "Microsoft Source Analysis".

No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production

Subtext 2.0 "Poseidon" Released!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:46:02 GMT

Subtext 2.0 is hot off the CI Server and the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 links collection

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:16:03 GMT

A list of all the posts talking about the new features and changes coming with the interim ASP.NET MVC P4

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.

INETA rewards User Group contributions with an XBox or MSDN and a grea

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:46:03 GMT

INETA has launched a new awards program that recognizes people that are active in the DotNet User Group Community with an XBox (or MSDN Subscription), an Award to hang on your wall, Public Recognition on INETA.org and a badge for your own website.

INETA Community Champions

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:07:34 GMT

If you are a user group leader in the worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups, be sure to check out the new Community Champions program. This is just one of the ways INETA recognizes and rewards those who contribute to the user group community and help it grow.

The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:16:02 GMT

I think an awful lot of creation is made out of, also, the self-criticism of a developer, and very often I think probably what makes one seem better than another his that his critical sense is more acute. It may not be that he is more gifted in any way but just that he has a better critical sense.

Let's tag all ASP.NET MVC contents with aspnetmvc

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:01:08 GMT

I saw using a lot of different tags for tagging ASP.NET MVC related contents: why don't we just standardize the way we do it and tag with aspnetmvc?

Minority Report-like interaction with WPF

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:46:03 GMT

The guys at Cynergy built a very cool prototype of a no-touch interface using WPF and Wii controller. Here is a video and some insight of how they developed it.

Random thoughts after one week of Mac

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:16:02 GMT

All those thoughts led to a consideration: an OS as good as the applications that run on it. An the more the apps, the higher the probability that there is a great app for your needs. This is true for Windows, but a little bit less true for OS X: probably because there are less developers willing to develop on the Mac, and I guess it's because the horrible Objective-C needed to develop native Mac Apps.