Items By Type: General
ASP.NET MVC v. Web Forms Debate - My View
Mikesdotnetting
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22 February 2010 21:53
It seems that the whole world (and Margate) is having its say on which is better - MVC or Web Forms. Scott Guthrie posted his views on technical debates in general, and then contributed his thoughts on MVC v. Web Forms. Ian Cooper has an interesting contribution to make to the debate too. Rob Conery (formerly of Microsoft) posted probably the most linked to opinion on the matter. (There - I've just added another link...) A lot of other blog posts around scream that MVC is better because its better. One even tries to posit the notion that some kind of score card approach can help you decide. More...
Filed under: General ASP.NET 3.5 ASP.NET MVC as General
Translating My Articles? Let Me Know And I Will Link To You
Mikesdotnetting
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28 December 2009 08:42
I put into practice what I preached about preventing image leeching. Within the first 48 hours I got literally hundreds of email notifications from the logger I installed giving me URLs where I can find copies of my articles pasted word for word, including links to my images. I was also able to identify a number of sites owned by people who had taken the trouble to translate my articles into other languages (but were still leeching my images). More...
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Please Help - URGENT!!!
Mikesdotnetting
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12 December 2009 10:31
Some one posted a comment to one of my articles the other day. It appears that they had had little success in adapting some code I had posted in the article to their application. They included this phrase in their comment: "Please advice me, it is urgent". More...
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Book Review - Professional Enterprise .NET
Mikesdotnetting
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28 October 2009 15:49
I reviewed an ASP.NET Architecture and Design book recently. It was OK. I felt it was a bit thin, and didn't cover topics beyond beginner level. Then I got sent a review copy of another book: Professional Enterprise .NET. Having read it, this is the book that the previous book should want to be when it grows up. More...
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Book Review - ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design
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11 October 2009 18:36
Back in the day, when I began to get interested in ASP.NET application architecture and design, I spent hours hunting for a book that would explain all I needed to know. I wanted one that focused on ASP.NET, with its special demands, rather than a general .NET development book. I wanted a book that would explain what layers and tiers were, and how I should separate code out to make it more scalable and reusable. I wanted a book that would explain how I could take my skills to the next level. I couldn't find one. There was a big gap in the market. Vivek Thakur has attempted to fill this gap, with this apty named title: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design. More...
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ASP.NET MVC - Battle of the Books
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27 July 2009 13:25
There's always a splurge of new books that come out around the RTM of any new ASP.NET related technology. Authors all over the place are burning the midnight oil, cursing the changes from one CTP to the next, through to Betas and hoping against hope that the Release Candidates and final RTMs aren't stuffed with "breaking changes" which inevitably mean total rewrites of whole sections or chapters in their draft. And then the race between the publishers is on, as each tries to get their offer to market before the others. Here, I look at three of the titles that were published around the time that ASP.NET MVC was launched, and give my judgement on how they fare in covering not only the core Framework but the key features that ASP.NET MVC is designed to offer: More...
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Book Review - Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB
Mikesdotnetting
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26 October 2008 11:01
Over the years, I have picked up and read many Beginners books that attempt to get someone started on the road to building web sites with ASP.NET. Nearly all of them assumed that their readers know more than they might. Some of them seem to assume that all readers are upgrading from one version of the .NET framework to another, while others assume that you already know about core web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, C# or VB etc. I well remember being frustrated with my first book, in that it didn't give me enough basic information to get started with web development, let alone web development with ASP.NET. Now, up steps Imar Spaanjaars, with his effort: Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB (Wiley/Wrox, ISBN: 978-0-470-18759-3). More...
Filed under: C# VB.Net ASP.NET 3.5 Book Review as General
I'm a Microsoft MVP!
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05 April 2008 10:26
I was delighted to find out on April Fool's Day (?) that I have been awarded the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award. More...
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