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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009

2009-11-22T06:52:00Z

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009 Web Development ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces Using the Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5 with the CDN Microsoft AJAX Library Preview 6 & Data Binding Web Design User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes The Ultimate...(read more)

My 65 Favorite Tweets of PDC09

2009-11-22T04:46:37Z

Microsoft did a fantastic job making PDC09 accessible to everyone, even to geeks as far away as Vermont. Their real-time HD video coverage of the keynotes and conference presentations was awesome. And what Microsoft didn't provide at http://microsoftpdc.com, Twitter did. The combination of microsoftpdc.com and the #PDC09 stream allowed me to feel like I was at the conference without having to fly across the country to get there. Fascinating, really, the ability to follow the flow of a PDC conference...(read more)

Microsoft PDC Sessions/Keynotes online for Download

2009-11-21T23:11:00Z

If you’re seen the tech new recently, you’ve heard about the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference). If you couldn’t make the conference (like me) then you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft has posted video of all the sessions and keynotes. And they’re available for download. In fact, here is a set of CURL scripts that will download them for you all at once (or overnight depending on your bandwidth). The script basically says – do I have this file...(read more)

Resources for my SharePoint Services Talk

2009-11-21T14:30:49Z

As promised here are some resources for my recent talk on creating and consuming services in SharePoint that I delivered at TechDays . You’ll be able to get the full slide deck, video, and code later at http://my.techdays.ca but here are the links from the slide deck and things I mentioned during the talk. Links Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint (MSDN) Developing SharePoint Applications guidance from the Patterns and Practices group The SharePoint Service Locator pattern Books Developing...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control

2009-11-21T13:36:44Z

ASP.NET Chart control is powerful control you can use to add charting support to your web applications. Although chart controls are mainly used with ASP.NET forms it is not very hard to use them also in ASP.NET MVC applications . In this posting I will show you how to use ASP.NET Chart control in ASP.NET MVC application and I will illustrate how to do it easily so you don’t mess up your views. Before we start coding I want to make some notes about my solution: this solution is pretty new and it is...(read more)

Unit Testing and Integration Testing in real projects

2009-11-21T10:52:00Z

I am yet to find a proper sample on how to do realistic Test Driven Development (TDD) and how to write proper unit tests for complex business applications, that gives you enough confidence to stop doing manual tests anymore. Generally the samples show you how to test a Stack or a LinkedList, which is far simpler than testing a typical N-tier application, especially if you are using Entity Framework or Linq to SQL or some ORM in data access layer, and doing logging, validation, caching, error handling...(read more)

T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action

2009-11-21T02:10:19Z

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex MVC 2 Beta introduces two nice helpers called Html.RenderAction and Html.Action. Phil Haack described them in detail on his blog , so you may want to read through that before Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week

2009-11-20T18:13:44Z

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview: IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Twitter in a Dead End

2009-11-20T12:30:53Z

These days it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t know about Twitter as a social networking status updating site mainly founded in 2007 with the very simple and basic idea to let people share their status on the web with 140 characters and follow others’ updates. I was among the first group of users who appeared on Twitter and have been continually tweeting for almost three years to now, so I’ve been able to witness the progress of the site and the way it evolved. The idea...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly

2009-11-20T12:28:28Z

One nice feature that Visual Studio 2010 provides is generating sequence diagrams on the fly. Just point out method and choose diagram generating option from context menu. In this posting I will show you how to generate sequence diagrams on the fly. To keep example illustrative and simple I will use simple code. Let’s suppose we have ASP.NET MVC application with following controller. public class PriceEnquiryController : Controller { // ... some properties and methods ... ...(read more)

Memory leaks with Infragistics NetAdvantage Windows Forms edition

2009-11-20T11:07:00Z

When I finalized my article about memory leaks , I removed a part about Infragistics NetAdvantage. Here it is. It may be useful to some of you. Warning: It's based on NetAdvantage 7.3, and may or may not apply to recent versions. Let's take an example. In project X, visual controls from the Infragistics NetAdvantage suite are used to build the GUI. One of these controls is the UltraToolbar. As told by its name, this control is used to display toolbars. The way a UltraToolbar is used is via...(read more)

Stylin: Adventure Time

2009-11-20T07:22:21Z

Super stylish background, borders and page elements. Increases confidence to make a purchase with a site layout as pretty as this and with as much attention to detail. Good balance among page content dimensions. On the UN-stylin side, there’s a spider dropdown animation that’s stupid as hell in my opinion. Link to Adventure Time | View all Stylin Sites Read More......(read more)

Stylin: Wild Wings Safaris

2009-11-20T07:07:37Z

The low contrast between headers/footers and the body is what I liked about this. Link to Wild Wings Safaris | View all Stylin Sites Read More......(read more)

Stylin: Safarista Design

2009-11-20T06:58:36Z

Very beautiful. Someone sweated the details here. Like the menubar. Nice execution of an attractive body area background on the site content pages. Link to Safarista Design | View all Stylin Sites Read More......(read more)

Stylin: Boco Creative

2009-11-20T06:51:35Z

Unique borders on header and footer to the body if you look at an enlarged image. Info-rich and attractive slideshow in header area. Cool logo. Big “B.” We like that. Link to Boco Creative | View all Stylin Sites Read More......(read more)