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Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love"
Apr 1203This is the third post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch in the next month or two. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects I finally hit a point in the re-do of CoasterBuzz where I feel like the major pieces are in place... rewritten, ported and what not, so that I can focus now on front-end design and more interesting creative problems. I've been asked on more than one occasion (OK, just...
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ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress
Dec 1122The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create integration tests for ASP.NET MVC applications by using a combination of Selenium WebDriver and IISExpress. Integration tests are useful when you want to test an entire user story. For example, you might want to test whether a user can successfully add an item to a shopping cart. Adding an item to a shopping cart might require the execution of C# code, database code, and JavaScript code. Using an integration test, you can verify t...
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New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)
Nov 1128This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the work we are doing to add built-in support for bundling and minification into ASP.NET - which makes it easy to improve the perfor...
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Unix Fight! - Sed, Grep, Awk, Cut and Pulling Groups out of a PowerShell Regular Expression Capture
Aug 1101There's a wonderful old programmers joke I've told for years: You've got a problem, and you've decided to use regular expressions to solve it. Ok, now you've got two problems... A friend of mine was talking on a social network and said something like: That decade I spent in the Windows world stunted my growth. one teeny-tiny unix command grabbed certain values from an XML doc for me. Now, of course, I took this immediately as a personal challenge and rose up in a rit of fealous ...
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Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)
Nov 1016We recently released the latest preview release of MVC 3, including an updated version of Razor. One of the things we did in this release is simplify the hosting APIs dramatically. I did a demo of these new APIs in a pre-recorded PDC10 talk I did with Scott Hunter, which is available to stream here: http://bit.ly/ac7B0P. As I promised in that talk (and a few others before and after it ), I'm finally blogging about the sample I showed in that talk! The hosting APIs center around two classe...
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Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)
Nov 1016We recently released the latest preview release of MVC 3, including an updated version of Razor. One of the things we did in this release is simplify the hosting APIs dramatically. I did a demo of these new APIs in a pre-recorded PDC10 talk I did with Scott Hunter, which is available to stream here: http://bit.ly/ac7B0P. As I promised in that talk (and a few others before and after it ), I'm finally blogging about the sample I showed in that talk! The hosting APIs center around two classe...
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