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MVC 2 jQuery Client-side Validation by nmarun

Well, I watched Phil Haack’s show What's New in Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and was impressed about the client-side validation (starts at 17:45) that MVC 2 offers. I tried creating the same, but Phil does not show what .js files need to be included and also...
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ASP.NET MVC 2 throws exception for ‘favicon.ico’ by nmarun

I must be on fire or something – third blog in 2 days… awesome! Turns out this is an issue only on Cassini. Please read Phil Haack's comments below. Before I begin, in case you’re wondering, favicon.ico is the small image that appears to the left of your...
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Binding for a Collection by nmarun

Yes, my yet another post on Model Binding (previous one is here ), but this one uses features presented in MVC 2. How I got to writing this blog? Well, I’m on a project where we’re doing some MVC things for a shopping cart. Let me show you what I was...
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ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Unit Tests not compiling by nmarun

I found something weird this time when it came to ASP.NET MVC 2 release . A very handful of people ‘made noise’ about the release.. at least on the asp.net blog site , usually there’s a big ‘WOOHAA… <something> is released’, kind of a thing. Hmm...
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ASP.NET MVC Model Binding by nmarun

Oh no, not another Model Binding blog!! I’ve been playing with Model Binding in MVC and I hit a couple of interesting things I wanted to share here. Download the solution here. Definition : MVC's mechanism for mapping HTTP request data directly into action...
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Window management shortcut key - Windows 7 by nmarun

It's been a while since I wrote.. just too many things happening on my side. On my win7 machine, I accidentally hit the right arrow key while holding the windows logo key (the one that pops up the start menu) and the active window snapped itself to the...
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COM Automation with OpenOffice – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

Another article in the ‘– Silverlight 4’ series. I don’t have an extra license for Office suite, but I did want to play with COM Automation feature in Silverlight 4. I said to myself ‘lemme try OpenOffice ’. This is a close match to Microsoft’s Office...
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Xap Reflector – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

I’ve always wanted to write a program that ‘opens-up’ a .xap file and go through its contents, kinda like Red-Gates’ Reflector , only that this one does it for .xap files… this marks the birth of a XapReflector . Here are the features of the application...
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WebBrowser and its “gotcha's” – Silverlight 4 by nmarun

Alright, here’s what I learnt tonight while playing with the WebBrowser control in SL4. I built a basic app that looks like this: You can type the address and click the navigate button or select one of the items in the ‘Fav Links’ listbox to go to the...
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Moving back to India by nmarun

Yep, we’re moving back to India; yea, it’s that time. Although this is not a technical article, I just wanted to share with you the time spent in the US of A. Below are some of the highlights: Year 2001: I came to US to pursue my Master’s degree from...
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