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The asp.net MVC 2 RC 2 was made available on February 4, 2010, you can download it here.
This new release has some cool features such as the following:
Areas:
The Areas were first introduced with the MVC 2 Preview 1 release. However, I've decided to include some information about areas since the ASP.NET team has made some changes to this feature since its release.
Areas allow developers to partition large projects into smaller more manageable smaller units that are referenced to as areas. Each area has the same structure as an asp.net MVC project, and within an application you can have...
Creating our applications for our users and not us, this is nothing new and it seems logical right? as a software developer we create applications for our users, to help them resolve some sort of issue or facilitate some manual process, etc. This is what software developers do. And in many cases we just open our SDK of preference and start creating this much needed applications using only our own instincts and preferences.
If it was just this easy, we'll all be making a fortune selling these much needed applications to a lot of businesses out there. The need for software...
A few days ago my main machine running Windows XP died on me. Thankfully I bought a small HP box with Windows Home Server on it to backup all my home computers and also to use as a media server. I am glad I did this.
I decided to get the Windows Home Server because I was afraid I didn't have any real backup solution for all of my computers at home. There are 3 workstations, all running Windows XP, a MAC workstation and three laptops running Windows Vista, Windows XP and one is a MAC.
Up until a few months ago...
Lately I have been trying to use ASP.NET MVC on new web projects. One main reason is just to get familiar with it and understand it as I understand ASP.NET web forms. Below, is a very simple tutorial that walks you through the necessary steps to create an ASP.NET MVC application with Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) capabilities. This sample application also uses Linq to SQL and takes full advantage of data scaffolding.
First, if you haven't already, you need to download and install MVC 1.0, you can do this here or better yet, you can download it using the...
Last Tuesday, Scott Guthrie announced in his blog the new Microsoft AJAX content delivery network (CDN), this is great news to all of us using AJAX in our commercial and non-commercial applications.
What is it?
First of all, a CDN is a Content Delivery Network which is composed of multiple servers strategically placed across the globe. In the case of the Microsoft AJAX CDN servers, the jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX libraries are cached across multiple web-sites around the world and they are available to you now. If your website loads these AJAX libraries from the Microsoft AJAX CDN servers, your AJAX enabled...
I have been working in simpleProject for a few months now, simpleProject is going to be a very simple project management website that solo entrepreneurs and small businesses can use to keep track of their personal and professional projects.
If you are interested and want to sign up to help test the beta version, please fill out the form below. Your help is appreciated.
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I want to share the following with you; I try to attend the .Net user group meetings as much as I can. I find these free get-togethers really useful for developers of all levels… and I love the free pizza too!
I live in Austin, TX so the one I attend to is the Austin .Net user's group (adnug.org). I guess I am a lucky guy, since 2008 I have won twice a free subscription/license to Infragistic's NetAdvantage suite valued at about $1,500.00. Needless to say, I have enjoyed these "free" controls and I am very happy with it.
Now,...
Looking at Visual Studio 10 improvements, I found one that I really like and I am sure a lot of you will find this very cool as well. Visual Studio 10 now supports multiple monitor setups, yes! Now you can actually move the designer, editor, tools, etc to any monitor in your system. Many of us are already familiar with multi-monitor systems, however, this is different. You can now have your code in one of the monitors and then the designer in a different monitor… the use of screen real-estate can be highly improved with this feature, and hopefully our...
As I was listening to some Scott Hanselman’s podcast with Richard Campbell, they mentioned Microsoft’s Response Point phone system. Yes, it seems that I have been under a rock since I really didn’t know anything about Response Point until last night. Response Point is a phone system which includes all the software and hardware you need in a box. This phone system was created by Microsoft to offer small businesses a solution of a phone system that is easy to use at prices very competitive compared to those of bigger phone solution businesses.
Response Point is targeted to small businesses with...
For the past 5 months I have been working in creating my own micro ISV Company and at the same time doing work as a consultant to help with the cash flow. During these months, I have been able to get discounts and even free licenses for software development tools from other software vendors that are willing to help out “solo” start-ups like myself.
I want to create a micro ISV and start with a very simple but usable application that will help self-employed people and micro businesses manage their contacts and tasks better. There are many tools out there that...
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