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April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio

Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web : Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms : Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through building an application using ASP.NET Web Forms and highlights some of the nice improvements coming with ASP.NET 4.5. What is New in Razor V2 and What Else is New in Razor V2 : Great posts by Andrew Nurse, a dev on the ASP.NET team, about some of the new improvements...

ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard

There are quite a few image gallery modules for Orchard but they were not invented here I wanted something a lot less sophisticated that would be as barebones and minimalist as possible out of the box, to make customization extremely easy. So I made this, in less than two days (during which I got distracted a lot). Nwazet.ZenGallery uses existing Orchard features as much as it can: Galleries are just a content part that can be added to any type The set of photos in a gallery is simply defined by a folder in Media Managing the images in a gallery is done using the standard media management from Orchard Ordering of photos is simply alphabetical order of the filenames (use 1_, 2_, etc. prefixes if you have to) The path to the gallery folder is...

36 Hour Free Offer: jQuery Fundamentals Training

Pluralsight (a great .NET training company) is offering the opportunity to watch their jQuery Fundamentals course for free for the next 36 hours. The course is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin and contains 5 hours of great end to end content.  Pluralsight will be offering this jQuery Fundamentals course for free until Thursday evening (9pm PST). Pluralsight has about 100 other great training courses available similar to this one.  They recently launched a new subscription plan that allows you to watch all of their courses online starting from $29 a month.  They also offer a 10 day free trial option that you can use to try it out.  You can learn more about it here . Free jQuery 1.5 Visual Cheat Sheet While on the...

Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Community News MVCConf Conference Next Tuesday : Attend the free, online ASP.NET MVC Conference being organized by the community next Tuesday.  Here is a list of some of the talks you can watch live. Visual Studio HTML5 and CSS3 in VS 2010 SP1 : Good post from the Visual Studio web tools team that talks about the new support coming in VS 2010 SP1 for HTML5 and CSS3. Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool : Rachel Appel has a nice post that covers how to enable...

Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix

I’m excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3 NuGet IIS Express 7.5 SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 Orchard 1.0 WebMatrix 1.0 The above products are all free. They build upon the .NET 4 and VS 2010 release, and add a ton of additional value to ASP.NET (both Web Forms and MVC) and the Microsoft Web Server stack. ASP.NET MVC 3 Today we are shipping the final release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download and install ASP.NET MVC 3 here .  The ASP.NET MVC 3 source code (released under an OSI-compliant open source license) can also optionally be downloaded here . ASP.NET MVC 3 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great features.  Some of the improvements...

Dec 5th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, Visual Studio

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series for another on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] ASP.NET ASP.NET Code Samples Collection : J.D. Meier has a great post that provides a detailed round-up of ASP.NET code samples and tutorials from a wide variety of sources.  Lots of useful pointers. Slash your ASP.NET compile/load time without any hard work : Nice article that details a bunch of optimizations you can make to speed up ASP.NET project load and compile times. You might also want to read my previous blog post on this topic here . 10 Essential Tools for Building...

FluentPath 1.0

Last Sunday, I published version 1.0 of my little FluentPath library . This library, which is a fluent wrapper around System.IO, started as a little experiment / code sample and has been met with some enthusiasm from some of you so I spent quite a bit of time over the last few months polishing it and trying to raise it to a level of quality where it can safely be used in real applications (although my lawyer is telling me that it’s still at your own risk, as specified in the license ). I’ve started using it myself on a few projects and it’s now my default way of accessing the file system. So what’s in there and why should you use it? It’s small! 36kB dll, no dependencies. It’s a NuGet! You can now install FluentPath with NuGet: It’s robust!...

jQuery Templates, Data Link, and Globalization Accepted as Official jQuery Plugins

The jQuery library has a passionate community of developers, and it is now the most widely used JavaScript library on the web today. Two years ago I announced that Microsoft would begin offering product support for jQuery, and that we’d be including it in new versions of Visual Studio going forward. By default, when you create new ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects with VS 2010, the core jQuery library is now automatically added to your project. Earlier this year at the MIX 2010 conference I announced that Microsoft would also begin contributing code to the jQuery project.  During one of my keynotes, John Resig -- the creator of the jQuery library – joined me on stage and talked a little about our participation and discussed an...

jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is starting to make code contributions to jQuery , and about some of the first code contributions we were working on: jQuery Templates and Data Linking support . Today, we released a prototype of a new jQuery Globalization Plugin that enables you to add globalization support to your JavaScript applications. This plugin includes globalization information for over 350 cultures ranging from Scottish Gaelic, Frisian, Hungarian, Japanese, to Canadian English.  We will be releasing this plugin to the community as open-source. You can download our prototype for the jQuery Globalization plugin from our Github repository: http://github.com/nje/jquery-glob You can also download a set of samples that demonstrate...

JavaScript local alias pattern

Here’s a little pattern that is fairly common from JavaScript developers but that is not very well known from C# developers or people doing only occasional JavaScript development. In C#, you can use a “using” directive to create aliases of namespaces or bring them to the global scope: namespace Fluent.IO { using System; using System.Collections; using SystemIO = System.IO; In JavaScript, the only scoping construct there is is the function, but it can also be used as a local aliasing device, just like the above using directive: ( function ($, dv) { $( "#foo" ).doSomething(); var a = new dv( "#bar" ); })(jQuery, Sys.UI.DataView); This piece of code is making the jQuery object accessible using the $ alias throughout the code...