I have been heavily invested in ASP.NET Dynamic Data since pre Beta 1 of ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. To me, this technology is significant and clever, although with its flaws. (My products DES Dynamic Data and Versatile DataSources are intended to address those flaws.) My impression is that there is a poor adoption rate for ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and I want to better understand why. Please take a moment and post a comment on these questions. 1. Have you used ASP.NET Dynamic Data? 2. What do you like about it? 3. What do you dislike about it? 4. If you have evaluated it but not used it, why? Your answers may help both the ASP.NET team and myself as we attempt to improve both the technology and user education. Read More...

The MVVM pattern (Model-View-ViewModel, also known as M-V-VM, the PresentationModel pattern, or the ViewModel pattern) appeared a long time ago now, but it took some time before it became more documented and well known. Over the last few months, MVVM boomed, especially with an explosion of dedicated frameworks. It's difficult to know what each framework proposes and which one to choose. Fortunately, Jeremy Alles has compiled pointers to all the MVVM frameworks available today . He even lists the main features of each framework. Read More...

Jeremy Alles proposes a nice tour of the core WPF classes . It comes with a class diagram and quick descriptions. I'll keep a link to it here for reference. It's the kind of document I'll refer to several times. Covered classes include DispatcherObject , FrameworkTemplate , DependencyObject , Visual , UIElement , FrameworkElement , Control , and much more. Read More...

6 hours of videos. Get your popcorn. Scott Gu-athon. Silverlight intro, what's new in v.3 (zero to 60) Visual Studio 2010 IDE, .NET 4.0, ASP.NET 4.0 MVC (File/New, MVC 2 features, Unit Testing why and how) http://www.vimeo.com/user2306475/videos Videos are in 30 min parts. Most are downloadable. Immerse yourself. Read More...

Scott showed how to render the Grid in a Transaction. Certainly it does the job but in my opinion view component should not be responsible for this kind of cross cutting concerns, instead we can use the Action Filters. Lets see how we can utilize the Action Filter in this scenario instead of modifying the Grid code. What Scott is trying to do is encapsulate the data access operation in a transaction, the Action Filter has several methods which the ASP.NET MVC framework executes in different stages of a request. In this case, we will use the OnActionExecuting which fires before the code enters into the controller method to start a transaction and OnResultExecuted which fires when the view is processed, we will commit/rollback based upon the status...

One of my favorites features in the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit is what we called Report Comparison. Report Comparison basically allows you to compare two different versions of the results of crawling the same site to see what changed in between. This is a really convenient way to track not only changes in terms of SEO violations but also to be able to compare any attributes on the pages such as Title, Heading, Description, Links, Violations, etc. How to access the feature There...( read more ) Read More...

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Doing EA just for the sake of EA : Enterprise architecture is a mean to reach a goal. If you don’t know what is your goal and how you'll use enterprise architecture to reach this goal, you fall into the most common and painful pitfall. There should be at least one goal; like to reduce IT cost, better planning and executing of IT, dealing with compliance requirements or even migrating legacy applications to new platform. If you cant provide clear goals and explain how EA is serving you, you're doing enterprise architecture for the sake of enterprise architecture. Regretfully doing EA for the sake of EA will bring your initiative to complete failure. Weak political skills of EA lead : I once wanted to write an article about "The election...

Sehr kurzfristig hat sich die Gelegenheit ergeben, Harry Pierson , Program Manager bei Microsoft im IronPython Team, für einen Vortrag nach Bonn zu holen – da sagt man natürlich nicht Nein, wenn man die Chance hat. Am 17.11.2009 um 19:00 (Einlass ab 18:30) wird Harry über dynamische Sprachen im Microsoft .NET Umfeld sprechen: As you may know, Microsoft is developing IronPython and IronRuby, .NET implementations of the popular open-source programming languages Python and Ruby. While it's clear that Microsoft wants to attract existing Python and Ruby developers to .NET, the role of IronPython and IronRuby for existing .NET developers is less clear. What value is there for a .NET developer in learning IronPython? What are the tradeoffs between...

Jimmy is at DevConnections this week and is promising to have a new blog post every day.  We will see how that works out! :) Here is his first installment – Top 10 Takeaways for SharePoint .   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product. Read More...