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NVelocity Server Control

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:31:05 GMT

A light weight server control which wraps the NVelocity implementation.

ASP.NET Caching and Performance

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve's expertise in this area comes from first-hand experience as Lake Quincy's ad system serves over 60 requests per second and handles over 150 million requests per month.

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

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:06:41 GMT

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.

Loading static content in ASP.NET pages from different domain for fast

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:20:41 GMT

Generally we put static content (images, css, js) of our website inside the same web project. Thus they get downloaded from the same domain like www.dropthings.com. As browser can only open two concurrent connections, all of these download only two at once. If you move the static content to a separate domain, browser can download more content in parallel and thus load the page faster. This HttpFilter parses the page output and automatically moves all static content links to a different domain as specified.

jQuery for ASP.NET MVC unleashed!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:46:05 GMT

jQuery plugins for the ASP.NET MVC framework

ASP.NET MVC UserControls Start to Finish

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:46:12 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC framework ships with a number of Visual Studio project and item templates to ease our development tasks. One of these templates is a UserControl built specifically for the MVC framework. We are going to walkthrough building a re-usable Header control that can be added to the top of related pages (in this specific case, this Control will be added to all Account pages).

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

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.

Showing some support for LINQ to SQL

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Great article detailing why LINQ to SQL deserves some attention particularly if you buy into the object oriented style of development or are currently working with an ORM such as NHibernate.

Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:01:03 GMT

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.

Ensure - load javascript and html snippet on-demand

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:14:34 GMT

A tiny javascript library that provides a handy function "ensure" which allows you to load Javascript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code. Ensure ensures that relevent Javascript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them.

Exception handling best practices in ASP.NET web applications

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:31:08 GMT

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.

CoolStorage.NET 1.2.0 released

Thu, 29 May 2008 21:29:53 GMT

It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET ("cool" open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn't mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version 1.2.

UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

Sun, 25 May 2008 01:42:16 GMT

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.

UFRAME: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:16:03 GMT

UFrame simulates the behavior of IFRAME on a DIV. Any page can be loaded inside a DIV and hyperlink navigation and form posts happen within the DIV. As a result, a regular page can start providing AJAX features without ever writing any AJAX code. ASP.NET MVC websites can now use UFrame instead of UpdatePanel.

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

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

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...

ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Moving away from the postback mindset and utilizing the Post, Redirect, Get pattern within ASP.NET MVC to achieve true separation and less chance of reposting form information.

LINQ.Flickr 1.3

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:01:04 GMT

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. ...

10 Tips to improve your LINQ TO SQL Application Performance

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Sidar gives performance tips on developing linq 2 sql

Microformat .NET

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A generic microformat parser. I thought this could use some attention from the .NET community!

A C# Operator I would like to see.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

You could argue there are too many operators in C# as it is; however, I feel having an acute knowledge of the available operators is like knowing CTRL + B will bold the selected text in most word processing software. To put it simply, it hurts no-one, whilst providing shortcuts to advanced users...

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Craig Shoemaker highlights some of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available.

jQuery AJAX calls to a WCF REST Service

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Here's an overview of how to call WCF REST services with jQuery. The basic process is very easy, but if you want to handle the formats that Microsoft sends down reliably, you have to make some format choices and deal with JSON encoding and decoding that is not native to jQuery.

Clean Up ASP.NETs Head Tag With ControlAdapters

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:46:07 GMT

Ok, if you're anything like me you absolutely gag when you see the rendered content of the ASP.NET head tag.

Massive BlogEngine.Net Security Hole - Fix Provided

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A massive security hole in BlogEngine.net was just revealed that allows anyone to see your passwords... Danny Douglass explains the issue and provides a patched BlogEngine.Core assembly to resolve the issue until the next release of BlogEngine is available.

Coder Journal's MVC Toolkit

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:01:03 GMT

Today I decided to release a toolkit that I have been building over the past couple of months. Most of the code in the toolkit is related to MVC. The list of features includes many MVC ActionFilters, Routes, ViewEngines, and Extensions. Including ActionFilters for Cache, GZip Compression, CAPTCHA, HTTP POST Only. And an attribute to provide serialization of the ViewData to XML, JSON, or JSONP. I hope it helps everybody out.