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Joe Stagner

How I got started in programming.

Well, Dave Ward tagged me in Michael Eaton’s software development meme that’s been going around. As far as blog-chain-letters go, this is a great one. It’s interesting to see how many diverse backgrounds lead us in the same direction. How old were you...

Brad Abrams

WPF Composite Application Guidance is Live

A very common pattern for business focused applications is the "Composite Application Pattern".   Over the last few months our P&P team has been working with industry leaders and the product teams in Microsoft to develop an sample...

Ton Christian - ASP.NET Debugging

Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here shell extension

This has to be one of the coolest shell extensions that I have seen yet.  It is right up there with the Command Prompt Here one. This adds a addition to the right-click menu for a folder for “ASP.NET Web Server Here”. All the information,...

Scott Hanselman

The Weekly Source Code 30 - VB.NET with XML Literals as a View En...

I was literally in the middle of writing the post when I saw a message from Andrew Davey about how he had implemented the same idea ! Of course, his is way better, so I got to code via subtraction. That means subtracting out the crap I had written in a...

Stephen Walther

ASP.NET MVC Tip #13 – Unit Test Your Custom Routes

In this tip, I demonstrate how you can create unit tests for the routes in your ASP.NET MVC applications. I show how to test whether a URL is being mapped to the right controller, controller action, and action parameters. If you are being virtuous...

Bertrand Le Roy

ASP.NET Ajax roadmap published

We just published our roadmap for ASP.NET Ajax . In this document we describe some of the proposed features that we are considering investing in future releases of ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Web Developer, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. We really...

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HttpModule For Timing Requests

Yesterday, I wrote a quick and dirty ASP.NET HttpModule for displaying the time that a request takes to process. Note that by turning on trace output for a page , you can get timing information for that page. But as far as I understand, and I need to...

Nikhil Kothari

Search for Rich Internet Applications

Thoughts on search for RIAs, along with pointers to my latest slides as well as MIX session on ensuring indexability (esp. for Silverlight and Ajax apps)...

Ton Christian - ASP.NET Debugging

SOS: Always use the correct debugger

I cannot stress this enough.  It is very important that you use the same architecture for the debugger as the process that you are trying to troubleshoot. Wrong version when capturing a dump If you use a 64-bit debugger to capture a dump of...

Microsoft Web Development Tools Team

Silverlight Tips of the Day

Interested in learning something new about Silverlight almost every day? I will be posting “Tips of the Day” for Silverlight on my blog at http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx . For example, over the past few days, I have added the following...

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