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A few days ago I started migrating a web app I was working on from ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF4 to ASP.NET MVC 4 and EF 4.3.1. All went well, except for some problems with the automatic generation of the DB ...
The web is evolving, and so are the techniques, technologies and frameworks used in web development. Together with Ugo Lattanzi we are organizing the Web.NET Conference Europe, this fall, in Nort...
Still getting my head around this early morning (in Europe timezone) announcement on ScottGus blog: ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source. Some of you might remember that almost 3 years ago the...
I wanted to buy a Nokia Lumia 800 for a while now, but since I wanted to buy it for Daniela I wanted to buy the pink magenta version, and I couldnt find it neither in Italy nor in Belgium. Since Im no...
Lately I have been evaluating a few JavaScript based UI libraries for both my projects at work and to use for a new version of the bike climbs site called 39x27.com: it was quite nice to see that almo...
TechDays 2012 Belgium is just 2 weeks away, and its time to have a look at the agenda and decide which of the sessions to attend. My highlights are: A Look at ASP.NET MVC 4 - Scott Guthrie MV...
Last Saturday it was the 7th and last Conference organized by UGIALT.net. With last I really mean last, as in there wont be any more conferences organized by UGIALT.net, at least not in its current ...
Today I had my first live webcast for Microsoft Belgium, about the new features released with ASP.NET MVC 4 at Build in September. There were around 80+ people registered and around 50 people attendi...
Now that Subtext, the blogging engine Im working (or at least I should) on together with Phil Haack, has been officially moved to GitHub (guess the reason why), I finally have a reason to really study...
Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially in combination with C# 5 and async/awa...
Every time there is a MVP renewal there is always some tweet or posts from people not being re-awarded, but this New Year re-awarding cycle was different: a few vocal and prominent community members d...
This is the time of year when people look back at the year just passed, review and looks out for the year to come. My retrospection post will come in the new year, but for the moment I want to rev...
ASP.NET MVC 4 is the new version of ASP.NET MVC that came out during Build in September: it included a few pretty interesting features like a newly revamped project template, a better asynchronous con...
The voting for the UGIALT.net conference just ended, and just in time for the opening of the registration at noon we published, on the new web site the list of the 19 sessions chosen by the more than ...
Today I decided to convert an action that was making various long calls to external webservices to be asynchronous. With the synchronous version it was long but still under the default script timeout ...
Last week Lucene.Net 2.9.4 was released on the official site. Lucene.net 2.9.4 There is no official news feed for the project, so Im just copying here the announcement from their homepage: We fi...
As you may or may not have heard, yesterday WCF Web API preview 6 has been released. If you never heard about it I recommend you read the quick introduction on CodePlex, but basically it is a facilit...
The Call for Presenters concluded yesterday evening, and Im very happy to say that we received 50 proposals from more or less 40 different speakers. Voting From now, logging in with your twitter or ...
Im a Meet member Not sure if its the same in every country, but here in Belgium & Luxemburg they just setup a team of community members, called the MEET (which stands for Microsoft Extended Exp...
During the last 3 weeks Ive been pretty busy with the organization of the UGIALT.net of next 21st January. This post is a quick update on the status of the Call For Presenters and the next steps that ...
The usual annual UGIALT.net conference will take place on the 21 of January (21/1/12 another palindrome day) in Milano, in the same place its being held since 4 years: in the offices of Avanade Italy,...
A few weeks ago I attended the Agile.NET 2011 Europe conference, in Gent. In this post I just want collect some links to the slides of the event, and give some personal comments on the sessions and to...
After a long gestation period, today it was published on Channel9 a series of webcasts about ASP.NET MVC 3. This webcasts Ugo Lattanzi, a fellow ASP.NET Italian MVP, and I recorded (in Italian) cove...
Yesterday, while I was enjoying this strange beginning of October on the beach, I received the email from Microsoft notifying me about the renewal of my MVP award: this time for the 4th time.
I want ...
If you are following my blog since at least a few years you know that one of my main interest is the possibility to extend ASP.NET MVC and fine tune it to fit your (and your teams) needs.
One of my mo...
Last week I registered to the Agile .NET 2011 Europe conference, held in Gent, on 10 - 11 October, and Im really looking forward to it. I think that if you live in Belgium (or near Belgium) and are in...
Unless you are living under a rock, you have probably heard that two days ago, at Build, Microsoft unveiled the new version of Windows, named Windows 8. Windows 8 This is revolutionary both from the...
In the previous years n books for a .NET Summer reading list used to be the title of the book list post. Now, in the last of my 4 posts with books suggestions I am back to the original title. In my in...
After the Node.js resource list and the list of book for Arduino, the third part of the 2011 summer book list is about Windows Phone 7. The platform is still pretty young, and there are no books that ...
A few days ago, as part of my summer book list post, I posted the resources to get started with Node.js. Another of my area of interest since one year is also Arduino and the so called Internet of Thi...
It is now a consolidate tradition for me to publish, during summer time, a list of the books I liked reading or that I bought and are sitting on my shelves (or, lately, more and more on my iPad) waiti...
Im not a Umbraco expert, actually I never did a real website in Umbraco till now. So being a developer that tries to adopt agile methodologies and tries to remove as much friction as possible I was a ...
This August, if you are on holiday and are not in snorkeling in a lagoon in a tropical island, or if you are work but not many things to do due to the summer period, you could spend half an hour (or...
More than 6 months ago I blogged about Lucene.net starting his path toward extinction. Soon after that, due to the "stubbornness" of the main committer, a few forks appeared, the biggest of which ...
Summer, the period when holidays and open source contributions happen. This July Im very happy to announce that I completed the localization to Italian of Orchard CMS. I started it in March, and with...
This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. I am starting to work on both a series of w...
During the last weeks I noticed that my blog was becoming slower and slower (and if you visited my blog you might have noticed it as well).
After a bit of troubleshooting on the server (which was kind...
Today the Web Platform and Tools team (I can see the influence of Mads in this) announced the release of the Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1. What sits behind this cryptic ...
At the end of April, Microsoft Belgium organized the TechDays Belgium, the annual developer and IT conference in Belgium, to which I had the pleasure to attend. I also manned the Ask The Expert booth ...
In this post Im going to introduce a Mopapp, a mobile app sales analytics site I am using to track the downloads of my FeedTso WP7 app. It is a startup by an Italian developer, and it is competing as ...
This is again the time of the year where all .NET developers would love to go to Vegas. Some can go, but most of them are staying at home and suffering from Pre Mix Envy.
Luckily, since a few years, a...
A few months I described how I handled the encoding bug of the WebBrowser control in WP7. Unfortunately it was not just a problem with the smart quotes but also with all non western characters, and th...
Since the current version of ASP.NET MVC is version 3 you might wonder why I am still promoting my Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book.
The reason is that since a few week it is also available as DRM-free ...
During last Saturdays UGIALT.Net Conference in Milano I shared a talk together with Italian RoR expert Sandro Paganotti: RoR vs ASP.NET MVC. We had 20 minutes each to build a super easy conference re...
In the last few months you have probably noticed a few posts about Windows Phone 7, about my experience using it and about some little problems I found using the web browser. The reason is that, tog...
If you are reading this post it means that you are now reading my blog from the new server. Please let me know if you find it faster, slower, if you spot errors or something like that. That will be re...
The 6th UGIALT.net conference starts in 15 days, and here is a quick update on the agenda and the prizes. Donations Thanks to the donation of 21 out of 175 registered we gathered around 350. If you ...
While finalizing the v1 of the news reader for WP7 Im working on, I noticed that sometimes the text in the WebBrowser control contained some little squares. It was not an encoding problem because acce...
Exactly as the title says, remember to encode the url you want to open in the external browser via the WebBrowserTask, always. This is probably the first of a series of posts Im going to write about ...
One of the reasons for the failures of 2010 is over-commitment. Number one priority for 2011, will be: do not over-commit. Starting from my resolutions, so just 3 per 3 categories. Personal life ...
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