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What is Visual Studio Async?
During PDC10 Anders Hejlsberg announced Visual Studio Async CTP when speaking about new stuff in C# and VB.NET next versions. In this posting I will introduce the background of Visual Studio Async and I will provide you with links to different resources so you can get started immediately. -
ASP.NET MVC 3: Building simple image editor using WebImage helper
In my previous posting about WebImage helper I introduced how to use WebImage for different image manipulations. In this posting I will show you how to build simple online image editor using WebImage helper.
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Using global action filters to find out running time of controller actions
Lately I blogged about global action filters in ASP.NET MVC 3. Yesterday I found cool article from Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal where he introduces how to use action filters to measure running time of ASP.NET MVC controllers. And here is my experiment – how to use global action filters to find out how long controller actions are running. You just need couple of lines of code.
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Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to server where ASP.NET MVC 3 is not installed
When I wrote my last posting about jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC. I built my sample application on ASP.NET MVC 3. To try it out with friends I put my application up to my web server where I don’t have ASP.NET MVC 3 installed. In this posting I will tell you what files you need and where you can find them.
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Building mobile web site with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile is unified UI system that will work on all popular mobile device platforms. Currently alpha version is available to download. In this posting I will show you how to use jQuery Mobile with ASP.NET MVC 3 and how jQuery Mobile pages look on Windows Mobile.
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SQL Server: How to insert million numbers to table fast?
Yesterday I attended at local community evening where one of the most famous Estonian MVPs – Henn Sarv – spoke about SQL Server queries and performance. During this session we saw very cool demos and in this posting I will introduce you my favorite one – how to insert million numbers to table.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Using WebMail helper to send e-mail
This far I have blogged about WebImage and Chart helpers. Now let’s see another new helper – WebMail – that you can easily use to send e-mails. WebMail is easy to configure and extremely easy to use. In this posting I will show you simple feedback form that uses WebMail to send feedback messages.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Razor views support comments now
Sometimes we need server-side comments in ASP.NET MVC views. New version of Razor view engine supports comments in views and in this posting I will show you example of view with multiline comments.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Simple image manipulations using WebImage helper
First new helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta I blogged about was chart helper. In this posting I will introduce you another cool helper that is called WebImage and that provides you with image manipulation functions. Also this helper is made for web and instead of messing with more complex GDI+ functions you can do a lot of stuff with images very easily.
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ChartResult: Testable ASP.NET MVC 3 controller actions that return Chart
Lately I blogged about charts support in ASP.NET MVC 3 beta. This posting showed how to get chart initialized and sent to client quickly. In this posting I will show you how to use Chart with ChartResult to make our chart operations testable.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Strongly-typed views in Razor
One of the new features of Razor view engine is support for strongly-typed models. In this posting I will show you how to use strongly-typed model with Razor using simple view page.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: View start files for Razor view engine
To follow better DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle Razor views support now defaults that are applied to all views in ASP.NET MVC web application. Default can be applied by special file so you have one place where everything common is defined. In this posting I will show you how defaults work and how to use them.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Caching charts
In my previous posting about charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 I gave you basic idea about how to use them. In this posting I will show you something cool – we will optimize performance of our application by caching charts so we don’t have to generate them on every request.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Built-in support for charts
ASP.NET MVC does not have built-in support for chart control and that’s why I worked out my own solution to make ASP.NET MVC support chart control. With ASP.NET MVC 3 we will get official support for charts right out of the box. In this posting I will show you how to use charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta.
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NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta and WebMatrix Beta 2 are here!
Some great news from Microsoft dudes – NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta and WebMatrix Beta 2 are here! Seems like busy weekend is coming. Here you can find download links to new versions of products.