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It happens to all of us, unfortunately the reason you are reading this is probably because it is happening to you now.
Let's say that your boss comes in one morning and asks you to work in a project, then he mentions you need to get it from Visual SourceSafe (VSS)... you think is a joke until you noticed that your boss has that "serious" look in his face. F*ck. Or maybe you receive the project in a compressed file and when you try to open it, you realize this project was under Visual Source...
This might be something you already know, however I just found out about it and I am writing it down to share it with you and to help myself find it in case I forget about it which will probably happen.
In the past, when working with Visual Studio projects downloaded from the web, or projects that are shared with other developers, every once in a while I ran into the issue of not being able to load the project in Visual Studio because either the path is wrong, or if it is a web project, maybe the project is setup...
Yes, it has been released, this is the new, improved, cool, updated and so much waited for version of asp.net MVC.
asp.net MVC 2 is out which was officially confirmed by Scott Gu yesterday on his blog.
I wrote a post about some of the features included in the release candidate 2 (RC2) just a few weeks ago. This new and final asp.net MVC 2 has some cool new features such as:
What's New
Templated Helpers that allow you to specify extra View Data. Basically, this release now includes new overloads for the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods, the overloads contain...
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...
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...
There are many ways and venues to learn and build your professional software development skills. Not all of these are free or as good as they appear to be. If you are a beginner, or want to brush up your skills I recommend you take a look at ramp up.
What is it?
Ramp up is a free, online, community-based learning program that helps you build professional software development skills. The ramp up program was created by Microsoft, and all of its content is created by well known people, who are experts in the different Microsoft technologies. These experts include, well known...
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...