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  • 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version)

    7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version)

    Sep 11
    12

    In 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...

  • Updated Release: Orchard 1.1 (Apr 11, 2011)

    Updated Release: Orchard 1.1 (Apr 11, 2011)

    Apr 11
    12

    Build: 1.1.30Published: 4/11/2010 How to Install Orchard To install Orchard using Web PI, follow these instructions: http://www.orchardproject.net/docs/Installing-Orchard.ashx. Web PI will detect your hardware environment and install the application.Alternatively, to install the release manually, download the Orchard.Web.1.1.30.zip file.http://orchardproject.net/docs/Manually-installing-Orchard-zip-file.ashxThe zip contents are pre-built and ready-to-run. Simply extract the contents of the Orc...

  • Lessons from rewriting POP Forums for MVC, open source-like

    Lessons from rewriting POP Forums for MVC, open source-like

    Mar 11
    10

    It has been a ton of work, interrupted over the last two years by unemployment, moving, a baby, failing to sell houses and other life events, but it's really exciting to see POP Forums v9 coming together. I'm not even sure when I decided to really commit to it as an open source project, but working on the same team as the CodePlex folks probably had something to do with it. Moving along the roadmap I set for myself, the app is now running on a quasi-production site... we launched MouseZoom las...

  • Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs

    Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs

    Feb 11
    03

    Over a decade ago, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web instructed the world know that cool URIs don’t change with what appears to be a poem, but it doesn’t rhyme and it’s not haiku. What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don't change: people change them. In a related article, URL as UI, usability expert Jakob Nielsen lists the following criteria for a usable site: a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell...

  • Microsoft and jQuery

    Microsoft and jQuery

    Oct 10
    28

    The jQuery JavaScript library has been steadily getting more popular and with recent developments from Microsoft, jQuery is also getting ever more exposure on the ASP.NET platform including now directly from Microsoft. jQuery is a light weight, open source DOM manipulation library for JavaScript that has changed how many developers think about JavaScript. You can download it and find more information on jQuery on www.jquery.com. For me jQuery has had a huge impact on how I develop Web applic...

  • NuPack– .Net Package Management… and much, much, more

    NuPack– .Net Package Management… and much, much, more

    Oct 10
    03

    Yeah.. so all the Ruby and Java guys are saying.. Its about time .Net got a package management system. There were a few growing in the open source space, but none have really gained any traction. Nu seemed to be getting going, I saw it earlier on at Pablos Fiesta here in Austin at the beginning of the year. I would pull the source down and it seemed to be going, but slowly. It has picked up some traction over the summer. But now that they guys have gotten together with Microsoft to make NuPack...

  • At the Umbraco CodeGarden: Slides and Demos of my MVC-Preconf talks

    At the Umbraco CodeGarden: Slides and Demos of my MVC-Preconf talks

    Jun 10
    24

    I'm here in Copenhagen at the 6th Umbraco CodeGarden "festival" and currently chilling in the nice garden while resting between the talks of the fist day. First of all I want to say "THANK YOU!!" to Niels Hartvig for inviting me to talk to the event, and for setting up what I think is the best conference I attended ever. No, no... I'm not just sucking up... this event is really great: great food, great community, great amusements, a great channel tour and side activities... as they said at t...

  • MVC 2 Editor Template for Radio Buttons

    MVC 2 Editor Template for Radio Buttons

    May 10
    26

    A while back I blogged about how to create an HTML Helper to produce a radio button list.  In that post, my HTML helper was “wrapping” the FluentHtml library from MvcContrib to produce the following html output (given an IEnumerable list containing the items “Foo” and “Bar”): 1: <div> 2: <input id="Name_Foo" name="Name" type="radio" value="Foo" /><label for="Name_Foo" id="Name_Foo_Label">Foo</label> 3: <input id="Name_Bar" name="Name" type="radio" value="Bar" /><label for="Name_Ba...

  • Using jQuery UI Tabs with ASP.Net MVC and Ajax Form Submit

    Using jQuery UI Tabs with ASP.Net MVC and Ajax Form Submit

    May 10
    19

    Using jQuery UI Dialog with ASP.Net and AJAX Update Panel is the most popular post in my blog. While these dialog boxes are ok, I have come to hate them. Primarily because of their over use. And the one thing I hate most about them is they take the control away from the user and forces the user to attend to the dialog box before proceeding. While this may be appropriate in certain situations, I have seen far too much abuse of the dialog boxes. And that is the reason I like jQuery UI Tabs. It doe...

  • What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements

    What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements

    May 10
    04

    In the last installment I talked about the core changes in the ASP.NET runtime that I’ve been taking advantage of. In this column, I’ll cover the changes to the Web Forms engine and some of the cool improvements in Visual Studio that make Web and general development easier. WebForms The WebForms engine is the area that has received most significant changes in ASP.NET 4.0. Probably the most widely anticipated features are related to managing page client ids and of ViewState on WebForm page...