March 2010 Entries
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates Server Side MVC for Noobs Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application Winforms (and WPF) Testing Diagnosing ASP.NET MVC Problems CREATING RICH VIEW COMPONENTS IN ASP.NET MVC Client Side jQuery Tutorial for Beginners: Nothing But the Goods General .NET Knights, Knaves, Protected and Internal NoSQL: Getting started with MongoDB...
“Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.” - Rich Cook Server Side ASP.NET 4.0 Part 14, More Control Over Session State Drop the Soap: WCF, REST, and Pretty URIs in .NET 4 Using Silverlight 4 to Browse NetFlix’s OData Catalog A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things they don’t tell you ASP.NET Performance Framework ...
“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 ...
“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...
“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...
“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. ...
“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...
“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...
“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 ...
“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...
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...
“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...