One thing I absolutely love about the ASP.NET MVC framework is that there isn't too much "magic". Magic can be nice if you are able to adhere to a framework's "Golden Path", but as soon as some customization becomes necessary you find that the magic can get in the way (DataContractSerializer anyone?...

It is a VISUAL STUDIO 2005 PROJECT ! Of course we're talking about the Windows version here :). See short note... More Information   Source: CodeProject Lounge Post . Technorati Tags: Visual Studio , VS , VS 2005 , Visual Studio 2005 , Google Chrome , Google , Chrome , browsers

Very Quick Note: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released finally (in combination with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 of course). To sum up for some people, note that VS 2008 SP1 includes ADO.NET Entity framework (and its designer) as well as ADO.NET Data Services, but NOT ASP.NEt MVC framework...

Background (skip if you know Web Application Projects) In VS 2002/2003, the web project model for a website was similar to "class library" projects, where you have a .CSPROJ or .VBPROJ file that keeps track of files "included" in the project, and compiles all the pages and controls code behind to a single...

Avoid Much Talk I wrote about Resharper 4 performance improvements in an earlier blog post today showing my VS Color Scheme including use of R# nightly builds. My friend Mohamed Tayseer pointed me out that Resharper 4 BETA was released yesterday. If you already know Resharper, skip the blah blah blah...

I blogged my old Visual Studio settings before for Visual Studio 2005, using a dark color theme and optimizing it for Resharper features like Resharper colorings and "Current Line Highlight". Today I'm sharing with you my settings for VS 2008. Things have changed a bit since the first time, so, you'll...

Microsoft .NET framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 now have public BETAs. The service pack of Visual Studio 2008 has really interesting stuff. Highlights I'm interested in are performance improvements in HTML editor, collection of JavaScript intellisense hotfixes plus new...

In the application development, we will normally adopt the following technologies: Windows Form & WPF Web Service & WCF BPEL & WWF Oracle & SQL Server Smart Client Software Factory ORM NHibernate Castle ActiveRecord Subsonic Third-party Controls Developer.Express.DXPerience Infragistics...

While my team and I doing our daily work. One of our new team members asked that he needs the user to select a value from drop-down list and this value should be converted to a nullable integer value. The small issue he faces that he need to parse the value selected in one line of code and make sure...

It's very nice to know that the launch event is not merged with EDC 2008 , but comes before it. The 2008 launch event covers VS 2008, Win 2008 and SQL 2008. It'll be held March 24th @ Intercontinental City Stars Hotel ( Register Now ) The agenda: Time General Sessions 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Registration...