Contents tagged with .NET
NCrunch
A few months ago I was introduced by a colleague to a fantastic Visual Studio extension called NCrunch, and in a single stroke it has managed to almost completely change the way that I write, develop … more
Calling MVC Areas From WebForm Pages
I'm currently working on a project that involves moving a large classic ASP.NET WebForms application to ASP.NET MVC3; rather than completing re-implementing the system as MVC3 in one large hit, we're … more
Robots Failing In Orchard
I've been getting to grips with the excellent ASP.Net Orchard, and have fully migrated my old blog over to this platform over the last couple of weeks - the issue that I had with the application … more
Validating XML Documents In PowerShell
I came across a problem the other day where a process that relied on several external XML documents was failing due to a combination of factors:
The document had been hand-edited
The document … more
Migrating To Orchard
It’s time to jump ship again and move to a new Blog system – this time I’ve settled on Orchard, a .NET CMS system with (amongst other things) a full-featured blogging engine. … more
ASP.NET MVC 1.0
Are Microsoft really starting to turn a page when it comes to Open Source? Let’s hope so; they’ve just released the source code to the (excellent) ASP.NET MVC framework under the OSI-approved MS-PL … more
Fake Java enums using C# extension methods
One of the nice features introduced into Java 1.5 that is missing in C# is enum types. In C#, enums are nothing more than a defined set of values with labels, whereas in Java enums can contain … more
Opening .NET
Scott Guthrie's blog entry "Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries" details how Microsoft are finally going to allow access to the .NET framework source code without having to … more
Testing Times Concluded
I shouldn't have got myself so wound up about the 70-536 exam I did this morning. The 'real world' questions were not nearly as bad as the Training Kit had me expecting, and there certainly weren't … more
Testing Times
I'm sitting the 70-536 (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Application Development Foundation) exam tomorrow, and I sincerely hope that it's of a higher quality than the learning materials Microsoft … more