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WASHINGTON – The U.S. government has spent about $700 million on IT and telecommunications products and services under its economic stimulus program, part of a total of $3 billion that’s in the spending pipeline, according to a private analysis of this data. But how many jobs have been created is not as clear. Congress approved [...]
Just a week after it last updated Firefox, Mozilla has rushed out a new version of its browser to fix a crash bug that programmers inadvertently introduced. Firefox 3.5.5, which Mozilla posted for download late Thursday, fixes a small number of what the company called “stability issues” in the release notes that accompanied the update. [...]
Logging is a common Cross-Cutting Concern that many ASP.NET developers solve in the Global.asax file. Because MVC is built on top of ASP.NET you *could* tap into the same solution, but there is a better way. This article will show how easy it is to add logging to your web app using ASP.NET MVC Action [...]
Hot off the presses, and new to ASP.NET MVC (Preview 5) is an awesome capability that (in my opinion) revolutionizes the way we design web applications. This feature is being touted (by me) as “the ViewState for MVC”. First, the Challenge A common challenge of web applications is passing complex types and (more difficultly) stateful [...]
One of the biggest benefits of MVC is it’s direct link to Test Driven Development. Because of some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 (ModelBinders in particular), testing your Action methods is even easier. This article will demonstrate how easy it is to ensure the quality of your MVC app with unit [...]
As AJAX-enabled web sites continue to grow in popularity, the development community continues to try to solve the common problems of using AJAX. One big concern that used to require a lot of work is that of gracefully degrading your AJAX site for non-capable browsers. Thankfully, the ASP.NET MVC framework makes this an easy task. [...]
ASP.NET is an awesome web development platform that many developers wouldn’t ever want to part with. However, if given the option, there are definitely parts of the package that you may want to swap out. This article will show you how easy it can be to break away from the “inline-ASP” or “Web Forms” world, [...]
Assumptions If you are reading this article, you should already have a working knowledge of SQL and are familiar with filtering your data with a WHERE clause, or limiting your result set from joining other tables with an ON clause. The part where this article comes in is when you start to see a significant [...]
Creating and maintaining ‘customer’ data is a common task that most people handle by creating a single table that holds a customer’s FirstName, LastName, Address, City, State, Zip etc. But when it comes to tracking changes in a customer record this type of table fails to provide needed functionality. This article will show how to [...]
Often times when inserting a new record into a table that has an auto-key field (an identity field that is set to auto increment), you may need to get that new ID back to use in other SQL statments. This can be done with @@IDENTITY or SCOPE_IDENTITY(), but those methods are very limited when compared [...]