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ASP.NET MVC4 Installer is incompatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

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I tried installing ASP.NET MVC4 beta today, but seconds into the installation the WebPI already halted the process. (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET MVC4 beta

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Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0

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It's been a while since I wrote my last book review, mostly because I'm still trying to figure out when it adds value to write one. For this one it was pretty obvious, there are far too little reviews out there. Being new to NHibernate, and NHibernate being known as having a steep learning curve, I thought it would be a good idea to do some reading. Searching for books on NHibernate 3.0... (more)

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tags: Entity Framework, NHibernate, Data Access

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Testing DI bootstrappers

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While your Dependency Injection bootstrappers - being responsible for gluing your application together - are a vital part of your application, they are seldom put under test. I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be though. The cost of these tests is negligible, definitely if you compare it to the cost of the often catastrophical outcome of bugs in your bootstrappers. (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC, Ninject, Unit Test, unit testing

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How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth

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Something I hadn't noticed until recently is that Wikipedia tries to use the browser's native SVG support to render certain images. For example, if you search for a high resolution image of your country's flag, you will probably end up viewing an SVG. Next to being able to scale to an arbitrary size without suffering data loss, the SVG data format allows images to be far more compact. Basically, SVG is just XML, which also means ... (more)

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tags: SVG, html5

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Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance

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This weekend I prototyped an idea I had earlier this week: autocorrecting unknown actions in ASP.NET MVC. (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC, Routing, url, Algorithm

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An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC

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I have been spending a decent amount of time working on a side project in ASP.NET MVC lately. From the start, I planned on supporting mobile. There are lots of ways you can use or extend ASP.NET MVC to support mobile. Having tried several, I can say they all have their merits, and the solution that will work for you very much depends on your requirements. In this post I will run you over the implementation that worked for me, for my specific requirements. (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC, Mobile, ASP.NET

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2011's most read posts

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I compiled a list of most popular posts that were published on this blog in 2011. Unlike last year, and the year before that, this year it's not a strict top five list. While analyzing the statistics, I found out that a few topics -covered over multiple posts - were popular this year. (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC, anonymous types, websockets, html5

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When should you take performance into consideration?

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Before publishing my previous post on rewriting an if, I knew some people would hate it, because the refactored construct is less performant. Although I think performance is important, relevant performance improvements are, apart from in tight loops, hardly ever to find in language constructs. To put it more bluntly, they are a waste of time. (more)

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tags: Refactoring, Performance, clean code

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Rewriting an if

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Rethinking the way of rewriting an if with multiple similar conditions. (more)

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tags: if-statement, Refactoring, C#

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Programming for the future of mobile

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I have been working on something small on the side lately. I hardly have anything to show for it though, most of it is still being shaped in my head. Anyhow, a very important part of the front-end is built using jQuery mobile. Although the framework hasn't been released - release candidates are available though -, it's something you should start looking into today. Why? Because the browser is the future of mobile applications. With the Flash and Silverlight bombs that were dropped today, I am even mo... (more)

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tags: jQuery-mobile, Windows Phone 7, jQuery, Mobile

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The gift of legacy

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Just after graduating, I hated legacy with the heat of a thousand suns. I felt unfortunate, having to work on old code, built using outdated technologies, while software is all about making new and shiny things. Right, guys? Those naïve expectations of a rookie got crumbled very soon. Legacy is a constant in our industry. You can try to ignore it as long as possible, but it's impossible to keep that up forever. Over the years, I have come to accept that. I even have been fully embracing it lately. ... (more)

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tags: legacy

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Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC

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Last week, I wrote something on assembling viewmodels in ASP.NET MVC. In that post, I said it would be nice to have a layer between my controller and my domain services that would assemble viewmodels for me. This would work one-way. In the other direction - from controller to domain services - I would just take a piece of my composite viewmodel and pass that directly to my domain services. Well, that last part didn't really work out eventually. I found it hard to find real-world scenarios where I cou... (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC, ViewModel, Architecture

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Viewmodel assemblers in ASP.NET MVC

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Working on a new ASP.NET MVC side-project, I have the luxury to experiment with new technologies, but also with different patterns and naming conventions. Something which bugged me in a previous project was that we made our service layer return viewmodels. It worked rather well because the service layer in our MVC project was just another layer between the real domain services - where most of its work was creating viewmodels from domain objects or translating viewmodels into domain objects, so they c... (more)

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tags: ASP.NET MVC, ViewModel, domain services, MVC

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Ninjecting MVC3

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Dabbling with a new MVC3 side-project, I chose Ninject to handle dependency injection. The creative project name might have something to do with that decision. So far, I am really impressed. Setting up Ninject is a breeze, and the framework does a really good job of not getting in your way. In this post, I will walk you through a simple MVC3 project using Ninject. (more)

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tags: Ninject, MVC 3, dependency injection

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Building small things

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Due to the nature of things we build in our day to day job, writing software can wear out even the most fit of us. Most software jobs make you constantly deal with complexity. The amount of things which can lead to a complex software project are immense. A poor first design, and failure to redesign. External dependencies.. (more)

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Recursively spawning Web Workers

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I like to think of HTML5 Web Workers simply as 'threading for the Web'. The fun quirk here is that you can start a worker that recursively spawns.. (more)

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tags: webworkers, html5

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Simple sorting in JavaScript

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In this post some of the simple sorting algorithms are implemented in JavaScript: bubble sort, insertion sort and selection sort. (more)

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tags: algorithms, SORTING, JavaScript

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No more regions on implementing interface

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Something that has been irritating me tremendously lately, is that when I implement an interface using Visual Studio all the members of that interface get surrounded by a region. After poking around in the C# Text Editor options a little while, I found the switch that enables that behaviour. (more)

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tags: Visual Studio, Tools, Tips

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Checking for anonymous types

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Because I blogged about anonymous types last month, I thought following extension method would also make an interesting post. (more)

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tags: anonymous types, Reflection, Compiler

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My first jQuery plugin: jRoll

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With transitioning to ASP.NET MVC, I see our JavaScript codebase increasing exponentially. And this is a big win, unless we fail to keep that codebase maintainable. We mainly rely on jQuery to do our DOM manipulations, so it's only logical for us to abstract those manipulations into reusable jQuery plugins. So today, I wrote my first jQuery plugin and named it jRoll. jRoll jRoll is a plugin that finds all the (external) links in a jQuery object, and replaces the value of the href attribute with ... (more)

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http://jclaes.blogspot.com/

ASP.NET MVC4 Installer is incompatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0

Testing DI bootstrappers

How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth

Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance

An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC

2011's most read posts

When should you take performance into consideration?

Rewriting an if

Programming for the future of mobile

The gift of legacy

Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC

Viewmodel assemblers in ASP.NET MVC

Ninjecting MVC3

Building small things

Recursively spawning Web Workers

Simple sorting in JavaScript

No more regions on implementing interface

Checking for anonymous types

My first jQuery plugin: jRoll

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