Recent .NET posts

IZWebFileManager now speaks in more languages

Recently I got a contribution from BeJay, one of IZWebFileManager users. It was 3 new language resource files: China, Czech  and Slovakia.

 

So by now IZWebFileManager supports 17 languages! Isn't it great?

 

Most recent release available for download from google code: http://code.google.com/p/izwebfilemanager/

 

IZWebFileManager is an open source project. You are welcome to contribute!

igorz 05/02/2012 - 08:22
.Net Open Source, ajax, ASP.NET
BugAid – What Visual Studio could have been

Alt.Net tools night are great for “getting to know” new tools and meet some outstanding fellow .Net (or other) programmers/professionals. Usually around 60 or so people come to these events and I think this is pretty impressive for a Google group that started out there in the wild.

On the last session of Alt.Net tools night (Jan 2012) I got so impressed by one of the sessions I decided to share it. Not that the other session where unimpressive, on the contrary, it’s just that this little tool is not something you see every day.

menny 29/01/2012 - 23:45
.Net Open Source, BugAid, Visual Studio
NHibernate Course

Hi All!

 

NHibernate - is an open-source ORM framework, widely used in .NET world

 

We are offering 5 sessions NHibernate course, that covers folowing subjects:

 

igorz 09/01/2012 - 11:58
.Net Open Source
Node.js on Windows Azure & iisnode

If you haven’t heard about node.js than you are leaving in a different dimension. The good news you can watch this great talk to get introduced with the subject and learn how this whole integrates into windows.

 

Sure, node wasn’t planned for windows, better yet, windows wasn’t made for node.

 

Node is an asynchronous JavaScript framework (build on V8 JavaScript engine). The main idea is to enable developers run js code on the server side as well. Why? Because we can and because many developers already know JavaScript and should get the same developer experience as others. Although JavaScript is a single threaded operation you can write asynch code very easily like in many JS UI frameworks that exists today.

 

menny 08/01/2012 - 22:26
.NET, .Net Open Source, iis, iisnode, node.js
Silverlight 5 is out

Silverlight 5 is finally out. you can get the bits here.

For getting started with the Version 5 you can see here the release overview and introduction.

 

Some pointers on the new release:

 

menny 11/12/2011 - 10:08
.Net Open Source, Silverlight
Epic – Silverlight future, but mostly past

As developers we always strive to use the newest technologies and be kept up-to-date with our programming languages. The most terrible thing that could happen is to become obsolete with your skill, or that you are using an obsolete platform and Silverlight has just won the title. Its kind ‘a sad, but most likely, justified. Microsoft, again, waited for the final hour to pull the plug and still the enigma remains.

menny 08/12/2011 - 22:36
.NET, .Net Open Source, HTML 5, Javascript, Javascript HTML5, Metro, Metro Style, Silverlight, Silverlight5, Windows 8, WinRT
Use ASP.NET Resource strings from within javascript files

It seems to be a common issue.

ASP.NET allows you to use resource files (*.resx) to localize content of pages (or views, if we are in context of ASP.NET MVC). All what you need is to put resource files under ~/App_GlobalResources folder and use either resource expression or  HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject() API to get a proper string. It is well documented on MSDN. The only issue - this API is not accessible within static resources such JavaScript files.

igorz 15/11/2011 - 09:54
.Net Open Source, ASP.NET
WPF hands on

In this session we will learn WPF hands on....

 

We'll learn th basics of: XAML, Bindings, Templates, etc.

 

We'll try to build Windows like folder browser.

 

Pre-Requisites:

Visual Studio 2010.

C# knowledge.

Happy people  or very happy people 

 

Here you can find the presentation.

 

Ofir

 

 

 

 

 

ofir 11/10/2011 - 17:02
.NET
Build 2011: HTML5 + JS 'First-Class Citizens,' Silverlight Takes a Back Seat

"The new development platform for so-called Metro apps is called WinRT, short for Windows Runtime. Its name suggests its potential future place as the principal runtime library for Windows. Developers who have already embraced the .NET Framework may find themselves shifting positions to make room."

lior.kanfi 13/09/2011 - 22:59
Application Frameworks, Blogpost, Javascript HTML5
Multi threaded Singleton - Template

Thanks to Dror A. for bringing this issue up.

 

from MSDN:

Even though Singleton is a comparatively simple pattern, there are various tradeoffs and options, depending upon the implementation. The following is a series of implementation strategies with a discussion of their strengths and weaknesses.

 

Simple Singleton:

using System;

public class Singleton
{
   private static Singleton instance;

   private Singleton() {}

   public static Singleton Instance
   {
      get 
      {
         if (instance == null)
         {
            instance = new Singleton();
         }
         return instance;
      }
   }
}

 

ofir 23/08/2011 - 21:01
.Net Open Source, MultiThreaded, Singleton, template, .Net