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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)

.NET Pulse 2/23/2010

“There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs” - Larry Flon

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• ASP.NET 4.0, Part 6: New Page Directive Attributes
• Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery
• Sharpy - an ASP.NET MVC view engine based on Smarty
• I totally missed this… Web App Toolkits
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables
• Accent Folding for Auto-Complete
• Introducing Web SQL Databases

.NET & Programming

• Careful with that axe, part one: Should I specify a timeout?
• 2010 MVP Summit Experience
• Again with the Module Pattern – reveal something to the world

Everything Else

• CSS Browser Support as a Woman

posted @ Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:43 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse 2/22/2010

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” - Alan Perlis

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• Manipulating Action Method Parameters
• Hanselminutes Podcast 202 - A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP
• Waking the dragon
• Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2
• Setting Up MVC Using StructureMap, Moq and NUnit...Quickly
• Developing ASP.NET MVC Apps Using Mono
• Improve the user experience. Avoid the first ajax request by embedding initial data in the page.
• Validating Hidden Fields in ASP.NET MVC 2
• How to extend Sharpy
• .NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate – not quite what it sounds like
• The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation
• Multiple Class / ID and Class Selectors
• What really happens when you navigate to a URL
• JQUERY 1.4.2 RELEASED
  In case you missed it.

.NET & Programming

• Excel Open XML & LINQ Part I
• Using FluentValidation with an IoC Container
• Check out Mercurial version control with my CodePlex repository
• Linq Distinct and Custom Object Sort
• The Non-Programming Programmer
• Ubiquitous language leaking in the wrong direction
• Using an ORM is like kissing your sister part 2
• BigTable concerns, or “How to put your trust in the cloud”
• CQRS and CAP Theorem
• Why use Event Sourcing?
• Slaying relational dragons
• How to Read Auto-Generated MachineKey
• Code Metrics: Lines of Code (LoC)
  Doesn’t really make me want to start measuring LoC.
• Build Extensibility with .NET Framework 4
• Introduction to MongoDb Database

Everything Else

• Over 5000 apps stricken from the Apple app store, new rules in place
  Wow.
• Why You Can’t Pry IE6 Out Of Their Cold Dead Hands
• Web designers who can’t code

posted @ Monday, February 22, 2010 11:17 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse 2/19/2010

“I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means.  It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.” - Dennie van Tassel

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• @haacked, @elijahmanor Have your voice heard. Tell the ASP.NET team what's important to you for ASP.NET.
• Add post-backs to MVC –or- add front controller to Web Forms
  Wait… what?
• @davidebbo T4MVC will also become part of MvcContrib in the Foundation.
• ASP.NET 4.0, Part 4: Config Transformation Files
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With Localization
• ASP.NET MVC – Switch between secure(https or ssl) & unsecure(http) connections
• Master pages and partial views in Sharpy
• URL Routing Niggles
• Mistakes Were Made: Making Interactive Maps With jQuery
• Pure CSS3 bokeh effect with some jQuery help
  Hmm, needs more pentagonal or octagonal shapes, bokeh is never truly circular. Otherwise not bad.
• The Real Performance Overhead of CSS Expressions

.NET & Programming

• Using an ORM is like kissing your sister
• AutoMapper for Silverlight 3.0 Alpha
• What’s the difference between ternary and tertiary?
  Apparently it’s Zoe.
• ASP.NET for PHP Developers: Part 2
• Favorite VS2010 Features: Layer Validation

Everything Else

• Inspirational Rat Story
• Using Mercurial with CodePlex and GitHub
• Tags Vs Categories
• Why don’t we ask “Why?”
• Is John The Client Dense or Are You Failing Him?
• Why designers should and shouldn’t code

posted @ Friday, February 19, 2010 10:47 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Pulse 2/18/2010

“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not.” - Yoggi Berra

ASP.NET/MVC & Web

• How to access values of dynamically created web controls and submit to DB
• jQuery 1.4.2 is now available on Microsoft CDN as well as Google CDN
• ASP.NET 4.0, Part 3: Someone has stolen web.config!
• A BinaryContentResult for ASP.NET MVC
• Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – AJAX-Enabled Partial Views
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2: The New Stuff
• Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 On Visual Web Developer (VWD) 2010 Express Beta 2
• Quick Tip: Fully Understanding $.grep()
• Traversal vs. Collection Filtering In jQuery

.NET & Programming

• VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• Visual Studio 2010 IDE Settings Tips and Tricks
  Channel9 Video
• Introduction to Mocking
• Stephen Toub on .NET 4.0 Concurrency Features (DNR)
• The Weekly Source Code 50 - A little on "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and trouble generating images on with ASP.NET
• Announcing touch.codeplex.com
• ReSharper 5 Beta 2 Released
• make solution/project files backwards compatible so people on older vs version can share w/ newer vs
  Voice your opinion on something that will never happen.

Everything Else

• Google Buzz: First Impressions

posted @ Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:35 AM | Feedback (0)