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Interface Inheritance Esoterica

2009-11-10T18:43:13Z

I learned something new yesterday about interface inheritance in .NET as compared to implementation inheritance. To illustrate this difference, here’s a simple demonstration. I’ll start with two concrete classes, one which inherits from the other. Each class defines a property. In this case, we’re dealing with implementation inheritance . public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } } public class SuperHero : Person { public string Alias { get; set; } } We can now use two different techniques...(read more)

Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR !

2009-11-10T12:40:29Z

MaximumASP is offering a free hosting account so you can get started with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. On this account you can test ASP.NET 4 applications in a hosting environment and try out the new publishing features with Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool. Windows Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 1GB disk space 50 MB SQL Server 2008 database MS Deploy Access FTP over SSL Access The environment on which your apps will be running is a slimmed down version...(read more)

ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos

2009-11-09T13:49:13Z

Now that the “Dev 2010” wave of products is in beta and we’re getting closer5 and closer to release, I‘ve started publishing “Quick Hit” videos on the new features. These are not really tutorials (Not like the How-Do-I videos) but rather just “quick” peeks to show you the new stuff. I’ll start working on more detailed training after PDC. The first 5 videos are now live: http://www.asp.net/learn/aspnet-4-quick-hit-videos/ #1 | ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" - Chart Control #2 | ASP.NET 4 "Quick...(read more)

http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

2009-11-08T02:03:03Z

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services. We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good stuff up there. http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ Read More......(read more)

Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch

2009-11-07T00:42:53Z

I was stepping through some code in a debugger today and noticed a neat little feature of Visual Studio 2010 that I hadn’t noticed before. When debugging, you can easily examine the value of a variably by highlighting it with your mouse. Nothing new there. But then I noticed a little pin next to it, which I’ve never seen before. So what do you see when you see a pin? You click on it! As you might expect, that pins the quick watch in place. So now I hit the play button, continue running my app in...(read more)

Recap of Oredev and some .net debugging videos

2009-11-06T14:21:00Z

This week I attended and spoke at the Oredev conference in Malmö Sweden, and it was great fun as usual. It was a pretty productive few days with a lot of good talks and conversations with some really cool people. I’ll put up a link to the talk as it becomes available Channel9 video and chat with Scott Hanselman for Hanselminutes I got to meet “The man, the myth, the legend” Scott Hanselman and he recorded a 10 minute demo for Channel9 where I showed him how to debug a .Net performance issue using...(read more)

A RouteHandler for IHttpHandlers

2009-11-05T00:18:30Z

I saw a bug on Connect today in which someone offers the suggestion that the PageRouteHandler (new in ASP.NET 4) should handle IHttpHandler as well as Page . I don’t really agree with the suggestion because while a Page is an IHttpHandler , an IHttpHandler is not a Page . What I this person really wants is a new handler specifically for http handlers. Let’s give it the tongue twisting name: IHttpHandlerRouteHandler . Unfortunately, it’s too late to add this for ASP.NET 4, but it turns out such a...(read more)

Html Encoding Nuggets With ASP.NET MVC 2

2009-11-04T05:56:49Z

In a recent blog post, I introduced ASP.NET 4’s new HTML Encoding code block syntax as well as the corresponding IHtmlString interface and HtmlString class. I also mentioned that ASP.NET MVC 2 would support this new syntax when running on ASP.NET 4 . In fact, you can try it out now by downloading and installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I’ve also mentioned in the past that we are not conditionally compiling ASP.NET MVC 2 for each platform. Instead, we’re building System.Web.Mvc.dll against ASP.NET...(read more)

Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW?

2009-11-03T18:03:58Z

RTW version 2 of Web PI, which shipped in September, now offers additional products through Media and Developer Tools scenarios through the new Options Dialog. You can include products from these scenarios from the Options dialog: and check the corresponding Read More......(read more)

Speaking at Tech-Ed Europe Next Week

2009-11-03T15:15:02Z

I’m going to Berlin! Next week, I’m giving talks at Tech-Ed Europe on two of my favorite topics: What's New in Microsoft ASP.NET Model-View-Controller ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) 2 introduces new features to make you more productive when building an ASP.NET MVC application. Templated helpers allow automatically associatiating edit and display elements with data types. Areas provide a means of dividing a large Web application into multiple projects. Data annotations allow attaching metadata...(read more)

November Conferences

2009-11-03T06:05:20Z

I’m doing keynotes at two big conferences later this month: ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas: November 9th to 12th I’ll be doing a keynote talking about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 at the ASP.NET Connections conference next week. I’ll also be doing an evening Q&A session together with the ASP.NET team. ASP.NET Connections is a great conference that is jointly hosted with the VS, SharePoint, SQL and Windows Connections conferences (enabling you to choose from tons of great sessions). The...(read more)

VS 2010 Beta 2 Read Me Items for Web Deployment

2009-11-01T03:31:00Z

There are some known issues/bugs related to VS 2010 Web Deployment features in VS 2010 Beta 2 Read Me… I can imagine reading the entire Beta 2 read me file can be daunting so I thought I can just copy paste the ones related to Web Deployment here… DB Deployment will fail if the Database Name is longer than 127 characters Description: If you are using latest VS 2010 Web Deployment Features and trying to deploy your database using the Deploy SQL property page then at times you might get error from...(read more)

JavaScript class browser: once again with jQuery

2009-10-30T17:43:26Z

I’ve already posted twice about that little class browser application. The first iteration was mostly declarative and can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/09/14/building-a-class-browser-with-microsoft-ajax-4-0-preview-5.aspx The second one was entirely imperative and can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/10/15/entirely-unobtrusive-and-imperative-templates-with-microsoft-ajax-4-preview-6.aspx This new version builds on top of the code for the imperative...(read more)

Let me know your questions for Scott Guthrie and the ASP.NET Team @devconnections

2009-10-30T17:26:16Z

I’m going to be at DevConnections this year to deliver a session on Microsoft Ajax with Jim Wang and also chair a panel with Scott Guthrie and members of the ASP.NET Team. First of all here are details on the invitation: Join us for a technical question and answer session with Scott Guthrie and members of the ASP.NET team on November 10th 2009 from 6:15 PM - 8:15PM at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas. This is your chance to meet face to face with the people working on ASP.NET...(read more)

We Need Your Feedback on the Documentation

2009-10-30T16:49:25Z

The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio docs. Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey . This survey will give us a better understanding of the type of applications you are developing as well as how you use Help and how we can improve it. The survey takes only 10 minutes, and we really appreciate your feedback! Feel free to forward the survey link. Read More......(read more)