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Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

CodeRush Xpress

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:36:46 GMT

Microsoft and Devexpress recently released a new plugin for Visual Studio. Every C# developer with Standard or above version of Visual Studio can now enjoy a basic set of features from CodeRush and Refactor! Pro for free. You can watch the announcement from PDC, take a look at it's features or download it right now.

Blogengine.net running under IIS 7 causes Error 404

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:25:24 GMT

You need to make some changes in web.config file in order to get it work. The easest way is to download an updated web.config here http://wiki.aspone.cz/wiki/images/3/34/Web.config.

nPlus1.org: A New Resource For Architects

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:46:04 GMT

I came across a new resource for developers and architects at nPlus1.org. With it just recently going live, this user submission site holds a lot of promise on the information that will be provided.

Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set, By Janco

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed and Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels

Mono 2.0 Released

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:01:15 GMT

The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX.

jQuery and Microsoft

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

NDepend 2.10 Released - Interactive Code Dependencies Graph

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:02 GMT

This is indistinguishable from magic!

Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 2

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:46:03 GMT

A second part of popular IoC frameworks comparison.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Another epic post by The Gu

List of countries, cities, languages

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:31:03 GMT

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:

Using the Velocity Distributed Cache with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:45:39 GMT

Improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC applications by taking advantage of the Velocity distributed cache. In this tip, I also explain how you can use Velocity as a distributed session state provider.

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

Model-based validation for ASP.NET MVC (concept)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:40:19 GMT

I have written a few lines for validating my forms. It's basically a concept which is not ready for production but I want to share it with you a get some feedback.

Filters in ASP.NET MVC Preview 4

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

In CodePlex Preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC, we split out our action filters into four types of filters, each of which is an interface. To write a custom filter, you simply need to create an attribute that also implements one of the four interfaces I mentioned.

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

SQL Server 2008 Express is now live!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:16:09 GMT

I promised an update on SQL Express availability in my last post about the release of SQL Server 2008 so here it is. SQL Server 2008 Express is now available along with the release of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is a prerequisite and Visual Studio Express SP1. As I mentioned, there are two more editions of SQL Express on the way. There are a number of prerequisites for SQL Server 2008 that you will have to install on your own before installing SQL Express. Here is the list and basic instructions:

Managing SVN via SlickEdit

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:26:50 GMT

A short how-to on how to setup SlickEdit to manage your SVN Repository.

Where are all the new ideas?

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:30:02 GMT

. . . there are no new ideas in the .NET space in so far as web development is concerned.

Combining jQuery Validation with ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

See how the jQuery Validation plugin can be used with the MVC framework to validate all the inputs in a form before it is submitted to the controller.

ASP.NET 3.5 / IIS7 / SQL server hosting - one year for free

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:06:56 GMT

Hurry up!

Get country from a browser in ASP.NET

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:31:07 GMT

A simple and pretty accurate method of retrieving a visitor's country and language from the browser.