HowTo: Zipping with MSBuild
In my last Blogpost I talked about howto integrate tests into the Buildscript. Today I´m going to write down an easy way how to zipp the build automatical. You will find the magic trick in the MSBuildCommunity Tasks project.
HowTo: Time-controlled & recurrent functions in .NET & ASP.NET
During a project we had the order to run a specific SQL request after several minutes or seconds and to evaluate them in order to the results. You can solve this problem a little bit “dirty” by using a while(true) loop and Thread.Sleep, or you use a timer.
HowTo: Facebook Connect & ASP.NET MVC
Facebook has created a nice little service named "Facebook Connect". With this application Facebook user are allowed to login into your site with their usual facebook log-in information´s and the whole thing is secured by Facebook. In Fact it´s quite similar to OpenID but it had some more specials than just identification. But in this …
HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq
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.
HowTo: Tweet with C#
Twitter 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 …
HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders
With 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["..."].
HowTo: Rename SQL Tables in Visual Studio
The integration of SQL Servers in Visual Studio is really great. I use VS to create my SQL tables and simple administration stuff – it´s not often that I start SQL Management Studio. But one thing is really annoying: You can´t rename SQL Tables in VS! But there is a little trick to do that.
HowTo: Setup IIS7 as development server in Visual Studio 2008
Webdevelopment with Visual Studio is really easy – just hit F5 and you jump into the debugger. VS use (as default) the built-in "ASP.NET Development Server" called "Cassini". But there are some pitfalls if you use this server, because the behavior of the IIS and Cassini are sometimes a bit different and the dev server …
HowTo: Understanding Interfaces – a simple description
Interfaces are an important feature for designing great software, but many programming newbies have a understanding problem – Why should I use "interfaces"? What is an "interface"?
HowTo: First steps with the Windows Azure CTP and the first "HelloWorld"
In my last blogpost I talked about different cloud computing providers, like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Today I want to describe Windows Azure more and show you how to use the Windows Azure CTP and how to publish a "Hello World" app in the "cloud".
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