Category Archives: .NET

Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design

This review is part of a series of book reviews I have agreed to do for Packt Publishing.

ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (by Vivek Thakur) is a fantastic book offering insight into multi-layered and n-Tier software development. Although its title says “ASP.NET 3.5″, developers using any language can benefit from the concepts covered in this book.

If you’re looking for a book on application architecture – this book is definitely for you! Continue reading

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Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly was written by Maarten Balliauw and published in early 2009. The book caught my eye as I’m currently working on a project using ASP.NET MVC and I decided I could probably benefit from reading this book.

I did get some information from this book, and it’s probably worth reading if you want to learn ASP.NET MVC. I say “probably” only because I don’t know of any books which explain the concept more clearly or in a more organized fashion.

Overall, I’d give the book a 3 out of 5 stars. Continue reading

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Issues with GoDaddy Hosting Connection

I’ve been a customer of GoDaddy for several years at this point, and for the most part I’m a happy customer. Their prices are always among the best, their servers almost never go down, and their customer service representatives really … Continue reading

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WhyILoveChicago.com Update

Over the past week, I’ve spent some time updating WhyILoveChicago.com with a much-needed facelift. For starters, the site is now coded in .NET! I also made the template much wider than before, and started promoting the various parntnerships I’ve formed … Continue reading

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ExtJS and Script#

Over the past few weeks, I’ve come to the realization that trying to organize more than 10,000 lines of JavaScript code is just a silly idea… and by “silly” I mean really ridiculously painful. I’ve been building a highly complicated … Continue reading

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.NET Blogger API Tutorial

Yesterday, I found a cool .NET API offered by Google. The Blogger Developer’s Guide for .NET is a cool way to dynamically link your Blogger posts within your own website. I was a bit frustrated by the documentation (both on … Continue reading

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Awesome N-Tier Tutorial in .NET

I was poking around today to see if I could find a good tutorial which highlights N-tier programming in .NET. I found a really good series of tutorials written by Imar Spaanjaars which I think anyone interested in the subject … Continue reading

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Free Version of Visual Studio

A little more than 3 months ago I downloaded the 90-day free trial of Microsoft Visual Studio so that I could start fooling around with both .NET and Silverlight. I have to say that I am a big fan of … Continue reading

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Generating an email in VB.NET

So I’ve been fooling around lately with .NET, and I have decided that I’m going to redesign my website (or at least create a sub-domain) in .NET as an exercise in developing my skills. I’ll be using Visual Web Developer… … Continue reading

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