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Stephen Walther shows you step-by-step how to build an entire Contact Manager application with ASP.NET MVC. Learn how to build unit tests, implement software design patterns, and practice test-driven development.

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Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

In this post I’m going to show you how to create a feature that enables the selection of multiple list items. This can come in handy for features like "Download items as Zip" or "Delete multiple items"....(read more)

Ash explains the concept of Filtering Parameters in a Stored Procedure in this blog post. This method is safer and more beneficial than dynamically creating and passing a sql query from the code layer and using sp_executesql, as it helps to avoid sql injection attacks. However, the author explains there is a pitfall because you may sacrifice index optimization. Check it out! May your dreams be in ASP.NET and your code free from sql injections! Nannette Thacker...(read more)

I don’t know how many of you use this feature but for some time I’ve been having the problem of not being able to drag files into my Visual Studio projects.

It’s true that you need this feature, it’s true that it’s available, but why did this happened?

Well, it turns out that for some time now, I’ve been running my Visual Studio Team System 2008 in Windows Vista with elevated permissions (aka. Run as administrator).

For some security related issues related to UAC, Visual Studio can’t allow you to drag files into your projects when it is running as administrator. I just discovered that… It may be pretty obvious to some of you but it wasn’t to me for sure.

So, I’m now running my Visual Studio without elevated permissions and drag files into projects are enabled again. The drawback, you can’t access websites hosted in IIS, or at least I have that problem now.

Please feel free to comment. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this and probably we could all get all the features from Visual Studio up and running.

Cheers,

Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can validate form data in an ASP.NET MVC application. Learn how to use model state and validation HTML helpers. Learn how to take advantage of the IDataErrorInfo interface to customize your validation error messages.

The Article will guide you with complete knowledge of how to add a google map in your webpage with knowledge of JAVASCRIPT, Use of Geocoder, Use of InfoWindow, Use of Marker, Tabbed Markers, Maximising marker, Creating context menu in your map

This article helps a learner to know more about the different ways of calling client side JavaScript from server side code-behind.

ASP.NET MVC enables Web developers to build compelling standards-based Web solutions that are easy to maintain because it decreases the dependency between layers by using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and provides complete control over the page markup. It also improves testability which enables Test Driven Development (TDD). Click here to download ASP.NET MVC or to learn more about it.

Chris Pels shows how to keep a page in the ASP.NET output cache based upon information in the page’s HTTP header.

This winter I read book Death March by Edward Yourdon. Death March is about death march projects and how to survive them. There are also chapters describing decisions that you should never make when managing death march project. And there are great tips that help you avoid bad mistakes in death march projects. The book describes also developers life in such projects and gives them some good advises how to stay alive.

Death March gives very good overview of projects dynamic nature that today’s managers tend to ignore and thus shooting bullets to their own legs. Okay, everything that is dynamic is more complex that static stuff. We know this from physics courses. But dynamic things may behave very unexpectedly. One source of death march projects is ignoring project dynamics.

Okay, there are many other factors but I don’t tell you about these because you maybe have no reason to read this book anymore. I suggest this book to project managers, developers and also to chiefs and higher lever managers. If you know a lot about software development then this book may be just interesting  reading for you. But if you don’t then this book may be best lesson you have ever got.

Cite from Amazon: “Historically, all software projects have involved a certain degree of risk and pressure -- but many of the projects in today's chaotic business environment involve such intense pressure that they are referred to colloquially as "death-march" projects -- i.e., projects whose schedules are so compressed, and/or whose budgets, or resource (people) assignments are so constrained, that the only "obvious" way to succeed is for the entire team to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no vacations until the project is finished. While the corporate goal of such projects is to overcome impossible odds and achieve miracles, the personal goal of the project manager and team members often shrinks down to mere survival: keeping one's job, maintaining some semblance of a relationship with one's spouse and children, and avoiding a heart attack or ulcer. This new and thoroughly-updated edition of Ed Yourdon's book takes into account many of the changes that have taken place in the more than six years since the publication of the first edition.”

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Politics
3. Negotiations
4. People in Death March Projects
5. Death March Processes
6. The Dynamics of Processes
7. Critical-Chain Scheduling and the Theory of Constraints
8. Time Management
9. Managing and Controlling Progress
10. Death March Tools and Technology
11. Simulators and “War Games”

How TIScript language is different from its prototype - JavaScript

The objective behind writing this article is to make use of Ajax Control Toolkit into implementation.

 

I've recently received a complimentary of the Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Ajax book by WROX authored by several big names in .NET Web Development, such as Bill Evjen, Matt Gibbs, Dan Wahlin and Dave Reed. Of this list, Matt's from the team that developed the technology itself.

I was very surprised to find this book so well written for all levels of readers, with a very good description of AJAX history and concepts as well as more indepth topics. Certainly a great book to add onto your book shelve if you want to get up to speed with ASP.NET Ajax fast.

Automatically minify, combine, compress, and cache .js and .css files in your ASP.NET project

The task of familiarizing programmers with the sphere of developing parallel applications is getting more and more urgent. This article is a brief introduction into creation of multi-thread applications based on OpenMP technology. The approaches to debugging and optimization of parallel applications

Gizmox released today its Visual WebGui web developemnt environments' version 6.3.2 as a further stabilization of 6.3. Visual WebGui's platform/framework simplifies rich internet application development and deployment with a unique WinForms API and a visual Designer that allow to cost-effectively deliver web UIs with existing skill set. All 6.3.2 downloads can be found here . This is the change log for version 6.3.2 Bugs fix -----------------------------------------------------------------------...(read more)

Last weekend, during the ALT.NET Seattle conference, I spoke for quite a while with Miguel de Icaza on the work we're doing with InSTEDD in the area of data synchronization. He was very excited, and wondered how come this wasn't more broadly known.

I realized that I hadn't blogged about it in a while, and it seems to me that this seemingly niche technology isn't getting the broad publicity it deserves. So I'll try to explain in simple terms what it is, and why it matters in many, many scenarios.

Imagine you have an application (mobile or desktop), which can be partially connected, and needs to synchronize data with a server, bi-directionally. That's not very innovative or disruptive, is it? Of course NOT. We have been doing this with various degrees of success and complexity for years....

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