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Presenting tonight at ADNUG

Apr14
2010 1 Comment Written by Simon Holman

I will be presenting on ASP.NET MVC at the ADNUG meeting tonight.

Details below:

ADELAIDE DOT NET USERS GROUP.

The next meeting of ADNUG will be held on WEDNESDAY 14h April at 5.45pm at
SA Innovation Centre , Level 2, Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide .

Visitors welcome.

PROGRAMME

5.45 pm Finger food an Drinks. Join with us for a drink and pizzas – members free – visitors $5.

6.15 pm What’s New – New developments and releases

6.30 pm Simon Holman  ASP.Net Developer  Using ASP.Net MVC 2.0

7.30 pm Meeting close

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Visual Studio 2010 Released

Apr13
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Simon Holman

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll know that Visual Studio 2010 was officially released today.

I’ve been running the RC version and was keen to download and install the release version and really getting busy with the new features.

Scott Guthrie posted an excellent post on his blog listing the new features in VS 2010 and .NET 4. If your not an MSDN Subscriber I recommend downloading the Express edition here.

A few of my favourite features are:

  • new IDE look and feel. I especially like the code optimised view. I’m a big fan of seeing as much code as possible. I do very little work in design view with web forms so it works well and is great for MVC projects as well.
  • Multi monitor support. I don’t have multi monitors yet as I have a laptop and I output that to a 24” LCD. When it’s time to move on from the laptop I think I’ll go back to a desktop with dual monitors
  • HTML and Javascript snippet support. Try typing “<a” (without the quotes) and tabbing twice. You’ll get “<a href="#">content</a>” prefilled for you with the cursor after the # ready to type. Also try “<act” in an MVC app to get “<%= Html.ActionLink("linktext", "actionname") %>”
  • MVC 2.0. Some fantastic enhancements over MVC 1.0
  • Automatic HTML encoding using the <%: %> syntax.
  • Clean web.config files.

The IDE looks clean and tidy with a new default font and great code colouring

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For more info on Visual Studio 2010 visit:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx

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Creation of an ASP.NET MVC 2.0 application

Mar31
2010 3 Comments Written by Simon Holman

In my “spare time” I have been building an application using ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and Visual Studio 2010 RC1. The two aims of this application were to learn ASP.NET MVC and to make managing all the bookmarks I have and RSS Feeds that I read everyday.

I have some 400 bookmarks in Firefox and I never remember to go back to read articles that I save for later. Searching for bookmarks using Firefox’s bookmark manager I find annoying also. So Bookmarkit was born. Not a very original name but maybe that’s why I’m a developer, not a designer, not a lot of creativity!

A lot of the post that I will be making on this blog will centre around functionality from this application. If there is enough interest, once I’ve completed the application I will release the source code for those who would like to check it out.

Here is the homepage so far.

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You may notice the Tag Cloud from this post and the hard to see show/hide links (under the To Read and Favourites headings) from this post

I have the Homepage display partial working. The To Read and Favourite bookmark lists are being filled and the Tag Cloud is being filled. I have also created an import function to import a Firefox bookmark export file which uses the Netscape bookmark format)

I am now working on RSS Feeds, in particular retrieving data from multiple RSS sources using the RSS Toolkit and an OPML file. More detail on that process will come.

I also have a basic data model setup and am using LINQ to SQL for the data access.

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