I worked hard with my Tech Lead to build a version of the UI prototype we are showing for our new project. I talked about building it in HTML5 and CSS3 and how pleased we were with that. This week, the working hard refers to we built a whole another version with ASP.NET MVC 3 and the Entity Framework...
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I am working on a contract for a large government agency. Like all large organizations, there are IT standards to follow. In that regard, where we are, we are using WinXP/IIS 5.1 on our development machines and Win2K3/IIS 6 on servers. We build fairly complex ASP.NET applications in our group. On a new...
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News of the Day ReSharper 5.0 Goes RC! - Exciting news from the JetBrains blog that they have made a ReSharper 5.0 Release Candidate build for download. There are apparently no new features on the build but a ton of performance improvements and VS2010 integration fixes. ReSharper has always been an important...
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The big news of the week was the release of ASP.NET MVC 2. ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 2 Released - First of the announcements, points to ScottGu's announcement, also provides extensive list of resources ASP.NET MVC 2 Released - ScottGu provides the formal announcement with a list of new features ASP.NET...
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ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available - ScottGu announces the shipping of ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5. ScottGu has the list of changes. He says that they will be releasing the VS 2010 RC soon that will include ASP.NET MVC support built-in. ASP.NET MVC...
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This is mostly a "catch up" post, so there may be a few items not exactly "new" Windows Azure New training kit for Azure & Identity - The team have been heads down on PDC hands on labs for Azure (there are 13 new labs) as well as a new Channel 9 course for the Windows Azure Platform...
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PDC PDC09 - A Call to a Dream - Nikhil Kothari finds Roy Ozzie's keynote inspiring. I find this statement spot on, "For a developer, what Microsoft brings is a consistent experience developing for this broad platform with Azure on the back-end, Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight on the front...
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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - The twelfth in ScottGu's series is one a very welcome change - An Add Reference Dialog that loads fast ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Templates, Part 3: Default Templates - Brad continues his series with a post...
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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming Using Seadragon with ASP.NET MVC - K. Scott Allan shows how to use Seadragon , one of the new controls in the AJAX Control Toolkit from ASP.NET MVC. It gives you all the goodness of Deep Zoom using only JavaScript. ModelValidator in ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Part 1 - The first...
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ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 – Phil Haack announces the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work done in Preview 1 released two months ago . Some of the new cool features include Client-Side Validation...
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Software Development/ALT.NET I’m probably the only blogger that didn’t link to or comment on Joel’s latest essay, duct tape programmers . I am not going to bother commenting on it either as Joel’s writing tends to just infuriate me and make me wonder why *anyone* is paying attention...
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ASP.NET and Web Programming Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu produces his 7th in the series and the first covering a few runtime features. This particular one is pretty cool: the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without...
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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming How we do MVC - View Models VS2010 Beta 1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO Options ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls C# Community Convergence LI Connected Systems (Azure, WF, WCF, etc) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/29/09+ Passing data...
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ASP.NET/ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET MVC/jQuery Creating a Simple .NET 4.0 Web App using Visual Studio 2010 ScottGu's May 30 Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Azure Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features An Update to Introducing the Azure Services Platform Entity Framework POCO in the Entity...
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Windows Azure/Azure Service Framework (including .NET Services)/BizTalk David Pallmann has released 2.1 of Azure Storage Explorer with the new feature of modifying what is in storage including create or delete blob containers, blob items, queues, queue messages, tables, and table items. Microsoft has...
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Windows 7 Of course, the big news is the availability today of Windows 7 on MSDN and TechNet. The bad news is that the MSDN servers are so overloaded, no one can even log into subscriptions ASP.NET MVC Chad Meyers summarizes the discussion so far and links to others in his post To MVC or to WinForms...
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As many of you know, my path through NGWS/.NET since 1999 has taken a different path than many. While many (Most?) in the .NET community have focused on ASP.NET and Web Development, I have been a "back-end" guy. Despite dabbling in what was then ASP+ in 1999, and working extensively with ASP...
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.NET Services/CSD/WCF/Oslo .NET Services March 2009 CTP Is Released - There are many exciting improvements in cross-platform interoperability, Services Bus and Workflow Service capabilities and the developer experience. Speaking of said release, Clemens has a number of posts on the Service Bus portion...
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Oslo/CSD/.NET Services Awesome! My friend Kris Horrocks, who has been a huge part of other CSD efforts like BizTalk and WCF, and is now part of Oslo, is now blogging! Via Chis Sells, also on the Oslo team, news that nice folks over at InfoQ have been building up some Oslo content and reporting on Oslo...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Dave Pallmann's Azure Application Monitor is now on CodePlex Windows Azure Mix '09 Videos Cloud Computing Links March 25, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+ Christian Weyers slides and app from DevWeek 2009: Azure Services Platform Mix '09/ASP.NET...
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Lots of catching up to do. Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Windows Azure Tools and SDK March 2009 CTP Released David Chappell has a new whitepaper on Introducing Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC/AJAX ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Live! Phill Haack's post ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman, among other authors of their upcoming ASP.NET MVC book, announce the inclusion of ScottGu as an author on the book, the first 185 pages of the book as a free PDF download licensed as Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives . They also announce releasing the NerdDinner...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Links March 10, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/9/2009+ Agile/Mocks/Software Design/Software Development Tools Moq 3.0 RTM!!! Scott Ambler shares the the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship which extends the Agile Manifesto . Framework...
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A milestone of sorts today with #300!! Windows Azure/Cloud Computing What is the "Cloud?" - Steve defines what the cloud means for him and how it impacts the "Above the Cloud" blog. Steve also spends some time fleshing out the differences between the Live Mesh Beta, Live Mesh CTP...
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Almost #300 after all these years! Lots of ASP.NET MVC activity after the release yesterday of RC2. ASP.NET MVC How to Learn ASP.NET MVC from Keyvan Nayyeri covers some of the key principles and concepts ASP.NET MVC Domain-Driven Design is a new series and uses the following tools and libraries: NHibernate...
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ASP.NET MVC Phil Haacked announces that the Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC available for download. Stephen Walter releases Chapter 6 - Understanding HTML Helpers from his MVC book Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Avanade: 2009 Global Survey of Cloud Computing Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts...
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Dublin/WCF/Windows Azure (Red Dog) Jesus Rodriguez on Extending Dublin's Forwarding Service with a custom WCF message filter Mary Jo Foley - Red Dog: Ray Ozzie Casts a Long Shadow Earlier in the week, she landed an (email) interview with one of my personal heros: Dave Cutler ASP.NET MVC Steven continues...
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This edition comes from near Washington DC, where Sue and I, proud parents of son Jonathan have brought him down for the People to People World Leadership Forum for students that his school recomended him for. He gets to spend the week in Washington DC! Windows Azure David Pallmann with Introduction...
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ASP.NET MVC Chapter 1 of Steven Walter's upcoming book ASP.NET MVC Unleashed, in rough draft, is available Shawn continues with Building Agiltrain: Part 3 Data Validation Silverlight Rocky - Why Silverlight is the Future WCF Message Framing, Part 7...
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Just came back from Jonathan's Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. The original car was so light (2.6 ounces instead of 5) that we had to gle so much metal to it and he won an original award for "Most Armor Plated" car ASP.NET MVC Not even a day old and there is a refresh for the ASP.NET MVC RC ASP.NET...
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Just got back from a 10 day vacation with my family from lovely LA. We went to Universal and then spent 2 and 1/2 days at Disneyland, which Heather and Jonathan loved. I also got to spent some quality time with my very good friend Jon Flanders . ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC is out on CodePlex...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See Brad...
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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client Product...
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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras)...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras). ScottGu also...
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In addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding, and over 20 controls in the box. To better capture the scope of the feature set for the next version of Silverlight Microsoft...
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In addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding, and over 20 controls in the box. To better capture the scope of the feature set for the next version of Silverlight Microsoft...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a huge fan and...
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