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Extending LINQ - Specifying a Property in the Distinct Function 11 Mar 2009 | 11:14 pm
The "Distinct" function in LINQ is definitely one of the top 10 most used functions, but it's probably one of the top 10 most incomplete as well. This article will show how to extend the IEnumerable i...
Creating a Custom View Engine in ASP.NET MVC 28 Nov 2008 | 02:09 am
ASP.NET is an awesome web development platform that many developers wouldn't ever want to part with. However, if given the option, there are definitely parts of the package that you may want to swap o...
Silverlight DataBinding Basics 23 Nov 2008 | 03:39 pm
One of the most common uses of "Rich Interactive [web] Applications" is that of manipulating data. Silverlight enables developers to build powerful data-bound applications relatively easily. This arti...
MVC AJAX Sites That Gracefully Degrade 22 Oct 2008 | 04:08 pm
As AJAX-enabled web sites continue to grow in popularity, the development community continues to try to solve the common problems of using AJAX. One big concern that used to require a lot of work is t...
Duplex WCF Services Hosted in IIS Using Net.Tcp 12 Oct 2008 | 01:18 pm
In the previous article (Client Server Programming with WCF), we saw how easy it was to create a client/server architecture with our server hosted in a Windows application (whether a console app, win-...
Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC - Part 2 3 Oct 2008 | 12:44 am
The previous article on ModelBinders gave a basic introduction, showed a few code samples, and showed a creative usage of ModelBinders. However, some questions arose, some claims were challenged (part...
Test Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC 17 Sep 2008 | 02:05 pm
One of the biggest benefits of MVC is it's direct link to Test Driven Development. Because of some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 (ModelBinders in particular), testing your Action method...
Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC 30 Aug 2008 | 02:40 am
Hot off the presses, and new to ASP.NET MVC (Preview 5) is an awesome capability that (in my opinion) revolutionizes the way we design web applications. This feature is being touted (by me) as "the Vi...
Logging with ASP.NET MVC Action Filters 20 Aug 2008 | 01:23 pm
Logging is a common Cross-Cutting Concern that many ASP.NET developers solve in the Global.asax file. Because MVC is built on top of ASP.NET you *could* tap into the same solution, but there is a bett...
Building Custom ASP.NET MVC Controls 2 Aug 2008 | 11:31 am
Most .NET web developers have built at least one custom control (or user control) in their time. But MVC is a completely different beast. There's no ViewState, Page Life-Cycle, no code behind (not the...
