(Maarten Balliauw) My last post on the REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK received an interesting comment… Basically, the spirit of the comment was: “There are tons of controller factories out there, but you can only use one at a time!”. This is true. One can have an IControllerFactory for MEF, for Castle Win

(Mike) I, and many other contributors to the forums at www.asp.net find examples of code posted on a daily basis that are vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks. We continue to exhort beginners (and some more experienced programmers) to code against them. This article examines just how serious a flaw v

(Ged Mead) A recent question on VBCity came from a developer who was searching for a way of changing the background color, font and border of the Column Headers in a ListView. This has always been a particularly tough call in Windows Forms. (A DataGridView, on the other hand, does have this feature,

(SheoNarayan) Despite being a very useful feature, Themes are generally given low priority by the developers. In this article, I am trying to play with Themes and its different behavior. Hope we all will learn something from it.

(Matthew Cochran) The power of adding a functional extensibility point to our classes via the visitor pattern is often overlooked. Using a visitor pattern is a very effective means of providing a nice boundary around a set of core classes while at the same time allowing for functional change. This a

(Claudio Caldato) Today, I’m excited to announce that we are releasing a new project that bridges PHP and .NET.

(David Hayden) I have mainly been focusing on the Html.DisplayFor and Html.LabelFor in ASP.NET MVC 2.0. However, as of Preview 1, we also have an Html.EditorFor Template Helper that is used specifically for editing data in your view pages. Focusing on the Contact Manager example that I have been dis

(Rick Strahl) Although I use Generics extensively, every once in a while it still throws me for a loop when dealing with complex generic parameters and inheritance. I recently ran into a situation where I needed to created a class hierarchy and needed to inherit generic parameters. Generics are grea

(Richard Dingwall) This post is in response to a question on a recent article I wrote about mapping domain entities to presentation models with AutoMapper, an object-object mapper for .NET. Today I will give a brief example of how we can tie it all together in an ASP.NET MVC application using depend

(David Chisnall) It’s often said that there are two rules to follow when optimizing code: –Don’t optimize. –Don’t optimize yet (experts only).