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Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Taking a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and move up to looking at nested if-then-else statements.

11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:15:00 GMT

An in-depth analysis of the performance concerns when using a popular jQuery selector and a couple ways to dramatically speed it up, including benchmarks.

ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT

"Today I'm happy to announce that we're done with the work I described and the installer is now available on CodePlex. Be sure to give it a try as many of the new VS10 features intended to support the TDD workflow fit very nicely with ASP.NET MVC, which ScottGu will describe in an upcoming blog post."

22 Visual Studio Short Keys and 6 Short-cut Ways to Custom Jobs

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Efficient programmers use short keys in IDE like Visual Studio. This saves time and in many cases makes the work run faster also. I also love short keys. They are smart! And there also go some tricks that help make your visual studio days a party! I have listed here some short cuts and some tips with the hope that this will be helpful to you all.

15 Books You Must Have If You Are Doing ASP.NET Web Development

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Good books give you a quick and handy insight into a technology. You should choose books that are usually written by professionals who recommend best practices and different methods of solving a business problem using the technology. In this post, I will share some books I recommend for ASP.NET and other related Web Development technologies

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....

Live Twitter stream of notable people in the .NET community

Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Built with ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and TweetSharp

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list:

Visual Studio Tips and Tricks - II

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:05:01 GMT

Learn how to format your code better in Visual Studio

Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio

Thu, 21 May 2009 05:06:38 GMT

As you begin developing more complex client-side functionality, managing the size and shape of your JavaScript includes becomes a key concern. It's all too easy to accidentally end up with hundreds of kilobytes of JavaScript spread across many separate HTTP requests, significantly slowing down your initial page loads. I hope you'll find that this technique is a good compromise between the tedium of using manual minification tools and the overwrought complexity of setting up some of the more "enterprisey" automation solutions.

Introduction to AutoMapper

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:16:11 GMT

take a look at how we can simplify our entity mapping by using AutoMapper. AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. Currently, AutoMapper is geared towards model projection scenarios to flatten complex object models to DTOs and other simple objects, whose design is better suited for serialization, communication, messaging, or simply an anti-corruption layer between the domain and application layer.

Rarely used C# Keywords

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

When doing code reviews or when working with code that was developed by someone else, once in a while I come across keywords that are rarely used. Some of them are forgotten keywords that are not considered a good practice and hence are not promoted by the community. Some of them could be handy and efficient but they never made it to the limelight.

Five Reasons for using an ORM Tool

Sat, 16 May 2009 01:46:03 GMT

Gud intro of as what orm tools do...

How Do You Deal With Exceptions?

Fri, 15 May 2009 04:01:09 GMT

A little post on my ideas about handling exceptions within applications. How do you handle them?

YUI Compressor for Visual Studio

Wed, 13 May 2009 04:01:14 GMT

Add a custom tool in visual studio for YUI Compressor.

Windows 7 Tricks and Keyboard Shortcuts

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:01:03 GMT

A summary of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts and tips.

Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:06 GMT

Found on tangible blog, that the new tangible T4 Editor 1.4 FREE EDITION now includes full Intelli-Sense support for MVC Host and related namespaces used in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM T4 Templates. In addition it provides a nice highlighting for ASP.NET and T4 Code. Seems like anyone can now edit MVC T4 Templates with full comfort without investing a penny. Awesome!

Using jQuery Validation in ASP.NET Master Pages

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:01:03 GMT

jQuery has a Validation plug-in which is full of features and is quite flexible. However the name mangling in ASP.NET Master Pages presents interesting challenges in using this plug-in and I could not find a working solution on the net. In this article, I will demonstrate how to use the jQuery Validation plug-in with Master Pages

Testing MVC Routes

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:16:28 GMT

Taking a look at how you can test your routes in an MVC application. We will start the process of creating new functionality for our application in this episode by showing how to create the tests for the routes first by using MvcContrib project. In the next episode we will continue creating our routes to make the tests pass.

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

8 Must Have Tools when Going to the Client's Site

Wed, 06 May 2009 01:01:05 GMT

Have you ever been to a client's site and you are in the middle of a large deployment and something goes wrong. Of course not! yeah ..sure Don't you wish then you had packed with you the source code code, X or Y tool to help you better diagnose the issue...

ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:01:05 GMT

I like the compiler to catch as many errors as possible before I start debugging or release my application. This also applies to code nuggets in ASP.NET MVC views, especially since these are not unit-testable. This article shows how to enable compile-time View checking for ASP.NET MVC projects.

Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc

Mon, 04 May 2009 21:16:16 GMT

Phil Haack already posted how to use the jQuery grid 'jqgrid' on his blog haacked.com. What wasn't covered in that tutorial was editing, so I thought it would be nice to add that here.

Top 5 SQL System stored procedures every developer should know

Wed, 13 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

There are a number of documented and undocumented system stored procedures in MS SQL Server that are helpful for every web developer working with databases. From the developer's perspective, here's a list of 5 System stored procedures that are my favorite.

What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About jQuery

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:03:54 GMT

It's hard to believe that JavaScript is already well over a decade old. Often relegated to marginal tasks in its early years, JavaScript has grown to become a pillar of modern web development. With the current popularity of DHTML and AJAX, it can be difficult to find a site that doesn't use JavaScript anymore. One of the driving forces behind JavaScript's newfound popularity is a proliferation of JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery. Why? Though JavaScript itself is a great programming language, t...