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Visual Studio 2010 Image Optimizer Extension One thing that caught my attention while watching the session that Mads Kristensen had in MIX11 was the Image Optimizer extension he is writing. This extension can be very valuable when you are trying to optimize your ASP.NET application (whether it is Web Forms or MVC 3). The Image Optimizer Extension The extension adds the opportunity to use industry proven algorithms such as SmushIt and PunyPNG for optimizing the images in the solution. This is enabled...
A Tough Nugget – NuGet Package Manager Once upon a time when a .Net developer wanted to install a third-party/open source component the amount of work he had to do was enormous. Things like downloading the component with all its dependencies, installing the latest component version, saving the component into source control, deploying the component with the application and more made this mission very hard and cumbersome. In other platforms such as Java and Ruby there were solutions for this problem...
Quick Tip – HTML5 Intellisense For Visual Studio 2010 This is something I learnt recently in a meeting with Pete LePage . Mikhail Arkhipov from Microsoft has published a HTML 5 Intellisense add-in for Visual Studio 2010 and 2008. You can download the add-in from here . After you install the add-in you can start using HTML5 intellisense by picking its validation schema first: Then you’ll have your intellisense validation schema working and you will be able to use it in order to write HTML5 web pages...
MSDN Subscribers Giveaways Reminder In a previous post I wrote about two MSDN subscribers which I’m going to give away. As I wrote I’m giving this valuable gift to people in the Israeli development community that will be committed to volunteering at least 100 hours to develop open source projects during the following year. This post is only a reminder that on the 26 of September (in four days) the applying form will be closed. Terms of participating: You need to be an Israeli (because if you will...
MSDN Ultimate Subscriber Giveaways A few days ago I got three MSDN subscribers for MSDN Ultimate to give away as I see fit. The subscriptions allow their owner to download and own full featured versions of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate , as well as most of Microsoft software. The retail value of such subscriber is approximately $12,000. Also, the subscriptions are valid for one year of use. So I thought to myself how do I intend to give away such a valuable gift? do I intend to give it in a session...
Changing The OutputCache Provider During Runtime I got a question in the post I wrote about ASP.NET Output Cache Provider which asks whether we can change the cache provider during runtime. The post will try to answer the question. Overriding The OutputCache Provider One of the changes in ASP.NET 4 is the ability to override the OutputCache provider name in the Global.asax file. This enables us to create logic that stores the OutputCache in more then one type of cache according to some state or behavior...
OData Explorer One nice tool to use with OData is the OData Explorer . The OData Explorer is a tool that helps to explore OData feeds in a visual way and not by exploring the Atom/JSON responses. You can download the tool from here . Another way to use the tool is by going to the following link: http://Silverlight.net/ODataExplorer . OData Explorer Requirements The tool is a Silverlight 4 project. In order to use it you’ll have to answer these requirements: Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight 4 Developer...
Loading WCF Data Services Ajax Script Library Since I’ve given sessions about WCF Data Services in the past (when they were called ADO.NET Data Services ) I wanted to reuse some of the Ajax examples I showed for my coming OData session. One of the things that have been changed lately were the scripts to use when you want to make Ajax calls to your Data Service . So I downloaded the new scripts and saw that the names of the objects to use have been changed a little but their functionality remained...
SQL For .Net Developers – Entity Framework 4 Second Cycle Slide Deck Yesterday’s evening I delivered a session at Microsoft Raanana about Entity Framework 4 as a part of Microsoft ’s SQL For .Net Developers series of sessions . I want to thank all the attendees who came to the session. I really enjoyed to talk about Entity Framework and the audience was very cooperative with a lot of really good questions. As I promised, I uploaded the session slide deck and demos to my Skydrive and you can download...
Consuming OData Feed using Microsoft PowerPivot PowerPivot is a data analysis add-in for excel that brings to it computational power. It also helps “to create compelling self-service BI solutions, facilitates sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions” (taken from the PowerPivot site). This post will help you to understand how to consume OData feed from PowerPivot in order to use the data the OData exposes. The OData Feed OData exposed feeds can be found in the http://www.odata.org...
Using Paging in WCF Data Services One of the mechanisms which were provided in WCF Data Services from the start was client side paging. In the new release of WCF Data Services we also get a server side paging and this will be addressed in this post. WCF Data Services Client Side Paging From the early days of WCF Data Services we could achieve paging on the client side using the $top and $skip query parameters. For example the following URI for a data service will bring the 11-20 courses which were...
Entity Framework 4 Course In the last couple of months, I have updated my Entity Framework course to include the new subjects and features of EF4 . Yesterday I finished to deliver the first cycle of this course and got good reactions about it. If you want to learn what is Entity Framework , how to use it and how to integrate it into applications you can take a look at the following syllabus and to register for the three days instructor lead course I’ve created. See you there.
SQL For .Net Developers – Another Sessions Cycle Since the SQL For .Net Developers series of sessions was successful Microsoft is conducting another sessions cycle for whoever missed the first cycle. I’m scheduled to deliver a session about Entity Framework 4.0 & LINQ on 27.06.2010 at Microsoft office in Raanana starting at 16:30 until 19:30. For further details (in Hebrew) and registration you can use this link . You can read a review of Gadi J. Meir (in Hebrew) about the session here (Thanks...
Annoying Build Error while Implementing the IControllerFactory Interface Today I wanted to check something in the MVC framework in regard to the implementing the IControllerFactory interface. I couldn’t guessed that it will take me ten minutes to figure out an annoying build error which I will explain here how to resolve it. The Scenario You want to implement the IControllerFactory interface but not in the MVC framework generated web application. The implementation would exists...
SQL For .Net Developers – Entity Framework 4 Slide Deck Yesterday’s evening I delivered a session at Microsoft Raanana about Entity Framework 4.0 & LINQ as a part of Microsoft ’s SQL For .Net Developers series of sessions . I want to thank all the attendees who came to the session. I really enjoyed to talk about Entity Framework and the audience was very cooperative with a lot of really good questions. I also want to thank Tzvia from Microsoft for the opportunity to be the one who opens this...
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