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Repaving your PC: the easier way
Nov 1128It"s been a while since I had to repave my laptop. I have a Windows Home Server (WHS) at home which images my PC almost daily and allows restoring it to a given point in time in less than 30 minutes. Which is awesome! And which is how I usually restore my PC into a stable state. Over the past year some hardware changes have been made of which the most noteworthy is the replacement of the existing hard drive with an SSD. A great addition, and it was easy to restore as well: swap the disks and r...
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10 articles on ASP.NET MVC Extensibility to land on Simple-Talk in the next months
Sep 1126If you are following my blog since at least a few years you know that one of my main interest is the possibility to extend ASP.NET MVC and fine tune it to fit your (and your team’s) needs. One of my most popular posts is 13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know, which I published almost 2 years and half ago (and was based on ASP.NET MVC v1). Still on the same subject I gave a two hours long presentation at Umbraco CodeGarden ‘10 Mvc Pre-Conf: ASP.NET MVC Extensibility. To try a...
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The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far
Jun 1129This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. I am starting to work on both a series of webcasts and articles and I was doing some preparatory work, collecting information on the various features and extensibility points that got into the various (official) releases of ASP.NET MVC, so I thought it could have been useful to share my little summary. There have been 3 major official r...
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Just released: MvcSiteMapProvider 3.1.0 RC
May 1127It looks like I’m really cr… ehm… releasing way too much over the past few days, but yes, here’s another one: I just posted MvcSiteMapProvider 3.1.0 RC both on CodePlex and NuGet. The easiest way to get the current bits is this one: As usual, here are the release notes: Created one NuGet package containing both .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 assemblies Significantly improved memory usage and performance Medium Trust optimizations DefaultControllerTypeResolver speed improvement Resolve author...
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How to convert an ASP.NET Web Forms web application into ASP.NET MVC 3
May 1106So, you have a traditional web forms web application and you are inspired by the new ASP.NET MVC 3 are you? Well this is definitely doable. In this how to guide I will tell you step by step exactly how you can add your new ASP.NET MVC 3 work into your existing ASP.NET web forms project. 1. Add referencesRight click on your web root project in Visual Studio (2010 in my case) and add the following references: System.Web.Routing System.Web.Abstractions System.Web.Mvc System.WebPages System.Web...
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TechDays/DevDays Netherlands and Belgium:
May 1102Last week I was in Belgium and The Netherlands speaking at TechDays. A number of those videos are online at Channel 9. It was a great time. Here's the talks I gave. Sorry there's three screenshots of my big head to follow. DevDays Keynote The first 10 minutes or so of this are in Dutch, but you can fast forward to my part if you like. I'm about 20 min right after Arie stops talking. I talk about what Microsoft has built this year, what we are doing around Open Source, and how I see things ...
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Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3
Apr 1125Say you want to apply an action filter to very action except one. How would you go about it? For example, suppose you want to apply an authorization filter to every action except the action that lets the user login. Seems like a pretty good idea, right? Currently, it takes a bit of work to do this. If you add a filter to the GlobalFilters.Filters collection, it applies to every action, which in the previous scenario would mean you already need to be authorized to login. Now that is security ...
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