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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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7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version)
Sep 1112In the previous years “n books for a .NET Summer reading list” used to be the title of the book list post. Now, in the last of my 4 posts with books suggestions I am back to the original title. In my introductory post I said I would have listed only a few web development on .NET books. In fact there are only 2. Web Development on .NET Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 While Professional ASP.NET MVC v2 was mainly an update of the original professional MVC1 book, the third remake, due to the nature o...
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Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC
May 1116We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site. Created by Pluralsight (a great .NET training company), these video courses are available free of charge and provide a great way to learn (or brush-up your knowledge of) ASP.NET Web Forms 4 and ASP.NET MVC 3. Each course is taught by a single trainer, and provides a nice end-to-end curriculum (from basic concepts to working with the new Entity Framework “code first” model to securit...
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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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Being Constructive
Mar 1119I want to like Entity Framework. I did a whole screencast series on the thing and to be honest, I grew to like it. It’s very capable and if you play along with it’s rules can save you a lot of work. This post isn’t about EF. It’s about an MSDN post that was put up that I just linked to - and I thought about it afterward and … well I could probably be a bit more constructive. It’s late, I’ve had a beer or 2, and I was a bit quick to hit publish. The thing that pushed me over a bit was this ...
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Being Constructive
Mar 1119I want to like Entity Framework. I did a whole screencast series on the thing and to be honest, I grew to like it. It’s very capable and if you play along with it’s rules can save you a lot of work. This post isn’t about EF. It’s about an MSDN post that was put up that I just linked to - and I thought about it afterward and … well I could probably be a bit more constructive. It’s late, I’ve had a beer or 2, and I was a bit quick to hit publish. The thing that pushed me over a bit was this ...
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Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features
Mar 1110A few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch. The feedback from the people that had a chance to watch it was really fantastic. We also received feedback from people who really wanted to watch it – but unfortunately weren’t able to within the 48 hour window. The good news is that we’ve worked with Pluralsight to make the course available for free again until March 18th. You can wa...
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Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools
Jan 1114Lots of cool stuff was released yesterday that I mentioned in the post ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The Microsoft January Web Release in Context. The Web Platform Tools Content Team has been working hard on new content and tutorials to get you up to date on all this fun new stuff. Here's a link rollup from Wade's documentation team. Congratulations to Mike Pope, Tim Teebken, Rick Anderson, Tim Ammann, Keith Newman, Erik Reitan and Tom Dykstra on a gre...
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Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again!
Jan 1114Today was a great day to be a .NET developer. I felt like a five year old on Christmas morning. I had that feeling you get when you just finished opening all your gifts and you are not sure what you want to play with first. Just in case you are living under a rock, here is a quick summary of what I found under the Christmas tree today. MVC 3 – Its Finally Here Today MVC3 with Razor was released. This means that we can finally avoid paying the angle bracket tax. The new razor syntax will mak...
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Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications
Dec 1028Microsoft’s new Razor HTML Rendering Engine that is currently shipping with ASP.NET MVC previews can be used outside of ASP.NET. Razor is an alternative view engine that can be used instead of the ASP.NET Page engine that currently works with ASP.NET WebForms and MVC. It provides a simpler and more readable markup syntax and is much more light weight in terms of functionality than the full blown WebForms Page engine, focusing only on features that are more along the lines of a pure view engine...
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