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DotNetRocks - Show #534 - Instrumenting Applications with Runtime Intelligence

mithu — 2010-03-18T07:44:36Z

Carl and Richard talk to Gabriel Torok and Joe Kuemerle about what it takes to really know what's going on in your enterprise in real time.

LINQ for JavaScript: Using and Extending JSLINQ

gshackles — 2010-03-18T02:09:09Z

LINQ makes our lives easier when dealing with .NET collections, so why not apply the same ideas to JavaScript? This post goes over some of the operators in the JSLINQ implementation, and then extends it with some more custom operators.

Validating Hidden Fields in ASP.NET MVC 2

gshackles — 2010-03-18T02:33:48Z

A look into how to add custom validation to MVC 2 to allow for validating a hidden field in a form.

Maintaining shared service in ASP.NET MVC Application - Kazi Manzur Rashid

jantu — 2010-03-18T03:22:49Z

Depending on the application sometimes we have to maintain some shared service throughout our application. Let’s say you are developing a multi-blog supported blog engine where both the controller and view must know the currently visiting blog, it’s setting , user information and url generation service. In this post, I will show you how yo...

ASP.NET Forms Authentication to Azure Table Storage - J.D. Meier

jantu — 2010-03-18T12:29:25Z

ASP.NET Forms Authentication to Azure Table Storage While ramping up for Windows Azure, we're getting our feet wet with some basic application scenarios. This is a quick step through of wiring up ASP.NET Forms Authentication to use Azure Table Storage for the user store.It’s longer than I like but I wanted to err on the side of being explicit. It’s nice to know that when you’re going down a path that somebody else has been there and done that and you’re not on your own. While your path may vary, ...

Comparison of Architecture presentation patterns MVP(SC),MVP(PV),PM,MVVM and MVC

dotnetfunda — 2010-03-18T07:19:01Z

This article will compare four important architecture presentation patterns i.e. MVP(SC),MVP(PV),PM,MVVM and MVC. Many developers are confused around what is the difference between these patterns and when should we use what. This article will first kick start with a background and explain different types of presentation patterns. We will then move ahead discussing about the state , logic and synchronization issues. Finally we will go in detail of each pattern and conclude how they differ from each other.

Sliverlight4 - Working with TextTrimming | syntaxhelp.com

himanet — 2010-03-18T12:47:32Z

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Build an AJAX Contact Us Form using network callbacks in ASP.NET

ScioJim — 2010-03-18T07:46:20Z

Part three of a three-part series looking at building AJAX Contact Us forms. In this article, we use network callbacks to a web service to build our application.

Scripting IIS7 With PowerShell

gshackles — 2010-03-18T02:35:16Z

A simple example of how to use PowerShell to manage IIS7 virtual directories and switch between branches in version control.

Bundler Now Supports Css And .less - Justin Etheredge

iftekharahmedamit — 2010-03-19T06:31:57Z

Bundler Now Supports Css And .less Posted on 3/17/2010 5:31:01 PM by A few days ago I pushed a new version of Bundler out to GitHub. The first change I made is that now JavaScriptBundler is just called Bundler. This is because of the title of this post. I want to use it with more than just JavaScript, so I decided to change it. For right now, the command line version of Bundler is disabled. I want to get it in there and working again, but I am focused on the ASP.NET WebForms...

Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating - Stephen.Walther

Khaled — 2010-03-18T12:27:55Z

About two months ago, John Resig and I met at Café Algiers in Harvard square to discuss how Microsoft can contribute to the jQuery project. Today, Scott Guthrie announced in his second-day MIX keynote that Microsoft is throwing its weight behind jQuery and making it the primary way to develop client-side Ajax applications using Microsoft technologies.

MVVM: Going it alone

developmentalmadness — 2010-03-17T06:49:50Z

Just watched Rob Eisenburg's presentation from MIX10. Here's a bit of a recap, links to source code and my own thoughts after watching it.

HighOnCoding: Get high on ASP.NET articles, videos, podcasts and more!

Khaled — 2010-03-17T09:24:30Z

Uploading files to a server is a common operation of many websites. In this article we will focus on how to upload image files using ASP.NET MVC Framework and display the images using our custom Image HtmlHelper.

C# Bits: A Slightly Improved Password Field Template

Khaled — 2010-03-18T12:23:08Z

I know my previous password field template was just about functional, so I have improved it slightly now you will have to enter the password twice in password mode and they will have to match. And in Read-Only mode it just displays ** or as many ‘*’ as you like. Listing 1 - Password.ascx page and the code behind is even less interesting.<%@ Control Language="C#" CodeFile="PasswordEdit.ascx.cs" Inherits="PasswordEditField" %> Listing 2 – Password_Edit.ascx Fig...

Using CLR 4.0 Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) along with application ETW

reshmi — 2010-03-17T09:23:39Z

At last CLR 4.0 has started showing some love towards ETW. Like I mentioned before ETW is very useful in understanding what is happening on the entire system, along with your application. Today I am going to be demonstrating a simple application, which is going to allocate large arrays 100 times. Along with the allocation, it is also going to log via ETW each time it allocated. The reason is to see the object allocation within our code and GC collection from CLR in the same trace file. How cool it is to ...

Let it ring - WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Phone

http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ — 2010-03-17T08:47:06Z

Rene Schulte introduces the open source Silverlight WriteableBitmapEx library version for the Windows Phone. Furthermore he provides a sample application that is demoed in a video and shares his excitement about the new platform for Silverlight.

How to avoid the Top 5 SharePoint Performance Mistakes

grabnerandi — 2010-03-18T03:22:39Z

SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to manage content in the SharePoint Content Database. Over the years many things have changed – but some haven’t – like – SharePoint still uses a single database table to store ALL items in any SharePoint List. And this brings me...

Prism v2.1: Creating a Region Adapter for the Accordion control

dschenkelman — 2010-03-18T07:01:22Z

Today with Guido Maliandi, we set to find a way to use the Accordion from the Silverlight toolkit as region in a Prism application. As the Accordion inherits from ItemsControl, Prism already provided some functionality to get that control working as a region. However, we wanted it to have the following behavior...

Website Screen Capture

pons_saravanan — 2010-03-19T01:50:52Z

*Take screen capture of webpages * When we need to take a screen shot of the web page(entire page), this class will be helpful. This class converts any web page written in any programming language if it renders in browser. We are going to use webbrowser control to rend...

SQL SERVER – Interview Questions & Answers Needs Your Help « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

pinaldave — 2010-03-19T04:31:08Z

About an year ago, I had posted SQL Server related Interview Questions and Answers. It was very well received in community. I have received many comments, suggestions and emails on this subject. I am planning to upgrade the Interview Questions and Answers and take it to next level. Here, I need your help. Please your comments, suggestions, expectation or potential interview Question (along with answer) here. Your input will be very valuable. As time goes by we all learn and get better. There were few th...

SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

pinaldave — 2010-03-17T12:00:40Z

Today, we are going to discuss about something very simple, but quite commonly confused two options of ALTER DATABASE. The first one is ALTER DATABASE …ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and the second one is WITH NO_WAIT. Many people think they are the same or are not sure of the difference between these two options. Before we continue our explaination, let us go through the explanation given by Book On Line. ROLLBACK AFTER integer [SECONDS] | ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE Specifies whether to roll back after a specified numb...

ASP.NET4 - Working with URL Routing | syntaxhelp.com

himanet — 2010-03-17T03:35:44Z

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Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework - Day 2 Part 2 of MIX 2010

http://www.adronbhall.com/ — 2010-03-17T04:42:20Z

3/15/2010Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework - Day 2 Part 2 of MIX 2010 I went to the session on Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (MSAF) today while here at MIX 2010. It was a great walk through the features, ideas, and what the end goal is. Michael Scherotter did a great job of lining up the ideas, intentions, and the functional ideas behind the framework. The framework is built around the Silverlight Behaviors. If you aren't sure what behaviors are, check out these entries from Nikh...

Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams

ClemensReijnen — 2010-03-17T10:44:42Z

Been using the direct graph [DGML] and layer diagram capabilities from VS2010 for a while now. Used them on many different projects with a wide spread of architectures, different quality levels and with many questions to answer about it. And I recognized a common way of working when using the tools… It looks something like this: Zoom Out – Recognize - Zoom In – Analyze - Zoom Out or Zoom In – Group – Zoom Out and can been done in a different order…

Tips on Google Buzz

kirank — 2010-03-17T10:16:18Z

on my previous post i was discuss on what is Google buzz , how you can add Google Buzz button on your Blogger / Wordpress. now on this article i am just discussing tips on Google Buzz , hope u enjoy this 1.Quick open Google Buzz yes there are some keyboards shortkuts on gmail for opening google Buzz quickly, type g b from gmail view and Google Buzz will get open. here are few more shortcuts. m - mute r- add comments p/n - Go to new conversation o -expand conversation and so on. Hide buz...