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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 10-12, 2010

ASP.NET Weblogs — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:58:00 GMT

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 10-12, 2010 Web Development 'Unobtrusive' asynchronous Form in ASP.NET MVC - Tomasz Peczek ASP.NET MVC security checklist Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC - Views - Rob Ashton Default Values in ASP.NET MVC Action Parameters - David Hayden Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – UI Helpers and Templates - Nuno Silva Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – Editor Templates - Nuno Silva ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – Pass data to your master page -Nuno Silva ASP.NET MVC...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Everyman on Open Content OS, Liquid Glass, Digital Asset Optimization, AARP.org Does Groups

Dave Burke — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:20:22 GMT

The Open Content Operating System. Gerd Leonhard uses the term “Open Content OS” to describe our interconnected ecosystem where conversation replaces broadcasting and trust replaces advertising budgets. “Pretty much every creator already knows it's not (just) about selling copies of his/her work, rather, in a connected and interdependent ecosystem it is about selling the brand, the perception, the experience. In an Open Content Ecosystem it won't really matter who copies what, but how much attention you get before and during the process, and how good you are in converting it into action and / or real monetary value” Get ready to be sprayed with liquid glass. A German company created an invisible, nano thin layer of liquid glass...(read more)

RT : VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate

Al Pascual: Blog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:25:57 GMT

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual'; Always waiting until the official notice comes out before opening my mouth. Scott Guthrie just did that, Release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is out. You can download the RC here if you are an MSDN subscriber . You’ll be able to chose from all the versions of VS2010 and .NET 4 (x86, 64bit) I have downloaded and install and I have to say I didn’t see any problem installing with the existing Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 3. Still all my application are working fine, will let you know after a few more tests. Yet broke my Silverlight 4 application :-( Happy coding. Cheers Al PS. In the same token I needed the formula to generate the radius for tomorrows work, so I thought just to posted...(read more)

Architect 3 : Building Data Access Layer Using Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1

ASP.NET Weblogs — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:52:00 GMT

You have a Customer table with three fields: ID, LastName and FirstName. You are building a data access layer to retrieve all the records from the Customer table and return the result as a collection of Customer objects. You want implement it using Microsoft Enterprise Library. 1. In your Data Access Layer project, add references to the following Microsoft Enterprise Library DLLs: Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.dll Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder2.dll 2. At App.config or Web.config, add the following dataConfiguration section: 3. At App.config or Web.config, add the following connectionString: 4. At the Data Entity Layer, create a entity class Customer: 5. At the Data Access Layer...(read more)

DBVT Enterprises BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Compliant!

Dave Burke — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:49:27 GMT

When Al Nyveldt announced the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.6 a few days ago I knew that whatever was on my geek calendar would have to wait until I was running the latest version of this most excellent blogging application. The BE.NET 1.6 Release Notes are found at DotNetBlogEngine.NET. Some of the new features include Centralized Comment Management, Comment Spam Filtering with plug-in support, Multiple Widget Zones, several new widgets, a new logging system, unhandled exception handling and more. I also think it’s even faster than 1.5, but I’ve read nothing to confirm that. :-) Not only is my dbvt.com blog running the latest and greatest, but so is the Sueetie.com News Blog and the Public Demo Group Blog. I upgraded dbvt.com first and...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:19:08 GMT

As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx . General public release is slated for Wed. The Web Development Tools Team Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Hiring Inbound Marketing Score CARD

Steve Smith's Blog — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:00 GMT

In their book, Inbound Marketing ( review ), authors Shah and Halligan use a couple of acronyms that, maybe due to my military background, I thought could be improved. The first one was VEPA, which I thought made a lot more sense as PAVE. PAVE relates to qualities of a call to action, and it is easy to remember that if your call to action has these qualities it will PAVE the way to better results . In chapter 12, the authors describe a “framework…for hiring and developing inbound marketing savvy employees.” Like VEPA, this four-letter acronym is a nonsense word, DARC. Again, it’s easy to see how this can be improved by converting it into an actual word, CARD, and then leveraging a common use of this word to really...(read more)

Most interesting from SharePoint 2010 Virtual Ignite Training: 2nd Day

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:53:05 GMT

9 feb 2010: Virtual SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for Developer Notes: Intellisense when editing Wiki-pages and other type of pages and inserting some page property. (When writing “[["…) 4 default Master Pages: v4.master (default for SP 2010) minimal.master simple.master (For error pages or login pages. Not customizable, but pages can be replaced) default.master (Old-style master page, as in SP 2007. Without ribbon and other new things. For supporting SP 2007 projects when migrating them) New Rich Text Editor supports XHTML (source is a valid XHTML) User Custom Action can be scoped to list / site / site-collection Multiple forms per type (many New, Display or Edit or other type of forms per List or Library). On of them must be set as...(read more)

TechDays 2010 session slides and source code

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:00 GMT

My session about memory leaks in .NET is over. Everything went well. Thanks Yann. Thanks to everyone who showed up. You can download the slides and the source code of the sample application (PhotoLight). Ma session sur les fuites de mémoire en .NET est terminée. Tout s'est bien passé. Merci Yann. Merci à toutes les personnes qui sont venues. Vous pouvez télécharger les transparents et le code source de l'application exemple (PhotoLight). Je pense que l'enregistrement de la session sera rapidement mis en ligne par Microsoft. Read More......(read more)

Format the email subject in the Elmah Error Logging Module

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:16:36 GMT

Elmah error logging modules and handlers for ASP.NET is a great module for logging asp.net errors to many different and configurable repositories. One of the repositories that Elmah works with is email. You can easily set up Elmah to send emails by changing the elmah configuration section in your web.config. You can find a sample of all the different elmah web.config settings here . The email configuration settings are the following: <errorMail from="elmah@example.com" to="admin@example.com" subject="..." async="true|false" smtpPort="25" smtpServer="smtp.example.com" userName="johndoe" password="secret" noYsod="true|false" /> Only the...(read more)

Overriding Inheritance for IIS 6.0 Virtual Directories

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:46:00 GMT

If you have an IIS site that has a mixture of ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 virtual directories below it, changing the root site ASP.NET settings could affect the virtual directory ASP.NET settings as well since IIS inherits except for explicit overrides. This little PowerShell script will take each setting and persist it to the virtual directory so you are able to freely change the root site settings without affecting the applications below it. Please remember to backup your IIS settings before you do this, just incase it has adverse affects on your IIS server. function Persist-IIsSettings ( $obj ) { Write-Host $obj.Path $obj.Properties.GetEnumerator() |% { $propertyName = $_.PropertyName $value = $obj.Get($propertyName) if ( -not ($value -is [System...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 RC is out

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35:00 GMT

Visual Studio Release Candidate is out. See the post from Scott Guthrie. If you are interested in finding out what are the changes from VS 2008 or .NET 3.5; I strongly suggest that you check out this series of blog posts Another post from Mike Taulty listing out what is new Read More......(read more)

Readify Devpods – coming up for air.

notgartner — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:51:07 GMT

For the past eight months since taking on my new role I’ve been nearly 100% focused on building our project delivery capability. Readify consultants have always taken lead roles on challenging software projects that adopt the Microsoft platform either in direct engagements with our customers or through our various partners. Devpods add to our market [...] Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 RC is available

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:30:00 GMT

VS2010 RC is out now and available for MSDN users since now. Other guys have to wait until tomorrow when VS2010 RC is made publically available. Reading first news I discovered that most important thing is hardly improved performance of VS2010 RC IDE. All your feedback is welcome to VS2010 RC Connect site . To find out more follow these links: VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate is Available for MSDN subscribers Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) Before installing RC you must uninstall all previous versions of VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. It seems like another long nights of hacking and discovering new stuff are waiting for us. :) Read More......(read more)

VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:39:56 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates. You can find download links here . Right now the downloads are available only to MSDN subscribers. Starting Wednesday (Feb 10th) everyone will be able to download them (regardless of whether you are a MSDN subscriber or not). Background on the Release Candidate I blogged about us deciding to ship a public VS 2010 release candidate last December. The primary motivation behind releasing a public RC was to ensure that we could get broad testing and feedback on the performance and stability work we’ve been doing since the last...(read more)