For the past couple years, .net developers have been embracing various content preprocessors as they become more accessible. For the same couple of years, we've been trying to keep up. The dotLess port of the popular .less CSS extension has been getti…

What is a web developer? Recently I was involved in a discussion about the skills a web developer is expected to have and how interesting it has been to watch common bad practices (like table layout and SQL injection) continue to spread. So in the nature of Denis's What does a SQL Server developer need to know? post, I present the web developer breakdown.

Several weeks ago I started digging into WebMatrix. Over the course of a weekend I was able to put together a quick, functioning website, pick up some basics of working with WebMatrix and the deployment tool, and play with a few other technologies as well. Then I stepped back and realized I was only using a percentage of it's capabilities.

We found ourselves in a tricky situation at work this week. I'm surprised it hadn't come up before, but I suppose our customers aren't always the type to move to a new technology quickly. But we had a customer trying to install the back end of our app…

If you are running an ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Sharepoint site, grab the patch for the ASP.NET Padding Oracle vulnerability Some info: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow informa…

The last time I did a post on NHibernate (or any post for that matter - I guess I've been a bit busy) Ben asked a question about what I ended up using for session management in the application I've been working on. I guess I could come out and answer it, but I'd hardly get a new post out of that. Instead I will break out the tried and true answer for all things IT, "It depends". Let's take a look at what it depends on.

What is the Session?

This is probabl...

Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.

New Features in ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM

The following features are new since the RC release of ASP.NET MVC 2.

Templated Helpers Allow You to Specify Extra View Data

ASP.NET MVC 2 now includes new overloads of the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods. These overl...

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 has been released and is available for download.

For those that don't know what ASP.NET MVC 2 is. ASP.NET MVC 2 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view,...

A programmatic example of how to export an HTML file to excel while keeping grid lines visible. This solution does not require the use of a COM object.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released. A couple of day ago ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 was released but this is the real deal.

You can download ASP.NET MVC 1.0 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en

Changes Since RC 2

The following changes were made in this release.

• jQuery 1.3.1 was replaced with jQuery 1.3.2 in this release.

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