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]

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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]

I just wanted to run an assembly from a network drive and this assembly was failing because network drives are untrusted because of CAS (Code Access Security). If you are in a similar permission and want to give a network drive full trust you can use the caspol.exe tool located in the .NET F... [More]

It is common knowledge amond .NET developers that the control class has a handy method called ResolveUrl() which resolves a path containing the tilde (~) charachter to an application specific absolute path. I often want to use this facility when I am working in code not in a class that inher... [More]

I have just read about another great new feature coming in Visual Studio 2010 on Scott Guthrie's blog. Over time the web.config files associated with .NET web projects have got larger and larger this is because version 3.0 and 3.5 of the .NET framework share the same machine.config file meani... [More]

I just came across this post looking at the changes between the .NET framework 3.5 and .NET framework 4.0 Beta 1. What really interested me was the writers usage of a tool called NDepend. Which allows you to write CQL (Code Query Language) queries against assemblies as if they were a database... [More]

When you are using a textbox for a password field in .NET and hence have its TextMode property set to 'Password' you cannot set the Text property of the textbox at runtime. This is a bit of a pain but is by design to prevent an unmasked password being displayed in the page. Sometimes... [More]

Microsoft have just announced the realease of an open source .NET bloggining engine built using MVC. The source is availiable through CodePlex. I for one will be taking a look to see how easy this will be to integrate with some of our projects because we currently use blogengine.net and it i... [More]