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Handy 0.95 sources fixed for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010

Alex Thissen — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:21:00 GMT

This zip file contains the sources of Handy 0.95 fixed for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010.

The original sources are by Keith Wilkins and can be found at http://handy.sourceforge.net/download.htm

Web Pages Framework for ASP.NET developers

Alex Thissen — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:41:21 GMT

Demo code used at the session for the June 2011 edition of the Software Developer Network event in Zeist, The Netherlands.

Slides can be found here.

Web Pages Framework for ASP.NET developers

Alex Thissen — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:34:26 GMT

Session for the June 2011 edition of the Software Developer Network event in Zeist, The Netherlands.

This session covers:

What this new framework is,

How it relates to ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and WebMatrix

How to build applications with it

Introduction to Razor (see also my DevDays 2011 session on “Introduction to Razor” for more information on Razor)

What the new concepts like “page hierarchies”, UrlData and PageData are

Working with models and model state (and how this is different than the model from MVC)

Automatic routing

ASP.NET MVC 2 Demos

Alex Thissen — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:23:40 GMT

Demo code for session on ASP.NET MVC 2 given at the SDN Event of April 20th, 2010 in Achmea Conference Centre, Zeist.

Requires Visual Studio 2010 RC.

ASP.NET MVC 2

Alex Thissen — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:20:39 GMT

Session for Software Developer Network (SDN) on April, 20th, 2010 in Achmea Conference Centre, Zeist.

Covers and overview of ASP.NET MVC (release 1) and the new features and enhancements for release 2.

M Language of Oslo

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:48:42 GMT

Demo code for the "The M Language of Oslo" presentation for the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 on 28 of May, 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Works with the January 2009 CTP and May 2009 CTP (where indicated).

Production debugging ASP.NET

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:36:02 GMT

Demo code for the "Production debugging of ASP.NET applications" presentation for the MIcrosoft Developer Days 2009 on the 28th of May, 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands. This is a slightly adapted version of Tess Ferrandez's Buggybits demo website. It also contains a memory leak introduced in the static event handler SiteMap.SiteMapResolve in the master page and has additional Health monitoring enabled.

Oslo Overview

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:32:56 GMT

Demo code for the "Overview of Oslo" presentation for the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 on 29th of May, 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Works with the January 2009 CTP.

The M Language of Oslo

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:52:43 GMT

Presentation at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands on the M language of Oslo. Covers MGraph/MSchema and MGrammar. These slides use the May 2009 CTP language specification.

Overview of Oslo

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:48:45 GMT

Presentation at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands with an overview of Oslo. Covers the ideas and vision behind the new Microsoft modeling platform, including a quick overview of the M language.

Production debugging ASP.NET

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:40:52 GMT

Presentation at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands on debugging ASP.NET applications running in a production environment. Covers various tools and a couple of scenarios that you may actually encounter in real life.

Oslo explained demo code

Alex Thissen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:13:13 GMT

Demo code for the "Oslo explained" presentation for the Stichting DotNed on 22nd of January, 2009 in Woerden, The Netherlands. Works with the January 2009 CTP and presumably the initial Professional Developer Conference 2008 pre-alpha bits.

Oslo explained

Alex Thissen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:10:06 GMT

Presentation for Stichting DotNed on 22nd of January,. 2009 at the Class-A premises in Woerden, The Netherlands. Covers the vision for Microsoft's modeling platform Oslo and the languages MSchema, MGraph and MGrammar.

Unity 1.1 Application block demos

Alex Thissen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:27:05 GMT

Demos for the SDN Conference 2008 session on "Introduction to Unity 1.1 Application Block". The demos show the way Unity is used in an ASP.NET MVC application and a traditional application. Also demonstrates the migration from a tightly coupled scenario to one using Unity

Introduction to Unity 1.1 Application Block

Alex Thissen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:19:44 GMT

Slides for the SDN Conference 2008 session on "Introduction to Unity 1.1 Application Block". Explains design patterns such as dependency injection and inversion of control and the way Unity is used to do resolution of types.

IT Deathmatch: Entity Framework versus Linq to SQL

Alex Thissen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Small set of slides for the IT Deathmatch between Paul Gielens and myself. Just some fun slides to lighten up things a little. Contains a lot of interesting quotes from various well-known people, such as Matt Warren (architect on the Linq to SQL team). In case you're wondering: Paul collected these. :)

ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 Demos

Alex Thissen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:07:59 GMT

Demos for the SDN Conference 2008 talk on the ASP.NET Model View Controller Framework. Demos are reworked to work with Preview 5.

Dynamic ASP.NET Thumbnails source code

Alex Thissen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:31:46 GMT

Source code for the article "Developing a custom ASP.NET Web control for thumbnails"

Developing a custom ASP.NET Web control for thumbnails

Alex Thissen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:13:57 GMT

Article that describes how to create a custom control to generate thumbnail images automatically.
It covers:

ASP.NET Http handlers
Registering custom extensions for the ASP.NET runtime under IIS
Creating subclassed ASP.NET controls

Originally posted on ASPToday in November 2003

ASP.NET MVC demo code

Alex Thissen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:36:03 GMT

Demo code for the Developer Days 2008 talk on the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Code has been compiled against the 416 build of the framework.

Special stuff inside demo:

Different domain for a change (no Northwind, but one-line jokes)
Health monitoring action filter
Unity controller factory
Some examples of unit tests for controller actions, including testing and mocking session state.
Different strategies for passing view data

Idenitites and principals demos

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:27:05 GMT

Demos to the presentation on identities and principals in the .NET Framework 1.1 at the MSDN/Technet Briefings of Fall 2004 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

XML/XSLT framework sample

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:23:47 GMT

Presentation at the Conference to the Point 2003 on Frameworks that shows how you can use the .NET Framework 1.1 to create a XML and XSLT based framework for web applications.

Web Services zonder ASP.NET

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:21:39 GMT

Verslag van sessie over Web Services without ASP.NET gegeven op Conference to the Max 2003 in Papendal voor Software Developer Group Netherlands.

Lengte: 9 pagina's

Web Services without ASP.NET demo code

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:18:33 GMT

Demo code to session Web Services without ASP.NET given at Conference to the Max 2003 in Papendal, The Netherlands,

Mobile applications with .NET Compact Framework demo code

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:14:49 GMT

Demo code used in presentation on mobile applications with the .NET Compact Framework 1.1 given at the Conference to the Max 2003 in Papendal, The Netherlands for the Software Developer Group Netherlands.