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  • RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings

    RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings

    Sep 11
    24

    My wife is in the Kingdom of Swaziland this evening. If she was a developer over there and wanted to use Web Platform Installer to get Visual Studio or some large download she would have to patiently bring the bits down over 3G. If she was very well off, she might have ASDL with a maximum speed of 512kbps down, most likely with a cap. I've talked about limited connectivity in African countries and other nations (*cough* New Zealand *cough*) before on this blog and it's no fun. I've told the w...

  • Adding MVC dependencies to a project for deployment

    Adding MVC dependencies to a project for deployment

    Jun 11
    13

    Deployment of new web applications has been a bit annoying since the birth of ASP.NET MVC. Production servers with .NET 4 or 3.5 installed will still be missing key assemblies such as System.Web.Mvc.dll. This will cause errors such as "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies" and "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf38...

  • BDD web application testing using easyB and Sahi

    BDD web application testing using easyB and Sahi

    Nov 10
    08

    I already talked about the way we are testing our web application at Jobping in the following posts “ASP.NET MVC 2, MSpec and Watin ” and ”Automated functional tests using Watin and MSpec”. The other day I landed on the DZone page “Automated Browser Testing: What's in Your Toolkit?” In the list of around 10 tools I knew some of them but there were 3 I didn’t knew. So I decided to go on and read about those 3. In this list there were Sahi which got me with those three sentences: Powerful R...

  • Using Powershell to make your NuPack Packages – more Awesome

    Using Powershell to make your NuPack Packages – more Awesome

    Oct 10
    28

    Yeah.. Its a cheesy title but what can I say. You can file this under “why nupack is not just for open source”. We are using Nupack to distributed dependencies libraries and for the UI Framework where I work (Dell). My team is responsible for the UI Framework which builds on top of MVC2 and while we try to be unobtrusive, there are a few spots where the easiest form of integration caused us some pain as far as walking teams through setting up our framework. That aside, I think this technique i...

  • Hosting Your Own Local and Remote NuPack Feeds

    Hosting Your Own Local and Remote NuPack Feeds

    Oct 10
    21

    Note: Everything I write here is based on a very early pre-release version of NuPack and is subject to change. A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post introducing the first preview, CTP 1, of NuPack Package Manager. It’s an open source (we welcome contributions!) developer focused package manager meant to make it easy to discover and make use of third party dependencies as well as keep them up to date. As of CTP 1, NuPack by default queries an online ATOM feed temporarily located at http://go....

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