Archive for April, 2009

Free eBook: Testing Chapter from Beginning ASP.NET MVC

image Just found an interesting eBook:

- Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications (Blogpost)

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HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq

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It´s very easy to create an RSS using Linq to XML. In my sample I create a ASP.NET page, which offers a RSS Feed. We add also a meta tag so that users can find our RSS Feed.

 

 

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HowTo: Tweet with C#

imageTwitter is the internet Microblogging Service – this is my acc BTW. Twitter has an API since the beginning (and IMHO is this one big reason why twitter is so successful). The Twitter API is REST based and so you can easily create Twitter-Clients with .NET. If you don´t want to create the HTTP basic stuff, check out existing libraries, like Tweetsharp.

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Free eBooks: ADO.NET Entity Framework, Powershell & C#

imageJust found 3 eBooks:

- ADO.NET Entity Framework: Learning Guide 
- Effective Windows Powershell
- Illustrated C# 2008

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HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders

image_thumb4With ASP.NET MVC the developer has now full control about the HTML rendering and how the form data will be transmitted to the server. But how can you get the form values on the server side? There are better ways in MVC to do that than Request.Form["..."].

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