T4CSS: A T4 Template for .Less CSS With Compression

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Good news! I have contributed my T4 template to the .less project. You can access it from the big download button on their homepage.

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Recent Podcasts

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Just wanted to highlight a couple of podcasts that were suckersgracious enough to have me as a guest.

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation

UPDATE: I’ve updated this post to cover changes to client validation made in ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2.

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Html.RenderAction and Html.Action

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One of the upcoming new features being added to ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta is a little helper method called Html.RenderAction and its counterpart, Html.Action. This has been a part of our ASP.NET MVC Futures library for a while, but is now being added to the core product.

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released

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This is the first in a series on ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta

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Interface Inheritance Esoterica

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I learned something new yesterday about interface inheritance in .NET as compared to implementation inheritance. To illustrate this difference, here’s a simple demonstration.

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Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch

I was stepping through some code in a debugger today and noticed a neat little feature of Visual Studio 2010 that I hadn’t noticed before.

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A RouteHandler for IHttpHandlers

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This code has been incorporated into a new RouteMagic library I wrote which includes Source Code on CodePlex.com as well as a NuGet package!

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Html Encoding Nuggets With ASP.NET MVC 2

This is the second in a three part series related to HTML encoding blocks, aka the <%: ... %> syntax.

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ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension

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Have you ever needed to quickly spawn a web server against a local folder to preview a web application? If not, what would you say you do here?

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VS10 Beta 2 From an ASP.NET MVC Perspective

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You probably don’t need me to tell you that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released as it’s been blogged to death all over the place. Definitely check out the many blog posts out there if you want more details on what’s included.

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Announcing Let Me Bing That For You

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UPDATE 2018-11-19: I’ve transferred the GitHub Repository to Mateus Rodrigues de Morais who will take over future development of Let Me Bing That For You.

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Scripts Available on Microsoft CDN

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A little while ago, Scott Guthrie announced the launch of the Microsoft Ajax CDN. In his post he talked about how ASP.NET 4 will have support for the CDN as well as the list of scripts that are included.

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Software Externalities

If you’re a manufacturing plant, one way to maximize profit is to keep costs as low as possible. One way to do that is to cut corners. Go ahead and dump that toxic waste into the river and pollute the heck out of the air with your smoke stacks. These options are much cheaper than installing smoke scrubbers or trucking waste to proper disposal sites.

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Introducing Mia Yokoyama Haack

This morning at 3:17 AM, Mia Yokoyama Haack was born weighing in at 7lb 8.5 oz. Now my world domination crew is complete!

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

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Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago.

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Successive Method Calls With MoQ

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UPDATE: For a better approach, check out MoQ Sequences Revisited.

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Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4

This is the first in a three part series related to HTML encoding blocks, aka the <%: ... %> syntax.

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More On The CodePlex Foundation

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In my last post, I presented a general overview of the CodePlex foundation and talked a bit about what it means to the .NET OSS developer, admittedly without much in the way of details. I plan to fix some of that in this post.

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What The CodePlex Foundation Means To The .NET OSS Developer

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UPDATE: Be sure to read my follow-up post on this topic as well.

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