Oxite – The Open Source ASP.NET Blog Engine
Dec/080
Probably the best place to look for open source .NET projects is the Codeplex community, that since June 2006 has served thousands of different projects. Recently, the users of this website have come up with another interesting project – Oxite, a simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and designed with the following goals:
Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)
Dec/083
The next iteration of Visual Studio known under code name “Hawaii” has been released for community preview (CTP). Hand in hand with Visual Studio we are getting the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, that brings us a ton of interesting stuff like:
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Released!
Aug/080
Great news indeed.
Download now at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/cc533448.aspx
News Roll – Week 24/08
Jun/080
patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security
The guys from MS patterns & practices team have written a guide about web services security – practically about WCF security scenarios. This 694 pages long guide, although in its beta version, represents a great all-in-one place resource for anyone active in developing of WCF-based web services.
Project location and download: http://www.codeplex.com/WCFSecurityGuide
URL Rewriting for ASP.NET
Jun/084
Lately, topics like search engine optimization and writing user-friendly URLs are to find everywhere on the Internet. Particularly, rewritten URLs make it a lot easier to embed topic-specific or product-specific keywords into the URLs of the pages on your website which increases accessibility for both your audience and for various web crawlers. This is accomplished by moving away from typical query string arguments like for e.g.:
http://nedzadsmajic.info/?p=11&preview=true&a1=more&a2=argu&a3=ments&a4=0&a5=1&a6=2&a7=etc to a more readable form like: http://nedzadsmajic.info/2008/06/04/url-rewriting-for-aspnet.
ASP.NET Application Life Cycle
May/080
Have you ever wondered about all the stages that an ASP.NET request goes through? Ever wonder why it is such a performance hit to have a wildcard mapping to map all extensions on your web server to ASP.NET? This information corresponds to IIS 5.0 and 6.0. For information on the life cycle in IIS 7.0, see ASP.NET Application Life Cycle Overview for IIS 7.0. You can also check out the ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Overview for information on what happens once a page is run.
ADO.NET Entity Framework ante Portas
May/082
With the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 comes new addition to the ADO.NET family – Entity Framework. The Entity Framework is a new modeling framework that enables developers to define a conceptual model of a database schema that closely aligns to a real world view of the information. It helps abstract the logical data schema into a conceptual model and allows for multiple ways to interact with the conceptual model through Object Services and a new data provider called EntityClient. The mission of EntityClient is to provide a gateway for entity-level queries. Through EntityClient one queries against a conceptual model, not against a specific store implementation of that model. EntityClient does not directly communicate with the data store but it requires a separate, store-specific, provider. An alternative to EntityClient is Object Services which help alleviate the amount of data-access code developers need to write. This article is a quick overview of the Entity Framework, its features and release date.
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1 Beta Released
May/080
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 service pack 1 is a cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 2 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 2 cumulative updates.
.NET Framework version 3.5 Service Pack 1 provides the following new features and improvements:
ASP.NET Security Considerations and Practices (whitepaper)
May/080
With the release of ASP.NET 2.0 the security infrastructure is extended significantly with a higher-level model for managing users and roles, both programmatically and with built-in administrative tools. This functionality (which is accessible through the membership and roles APIs) builds on the existing security infrastructure that has been present since ASP.NET 1.0. Of course, the ASP.NET security model is a very comprehensive part of ASP.NET, which must be carefully studied, but if you’re lacking time here is something worthy of recommendation, just to make sure you have at least something under control.
Enterprise Library 4.0 Released
May/080
A year after releasing EntLib 3.1, here’s another release of highly anticipated collection of reusable software components with support for Visual Studio 2008.
If you are new to the Enterprise Library read the Introduction to the Enterprise Library and download, compile and run the QuickStart samples.
This release of Enterprise Library includes the following:
- Integration with the Unity Application Block
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 2.0 support and improved instrumentation
- Performance improvements
- Pluggable Cache Managers
- Visual Studio 2008 support
- Bug fixes
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