HowTo: Use the new ASP.NET Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC

Microsoft released today a new feature for ASP.NET – free chart controls (which are based on the Dundas Chart Controls). There are many nice looking charts in this download included: The best thing is: It should work with ASP.NET MVC! Download links for the ASP.NET Charts (free) : Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download …

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"g-speak" – Minority Report alike UI/operating environment

I received a very interesting link of an "Minority Report" alike operation environment: oblong.com – take a look at the demo: g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

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HowTo: First steps with ASP.NET MVC

In my last post I wrote about why you should take a look at ASP.NET MVC. With this blogpost I want to go a little bit deeper into the MVC universe. The project template After the installation of ASP.NET MVC (currently beta) you will find a new project template in Visual Studio: Right after you …

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HowTo: Basics of ASP.NET MVC or why MVC?

A while ago I blogged about some ASP.NET MVC stuff, but why should I (and you) care about ASP.NET MVC? ASP.NET MVC is a great and extensible framework for building web applications and is a alternative to the ASP.NET WebForms model. Tell me more about "MVC"!  MVC stands for "Model-View-Controller", which is a very old …

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HowTo: First Steps with MEF (Hello MEF!)

In nearly every application you can install and use plugins (Firefox, Outlook, IE…). With .NET 4.0 you get a new feature to create extensible applications called "Managed Extensibility Framework" in short "MEF". You can today play with a preview of this upcoming framework. Microsoft itself will use it in Visual Studio 2010 (take a look …

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Quantum of Silverlight 3

ScottGu announced some great features in Silverlight 3 on his blog: Media enhancements (including H.264 video support) 3D + hardware acceleration Rich-Databind Controls Especially the 3D + hardware acceleration feature would rock!

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HowTo: Taskmanagement with Visual Studio (ToDos, Hacks & co.)

Many programmers know that there is very handy tool inside of Visual Studio to manage ToDos, "Hacks" and so on. I discovered this cool, secret (Visual Studio has a lot of such unknown gimmicks) feature some weeks ago: Taskmanagement You can manage your tasks in several applications: Outlook, "Work Items" in combination with TFS or …

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