Archive for the ‘.NET’ Category
Outputting partial elements with ASP.NET Razor
The new ASP.NET MVC 3 also ships with a totally new option for a view engine, Razor. I’ve now been using Razor in a project for couple of months, and yeah, it’s good – but not entirely without problems. Here I’ll cover one of them. Imagine a scenario where you’re outputting something that may or [...]
November 17, 2010
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Tags: ASP.NET MVC, Razor · Posted in: .NET, Web
Keeping ASP.NET MVC action method argument names separate from the query
ASP.NET MVC does a wonderful job of automatically routing and binding your HTTP request data to the action method. But what if you don’t want to use the same argument names in your routes (for example, query strings) and your methods? There are a few typical scenarios where you might encounter this. First, if you’re [...]
November 15, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · 4 Comments
Tags: ASP.NET MVC · Posted in: .NET, Web
New guidance: No more Silverlight for the web?
Microsoft sparked quite a controversy when Bob Muglia stated in an ZDnet interview that their “Strategy had changed” regarding Silverlight’s position, and HTML5 was the future way to go. In this post, I look at the whole debacle’s effect on future technology recommendations. While this has now been explained by Bob Muglia, Steve Ballmer and [...]
November 5, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · 3 Comments
Tags: HTML5, Silverlight · Posted in: .NET, Web
PDC10 keynote summary
PDC10 conference kicked off today in Seattle – but really, Microsoft wanted to define the conference as global, having hundreds of local streamwatching events around the world. Unfortunately, as many have suspected, running PDCs every year tends to wear out some of the glamour around them. Even with all the Microsoft’s development resources, they have [...]
October 28, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · No Comments
Tags: AppFabric, Azure, Dallas, DataMarket, IE, PDC10, Windows Phone · Posted in: .NET, Cloud, Web
Twitter and OAuth in desktop applications
If you’re into Twitter API programming, you probably know that the end of basic authentication is here. This post delves into the question of using the OAuth authentication mechanism in desktop applications. If you know the subject, this post will give you some practical advice for C# application development. If you don’t, it’ll act as [...]
September 2, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · 2 Comments
Tags: OAuth, Twitter · Posted in: .NET, Web
“Quadrant” scrapped, “M” refocused – Oslo soon under water?
Mary-Jo reports that her sources tell Quadrant is going to get scrapped and the M language refocused. What’s up with the previously massive Oslo codename? Both parts were key to Oslo – in fact, the most visible parts left of the original vision that once seemed to span the data modeling needs of the entire [...]
August 6, 2010
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Tags: Oslo, SQL Server · Posted in: .NET
Live Mesh dying soon – some saved by Live Sync, some not
The fact that Microsoft had Live Mesh, Live Sync and SkyDrive offerings was always confusing. Things are getting a turn for the clearer, as the Live Mesh brand gets nixed and Live Sync gains much of what Mesh used to be. But it’s not a change without losses. When installing the Live Wave 4 package, [...]
June 14, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · One Comment
Tags: Live Mesh, Live Sync · Posted in: .NET, General
Finnish .NET Developer User Group SANKO founded
Finland has had a distinctive lack of active, developer-oriented user groups. We want to fix this by coming up with a new one, called SANKO (Suomen Aktiivisten .NET-kehittäjien Kerho). Right now, SANKO operates without a formal basis – instead of bothering with a registered association and whatnot, we want to get down to the business. [...]
May 18, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · One Comment
Tags: SANKO · Posted in: .NET
A few fun statistics on Visual Studio 2010 source code
In episode 543 of .NET Rocks, Phil Haack revealed a few interesting tidbits about Visual Studio 2010: The codebase consists of 1.5 million files. Don’t know about lines of code, but even at a reasonable 100 lines of code per file, we’d be talking about a whopping 150 million LOC. Those 1.5 million files have [...]
May 7, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · 7 Comments
Tags: Visual Studio · Posted in: .NET
Silverlight 3 debugging error in Visual Studio 2010
“Unable to start debugging. The application uses a version of Silverlight that is not supported by the debugger.” Yeah, got that one. It’s actually a pretty clear error message once you understand a few things. First, debugging Silverlight applications requires the Developer Runtime version of Silverlight. If Visual Studio installs Silverlight for you, you will [...]
May 4, 2010
· Jouni Heikniemi · One Comment
Tags: debugging, Silverlight · Posted in: .NET