Archive for March, 2009
"Conficker" Virus Attacks Tomorrow!
It was announced back in January that a new worm by the name of "Conficker" was found infecting million of Windows machines. This virus, which has been lying dormant on PCs everywhere, will attack tomorrow. Immunize yourself and remove this virus from your system before the clock strikes midnight!
How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET
URL rewriting is the practice publishing a cleaner URL for your ASP.NET pages. There are many reasons you might want to do this, including search engine optimization and human readability. Search engines actively try to ascertain information about the contents of a page based on the URL, and providing common keywords in it will increase your page ranking. This article will show you how to use URL rewriting to hide your ugly URL while retaining the power and structure of your existing ASP.NET application by using URL rewriting.
Google Chrome Beta 2.0 Released
I know this isn't exactly software development news, but every software developer needs a good web browser behind him. Google's Chrome browser has been turning some heads. The beta stamp was removed from Chrome back in December 2008, but they have a new release and that stamp has come out of retirement. Google Chrome 2.0 was released on March 17th, and has some cool new features, including form autofill, side-by-side view for tabs, and a big speed increase. Click here to read more and download Chrome 2.0 beta.
Introducing Microsoft Web Platform Installer
On March 18th, Microsoft released Web Platform Installer 2.0. The Web Platform Installer is a small utility you can use to download, install, and maintain your Microsoft Web Platform applications. This includes Internet Information Services (Microsoft's web server), or IIS, MS SQL Server Express, Silverlight 3 Visual Studio tools, and much more. Like the ASP.NET MVC release, the Web Platform Installer (or Web PI) release was announced at Mix '09. Again, good timing here on Microsoft's part that allowed them to get this beta version out to lots of people that will be downloading new stuff. In this article, I give a full review of my user experience with Web PI 2.0 beta, including screenshots.
ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 Released
Today, Phil Haack reported that the ASP.NET MVC framework has been officially moved out of beta status and released to the world. It's good timing, too. If you're like me, you were waiting for the beta to end before really getting into ASP.NET MVC because you were afraid that each release would break your projects. Well, I guess its time to really dive in and I'm excited to do it. Read this article for more information and the download link.
Fading Images Together using C#
In this article, I show how to "fade" or "blend" together two images using C#. We use the System.Drawing package (mostly the Bitmap class) to extract the individual pixels of two images, and then perform a weighted average to construct a new image. The whole thing is wrapped up in a Windows Forms project. Source code and a Windows binary are provided.
ASP.NET MVC Hotfix for Add-in Compatibility
A few days ago, I posted about a new e-Book that's available to show you how to build a sample application with ASP.NET MVC. Well, I just found this post about a bug in Visual Studio when using ASP.NET MVC on Phil Haack's blog. Phil Haack is a a co-author of the book Scott Guthrie wrote [...]
Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET MVC E-book Tutorial, NerdDinner
A few days ago, Scott Guthrie posted an e-book tutorial for the new ASP.NET MVC framework that's been in beta for awhile.
Scott is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, and heads up the teams for ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS, and so forth. He's also been working pretty closely with ASP.NET MVC, so I was really interested in [...]
Getting Started with ASP.NET (Part 3): Postbacks and Debugging
This three-part series is concluded with a lesson on advanced events. You'll construct a sample Employee Management application, and I'll throw a couple of tricks at you to teach you some lessons about real-life ASP.NET programming. We'll learn about postbacks and use the built-in Visual Studio debugger to solve the problems we run into. This article will complete your initial ASP.NET skillset and ready you to begin your own application development.
Getting Started with ASP.NET (Part 2): Code-behind and Events
Building upon the "Hello World" application created in the previous article, C# code is written into the backing code files to add functionality. The concept of events is explained and demonstrated through an example application that allows the user to interact with various controls on the page. This article is second in a three-part series aimed at helping new ASP.NET developers create real, live web applications with no perquisite knowledge.
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