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Web Asset Enhancements in Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

2009-11-09T07:28:38Z

In the recent release, there has been few enhancements in the Web Asset Management. One of the new thing that we introduced which was actually requested by the community is Shared Web Asset. In this post, I will show you, how to use it in your ASP.NET MVC Application. In the previous version, you can only define the web assets either in the ScriptRegistrar or StyleSheetRegistrar like the following: <% Html.Telerik() .ScriptRegistrar() .Scripts(scripts => scripts.AddGroup("myScripts"...(read more)

VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010

2009-11-09T02:26:00Z

Microsoft has released the first version of the Virtual Machine Preparation Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab management 2010. What a mouthfull! Try saying that three times in a row.. Well, the tool function is to prepare existing VMs to be compatible with VS 2010 Lab Management requirements, and believe me, there are a few. Configuring an existing VM by hand is a tedious and VERY error prone task, and so this tool was born. Download it from http://vslabmgmt.codeplex.com/ , this version is prepared...(read more)

Adding Editors and Owners to BlogEngine.NET blogs in Sueetie

2009-11-08T22:47:49Z

This new Sueetie Wiki page shows Gummy Bear administrators how to add editors and owners to Sueetie Community Site BlogEngine.NET blogs. Still at a formative phase of Sueetie evolution, creating blogs and their users remains a manual process. That will change, of course, but for the present documents like this one will outline the manual process as well as provide the specs for future automation. In other words, all that follows will be replaced by the click of a button, and hopefully soon. Process...(read more)

Travel from Hotel Berlin to the Masse Convention Center

2009-11-08T11:59:00Z

At TechEd in the US, there are normally dozens of “Official” hotels, and a bus line that is dedicated to your hotel. Just wake up, exit your hotel, get on the bus, snooze for a while, and wake up (again??) at the convention center. Not this year, or at least, not at our hotel. I’m not sure if this was a TechEd decision, or a city of Berlin decision. It doesn’t look like the convention center is setup the same as LAX, or Orlando, where dozens of Bus queues could be handled...(read more)

Sample chapter from upcoming book

2009-11-08T08:59:27Z

There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup a performance test rig using Visual Studio, how to record, manage and analyse performance metrics, and what you can change to make your apps...(read more)

Interesting Finds: 2009 11.01 ~ 11.08

2009-11-08T02:48:04Z

Web Fast by Default and Web Performances Easy Version Control with Git Firebug Net Panel: more accurate timing Introducing Closure Tools Traffic Server .NET Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch - Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection What’s new in CLR via C#, 3rd Edition as compared to the 2nd Edition Code review plug-in for Visual Studio 2008, ReviewPal OpenServe - a C# .Net TCP Server Client pair Debugging Visual Studio Add-Ins and XmlSerialization Problems Other Top 10 Programming Fonts...(read more)

Generating a random strong password

2009-11-08T02:40:08Z

You can use the ASP.NET Membership provider to generate a new random strong password. In the past I have usually either rolled my own authentication system or integrated an asp.net authentication system into an existing application and therefore I did not use the ASP.NET Membership system. In the current application I am writing, I had a need to generate a random strong password for the customer. The ASP.NET Membership system already has a static method built-in for this. You can...(read more)

Presenting at ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas

2009-11-08T01:49:50Z

Next week I will be presenting at the ASP.NET Connections event in Las Vegas the following topics: AMS04: Boost Your Site’s Search Ranking with the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit : Search engines are just robots, and you have to play by their rules if you want to see your site in the top search results. In this session, you will learn how to leverage the IIS Search Engine Optimizer and other tools to improve your Web site for search engine and user traffic. You will leave this session with...(read more)

DWORD – a new video cast

2009-11-08T00:40:08Z

I’m trying out something new. You can check it out here . Read More......(read more)

Parent – Child in recursive data table with LINQ

2009-11-07T14:19:07Z

If you have a data table which looks like this one below and holds child,parent rows at the same table; ID ParentID Name guid1 null parent 1 guid2 guid1 child for parent 1 so on so on so on and you wont to retrieve all records from the table in a table looks like below; Parent Childs parent 1 child 1 for parent 1 child 2 for parent 1 child 3 for parent 1 …. Parent 2 child 1 for parent 2 child 2 for parent 2 …. This means that i have to make a recursive query in Sql to retrieve it this way. but with...(read more)

Iterating through Page Control Collection using Linq

2009-11-07T11:17:00Z

Linq is used generally to get and manipulate data by using Linq to Sql, Linq to Entities or Linq to Xml. However, it can work on many collections in .NET Framework. Now in this post, I'll show how to work on Page Control Collection with Linq. Think about the scenario you want to get every textboxes that has a text in it. To see which ones we select add them a text you want. Create a new .aspx page and add several textboxes to it. They can be directly in page or another control (i.e. a panel control...(read more)

Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 2

2009-11-07T09:39:30Z

I’m working with my Fluent-API for adding Action Filters to Controllers and Action Methods. In my previous post , I created a new instance of each Action Filter and add it to an Action Method or Controller. Based on how the Action Filters are often implemented they don’t or shouldn’t keep any state, so in that case I don’t need to create a new instance of the same Action Filter with the same configuration for each Action Method I want to add it to. I also want to have an option to have a better overview...(read more)

OpenForce is Coming! OpenForce is Coming! (v2009)

2009-11-07T05:51:31Z

So really, it is just about here! I leave in just over 48 hours to head to Las Vegas for the third annual US OpenForce (DotNetNuke conference), once again being held at Mandalay Bay along with DevConnections. If the previous two years were any sort of indicators this year is promising to be a good time! I’m excited about heading out to Vegas again, and getting to see all my DotNetNuke brethren. It’s going to be another busy week, registration and such on Monday, a keynote on Monday night. Conference...(read more)

Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controller in ASP.NET MVC

2009-11-07T00:45:00Z

Note: The name of the classes and the methods are just temporary and may change, I’m so bad when it comes to naming classes and methods. The source code is simple and haven’t done so much refactoring etc. Just wanted to see if I could get it to work, so please have that in mind. When we create controllers for our ASP.NET MVC application we can also add Action Filters to handle cross-cutting concerns, like Authorization, Error handling and Caching etc. If we want to have Error handling on every controller...(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 Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)