Ra Ajax - Ajax Library for ASP.NET (and others)

submitted by superghost 9 days, 6 hours ago

ra-ajax.org — Ra Ajax is an Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono but its general nature on the client-side will make it very useful also for other server-side bindings like PHP, J2EE RubyOnRails etc all though other bindings than towards ASP.NET is not included. read more...

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jQuery for ASP.NET MVC unleashed!

published 1 month, 4 days ago, submitted by GOEran 1 month, 4 days ago

blog.goeran.no — jQuery plugins for the ASP.NET MVC framework read more...

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Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

lovethedot.blogspot.com — Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better. read more...

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Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

published 2 months, 17 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 2 months, 17 days ago

coderjournal.com — As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com. read more...

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Exception handling best practices in ASP.NET web applications

published 2 months, 27 days ago, submitted by janko 2 months, 27 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — Exception handling plays an important part of application management and user experience. If implemented correctly it can make maintenance easier and bring the user experience to a higher level. If not, it can be a disaster. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of what exception handling is from the user perspective and the perspective of people who maintain the application, and to show the best practices of how to implement useful error handling in ASP.NET web applications. read more...

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UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

submitted by superghost 3 months, 5 days ago

msmvps.com — UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike IFRAME, it loads the content within the main document and you can put any number of UFrame on your page without slowing down the browser. read more...

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How to Capitalize the First Letter of All Words in a string in C#

published 3 months, 19 days ago, submitted by spavkov 3 months, 20 days ago

aspdotnetfaq.com — Often we need to capitalize the first letters of some word or some text (for example when we want to display users name or city name etc). Since string class does not have a method to do this we could think that there is no built-in solution in C# for this problem, but... read more...

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LINQ.Flickr 1.3

weblogs.asp.net — Just released another version of LINQ.Flickr. The release is out with several bug fixes, code optimization, new feature and overall mocking support. I have used Typemock for the unit test of the product. In coming posts, I will show how powerful mock can be in faking routine like upload photo. But, you can dig it right away, if you go by the release page and download a copy of the product. Truly speaking, testing was never fun for serviced API till mock engine is at my hand. ... read more...

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