19 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

CodeGuru’s Ten Great CodePlex Projects for ASP.NET Developers

CodeGuru.com has an article called Ten Great CodePlex Projects for ASP.NET Developers in which the author, Jason Gilmore, mentions Hollywood Hackers – the demo project that I built with Kevin Hoffman to go along with our MSDN article, “Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure.”
The list contains some other really great sample CodePlex projects that [...]

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29 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Dynamic Controller and Action Authentication in ASP.NET MVC 2 by Ryan Wright

My friend and colleague Ryan Wright has posted a fantastic article about dynamic controller and action authentication in ASP.NET MVC 2. His techniques describe an architecture without hard-coding roles into the Authorize attribute – which makes it possible to add roles to application functionality strictly through configuration – no application rebuild required.
He also provides [...]

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10 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

I Will Be Blogging and Tweeting Live from MIX10

I will be attending Microsoft’s MIX10 conference next month in Las Vegas.  I’m really looking forward to networking with other developers and designers and being immersed in a User Experience-focused community for three days.
I will be blogging and tweeting LIVE from the event on www.caffeinedi.com and www.twitter.com/natedudek.
Although the schedule hasn’t been posted yet, I’ll [...]

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06 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

My Windows Azure Article Is In the January 2010 Issue of MSDN Magazine

An article I wrote with Kevin Hoffman on Windows Azure is in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine. “Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure Storage” discusses the utilization of Azure Queue and Table storage, Azure Worker Roles, and jQuery to send asynchronous messages to an ASP.NET MVC application and process shopping cart [...]

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04 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

ASP.NET MVC 2 Goodness from the DotNetAddict – Templated Helpers and jQuery Validation with DataAnnotations

My good friend and colleague Kevin Hoffman (known aliases: the notorious DotNetAddict) has recently posted some great stuff related to ASP.NET MVC 2.
He has a great introduction to templated helpers, which will blow your mind if you haven’t looked into them yet. Basically, they allow you to automatically place partial controls based on the [...]

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10 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Great Introduction to (Caffeine) Dependency Injection using ASP.NET MVC

For those of you who have never used the Dependency Injection (or Inversion of Control) design pattern, it’s something you really should get up to speed on.  Not only is it an incredibly powerful technique, but at some point you’re bound to get asked about it during a technical interview (especially if I interview you [...]

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29 September 2009 ~ 11 Comments

How to Build Your First Azure-Powered ASP.NET MVC App

The Visual Studio project templates included with the Azure Tools provide a quick way to get started with a cloud-hosted web application.  Unfortunately, it only supports classic ASP.NET web projects by default.  This tutorial will get you going on deploying an ASP.NET MVC web application to Azure.
PreRequisites
To get started, you’ll need to have the following [...]

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