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DotNET News & Notes 3/17/2010

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” - Martin Fowler

Server Side

• Phil Haack Introduces MVC 2
• Maintainable MVC: Binding
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client
• A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC
• Persisting Select Menus on Postback with FluentHtml and ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1

Client Side

• MICROSOFT TO EXPAND ITS COLLABORATION WITH THE JQUERY COMMUNITY
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper
• Empty-string URLs in HTML - A followup
• Lazy HTML attributes wrapping in Internet Explorer

General Programming

• Mix 10 Rollup Post
• Hanselminutes Podcast 205 - Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro
• Setting Up Basic Mappings w/ Fluent NHibernate
• Parallel Pair Programming
• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll
• Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell
• First Encounters of the MEF Kind
• Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro
• Python + Django vs. C# + ASP.NET: Productivity Showdown

Everything Else

• Courtesy @elijahmanor Douglas Crockford says it all... #mix10

posted @ Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:05 AM | Feedback (0)

DotNET News & Notes 3/16/2010

“The Web is like a dominatrix.  Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.” - Nytwind

Server Side

• MvcFutures
• ASP.NET MVC 2 throws exception for ‘favicon.ico’
• Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW
  Along with a handfull of other posts from Brad Abrams
• A way to determine if an ASP.NET MVC view exists
• ASP.NET MVC Roadmap: ASP.NET MVC 3
  Because ASP.NET MVC 2 just isn’t new enough anymore.

Client Side

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Wikipedia Lookup
• JQUERY CONFERENCE 2010: SAN FRANCISCO ANNOUNCED
• 47 CSS Tips & Tricks To Take Your Site To The Next Level

Mobile

• Windows Phone 7 Series Dev Tools Available
• WP7 Emulator Screen Size Management
• WP7 Boot to VHD

General Programming

• Semantic Code: Migrating From A Chatty Interface To A Simple One With A Data Transfer Object
• A Type Safe IDataReader Wrapper
• .Net Annoyance: Define |DataDirectory| for Connection Strings
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Three
• posh-git: A PowerShell Environment for Git

Everything Else

•  Are you Wasting 50% of your Time?
• How to know if you're a coding optimist or pessimist

posted @ Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:10 AM | Feedback (0)

DotNET News & Notes 3/15/2010

“One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.” - Jessica Gaston

Server Side

• Spark View Engine Updated for ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM
  Woot!
• The Single Page Interface Pattern
• The official announcements of the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 are still rolling in.
  And the source is available too.
• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 12, Routing Helper Functions
• ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory
• MvcContrib Grid Part 6 – Sorting
• Sending HTML emails with ASP.NET MVC2 and MVCContrib
• WebForms vs MVC (again)
• What's New in ASP.NET 4.0 – Better ViewState Control
• MVC 2 Strongly Typed HTML Helper and Enhanced Validation Sample
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas
• What's New in ASP.NET 4.0 – SEO Enhancements with MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties
  More about SEO Improvements in ASP.NET 4

Client Side

• jQuery Boston: The Video
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async
• Your jQuery Selector Context Can Be A jQuery Object

General Programming

• Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX
  Pretty interesting.
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One
  And part two.
• LINQ to Object Part #2: Filtering and Sorting
• Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance
• Advanced Castle Windsor – generic typed factories, auto-release and more
• FluentValidation 1.2 RC available
• “Icky” Decisions
• Map / Reduce – A visual explanation
  And the follow up What is map/reduce for, anyway?
• A better way to auto-run T4MVC when you build
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects?

Everything Else

• Some of the ways to keep up with MIX10
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? - YAGNI Revisited
• The cult of busy
• Learning, a way of procrastinate?

posted @ Monday, March 15, 2010 10:35 AM | Feedback (0)

DotNET News & Notes 3/11/2010

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.” - Mitch Radcliffe

Server Side

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Just hit RTM!
  What are you waiting for? Download it now!
• Migrating ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM
• We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way
  The ASP.NET Team has a new website. Jon Galloway also has coverage.
• ASP.NET MVC REST API WINDSOR CONTROLLER FACTORY
• Maintainable MVC: Post-Redirect-Get pattern
• One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC
• IHttpModule Gotchas – The Init() Method Can Get Called Multiple Times
• Implementing Blog Using ASP.NET MVC and MongoDb

Client Side

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing Callbacks
• Improving CSS With .LESS
• Zen Coding and ReSharper PowerToys
• Javascript: Function scoping
• Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions
• Working with the HTML5 Community
  Microsoft is working with the HTML5 community. I’d be more impressed if they could get people to stop using IE6.

General Programming

• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO
• Kanban with David Anderson
  Software engineering radio.
• Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project
  This would have been awesome for me about 6 months ago.
• Does an organisation need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum?
• A successful Git branching model
• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: Organization of Artifacts – Part 2

posted @ Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:43 AM | Feedback (0)

DotNET New & Notes 3/10/2010

“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.” - Dan Salomon

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 11, Configuring Routing Is Easier
• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET
• Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling
• ASP.NET MVC working smart with cookies – Custom ValueProvider
• Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax”

.NET & Programming

• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models
• Pair Programming: Some thoughts

Everything Else

• Courtesy @doctorsound, Wu-Tang Clan Venn diagram
  NSFW language

posted @ Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:05 AM | Feedback (0)

DotNET News & Notes 3/9/2010

“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” - Paul Ehrlich

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 3: Custom DataAnnotation ValidationAttributes
• Introducing… CSS3Please.com

.NET & Programming

• WCF 4 – Loosening the Chains of Configuration
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks
• The 8th Phase
• State Pattern Misuse
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding
• Automated “Unit” Testing – It’s Not Just for TDD, It’s for Bug Fixing Too!
• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features

Everything Else

• A Trip Down Memory Lane - Presentations over 10 years old

posted @ Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:23 PM | Feedback (0)

DotNET News & Notes 3/8/2010

“Good code is its own best documentation.” - Steve McConnell

Happy Monday to all! I am changing the name of this column to dotNET News & Notes to avoid confusion with several other blogs out there with the name .NET Pulse or something similar. Don’t worry, I will still be providing the same topical .net & programming links!

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• Introducing the MVC Melee!!!
• THE OFFICIAL JQUERY PODCAST – EPISODE 14 – PHIL HAACK
• GetRouteUrl in ASP.NET 4 Web Forms Routing
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5
• Javascript: The 'new' keyword
• Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features
• ASP.NET Charts and ASP.NET MVC – Controller vs. View

.NET & Programming

• Getting code ready for production
• Maintainable MVC Series: Inversion of Control Container – StructureMap
  This is from early February, but it’s a nice intro to StructureMap.
• BSON Serialization
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns
• Using Git with Windows Powershell
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin
• UNIT TESTING WITH MICROSOFT MOLES

posted @ Monday, March 08, 2010 10:55 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse 3/5/2010

“There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.” - Bjarne Stroustrup

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• Passivity, or “How to help your views leave the nest”
• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 10, A Handful Of Little Things
• gameQuery: Javascript game engine for jQuery
• New way to send fancy template emails in ASP.NET MVC
• 12 Steps to MooTools Mastery
• Contact Form with ASP.NET MVC, Castle Validation, & fluentHtml
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2: ModelBinders/ViewModels

.NET & Programming

• THOU SHALT NOT ITERATE! : PART 2
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding
• Storing Encrypted Data for use on Multiple Machines

posted @ Friday, March 05, 2010 10:23 AM | Feedback (1)

.NET Pulse 3/4/2010

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.  So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? - Brian Kernighan

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC
• Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2
• Video of C4MVC talk on MvcContrib Portable Areas
• How to Add Custom Configuration Settings for an (ASP).NET Application
• NHIBERNATE VALIDATOR ASP.NET MVC 2 MODEL VALIDATION
• Paradigm Shifting: Rethinking ASP.NET MVC
• Return Multiple Objects Using ASP.NET MVC'S JsonResult Class
• There's no such thing as a "JSON Object"
• CSS Crunch: new IE Extension for developers
• How IE8 Determines Document Mode
• The Web as a Database
• ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions

.NET & Programming

• Challenge: Robust enumeration over external code
• Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects – Part 1
• Programmatically determine if a Windows Service is running and stop it

posted @ Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:21 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse 3/3/2010

“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right.  If everything did, you’d be out of a job.” - Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• Efficient stylesheet minification in C#
• Drag and Drop table rows between tables with JQuery UI
• Pre-populate a textbox using jQuery
• Editable Grid / List Binding in MVC2
• Spark bits for MVC 2 RC2
• Web Forms Routing in ASP.NET 4
• Improving CSS With .LESS
• ASP.NET, Part 9: Rendering Cleaner HTML
• MVC 2 RC 2 Templated Helper Bug and a Potential Solution
• difference between asp.net sessions, application variables and cache objects.
• Fixing Internationalization in ASP.NET
• Maintainable JavaScript: Don’t modify objects you don’t own
• Javascript: Isolating browser specific code

.NET & Programming

• The Weekly Source Code 51 - Asynchronous Database Access and LINQ to SQL Fun
• Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container
• THOU SHALT NOT ITERATE! : PART 1
• LINQ to XML Part 1 - XAttribute Class
  Part 2, 4, and 5.
• How to implement paging with LINQ
• The 50000 feet view and Dependency Injection
• Be a Better Developer 4.5 – Being a Plumber – Tips
• Git is teh SUCK
• Rhino DivanDB – A full coding sample – Embedded
• Reclaiming Your Identity with Windows Identity Foundation
• What is Projection?
• NHibernate donation campaign
• Dimecast # 165 - Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow
• The Importance of TypeId in ASP.NET MVC DataAnnotations Validation Attributes
• No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it)
• New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances

Everything Else

• Dashboard UIs: An Introduction
• Three new navigation design patterns
• Notepad++ Subversion Plugin
  17 Essential Developer Networks
• Forrst: Where Designers Who Code meet Developers Who Design
• Sysi: the ultimate administrators toolkit 
• RegExr: Free Tool For Editing and Testing Regular Expressions
• Front-end development feeds to follow
• IE6 Funeral
  If only it were that easy.

posted @ Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:31 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse #38 – More ASP.NET MVC2 Than You Can Shake A Stick At

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” - Martin Golding

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• ASPNET MVC2: TempData Now Persists
• Maintainable MVC Series: View hierarchy
• QueryString values along with id parameter in ASP.NET MVC
• Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine
• Updating/Binding Model Graphs with ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET, Part 8: Introducing ClientIDMode
• jQuery 1.4 breaks ASP.Net MVC actions with array parameters
• ASP.NET MVC TempData Extension Methods
• Retrieve the Selected Item of a DropDownList kept inside a UserControl
• Sending And Receiving JSON Between JQuery And ASP.NET MVC Using Ajax.
• ASP.NET Developers: Do you use Web Site Projects, Web Application Projects or both?
  Web Application is the only answer.
• Special Events: The Changes in 1.4.2
• Using Inheritance Patterns to Organize Large jQuery Applications
• Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications
• Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3

.NET & Programming

• Fun with a non relational databases
• The usefulness of interaction tests, or “How to question the method”
• Castle Project code organization
• Careful with that axe, part two: What about exceptions?
• The Exec Problem
• A Vision for FubuMVC’s Component Model (gems, Nu, engines, slices, oh my…)
• .NET 4.0 And Our Parallel Future
• Ninject Forever
  Ninject 2.0!
• VersionControlTools
• Some tips on using git with Windows

Everything Else

• Low-Hanging UX Fruit, How a Well-Designed “Thank You” Inspires Community Uptake
• Ultimate guide to table UI patterns
• Lucene.net is powering Subtext 2.5 search
• Tetris development
• Super Mario Bros in Javascript!

posted @ Friday, February 26, 2010 3:02 PM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse 2/24/2010

“Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.” - Sam Ewing

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• ASP.NET, Part 7: A New Viewstate Opt-in Model
• Why you should check out MVC
• Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery
• Display an Image when the GridView has no data
• Web Deployment: Web.Config Transformation
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide
• Herding Code 74: Javier Lozano On MVC Turbine And Composed Applications
• Simple pager for ASP.NET MVC
• JavaScript Programming Patterns
• Just released Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Q1 2010 futures

.NET & Programming

• An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic
• Strengthening your domain: Aggregate Construction
• SCREENCAST: Running Reporting Services Reports in Windows Azure
• .NET LINQ from Scratch
• Database theory, your friend for success
• Spaghetti Code Podcast: Android Development

Everything Else

• One week without Google
• CSS Is Awesome

posted @ Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:51 AM | Feedback (0)