Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
ASP.NET, C#, SharePoint, SQL Server and general software development topics.
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 is released!
ASP.NET MVC 2 first preview is released to public now and you can download it from Microsoft download site. Here is short overview of technical requirements and main new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1.
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Fighting against GhostDoc abusing
GhostDoc by SubMain is great tool for documenting source code. It is able to generate documentation from methods and properties names. It analyzes names and then offers appropriate description. GhostDoc is also able to use description of interface member that current property or method implements. And it takes only one simple key press.
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Modeling people and organizations: Class Party
Classes for people and organizations are often modeled incorrectly in object models. These faults cause heavy implementation problems. In this posting I will analyze some legacy models, introduce class Party as generalization of people and organizations and provide some implementation details. Information here is based on my own experience, like always.
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Visual Studio 2010: Database projects
Visual Studio 2008 introduced us database projects. These projects are also present in Visual Studio 2010. I noticed some differences already when building my photo gallery application. Let’s see how these projects work under Visual Studio 2010.
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Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# – book review
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin describes how to write software using C#. Book covers also most important design patterns and object-oriented development principles. There are very good, close to reality examples for every topic and that makes this book pretty easy to read and understand.
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Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers
Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers by Michael A. Banks is book that every blogger should read. It is not another book that is just somehow covering popular topic and makes easy money to author. I think this is serious book, really.
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ASP.NET MVC Calendar component
I am writing simple ASP.NET MVC system that I plan to publish with source code pretty soon. I needed some simple calendar component that doesn’t require ASP.NET server-side form to work. I found different JavaScript based calendars and only one pretty old calendar that was specially written for ASP.NET MVC. I updated it and here is the source and binary downloads for Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET MVC 1.0.
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NHibernate Linq 1.0 is here!
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OpenForum – new ASP.NET MVC based forum
There is new project in CodePlex called OpenForum. With source code you get also some samples you can run on your machine. OpenForum is pretty new and simple. There are no advanced forum features and currently it is suitable for smaller forums. You can change the look of OpenForum and write your own user repositories. Let’s see how OpenForum looks like.
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Packaging my gallery code
In this posting I describe how I prepare my gallery application for automated testing. As a first thing I plan to write some unit tests because some of my classes have now logic to be tested. The other thing is database that is living outside my Visual Studio solution. Let’s make now first steps in my gallery code packaging.
