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Episode 23: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 1)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:16:12 GMT

Phil haack interviewed about ASP.NET MVC Beta 1, answering questions like: will it make it this solar year? what's about components? And more...

Late Binding in C# using Dynamic Compilation

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Steve goes through his approach to using reflection, making the code easier to read, making it easier to maintain, discusses the "middle-class multiple inheritance", and provides a zipped project of the AdapterCompiler.

Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the MEF

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:09:15 GMT

The head of the MEF team, Brad Abrams, finally made me understand what MEF is all about!

Custom jQuery Selector for ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:16:13 GMT

My quest for a better way to select ASP.NET auto-generated IDs with jQuery.

You can also register your ASP.NET Web User Controls in Web.Config?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:10:39 GMT

In Tip#8 we saw how to create a Web User control, register a Web User Control and use the Web User control in your page. Note that VS added a @Register directive right at the top of the page on drag drop of the user control on to your page. But in future if you want to move the location of your User controls you will be forced to change the Register directive in multiple places depending on how many pages you have used the User Control. This could be a pain. This can be easily solved by moving the registration of the user control to your Web.config file with the following entry, so that any change in location can be updated only at one place.

Avoid this tricky conflict between ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:31:03 GMT

One example of how ASP.NET AJAX can conflict with jQuery's plugins, due to its modification of some JavaScript base types, and how to fix the problem in this particular case.

Introduction to jQuery Article posted

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:46:05 GMT

I've posted Part 1 in a 2 part series on jQuery today. Part 1 covers the client side features of jQuery from the basics all the way through creating simple plugins and extending jQuery. This is a long article that discusses a host of the really useful features that jQuery brings to the table for client side Javascript development. Part 2 will then follow up with server side ASP.NET integration.

Herding Code #17:Matt Podwysocki on F# and Functional Programming

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:47:50 GMT

This week Matt Podwysocki puts the fun in functional programming with a deep dive into F#. We've heard plenty of high level discussions of F# and functional programming lately, so we tried to dig into the gory details as much as possible: * What is functional programming, and why should we care? * Types of applications that would and wouldn't benefit from F# * How F# differs from C# 3.x and Javascript * How F# is being used (games, scripting, data analysis and scrubbing, etc.) * F# pattern matching * Using F# in your C# or VB based applications today * Getting started: F# Interactive, reading the F# source, books and resources * Interaction with DLR * Functional features we'd like to see in C# and VB * Spec# and Sing#

Herding Code Podcast: Episode 9 with Rob Conery

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:13 GMT

The Herding Code crew (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott "LazyCoder" Koon, and Jon Galloway) catch up with Rob Conery on SubSonic 2.1, Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion, Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky, MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer, and What else is Rob up to at Microsoft.

Episode 6: Silverlight - Fad or Fab?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:11:44 GMT

Our fifth podcast deals with the sustainability of Silverlight. Is it the next ActiveX control, the next big framework, or something in between?

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 4: More Dependency Injectsion and IOC

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:31:08 GMT

Part 2 of the discussion between Nate Kohari and Brad Wilson on DI and IOC

The criticism of the Entity Framework - not just around DDD

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:10 GMT

Describing the historical context for the criticism for EF>.

Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:04 GMT

An example of one way of using ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to implement client-side Repeater functionality. Using this technique on one of my own sites, I realized an over 400% performance gain.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Technology Round Table Podcast - "Hello World" Edition

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:37:57 GMT

Looking for feedback for our new podcast.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, People

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:46:13 GMT

A brief discussion of the Rob Conery TDD backlash, and what it says about open-source on .NET, and the community at large.

Why ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Astoria)?

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:59:11 GMT

After reading this post, did this describe your overall view of Astoria and its target use cases? - Mike Flasko Program Manager, ADO.NET Data Services Framework

Dynamically Generating Lambdas

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:31:03 GMT

In this post you will see how to build expression trees and compile and call dynamically generated lambdas.

Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:11:07 GMT

This video is from a talk given by Dan Wahlin at Desert Code Camp in Phoenix, AZ that discussed how Silverlight could be integrated with ASP.NET AJAX to dynamically display albums obtained from an Amazon.com Web Service. The audio in the room wasn't great since no microphone was used so you may need to crank it up a bit.

CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:16:02 GMT

This article describes the simplest way of how to do CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight using ADO.NET Data Service (Astoria). There are two ways to communicate with Database in Silverlight. 1) Web Service 2) ADO.NET Data Service. I chose ADO.NET Data Service for this article because RESTful Service and RIA (Rich Internet Application) development are the best match.

Embed code in XAML

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:15:04 GMT

Loads of time I needed a converter that does a very small operation such as binding to the Height of an element and subtract 10 from the binded value. Every time you have to create a converter to do so. I must admit, it really makes me angry because I would like to this in XAML. I found this cool code sample on Dynamic Expression API from msdn and I thought why don't I use it to be able to embed code in XAML..

Google Charts for Asp.Net now on Codeplex

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:01:17 GMT

I have moved the source to codeplex so people can begin to participate and add more features. Check it out and give your feedback!

Definition of quality

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:38:08 GMT

What is software quality and who should define what software quality is?

How to use the .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy to run WordPress

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:01:44 GMT

This post is meant to provide an insight in to a technology, Reverse Proxy, that many developers are unaware of and it will be demonstrated through the eyes of my blog and how it works in regards to WordPress/IIS 6.0. Some of the basics will be covered such as the working of a URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy. This post will not cover how to code a URL Rewriter or Reverse Proxy in C#. The reader should also have a basic understanding of how RegEx, HTTP, and URL Rewriters.

Definitive List of Extensions for BlogEngine.Net

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:54:16 GMT

Since I first started using BlogEngine.Net a few weeks ago, I've come across many excellent extensions/controls/widgets developed by the user community. I've even written a few myself! I decided that I would compile a categorised list of all the things I had found and share it with everyone. There are almost 45 in this list. If you know of any others, please send them to me and I will add to the list.