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How To: Adding MVC items to an ASP.NET Web Application

By Damien White | Published: May 20, 2009

I’ve been experimenting with using ASP.NET MVC inside a standard ASP.NET Web Application (Web Forms).  I really like what’s been released with MVC 1.0 and can see places where existing apps would benefit from the features.  Plus, having just finished Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 from Wrox (see my book review), I couldn’t wait to start [...]

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Book Review – Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

By Damien White | Published: May 17, 2009

Working primarily on web applications, I’ve focused most of my time on ASP.NET Web Forms since the very early betas.  Web Forms were truly a great revolution in the web world.  Once I saw the functionality when it first came out (when I was using ::shudder::  “classic” ASP), I couldn’t wait to start using it.  [...]

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX – Preview 4 – Client Templates

By Damien White | Published: April 28, 2009

A little over a month ago, Microsoft released the fourth preview of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX.  This is the new release of the Microsoft AJAX Framework that will be released with ASP.NET 4.0.  We’re getting closer to the RTM release of .NET 4.0 (hopefully later this year), so I figured this would be a good time [...]

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My Wrox Blox Books – Now on Amazon!

By Damien White | Published: January 30, 2009

I just happen to be browsing Amazon today and noticed that my Wrox Blox books are available for purchase on Amazon.com.  Pretty cool stuff!  They were listed up there before, but weren’t available directly through Amazon until now.  For a full description and the table of contents of each, just click on the Amazon links [...]

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ASP.NET 3.5 Charting Control – Formatting Tooltips as Date

By Damien White | Published: December 15, 2008

I’m sure you all have heard that there is now a free ASP.NET charting control that is an add-on to ASP.NET 3.5.  If you haven’t or need one of the bits, check out ScottGu’s blog.  I recently started using the component and it’s really nice.  While working with it, I ran into an issue formatting [...]

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