Keynote Address working title: Journey to DDD
Entity Framework in Core Business Applications and Domain-Driven Design Approaches See the mini-DDD track in New Orleans & Madrid	Vote for  Entity Framework in Core Business Applications Automated Testing for Fraidy Cats Like Me

 

Using OData in apps is so easy thanks to the RESTful API that lets us use HTTP directly & JSON results. But OData works directly against a data model with a limited set of operations and capabilities. You can do some customization but at some point you get beyond the point of data services. So then...

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Last year at the fall 2008 DevConnections conference, I was very happy to hear Scott Guthrie providing a clear message about web forms vs. MVC in ASP.NET 4.0. Now, I am seeing something that is new for MSDN Documentation, not only similar clarity but actual guidance on when Microsoft suggests to use...

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Even though I’m a much bigger fan of distributed apps than using UI bound data binding, it’s still important for me to know how these various tools work – especially since I need to write about them in my updated E.F. book. ;) I did not play much with Dynamic Data controls in VS2008...

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I wasted most of my afternoon trying to fix a bizarre error that appeared after I finally moved thedatafarm.com (the main applicaiton) from 1.1 to 2.0. There was a compiler error telling me that my ascx file names/references were ambiguous. The runtime error was "[controlname]_ascx is ambiguous in the...

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Bill Burrows has created a series of videos on MVC and is now working on a new series based on Scott Guthrie's MVC tutorial posts (which are all in C#) but using VB instead. I was surprised to find a pointer to my recent MVC post as a "rare example" of MVC with VB (and it's only one little post so I...

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Remember how I recommended subscribing to the WebDevTools blog only a few weeks ago? (grin) Well, it continues to pay off! Vishal Joshi has written a blog post about the tools for building MVC that will be previewed at MIX. Usually these goodies are shown first at MIX and then in blog posts. Tooling...

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I am, like to-oh-tally suscribed to the WebDevTools blog, dude! Here's why [A New DevLife post]

I seem to frequently point people to the technical story of MySpace as they went through the painful evolution that eventually led them to have a serious ASP.NET website to manage what is one of the highest traffic websites in the world. Even if it's not ASP.NET that you choose, it's a good lesson in...

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One of the drawbacks with the partial postbacks in AJAX is that you can't go forward or back in your web browser to different states of the page created by the partial postbacks. Nor can you create a shortcut to one of the views. The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions has functionality in there to enable these scenarios...

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At VTdotNET's last meeting, we were happy to have Jeff McWherter share with us his hard-earned lessons about improving performance in asp.net apps. Jeff spends a lot of time dealing with this in his job and it was very obvious that he wasn't just sharing something he read about, but his very adept experience...

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