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Building AJAX Based Navigation list in ASP.NET MVC and LINQ

dev8546 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we are going to learn how to develop a custom HTML navigation helper for ASP.NET MVC. The navigation helper also demonstrates the use of ASP.NET MVC AJAX. The navigation from one set of result to another is done using AJAX. I have used VS 2008 and ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

Converting a PowerShell Script into a Module Part 2

Manning — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article the author explains how PSModuleInfo object for a module can be retrieved. Further, he shows how code can be injected into the module to manipulate the state of a module without having to reload it. He also explains how to directly set some metadata elements, like the module description, and some other PSModuleInfo object features.

Converting a PowerShell Script into a Module

Manning — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This article is taken from the book Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition. The author provides an overview of the PowerShell modules, including their roles and terminology. He shows how modules allow packaging collections of PowerShell resources into shareable, reusable units. The author dives into the methods of writing Powershell scripts and converting a script into a module.

Silverlight: IronPython in the browser Part 2

Manning — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This article is an excerpt taken from IronPython in Action, by Michael J. Foord and Christian Muirhead and published by Manning Publications. In the article the authors discuss how to take advantage of the exciting Silverlight platform with IronPython.

How to make a Widget

dev8546 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to make reusable web widgets that can be used across different web applications.

The Kayak Framework: An easy way to speak HTTP with .NET

bvanderveen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Kayak is a lightweight HTTP server for the CLR, and the Kayak Framework is a utility for mapping HTTP requests to C# method invocations. With Kayak, you can skip the bulk, hassle, and overhead of IIS and ASP.NET. Kayak enables you to do more with less syntax, and is easy to configure to work in any way you care to dream up.

Silverlight: IronPython in the browser Part 1

Manning — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Indirect Testing of State

Manning — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, taken from the book "The Art of Unit Testing" by Roy Osherove, we'll take a look at using state-based testing methods in our unit tests.

Programming user interfaces using F# workflows

Manning — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

F# asynchronous workflows can be used to solve a wide range of programming problems. In this article we'll look how to use asynchronous workflows for elegantly expressing the control flow of interaction with the user. We'll also look at clear functional way for encoding drag&drop-like algorithm.

A First Look at Unity 2.0

DinoEsposito — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This article takes a look at the beta of Unity 2.0.

The Command Pattern

asiemer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article I will provide a quick refresher on what the command pattern is used for, how it works, and where it fits in the web development world.

Cloning Windows Solitaire Game in Silverlight 3 - Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this second part of the series, you will learn the crucial programming skills of the solitaire game. In detail, we are going to discuss about the three mouse events, i.e. MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseMove, and MouseLeftButtonUp, related event handler programming.

Cloning Windows Solitaire Game in Silverlight 3 - Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In the two parts of this series, you will learn to write a Silverlight 3 based solitaire game like the one shipped with various Windows versions. The main purpose to write this game is to explore the mouse drag and drop related programming in Siverlight 3.

Dynamic Manipulation of Silverlight controls

dotnetgirl — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, you will learn how to create and delete Silverlight controls or XAML elements at runtime. You will also learn how to create event handlers and associate them with the dynamically created control at runtime.

Continuous Integration with TeamCity

Manning — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TeamCity is a CI server that has been gaining popularity in the .NET community for the last few years. It is packed with handy futures which we will discuss in a minute and has a free version suitable for smaller teams.

Sparse Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Controllers

DinoEsposito — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, Dino Esposito focuses on the core part of the ASP.NET MVC framework - the controller - and shares some considerations about the ideal structure it should have as a class and its intended role.

Using NBuilder to mock up a data driven UI - Part 2

asiemer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will continue our discussion by filling out the implementation in our service class with some NBuilder code. Once we have the working service class in place we can then create a working UI (in the ASP.NET MVC project we created in the last article).

Using NBuilder to mock up a data driven UI - Part 1

asiemer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will take a look at a fairly new open source project called NBuilder (http://www.nbuilder.org and http://code.google.com/p/nbuilder/) and how it can be used to provide us with fake data out of the gate. NBuilder allows you to quickly stand up generated objects based on standard .net types in an easy fluent manner. And that is just the start!

Creating a programming crossword puzzle

CraigStuntz — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Most programming-related crossword puzzles are generated by computer programs, and consequently lack the design and wordplay which makes New York Times-style crossword puzzles interesting. I decided that I could do better.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 IDE Enhancements –Part3

himanet — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In my previous article I explained some of the nice features related to IDE, in continuation to that I am going to explain Add Reference enhancements for developers, Windows 7 support for developers, Share Point 2010 enhancements , Office Business Application Support, Cloud Development, Document Map Margin and Visual Studio 2010 Tips

A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this second part, we will continue to discuss the WaspKiller game development—to extend the functionalities with the server-side database support. As mentioned in the first part, we’re going to rest upon another well-known design pattern, MVVM, to achieve the extension, and at the same time, introduce Microsoft .NET RIA Services framework to smooth out the whole architecture design.

Dynamic Binding in a Static Language, Part 2

Manning — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This article is taken from the book C# in Depth, Second Edition.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 IDE Enhancements –Part2

himanet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article HimaBindu Vejella explains IDE enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, we will focus upon the development of the front end of the game using the MVP pattern; in the second part, we will discuss the database related work using the MVVM pattern.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 IDE Enhancements –Part1

himanet — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article HimaBindu Vejella explains IDE enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

Dynamic Binding in a Static Language, Part 1

Manning — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article is taken from the book C# in Depth, Second Edition. This segment looks at what it means for code to be dynamic, and the syntax involved in using dynamic typing in C# 4.

Book Review: Professional Twitter Development

bmains — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Review of the book "Professional Twitter Development" by Daniel Crenna.

iSlackers – a MonoTouch iPhone Application

ManniAT — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article shows how to use MonoTouch to build an iPhone application with some common features.

Transaction Propagation in WCF

Harry — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I will explain how to configure transaction propagation in WCF.

jQuery in Action 2nd edition: Queuing functions for execution

Manning — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article is taken from the book jQuery in Action, second edition. This segment shows how you can create your own queue to queue up any functions that you'd like to have executed in serial order. An understanding of jQuery animation is assumed.

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NEC

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DI Patterns: Constructor Injection

Manning — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, an excerpt from the book "Dependency Injection in .NET", we will take a detailed look at the DI pattern known as Constructor Injection.

Code Contracts Preview: Interfaces

DinoEsposito — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Dino Esposito continues his code contracts series and explains what mixins are.

ASP.NET MVC in Action: The model in depth

Manning — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this chapter, we’ll explore a model for a system that helps to manage a small conference, like a Code Camp. The model enables the application to provide an interesting service. Without the model, the application provides no value. We place great importance on creating a rich model with which our controllers can work.

Presented By:

NEC

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Build a Front End of an E-commerce System Using ASP.NET MVC Framework Part 2

Xianzhong Zhu — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this two-part series, you will learn how to a typical front end of an E-commerce system using the great Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 framework. In the first part, we will focus upon the following points: system design, functionality design, architecture design, and database design, etc. in the second part, we will discuss the detailed coding related things.

Build a Front End of an E-commerce System Using ASP.NET MVC Framework Part 1

Xianzhong Zhu — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Installing the Spark View Engine into ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

asiemer — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to integrate the Spark View Engine into a standard ASP.NET MVC 2 application

Tracking access to media resources with HttpHandlers

asiemer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article will discuss what it takes to create an HttpHandler that can keep track of new and existing resources and how many people access those resources.

LINQ to SQL Profiler

asiemer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will be taking a look at the new LINQ to SQL Profiler from HibernatingRhinos. This tool gives you a view into the goings on of LINQ to SQL. Not only does it allow you to see the SQL that is generated by your LINQ queries but it also shows you information about your connections, queries, as well as alerting you to all sorts of information that you might otherwise not know about.

Building a StackOverflow inspired Knowledge Exchange Three Tiers to MVC – Distributed systems: adding a WCF service layer

asiemer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we are going to look at how distributable our current code base is. We will find that even with all the refactoring and modifications that we have done we are still pretty married to a fairly hardwired infrastructure. If one piece of our code requires more resources than any other we can’t simply scale out that bit.

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NEC

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Building a StackOverflow inspired Knowledge Exchange Three Tiers to MVC – Hooray – Inversion of Control with StructureMap

asiemer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will discuss how we can enhance the power of the Dependency Injection pattern by implementing an Inversion of Control container. We will discuss what an IoC container can be used for and how it works. Then we will look at implementing an Inversion of Control container in our code. We will specifically implement the IoC container StructureMap.

Building a StackOverflow inspired Knowledge Exchange Three Tiers to MVC – Hooray – Dependency Injection

asiemer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will address the lack of testability that our current application has. We will do this by making our application conform to the dependency injection pattern. This will allow us to push up all of our dependencies which makes our code considerably more testable than it currently is.

Code Contracts Preview: Assert & Assume

DinoEsposito — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I’ll go through the features of side contract-based tools in .NET Framework Code Contracts. In particular, I’ll focus on Assert and Assume methods.

Customizing ASP.NET MVC 2 - Metadata and Validation

BenScheirman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, you will learn about two major extensibility points of ASP.NET MVC 2, the ModelMetadataProvider and the ModelValidatorProvider. These two APIs control how templates are rendered, as well as server-side & client side validation of your model objects.

Mobile Device Detection and Redirection Using ASP.NET / MVC

amimpat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article explains approaches for ASP.NET mobile development to determine if an HTTP request is coming from a mobile phone and then redirecting the request to a page optimized for a mobile browser.

Building a StackOverflow inspired Knowledge Exchange Three Tiers to MVC – Hooray – Reversing Dependencies

asiemer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will focus on less of the structural issues and instead work on removing our dependency on LINQ to SQL. We will achieve this by employing an object to object mapping tool called AutoMapper.

PowerShell in Practice

Manning — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article is taken from the book PowerShell in Practice. As part of a chapter on recent and forthcoming innovations in PowerShell, this excerpt explores what you can do with the virtualization functions in the Hyper=V PowerShell library.

Lucene.NET vs SQL Server Full-text – Generating a million records and a full-text index

asiemer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article we will take a look at how SQL Server performs with one million records in a table. We will create a quick data pumper program to fill up a table with a million dynamically created rows of data. From there we will take a look at querying the data without any special optimizations. Then we will create a Full-text index and see how that helps our searching capability.

Getting Started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework

BenScheirman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article introduces the essential concepts of the ASP.NET MVC framework, dissects the MVC pattern, and provides real-world examples to illustrate how it works.

Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework Review

bmains — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Brian Mains reviews the Pro ASP.NET MVC framework book.

Code Contracts Preview: Invariants

DinoEsposito — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I'll go through the concept and implementation of class invariants as supported by the .NET Framework 4 Code Contracts API.