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Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, C#, Entity Fraemwork | No Comments »

Recently I have been working on an MVC site using the Entity Framework.  I have some related entities in my EF model, as show below in the form of "Reader" and "Category", and the relationship between them, i.e. many to many. When ...

ASP.NET MVC – Passing ViewData to a MasterPage

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, C# | No Comments »

If like me you are using ASP.NET MVC for some of your web applications these days and use MasterPages within them, then you may have come accross the need to pass ViewData to the MasterPage.  For example, this might be ...

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 Download Available

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Betas, C#, Entity Framework, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | 1 Comment »

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements ...

Silverlight Coming to Mobile

Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Silverlight, Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Ok, so this is not exactly a surprise to many people, but as posted on the Expression team blog, the Silverlight team have announced that Silverlight will be integrated into Windows Mobile 7, the reboot of the mobile OS from ...

Scott Guthrie – Manchester – September 2009 – ASP.Net 4.0, MVC, Silverlight 3, VS 2010

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Silverlight, microsoft | 2 Comments »

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what's new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, ...

Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Available!

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, visual studio | No Comments »

Ok, this one completely slipped by me! A while back I told you that JetBrains had a page on their web site stating that a preview of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010 was on its way and that we would see it ...

Entity Framework v2 Articles

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Entity Framework, ado.net, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | No Comments »

There has been a lot of information being passed around recently about the changes being introduced in the second major release of Microsoft's Entity Framework, so I thought it might be a good idea to get a list of articles ...

Windows 7 Upgrade Corrupts / Removes .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 Betas

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, microsoft, visual studio | 1 Comment »

The other day I performed an upgrade of Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM using the workaround mentioned here, as this is not an option straight out of the box. I think I may have just stumbled across one of ...

BOOK REVIEW: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.NET (Wrox)

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Book Reviews, C# | 1 Comment »

Title: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.Net Publisher: Wrox Author: Danijel Arsenovski Even the most experienced developers can sometimes be found sat staring at their monitor trying to decide which way to implement a solution. Asking a fellow developer for input will probably ...

Expression Web 3 Released

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Expression Web, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, web design | 2 Comments »

Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst ...