Tag: General

All the articles with the tag "General".

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 released!

  31 Jul, 2009

  Today, Phil Haack did a blog post on the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1! Get it while it’s fresh :-) An updated roadmap is also available on CodePlex. Guess now is about time to start revising my ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly book… Templated helpers are not new: ASP.NET Dynamic Data already used this feature. Basically, you are creating a default control when you want to display/edit a specific data type in a view. For example, a System.String will have a user control defined that renders a textbox. However, if you want this to be a TinyMCE control by default, you’ll have to change the templated helper in one place and you’re done. More concrete: create a new view in your application: Views\Shared\DisplayTemplates\String.ascx. The code for that view would be: [code:c#]

• ReMIX Belgium session on ASP.NET MVC

  30 Jul, 2009

  Just learned I’ll be doing a session on ASP.NET MVC at ReMIX Belgium. ReMix brings the best of MIX09 in Las Vegas to Belgium: it bring us international speakers presenting on the best of MIX09, as well as local cases, with a story focus on User Experience (UX). The session will be around building a Twitter clone in 60 minutes. Bear with me at ReMIX 2009! Abstract: “What are you doing right now?, that's Twitter's question to its users. How about you creating own microblogging platform? "What are you working on?", "What are you reading?", ..., are all specific questions for your own community. This session takes you along in building a Twitter clone using the ASP.NET MVC framework.”

• Query the cloud with PHP (PHPLinq and Windows Azure)

  29 Jul, 2009

  I’m pleased to announce PHPLinq currently supports basic querying of Windows Azure Table Storage. PHPLinq is a class library for PHP, based on the idea of Microsoft’s LINQ technology. LINQ is short for language integrated query, a component in the .NET framework which enables you to perform queries on a variety of data sources like arrays, XML, SQL server, ... These queries are defined using a syntax which is very similar to SQL. Next to PHPLinq querying arrays, XML and objects, which was already supported, PHPLinq now enables you to query Windows Azure Table Storage in the same manner as you would query a list of employees, simply by passing PHPLinq a Table Storage client and table name as storage hint in the in() method: [code:c#]

• Authenticating users with RPXNow (in ASP.NET MVC)

  27 Jul, 2009

  Don’t you get sick of having to register at website X, at website Y, at website Z, …? It is really not fun to maintain all these accounts, change passwords, … Luckily, there are some large websites offering delegated sign-in (for example Google Accounts, Live ID, Twitter OAuth, …). You can use these delegated sign-in methods on your own site, removing the need of registering yet another account. Unfortunately, not everyone has an account at provider X…

• PHP SDK for Windows Azure - Milestone 2 release

  6 Jul, 2009

  I’m proud to announce our second milestone for the PHP SDK for Windows Azure project that Microsoft and RealDolmen started back in May. Next to our regular releases on CodePlex, we’ll also be shipping a Zend Framework version of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure. Announcements on this will be made later. The current milestone is focused on Windows Azure Table Storage, enabling you to use all features this service offers from any PHP application, be it hosted in-premise or on Windows Azure. Get it while it’s hot: PHP SDK for Windows Azure CTP2 - PHPAzure CTP2 (0.2.0) Detailed API documentation is provided in the download package, while more descriptive guidance is available on the project site.

• I’m an MVP ASP.NET!

  2 Jul, 2009

  Yesterday evening, I received the following e-mail: Dear Maarten Balliauw, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year. (...) Toby Richards General Manager Community Support Services Translated in short: I’m now officially an MVP ASP.NET! I am really honored to be recognized as an MVP. Thank you for the nomination!

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 5: the front-end

  2 Jul, 2009

  “After having found a god-like guardian for his application, Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker found out that his application still had no functional front-end. It’s OK to have a guardian and a barn in the cloud, but if there’s nothing to guard, this is a bit useless. Having asked the carpenter and the smith of the village, our knight decided that the so-called “ASP.NET MVC” framework might help in his quest.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 4: Authentication and membership

  2 Jul, 2009

  “Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker just returned from his quest to a barn in the clouds, when he discovered that he forgot to lock the door to his workplace. He immediately asked the digital village’s smith.to create a lock and provide him a key. Our knight returned to his workplace and concluded that using the smith’s lock would be OK, but having the great god of social networking, Twitter, as a guardian, seemed like a better idea. “O, Auth!”, he said. And the god provided him with a set of prayers, an API, which our knight could use.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 3: Store data in the cloud

  2 Jul, 2009

  “After setting up his workplace, knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker thought of something else: if a farmer wants to keep a lot of hay, he needs a barn, right? Since the cloudy application would also need to keep things that can be used by the digital villagers, our knight needs a barn in the clouds. Looking at the azure sky, an idea popped into the knight’s head: why not use Windows Azure storage service? It’s a barn that’s always there, a barn that can catch fire and will still have its stored items located in a second barn (and a third). Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker jumped on his horse and went on a quest, a quest in the clouds.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 2: Creating an Azure project

  2 Jul, 2009

  “Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker was about to start working on his TwitterMatic application, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. Before he could start working, he first needed the right tools. He downloaded the Windows Azure SDK, a set of tools recommended by the smith (or was it the carpenter?) of the digital village. Our knight’s work shack was soon ready to start working. The table on which the application would be crafted, was still empty. Time for action, the knight thought. And he started working.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts: