June 2009 - Posts
I saw Maurice de Beijer recently published a good introduction article on .NET RIA Services. Getting started with the .NET RIA Services The post starts with a very good introduction: RIA, short for Rich Internet Applications, is a bit of an umbrella term for all sorts of applications delivered through the browser. The key aspect however is that they deliver some business function and are not just about flashy graphics. Business applications tend to work with data and other business resources so they are usually built in the standard N tier architecture. If we take a look at this N tier architecture for the most common type of business resource, the database, we typically see the Create, Read, Update, Delete, (CRUD) pattern appear all the...
Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? Tip #67: Did you know the list of ASP.Net MVC shortcuts? Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page? Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser? Tip #70: Did you know… how to install win7 RC IIS through command script? Tip #71: Did you know... there are several new configuration settings available in FastCGI Extension 1.5 Beta Tip #72: Did you know... you can now manage Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows 7 Tip #73: Did you know... about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta Tip #74: Did you know…How to Add and Remove AJAX Extenders in Visual...
In Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 release, SQL server database schema and data can be packaged for deployment along with the website. It utilizes Msdeploy SQL Database provider functionality in IIS team’s msdeploy release. In Visual studio 2010 Beta1, user can set the database package options in web application project’s Deploy-SQL property page as following. User can add a package connection by clicking “Add” button and make sure it’s checked. To select the source database for package, one can check “Pull data from an existing database” check box, and select or enter the database connection string. In Beta1, only three packaging choices are provided for the database, “Schema only”, “Complete database” and “Exclude objects...
Vijay , one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services. I think this is an important benefit of adopting the RIA Services pattern. Check it out and let us know what you think! Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services Read More...
Recently a friend of mine at Microsoft asked about tips for how to land a great Program Management job at Microsoft. It has been a while since I did a “PM Tips” post, so I thought I’d use the opportunity to share my thoughts and get your feedback. I have done lots of PM interviews over the years and through the process I have developed a few things I look for to spot great program managers. In fact I have often mentioned to co-workers in Dev or test and even people I meet at social events that they would be great PMs… most of the time they look at me like I am crazy… but sometimes, they turn out to be, in fact, really great PMs. Getting the Interview Know what you are looking for – Given this economy, I know many folks...
The VWD team is always looking for ways to improve our product for our customers. To help us better achieve this goal we have created a survey that we hope you will take a few moments to fill out. Click Here to take survey This survey centers around the VWD designer which provides a WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing Web pages. All feedback will be carefully considered in our planning. Thank you for your time, Mike Snow SDET Lead Visual Studio Web Tools Read More...
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ASP.Net MVC for Visual Studio 2010 is available for download here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=28527 . There is no new functionality but you should be able to upgrade your applications to target the 4.0 framework (or leave them as is) if you would like to play with ASP.Net MVC on Dev10. Please read the release notes for a couple of gotchas. If you never read release notes, please note the following: If you are working with Visual Studio Team System 2010 and the Historical Debugger is enabled, Visual Studio might occasionally crash. If you experience this problem, disable the Historical Debugger. You can disable the Historical Debugger in Tools->Options. Note that this will be fixed in Beta 2. Hope this...
If you’re anything like me, you probably litter your code with TODO comments, postponing random tasks for the sake of moving the project forward. And there is of course a non-zero probability that you are going to ship with those comments still in. So I want to propose the following call to action to all readers of this blog: open your current project and start implementing what’s in those TODOs today . Finding the TODOs is easier than you think. In Visual Studio, open the task list window (CTRL+T), open that drop-down menu and choose “Comments”: Once you’ve done that, Visual Studio brings you a list of all those TODO comments: You can now go through those one by one (double-clicking on the TODO in the task list takes you there) and delete them...
With VS2010, we introduced “web deployment tool” as the new publish method; at the same time, FTP publish is still available and supported in VS2010. In web application project system, because we centralized main deployment workflow, so some new features usually introducd at the same time with “web deployment tool” is also available to FTP publish. This includes a most important one “web.config transformation”. You can refer Vishal’s post for more detail of how to author transformation files. In this post I will use a simple case to just show how the transformation is wired even you still use publish methods like FTP or plain file system copy. 1. Create a new web application project 2. Expand the “web.config” node (If you create a Visual Basic...
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