Web Dev And Stuff

If you are using Url rewriting in your app then I strongly suggest to take a look at Url Routing which is available for ASP.NET MVC as well as ASP.NET Webforms (.NET 3.5 SP1).[more…]

In many conversations between ASP.NET developers, the most common question this time of the year is what technology should someone use in order to develop a web application. Both MVC and Webforms have … [more]

Starting my 2nd day at Teched the first session was “A lap around WebMatrix”.

WebMatrix is a simple to understand IDE but nevertheless fully featured when it comes to develop Websites[read more…]

Recently I developed a website that was built with WebMatrix. The scenario required database interaction and I wanted to use SQL Compact in order to be more portable. But I didn’t want to use the classic way of accessing my data via SQL queries. So I decided to use the CTP4 version of Entity Framework. This is the only version (till now) that supports SQL Compact 4.0

In order to make it work [read more…]

In a previous post a mentioned a BBCode helper based on an existing library (BBCode Parser). In this post let’s se how can we create a package using NuGet in order to be used via the package manager inside Visual Studio! [read more…]

In order to start using NuGet we need to download the Visual Studio add-in from codeplex. NuGet packages are an excellent way of packaging libraries in a way that can be used and removed from a project very easy. In WebMatrix  Facebook helpers are a NuGet package. [read more…]

Recently a had to parse a text that contained BBCode tags. In Codeplex I found an excellent BBCode parser. So I thought why not create a helper that could be easily used with Razor syntax! This is how you can use it [read more…]

Now a few helpers are available for usage with Razor Syntax and ASP.NET WebPages or ASP.NET MVC. But those helpers can be used also inside a Webforms application.

For example I find the Paypal helper extremely usefull. Let’s use it inside an ASP.NET Webforms App.

We are downloading the helper and adding it to our project in Visual Studio. I will use a C# Web Application Project. Read Mode…