In the past two months, I’ve had chance to test the capabilities and features of the amazing NDepend tool designed to help you make your .NET code better, more beautiful and achieve high code quality. In other words, this tool will definitely help you harmonize your code. I mean, you’ve probably heard about Chaos Theory. Experienced developers and architects are already advocates of the ...

In the previous days, I wrote several blog posts related to the great jQuery Templates plugin showing various examples that might help you get started working with the plugin in ASP.NET and VS.NET environment. Here is the list of all five blogs: Introduction to jQuery Templates jQuery Templates - tmpl(), template() and tmplItem() jQuery Templates - {Supported Tags} jQuery Templates with ...

In the asp.net forums one user asked how to get Web.config's connection string value when using LINQ2SQL which is created inside another Class library project. We know that if you use the System.Configuration classes, you will access the web.config from the application. Therefor, the first thing needed here is to reference the System.Configuration.dll inside the class library project (wh...

The JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data-interchange format is becoming very popular because it's lightweight and it can be easily serialized into HTML, especially using jQuery Templates. In real-world scenarios, the data usualy comes from databases. Using ASP.NET with jQuery, you can make ajax requests easy. When using ASP.NET Webforms, to make one method available to work with ajax r...

JsonResult Class is a type of class that is used to send JSON-formatted content to the response. This class belongs to the System.Web.Mvc namespace so that it's part of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. The JsonResult class inherits from ActionResult. JsonResult class has the following members: - JsonResult constructors which initializes new object of the class - ExecuteResult method - method t...

In ASP.NET MVC 3 - Release Candidate 2, the jQuery UI library is added together with the ASP.NET MVC 3 application project you are going to create. Besides this, the newest version of jQuery library is also shipped (currently v1.4.4). This is great since we see that Microsoft also supports the jQuery UI project too. One thing that misses for now is to include the jQuery UI CSS Styles and...

I've just read a blog post by Scott Guthrie announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 - Release Candidate 2, where he has listed many interesting features that this RC 2 includes. As he says, this is the near-final release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can read the complete blog post here .

Everyone develops his own style of writing code, approaching problems that come up in our daily coding life, but is everyone following a concrete coding standards set by the organization, the company where he works? In the company where I've started working about one month ago, there are very good defined coding standards that help teams share their code and understand other developer's ...

It is interesting that today Scott Guthrie wrote a blog post announcing the Silverlight 5. All Silverlight developers should be exited since the new version of Silverlight adds significiant new features and capabilities. More about this you can read at Scott Guthrie's blog post, link: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/02/announcing-silverlight-5.aspx