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Adding Editors and Owners to BlogEngine.NET blogs in Sueetie

Dave Burke — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:47:49 GMT

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 Overview BlogEngine.NET supports two types of users with permissions to create posts: Administrators and Editors. Administrators have full range while editors are somewhat limited in what they can do on a blog. BlogEngine.NET is configured to use...(read more)

Travel from Hotel Berlin to the Masse Convention Center

Scott Cate: Family: Scott Cate: Technology — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:59:00 GMT

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. Then again, this place is huge so it’s possible (probable) that I missed it. There is a train that is pretty convenient between the hotel and the convention center, but for my first trip, I was a little confused, so I thought this would be helpful...(read more)

Sample chapter from upcoming book

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:59:27 GMT

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 fly. Anyways, the sample chapter is located here . ( http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/performance/understanding-performance-profiling-targets/ ) Hope you like it. Read More......(read more)

Interesting Finds: 2009 11.01 ~ 11.08

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:48:04 GMT

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......(read more)

Generating a random strong password

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:40:08 GMT

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 use the GeneratePassword static method from the Membership class to create a new password: String strongPassword = System.Web.Security.Membership.GeneratePassword(8, 1); From the MSDN documentation, the two parameters are: length – Int32 The number...(read more)

Presenting at ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:49:50 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

DWORD – a new video cast

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:40:08 GMT

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

Parent – Child in recursive data table with LINQ

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:19:07 GMT

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 LINQ its more easy to be done, see the query below; 1: var q= from p in TypedDataTable 2: where p.ParentID == null // well get all parents 3: select new 4: { 5: ParentID = p.ParentID, 6: child = from c in TypedDataTable 7: where c.ParentID == p.ID...(read more)

Iterating through Page Control Collection using Linq

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:17:00 GMT

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). Then add the code below to [Further] Read More......(read more)

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

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:39:30 GMT

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 of which Action Filter is added to which Controllers and Action Methods. I have added to methods, AddFilterToControllers and AddFilterToActions: .AddFilterToActions( new HandleErrorAttribute(), c=> c.About(), c=> c.Index()); .AddFilterToActions...(read more)

OpenForce is Coming! OpenForce is Coming! (v2009)

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:51:31 GMT

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 ) Read More......(read more)

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

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:45:00 GMT

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 we need to add the HandleErrorAttribute to all controllers, like this: [HandleError] public MyController : Controller { } By adding Action Filters by using attributes it can be hard to get a good overview of which controllers that has the HandleErrorAttribute...(read more)

Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:42:53 GMT

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)

Booting Windows 7 and VS 2010 on SSD in 18 seconds

ASP.NET Weblogs — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:00 GMT

I've been doing quite a bit of work with VS2010 recently as we've prepared for our launch of our free ASP.NET 4 hosting , and I had a fresh install of Windows 7 without the typical cruft that comes with our environment. So I wanted to show how quick booting off of a SSD is. There are two pieces of hardware EVERY developer must have - multiple monitors and a SSD. I've said it over and over again, I have never seen a single upgrade improve the performance of a PC more than my X-25M drive since I first saw what the Voodoo2 could do. I took this video to show how quick the sucker is because until you have used it, you probably think I'm full of crap. But this sucker FLIES. My previous OS partition was running on a couple of 10,000...(read more)

South Florida BizTalk User Group: Improving agility with the ESB 2.0 toolkit

ASP.NET Weblogs — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:00 GMT

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect working on complex BizTalk deployments you MUST attend Uri's session . In order to keep things in perspective, Uri has prepared a series of interesting demos that illustrate the techniques used to improve the development and management experience...( read more ) Read More......(read more)