(Tapas Pal) Routing was first introduced with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 as an alternative to URL rewriting and query strings. Initially routing was limited to the ASP.NET MVC framework only but with release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0 developers can now use routing with web forms also. Using

(Ben Nadel) A few weeks ago, I hired Jamie Krug to help me set up a local development environment consisting of a multiserver ColdFusion installation. This included setting up Apache, ColdFusion 8, and ColdFusion 9 for use on the same code bases. For as long as I can remember, I’ve only ever used th

(Corey Roth) As a SharePoint developer, I’m sure you were excited to see the Developer Dashboard. It’s a great way to see what’s going ton with the performance of a page. Did you know you can add your own performance monitors to it though?

(Chris Wright) Here’s yet another .NET wrapper/helper that I’ve written for some Windows API functionality. This time my code makes use of about 6 different Windows APIs to provide you with a method that will return a list of all windows that are currently open on the computer along with their handl

(Bob Maksimchuk) With a language as complex as the UML (Unified Modeling Language), which is described in a specification that is more than 700 pages long, we all can understand how parts of the UML and their use can be misunderstood. Even though thousands of books have been written on the UML, cert

(Sandeep Joshi) It is a common scenario in an enterprise application when as per the requirement we have to authenticate the users against their AD account and authorize them against application specific roles. Especially for the applications that are intranet facing, the customer generally opts for

(Daniel Prado Velasco) A delicate part in the implementation of an application’s security, specially for corporate applications, is to determine which functionalities must or must not be accessible to a user depending on his role, or which elements should or should not be shown.

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was day dreaming about the awesomeness that is ColdFusion 9 when I had a thought about its new implicit getters and setters. I know that ColdFusion 9 added the function, getFunctionCalledName(); so, I wondered if the implicit getter and setter methods were actually share

(Patrick Steele) In today’s agile/TDD world, mocking has become an important tool in the development of a good, testable design. It’s important to understand your mocking framework to make sure you can maximize its benefit. But before I talk about mocking frameworks, I want to review a little bit ab

(Corey Roth) One of the things that drove me absolutely nuts about Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007 was that there was no built-in way to export your managed property mappings and install them on a new server. A third party utility on CodePlex helped, but it was still less than ideal.