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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 5-8, 2009 Web Development The MVC in JavaScriptMVC AutoMapper in NerdDinner How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner Blumin’ Dynamic Data ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources Sending Free SMS Text Messages From Your Application HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful How to use Host Header with Development Server SubForum.net Is An Open Source ASP.NET MVC Discussion Forum Web Design HTML 5 and CSS 3: The...( read more ) Read More...

ASP.NET pages that use AJAX components make usually many requests to server per one page to load all required JavaScript and CSS files. Connections, like all other real time resources, are most expensive to create and keep. If we can somehow decrease the number of requests per page load then we need less server resources for same amount of users. For ASP.NET forms we can use script combining, for ASP.NET MVC applications we can use ASP.NET MVC Client-side Resource Combine . MVC Resource Combine is open-source project you can find in CodePlex . ASP.NET official ScriptManager needs server-side form as a container. This means that all scripts are loaded in the body of page. I have found no way how to make ScriptManager to create script and other...

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 1-4, 2009 Web Development How to serve the same data in Json, Xml or Html with Asp.Net MVC ASP.NET MVC Screencasts AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC 22 Extremely Useful Tools for Web Designers and Developers Easy E-Commerce With Magento Creating Excel spreadsheets .XLS and .XLSX in C# HighOnCoding: Get high on ASP.NET articles, videos, podcasts and more! SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know...( read more ) Read More...

I was going to put this on twitter but it’s a bit longer to tweet. Last week I shared some videos on Google Reader and twitter from Microsoft’s MSDN Chopsticks video website . If you don’t know it, it’s a VERY nice videos website with much content on very interesting topics and very recent products as well as different experience levels of content. http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/ Today, some other friends on twitter noticed the Chopsticks site and were wondering why it doesn’t allow downloading the videos (you can only view them online). Well, there is a work around to download the videos though: Go to the video web page (you need to have Silverlight installed, and a .NET passport login, like Hotmail account). I’m using a...

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 28-30, 2009 Web Development ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines Webforms vs. MVC, the desire to rewrite everything, an unexpected benefit ASP.NET Ajax – Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd’s to Static Scripts Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications The Weekly Source...( read more ) Read More...

David Ebbo's blog - The Ebb and Flow of ASP.NET http://twitter.com/davidebbo The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit Short version : the MVC T4 template (now named T4MVC) is now available on CodePlex, as one of the downloads in the ASP.NET MVC v1.0 Source page . Poll verdict: it’s ok for T4MVC to make small changes Yesterday, I posted asking how people felt about having the template modify their code in small ways. Thanks to all those who commented! The fact...( read more ) Read More...

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 24-27, 2009 Web Development 10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget HTML Helper for Including and Compressing Javascript Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications Exploring how to use Looping Expressions w/ Spark ASP.NET - Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 2 ASP.NET - ASP.NET 4.0: WebForm Routing (quick ’n dirty version) ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Validation Refresh: Best Techniques & Frameworks Mind if my MVC T4 template...( read more ) Read More...

When working on my MVC T4 template , I was not able to use reflection to discover the Controllers and Actions, because the code that the template generates is itself in the same assembly as the controllers.  So that causes a bit of a chicken and Read More......( read more ) Read More...

I read a good post today about the silly wars that go on in versus debates, in this case the arguments about whether to use Webforms or MVC for ASP.NET . I kind of saw this storm coming when people started describing themselves as part of the alternative "movement" in the ASP.NET community. The truth is that MVC gets me really excited, for a thousand different reasons. My win comes from the fact that I feel like I'm no longer fighting the statelessness of the Web by conforming to a framework that simulates statefullness. Maybe I never really realized I was doing that. But the nice thing about MVC is that it has forced me to break down what I'm doing into simple actions. There are two benefits developing that I had not previously...

Simone has created another survey concerning AJAX usage with ASP.NET. The results are available, now, and it is really interesting to see that there are only small changes in the use of AJAX libraries for ASP.NET developers. The most used Ajax/JS library among .NET developers is jQuery , which is used by the 71,4% of the users. Second comes the Ajax Control Toolkit with 58,8% , followed by the core ASP.NET Ajax library , which is used by 44,8% . The 3 most used libraries are still the same of 2007, just with the opposite order (it was ASP.NET Ajax, the Control Toolkit and then jQuery). He writes more about the results concerning my library: And, despite becoming a dormant project , AJAX.NET Professional lost only 3% of the users. Here are the...