Have you ever got frustrated because the website you have been developing and testing on the inbuilt Visual Studio webserver (Cassini) does not work when published to IIS? You have always had the option to use a local instance of IIS on your machine to debug Visual Studio web projects but thi... [More]

An American businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish. "How long did it take ... [More]

 I just came across this list of fantastic JQuery plugins on the queness site. It's well worth a luck and I think my fovorites are the 'Animated Share Button', 'Bubble Up' and 'Quick Sand'.    

Kevin Pang just wrote an excellent article entitled "Dependency Injection for Dummies". It is only short, so not an in depth article, just as you would expect from the title! I think it is the best description I have ever come across at explaining dependancy injection and more importantly ... [More]

Rick  Strahl has just posted a really comprehensive post on Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth. OpenId is a single sign on (SSO) scheme. The idea here is that you use your login for one site all over the place. SSO isn't really anything new, howeve... [More]

Chris Pietschmann's has just written on his blog about a MvcMaps Preview 1 which is a Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC. The project is still in its early stages and this release is just a preview but the code looks fairly promising for anyone wanting to integrate Bing or Goog... [More]

A post listing 100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek has just been posted on the onlinecourses.org blog.  There is a huge variety of courses here from the very basic to advanced algorithms, all are free and a lot come from MIT. 

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Scott Gu has just blogged about improvements made to the add reference dialog in VS 2010. This has always been really slow and a major pain. It seems the VS 2010 team have listened to everyone’s gripes and now by default the dialog opens on the “Projects Tab” and when using the &ld... [More]