ASP.NET MVC - Routing of Legacy URLs
When you convert an existing ASP.NET application to ASP.NET MVC you will sooner or later want to handle legacy URLs. Imagine an ASP.NET application containing the page "YourPage.aspx". Now you want to...
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ASP.NET MVC - SampleApplication based on Entity Framework 4.0
The intention of the MVCSampleApplication was to build a sample application using the latest .NET technologies.The ASP.NET MVC application provides a simple guestbook, where users can register and post...
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ASP.NET MVC - Developing a custom blog engine
A few weeks ago I decided to start blogging. Since my website existed for some years I chose to write my own blog engine and integrate it into the existing layout. With Oxite an open source engine...
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MSBuild - Code Coverage Analysis with PartCover and ReportGenerator
Ever since NCover has not been free any more, I use PartCover, which is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). In this post I will show how you could generate a nice 'Code Coverage...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC - How to protect your website against spam
When your use forms on your website, spammers will very soon be trying to inform your visitors about their "great" products. In this post I will show you how to protect your website by using a simple...
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Deploying ClickOnce-application based on .NET 3.5 SP1 to IIS 6
Today I had to create a ClickOnce installation for a VSTO Word 2003 Addin. Until I finally managed to deploy it to an IIS 6 webserver, some problems had to be solved. First you have to configure your...
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WPF - Animation of graph algorithms - Part 1
A few years ago I had to create some animations of graph algorithms. That meant two things: I had to implement algorithms like Dijkstra or Kruskal and then create a visual representation of the...
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WPF - Animation of graph algorithms - Part 2
In the first part of this series I showed how to implement a data structure for graphs.Now let's continue with the UI. The UI should be capable of creating graphs consisting of nodes and edges with...
View ArticleVSTO - Speech recognition in Outlook Addin with .NET
In this article I will show how you could create an Outlook Addin that enables you to enter the recipients of an email by speech.First we setup the speech recognition engine with the contacts from the...
View ArticleASP.NET - Count feed subscribers without Feedburner
The most important advantage of Feedburner is the subscriber count. But Feedburner is not an option for everyone, since the address of your feed changes if you move it to Feedburner.You could redirect...
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WPF - Search and highlight text in DocumentViewer programmatically
The DocumentViewer is a great control for showing XPS documents in a WPF application. You can zoom and search the document, but the control does not provide a public API for its Find functionality....
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.NET 4.0 - Performance of Task Parallel Library (TPL)
The upcoming .NET Framework 4.0 will contain the new Task Parallel Library (TPL). The TPL will be used by PLINQ, which is a parallel implementation of LINQ to Objects.PLINQ makes it easier to take...
View ArticlePartCover - Coverage of unexecuted methods
During the last weeks I received several emails pointing me to a potential issue in my tool ReportGenerator. The problem is that methods that have not been executed during a test run using PartCover,...
View ArticlePartCover - Coverage of unexecuted methods - Part 2
A few weeks ago I blogged about a problem concerning coverage of unexecuted code in PartCover. The problem was that the report generated by PartCover does not contain any coverage information about...
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PHP - Print article about Piwi
An article about the Piwi Framework, written by Christian Grobmeier and myself, appeared in the latest edition of the PHP Magazin. The article is a basic introduction to the framework. It covers the...
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.NET - Starting programs by speech
Did you ever search an application in your start menu? Even with the search bar of Windows 7 or Windows Vista it takes some time to select the right shortcut. In this article I will show you a tool,...
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AOP - Interception with Unity 2.0
Unity is a well known dependency injection container. Custom extensions can be created to extend its functionality. The download of Unity contains an extension for interception. In this post I will...
View ArticleAndroid - First impressions
The Android market share is continuously growing. So I decided to create a Yahtzee application to get some experience in android development. In this post I will compare Windows Phone 7, which has...
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Android - Yahtzee application with shake detection
During my experiments with Android, I have created a Yahtzee application with shake detection. In this post I will give you an overview of the application and show you how to implement shake...
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.NET 4.0 - Covariance and contravariance
Today I took a look at the new covariance and contravariance features of .NET 4. In this post I will explain the theoretical background and will provide some practical examples.The code snippets cover...
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ASP.NET MVC 3 - Razor based blog engine with SQL CE 4.0
About one year ago a created a blog engine which was based on ASP.NET MVC 1. Since then technologies have evolved. When ASP.NET MVC 3 was released, I decided to update my blog engine to use the new...
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VSTO - Importing Google contacts to Outlook 2007
For a long time I have been using Outlook to manage my contacts and appointments. I always synchronized my mobile phone with Outlook. After buying an Android device things have changed. Now I use...
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MetroBackUp - Applying Metro UI and Flow Design (Event-Based Components)
Four years ago I wrote one of my first WPF applications. It was named 'BackUp' and enabled you to keep directories in sync (similiar to Microsoft's SyncToy).Actually I learned a lot of the WPF stack by...
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Code Coverage - Testing with OpenCover and PartCover
Just some days ago, a new code coverage tool was released for the first time. It's called OpenCover. Shaun Wilde created this tool, since PartCover 4 has some issues that are difficult to resolve with...
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IoC Container Benchmark - Performance comparison
In this post I will do a performance comparison of the most popular IoC containers.Of course performance is not the only criteria when choosing a container for a project. Perhaps you need features like...
View ArticleYAGNI - 'Poor-mans CQRS' sample application with Entity Framework
This week Daniel Lang published an interesting article about unnecessary overhead in simple applications.In a nutshell he proposes an architecture called "Poor-mans CQRS". In his sample he uses an...
View ArticleReflection vs. compiled expressions vs. delegates - Performance comparision
I'm currently working on an application which uses reflection to create a generic UI. Therefore I was interested in the performance impact of reflection. In this post I will do a comparison between the...
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ASP.NET MVC - Generic filtering based on expressions
Recently I was asked to implement a reusable filtering mechanism in an ASP.NET MVC application. To be more concrete: A website shows a grid containing arbitrary data. The user should be able to enter a...
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ReportGenerator - New release with more advanced report preprocessing
ReportGenerator 1.3.0.0 has just been published. The new release offers some new features which I want do describe in this post.Improved report preprocessingThe coverage reports generated by...
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SQL Server 2012 - Access database with Windows authentication using IIS
After setting up Windows 8 and SQL Server 2012 my ASP.NET applications were not able to access my SQL databases.Whenever I have to setup a PC in the future, I don't want to waste my time (again) to...
View ArticleWindows 8 - Powershell Here with VS 2012 Tools
The PowerToy Open Command Window Here has been a very useful extension for Windows XP.With Windows 7 and Windows 8 the PowerShell is a good replacement for cmd.exe. This post shows how you PowerShell...
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CruiseControl .NET - Integration of coverage reports
Some time ago somebody on Stackoverflow asked how to integrate OpenCover results into CruiseControl .NET. After being asked again, I decided to write a tutorial to show how CC.NET has to be configured....
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ReportGenerator - New release with coverage by test support
Since my last blog post about ReportGenerator a couple of features have been added. In this post I will describe the most important changes.Apart from reduced memory usage and the possibility to...
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RSS Feed - Alternatives for Google Reader
Dear reader, only one week is left until Google will shut down its popular Feed Reader. Since RSS is still relevant, it's time to migrate to another service. There are some alternatives that you could...
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ASP.NET MVC 4 - Blog engine based on Twitter Bootstrap
It's time to update my blog engine which I published some time ago. The updated version is now based on ASP MVC 4 and uses Twitter Bootstrap 3 instead of a custom CSS file. In this post I will give a...
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ASP.NET MVC - Authentication (Two-Factor, MembershipProvider, SimpleMembership)
Most web applications are using username and password for authentication. ASP.NET supports this concept since the very beginning. With MVC 4 Microsoft also introduced the SimpleMembership, which makes...
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GIT - Creating a merged graph of GIT history using yUML
Two years ago Phil Haack created a tool called SeeGit. The tool visualizes the history of a GIT repository. I decided to create a similar tool which uses yUML diagrams to render the history graph.My...
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ReportGenerator - New release with custom report plugins and F# support
ReportGenerator 2.0 has just been released. The new version contains some new features and improvements. This blog post will give a brief overview of the most important changes.Custom reports using MEF...
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ReportGenerator - New beta with history/trend charts
ReportGenerator 2.1 has just been published as a beta release. This blog post will explain the new feature trend/history charts and some other improvements.Trend/history chartsWhen you use the new...
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ReportGenerator - New release with enhanced HTML report and Cobertura support
ReportGenerator 2.5 has just been released. This latest version has some enhancements in the HTML report and and some other improvements.Summary report enhancementsThe design of the reports changed a...
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ReportGenerator - New release with risk hotspots analysis
ReportGenerator 3.1 has just been released. The new version ships with a new risk hotspot analysis and several other improvements.Summary report enhancementsIf you are using OpenCover you will notice a...
View ArticleASP.NET Core - Model Binding of abstract classes
Last week I updated my old blog post to ASP.NET Core. Since the DefaultModelBinder class does not exist any more, I had to rewrite my model binding code.My controller action takes a collection of an...
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ASP.NET Core - Angular application with Windows auth
Visual Studio 2022 does not provide an option to scaffold an Angular application with Windows authentication. In this blog post I document the required steps to get Windows authentication working for...
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