Just came across this very comprehensive guide for using C# and Mono to develop for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This is definitely something I am very interested in getting in to when I have some spare time. One of the questions I have though is if I have to really buy a Mac and use thi... [More]

ScottGu has just done a brief blog post about some of the code editing productivity enhancements availiable in the Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010 add-on. This is a follow on from his earlier more in-depth posts on the subject which are here and here. The add-ons which have been made... [More]

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]

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 selection of MVC .NET cheat sheets [More]

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]