I just got the word that Red Gate’s .NET Reflector will be changing from to “paid only” starting with the upcoming version 7 in early march.
Full story here.
Hi all.
It's been a while since I wrote something here but I've been busy writing something else. I'm proud to announce the availability of the book I have been written for the past few months: Pro Telerik ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls.
This book provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik’s range
of ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. Telerik controls are invaluable for
ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of
rich controls targeted for the presentation layer of web applications.
Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and
text-editing controls that you need but don’t want to build from scratch
yourself—the options are endless for increasing the functionality of
any of your web solutions.
What you’ll learn
- Understand
how to integrate the standard Telerik controls into any ASP.NET or
Silverlight solution to increase productivity and usability.
- Incorporate
the Telerik extensions for ASP.NET MVC.
- Learn to implement
Telerik Open Access and ORM for all your data access requirements.
- Work with the full API to master using the entire
suite of controls.
Who this book is for
This
book is aimed at .NET developers working with ASP.NET and Silverlight
who want to take advantage of the prewritten controls that Telerik
provides when developing their software. No prior knowledge of Telerik
controls is required, but a working knowledge of ASP.NET and Silverlight
is assumed.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:Introducing
ASP.NET and Telerik
Chapter 2: Getting Started With Telerik
RadControls
Chapter 3: Input RadControls
Chapter 4: Navigation
RadControls
Chapter 5: Date, Time, and Scheduling RadControls
Chapter 6: Data RadControls, Part 1
Chapter 7: Data RadControls,
Part 2
Chapter 8: Layout RadControls
Chapter 9: Chart and Image
RadControls
Chapter 10: Additional RadControls
Chapter 11:
RadAjax
Chapter 12: Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
Chapter
13: RadControls for Silverlight
Chapter 14: Introducing Telerik
Reporting
Chapter 15: Telerik OpenAccess ORM
Hi all.
Thanks to the wonderful people of Apress I have 5 coupons worth each for a free copy of the ebook:
If you want one just need you to do 3 simple tasks:
- Follow me on Twitter: @jrguay (this is mandatory because I will DM you the code if you are selected as winner)
- Tweet: "@Apress books rock because..." (complete the phrase with your thoughts).
- Include in your tweet the tag #APRESSGUAY so I can look for the tweets later.
The rules are simple, I will randomly select the winners on Tuesday 29th at 12PM (CST) and will DM the winners the respective code. You can use the code to purchase the ebook in the Apress website and you'll get a 100% discount.
[UPDATE]: The winners of the contest are: @, @, @, @ & @. Thank you!
Stay tune for more contests to come.
Enjoy!
Hi all.
After an interesting discussion with Cristian Prieto (ASP.NET MVP) he pointed me in the right direction of a problem I was having.
The issue was with a web application I recently published to IIS. A new page I added was throwing an exception but instead of showing the error as I would expect, it was throwing a lot of garbage:
Now, the problem was that I didn’t have a way to find what the real problem was until he said that the output was probably being compressed, so after following his advice I checked with Firebug and the results were:
If you see the header Content-Encoding the value is gzip. That was a clear indicator of the output being compressed.
I checked the IIS7 settings and compression was not enabled, so I checked the Global.asax file and this is what I found:
1: protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
2: {
3: if (Request.RawUrl.Contains(".aspx") && (Request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"] != null))
4: {
5: if (Request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"].ToLower().Contains("gzip"))
6: {
7: Response.Filter = new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(Response.Filter, CompressionMode.Compress, true);
8: Response.AppendHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
9: }
10: }
11: }
After a couple of small refactorings thanks to ReSharper:
1: protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
2: {
3: if (!Request.RawUrl.Contains(".aspx") || (Request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"] == null)) return;
4: if (!Request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"].ToLower().Contains("gzip")) return;
5: Response.Filter = new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(Response.Filter, CompressionMode.Compress, true);
6: Response.AppendHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
7: }
I was now able to disable output compression and see what the issue was. After solving the problem I enabled it again and things work as expected.
Checkout Cristian’s blog post about output compression (in Spanish).
Enjoy!
TFS Work Item Manager & TFS Project Dashboard in a Nutshell
These two free applications have been designed to make working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server faster and easier. By promoting robust yet flexible project management practices, TFS Work Item Manager Beta and TFS Project Dashboard Beta allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software. Both applications have been built by Imaginet Resources using RadControls for WPF and are available for free download.
How Does TFS Work Item Manager Add Greater Value?
If you are using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to manage your work items, you’ll simply love this tool! TFS Work Item Manager provides a unified platform to support those of you who want to take advantage of the Team Foundation Server without the need to switch from MS Team Explorer to MS Excel, to MS Project to find a certain work item. Its seamless integration with TFS allows you to add and edit work items, or save queries in real-time, along with the advantage of better work item visualization and improved team collaboration. The TFS Work Item Manager helps free up more developer time to actually write code, not manage what development teams have to do.
Read more.
Hola a todos.
El día 31 de Agosto tuvimos un webcast sobre JetBrains ReSharper. Acá está el video para quienes no pudieron asistir.
Adjunto también la presentación de PowerPoint debido a que por un problema técnico no se visualiza.
Descargar la presentación aquí y el video aquí.
Felicitaciones a Jorge Albergo Gamba Porras de Colombia por haberse sido el afortunado ganador de la licencia personal de ReSharper.
Saludos.
YouTrack (previously code-named Charisma) is a keyboard-centric bug and issue tracker web application. Whatever you do with your issues, you can do it much faster because most of your actions involve two simple controls:
- Search for issues by typing queries in the search box using query completion. Read more »
- Modify multiple issues at once using the Command window. Read more »
YouTrack offers even more ways to minimize the time you spend on reporting and/or processing issues:
- Create new issues by simply pressing Alt+Ins from anywhere within YouTrack. Read more »
- Use extensive keyboard support to create, edit, and navigate between issues — all major actions have easy-to-learn shortcuts. For example, to close an issue, you type fixed, and press Ctrl+Enter. Read more »
- Assign tags to group issues the way you like, regardless of their attributes. For example, you can create a tag like fix it today and associate it with issues from different projects, subsystems, etc. Read more »
YouTrack is distributed as either a JAR or a WAR file, ready to run as a standalone Java process or to be deployed at any of today's popular application servers, including Apache Tomcat 5+, Apache Geronimo, Mortbay Jetty, Caucho Resin, and JBoss.
YouTrack is being developed with JetBrains MPS and is used to track issues in our own products, including TeamCity, dotTrace, MPS, and Web IDE.
Hi all.
The JetBrains team have created a new product codename "Charisma".
What is Charisma?
Charisma is a web-based issue tracker. Charisma's key features include:
- Query-based issue search as an alternative to traditional issue filters.
- Lightweight AJAX-based user interface to allow working with issues really fast.
- Extensive keyboard support to make it easy to create, edit, and navigate between issues using keyboard.
- Commands to quickly execute batch operations upon selected queries.
Charisma is being developed using JetBrains MPS and is used for tracking JetBrains TeamCity issues.
Supported Browsers
- Mozilla Firefox 3+
- Apple Safari 3+
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7+
- Google Chrome 1+
- Opera 9+
Where to Send Feedback?
Would you like to try it? Just click here to get access to the EAP version.
Enjoy!
Hi all.
The guys from Telerik are very busy this days. Now they have just launched SP1 of their RadControls for Silverlight Q2 2009 with Silverlight 3 Support.
Acording to Hristo Maradjiev the service pack not only includes the official supported controls for Silverlight 3, but also a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements. The bad news is that Telerik will discontinue the future support for the Silverlight 2 controls. The dlls for SL2 will still be included in this release, but not in the installation files and the demos.
But that's not the end of the story, The RadControls for Silverlight 3 also supports .NET RIA Services:
You'll get:
- Completely codeless binding to .NET RIA Services
- Simple access to server-side data
- Impressive validation support on the client and on the server
- Patterns for dealing with common Line of Business scenarios
- Automatic data paging by using the pager control
- Easy re-use the ASP.NET authorization and authentication
- Faster server-side sorting, filtering and paging for all data
So I hope you can take advantage of this important milestone in RadControls for Silverlight. Here are some links:
Enjoy!
Hi all.
So, the guys from Developer Express can't be far behind, actually today they also announced officially the support for ASP.NET MVC in a blog post by Mehul Harry (DevExpress Technical Evangelist).
The post also announces the inmediate availability of a FREE demo application with source code included called DevExpress Mail Demo.
The post states the following regarding the demo application:
The MVC Mail demo is an online mail application similar in basic features to gmail.com or mail.com. So have fun playing around with it. And don’t worry about breaking the database because there isn’t one. Instead, this demo uses session state to persist the tiny amount of data. This allows you to tweak and bend the demo without us having to reset some database.
Check out the sample here: http://mvc.devexpress.com
Stay tuned for more on DevExpress and ASP.NET MVC. They are catching up and comming very strong.
Enjoy!
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