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ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. We'll also ship a version includes Intellisense in Visual Studio.

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.

Convenience Kills, or the Case Against RAD Tools

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:31:09 GMT

A rather heated discussion erupted last week on Twitter and IRC concerning so-called "drag-and-drop demos" - point-and-click demonstrations of "software development" that just involve dragging controls around on a graphical designer without a lot of actual coding involved. Being entirely unable to resist joining in on debates, I had to chime in and give my two cents.

Handling "GO" Separators in SQL Scripts - the easy way

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

use SMO to run SQL scripts on .NET

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

Is Managed Code Slower Than Unmanaged Code?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Ask anyone the question above and they will say that managed is slower than unmanaged code. Are they right? No they are not. The problem is that when most people think of .NET they think of other frameworks with a runtime, like Java or Visual Basic; or they may even think about interpreters. They do not think about applications, or what they do; they do not think about limiting factors like network or disk access; in short, they do not think.

Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance pr

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:35:23 GMT

Load dynamic pages 5 to 20 times faster by compressing response on the fly. Serve static files (js, html, css) 10 to 100 times faster by compressing and caching their content. Improve repeated site load time by maximizing caching on browser.

ASP.NET MVC Framework out on CodePlex

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:46:02 GMT

This morning, I was browsing the new projects page on CodePlex and noticed something nice! The ASP.NET MVC team already rumoured around making the ASP.NET MVC framework source code available on CodePlex, but here it is: the ASP.NET MVC project on CodePlex.

SubSonic: 2.1 Beta 2 Available Now

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

I spose there's not much more to add to that title. Eric and Shawn Oster have been hard at work while I pretty much have been under water for the last month, getting ready for MIX.

Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry?

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:20:37 GMT

"I believe that the prevailing stereotype about .NET developers is that we wouldn't know a software best practice or sound computer science principle if it recursively bit us in the arse."

Implementing Interfaces: ICloneable and IComparable

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A friend of mine was showing me about some common interfaces and some good use cases for them the other day. A discussion arose of how to accurately create a deep copy of an object and the best way to go about it. Shortly after that discussion we got into the Sort() method and how to dictate how that method will sort your objects. This is when he spilled into telling me all about these common interfaces.

Configuration Section Designer

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:04:09 GMT

Great Visual Studio addin to create custom configuration sections via a designer.

Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Demonstrates the easiest way of generating and parsing Xml available in the .net framework. No more XmlNodes and no more CleanStringForXml custom utility functions.

Lock Down SQL Server 2005

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

This article teaches you how to lock down a SQL Server 2005 installation. A step-by-step procedure is given along with the concepts behind it. It includes a world-accessible SQL2005 shell to let you experiment with a hardened database. Two SQL scripts are provided to automate hardening.

JScript IntelliSense: Working with jQuery

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Looks like the new VS 2008 hotfix will help VS 2008 work better with jQuery. If you haven't checked out jQuery and you are doing web development give it a try and I think you'll be impressed.

Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

... Unfortunately, by most definitions of Unit Test, most of these tests are really integration tests.

Happy Birthday Scott Guthrie!

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Let's get Scott something from his Amazon Wish List

Scotts new Linklist - ASP.NET, WPF, AJAX, VS, .NET

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

A new linklist from Scott.

First Causes in Software Development: How do I decide what is good?

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Just another essential one from Jeremy (like every other posts on his blog). In this particular post, Jeremy describes what he finds valuable in writing software. Heck, I'm learning a ton from his blog.

Boost ASP.NET performance with deferred content loading

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

A comprehensive example of how to improve the perceived speed of your pages, by implementing user controls to encapsulate secondary content and then deferring them until primary content is displayed.

Linq to SQL DataContext Lifetime Management

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:16:02 GMT

The DataContext is the central object that holds LINQ to SQL together. This post talks about a few different approaches you can use to hang on to your DataContext in the course of a request, to pass between layers or to manage on a per thread/request level.

No, you're crazy! (or, the problem with assuming that computer program

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:01:04 GMT

An excellent post on how to think about programming as a profession.

Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

There are times when I need code to calculate the distance between two geocodes (Lat/Long points). I don't need it very often and until now I didn't have a code snippet that I could jus copy and paste. I was searching and found Rob Conery's LINQ and Geocoding post. It's an interesting post and he includes a sample of how to use Lambda expressions in C# 3.0 to calculate the distance between two geocodes in Miles. I decided to copy his code snippet and make sure it works in .NET 2.0 and also convert it to JavaScript.

MS Deploy - New IIS Web Deployment Tool

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:01:04 GMT

Scott Hanselman shows off the new web deployment tool from Microsoft. Looks like it has a lot of potential and there will be some Powershell integration later on.