Tonight microsoft has officially pushed ASP.NET MVC to Beta status.
Over the next few days I’ll be converting my CRM codebase to the new beta.
I’ll keep everyone posted on what has changed.
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Microsoft pushed MVC to Beta!
October 15th, 2008
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Apple…Stop shooting yourself in the face!
September 30th, 2008
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“The shortest straw has been pulled for you”
Just when you thought Apple couldn’t mismanage it’s App Store any more, they smother the release of a book educating developers on how to use their SDK.
You can’t make it up…
Developers are jumping ship by the hundreds to the new open Android platform that promises to give them [...]
New Blog Theme!
June 14th, 2008
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I’ve decided to update WordPress and also change themes.
WOOHOO! Visual Studio 2008 is now being downloaded.
November 20th, 2007
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MSDN Released Visual Studio 2008 RTM to all MSDN Subscribers. I’m downloading the 3.1GB iso right now.
I’ll give a mini-review after i’ve had time to play with it over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Output parameters and dynamic sql
November 13th, 2007
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I came across something new for the first time today. Dynamic SQL with output parameters.
Here is how you do it in MSSQL.
DECLARE @totals INT
EXEC sp_executesql N’SELECT @totalCount = count(*) from sysobjects’, N’@totalCount INT OUTPUT’, @totals OUTPUT
print ‘Totals: ‘ + convert(varchar,@totals)
Visual Studio 2008 will be released in November.
November 8th, 2007
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Well you know you are an extreme geek when you are excited for a new release of an IDE.
I’m really looking forward to the integrated AJAX tools and the built in MVC framework.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2202822/microsoft-sets-date-fro-visual
ASP.NET 2.0 Hot Tips and Tricks
April 22nd, 2007
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Dan Wahlin has posted an awesome group of ASP.NET Tips and Tricks that were introduced with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework. It seems like every month I find another hidden gem in Microsoft’s Framework.
1. Maintain the position of the scrollbar on postbacks: In ASP.NET 1.1 it was a pain to maintain the position of the scrollbar [...]
Seven Ways to Make Money From Your CRM
February 21st, 2007
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Can a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system really create profits for a company? A lot of people don’t think so – over the years the media has reported quite a few companies (both big and small) that have tossed a significant amount of dollars down the drain on these kind of systems. But there have [...]
Tutorial on NAnt: How to install and configure
February 15th, 2007
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NAnt is a free .NET build tool based on Ant (a build tool for Java). NAnt, like Ant, is similar to Make in that it is used to generate output from your source files. But where Ant is Java-centric, NAnt is .NET-centric. NAnt has built-in support for compiling C#, VB.NET, and J# files and can [...]
Well I took my first Transcender test today…
February 14th, 2007
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First, I will give an overview of what the test was like and then I’ll give you my review of it.
The test was given to me to try and gauge my skills as a .NET Web Developer. The test was 35 questions and it took around 30 minutes to complete. It was the c# web [...]
