.NET Blogs

Below are some of the best (IMHO) .NET blogs - enjoy!

Scott Guthrie's Blog

Scott Guthrie is the Product Manager of the .NET Framework. His Blog is essential reading for any .NET developer, especially those working with ASP.NET.

Last Post: Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery

Pluralsight has developed a great training course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery. It is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin, and is really comprehensive. Details of the course outline can be found here. Free 1-Month Subscription to the Course Pluralsight is offering a special promotion that allows you to get a free 1-month subscription to watch the above course as many time as you want at no cost. There is no obligation to buy anything...

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http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

Scott Hanselman's Blog

Scott Hanselman is a web developer and a new employee of Microsoft. His blog covers all kinds of technology related topics.

Last Post: ASP.NET MVC Beta and RC Upgrades - Confirm your Expectations and Version Numbers in Production Environments

I was working on an app locally using a daily build (newer than the currently released one) of ASP.NET MVC and deployed it to a host. I noticed this weird CSS issue. See how the text box on the left running on localhost is small and not styled while the one on the right running on the host is the correct width? You can click on the screenshot if you need to see more. I dug around a little and using the F12 browser developer tools (as well as good old View Source) I noticed the HTML being created...

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http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

.NET tip of the day

It's not a blog, and there isn't a tip every day, but it's worth a read for the clever tips you may not be aware of.

Last Post: How to respond with code 404 (Not Found) in ASP.NET

Suppose you configured custom 404 page in web.config file in the customErrors section. So whenever user requests non-existent aspx page, ASP.NET run-time returns well formatted message to the user. Also you have a page that shows articles from a database according to article ID passed in the url (for example: article.aspx?id=345). But if user passes article ID that doesn't exists the page must return code 404 (Not Found) and show the custom 404 page like in the previous...

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http://dotnettipoftheday.org/

Mike Taulty's Blog

Mike is a developer evangelist based in the UK who writes about a variety of up-coming Microsoft technologies.

Last Post: Windows Phone/Windows 8 Event–London, June 16th and 17th

For me, there are a lot of similarities between an application developed for Windows Phone and a Metro style app developed for Windows 8. A Windows Phone 7 application (rather than an XNA game) is built in .NET and XAML against a subset of the .NET framework...(read more)

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http://dotnettipoftheday.org/

Darren Fieldhouse's Blog

OK, this is blatant self-promotion, but I'd like to think my blog is a useful resource...

Last Post: ObjectDisposedException in Entity Framework

Having just help another developer with this issue, I thought I’d write a quick post about the cause of the ObjectDisposedException exception when working with Entity Framework. It is important to be aware of two things when working with Entity Framework 1) The data context must not be disposed of until all the data is fetched from the database. 2) A linq statement creates an IQueryable, which is not executed until you enumerate over it (e.g. use it in a for each loop) or convert it to a list...

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http://blog.dotnettech.net/