04-11-2013, 10:26 PM

To deal with the complexity involved in asynchronous programming, Windows Store apps make use of what is known as a Promise. The implementation of Promises in Windows Store apps is based on Common JS Promises proposal. At code level a promise is an object...

04-11-2013, 3:38 PM

The AngleBrackets and DevIntersection conference is all wrapped up for me and I had a great time as always meeting new people and talking about technologies that I really love to work with. Thanks to everyone that took the time to come to my talks - I...

04-11-2013, 1:26 PM

I'm really excited about the AngularJS JavaScript framework given all of the great features it offers out of the box for building Single Page Applications (SPAs) and really any application that has a lot of client-side functionality. I just returned from...

04-08-2013, 5:48 AM

I'm proud to announce we've released v4.0 of LLBLGen Pro ! This release is the 13th full release we've done and it arrives in the year LLBLGen Pro turns 10. As always we've packed the new release with great new features and I hope we've added what you...

04-07-2013, 11:10 PM

At times you may want to allow the end user to save GridView data into CSV format for further processing (say for opening later in Excel). Doing so using server side code is quite common. However, this requires an extra round trip to the server. You can...

04-07-2013, 2:08 PM

This blog has been way too quiet so I recently decided to do a post about one of the things I've been looking into and that's AngularJs. I thought about writing it here but I wanted to try a different approach to writing a blog post and have gone for...

04-06-2013, 11:06 AM

Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. I’ve always been a bit curious where that default came from. If you’re like me, you may have wondered...

04-04-2013, 6:19 PM

Introduction This article describes an emerging open source specification, referred to as Owin – An Open Web Interface for .Net , what it is, and how this might be beneficial to the .Net technology stack. It will also provide a brief, concise look at...

04-03-2013, 9:31 PM

Features such as membership and role management have been a part of ASP.NET core infrastructure since version 2.0. Developers have been using the default membership provider and role provider in their web applications. However, a common observation is...

04-02-2013, 3:15 PM

In my last post on ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms features I talked about the new strongly-typed data controls that are available and how you can now get Intellisense as you access object properties within a server control template. It's a great feature that you...