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• ASP.NET MVC 2 MinStringLength Custom Validation Attribute

  I love ASP.NET MVC 2 validations for client and server via annotations. Steve Sanderson's xVal is great too, but in this post I want to focus on a custom validation for MVC 2 which is frustratingly missing from the out-of-the-box validations. There... Posted Mar 11 2010, 01:21 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• EventLog WriteEntry Helper Class

  This log helper class seems to get used over and over again in projects I've worked on. Generally I use it as a fallback, calling it from an exception block in a application logging code. Let me know if you find it helpful. public static class LogHelper... Posted Jan 06 2010, 03:01 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• Windows Azure 1.0 CloudTableClient Minimal Configuration

  It turns out that using table storage in Windows Azure 1.0 is quite easily done with a minimal amount of configuration. In the new Azure cloud service Visual Studio project template, configuration is significantly simpler than what I ended up with in... Posted Nov 29 2009, 07:13 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code, Azure

• Enterprise Silverlight 3 with WCF RIA Services on Windows Azure 1.0 Part 1 Redux

  A month ago I posted the results of some experimentation with the preview bits of what was then called .NET RIA Services, Silverlight 3 and the Windows Azure with AspProvider sample code from the Azure July 2009 CTP. That was then and much has changed... Posted Nov 23 2009, 08:48 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code, Azure, Silverlight

• OraHelper – An Oracle Version of the SqlHelper Class

  A very long time ago, I wrote a little helper class clone of SqlHelper for Oracle which I called OraHelper. I haven’t looked at or touched the code in years, but I regularly get email asking where it’s gone to. It appears that the www.asp.net community... Posted Oct 21 2009, 09:05 AM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• Silverlight 3, RIA and Windows Azure Part 1: ASP.NET Provider Model for Azure

  After spending last weekend working on and blogging about Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA services, I decided I’d look to build out a membership, profile and role provider that would use Windows Azure storage. Much to my delight, I stumbled into the AspProvidersDemo... Posted Oct 18 2009, 07:58 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code, Azure, Silverlight

• Building Enterprise Applications with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Windows Azure Part 1

  After spending last weekend working on and blogging about Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA services, I decided I’d look to build out a membership, profile and role provider that would use Windows Azure storage. Much to my delight, I stumbled into the AspProvidersDemo... Posted Oct 18 2009, 07:58 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code, Azure, Silverlight

• Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services Forms Security

  I finally carved out some time to experiment with Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services over the weekend. Specifically I wanted to experiment with Forms security and how one might secure a Silverlight "page" as well as the services on the server... Posted Oct 12 2009, 03:01 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• Enum to Dictionary with Description Attribute Reflection

  A week ago in a misguided attempt to make things easier, I created something like the following code. My mistake was not in creating the code necessarily, but in applying it to data driven auto generated enums. If you have those, don’t use this. If you... Posted Aug 27 2009, 09:15 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• PLINQO a Better LINQ to SQL

  A few weeks ago I made a major course correction in our choice of ORM data layer. We had planned to use LLBLGen Pro but several issues with the code that it generates continued to bother me. First, it's support for stored procedures lacked the ability... Posted Apr 27 2009, 09:31 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code, Review

• Enforce WCF Proxy Net.Tcp Config in Code

  In a recent project I wanted to simplify the creation and configuration of a WCF proxy client and enforce programmatic configuration so that the client could only be used in a specific configuration. Here’s the result of that effort. Note that there is... Posted Mar 15 2009, 09:29 AM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• Base 30 Type in C#

  I'm experimenting with using the Guid type in databases and applications but I don't like the string format of the Guid. It's not easily read or formatted on a report. I wanted to find a way to represent very large integers such as the Guid... Posted Nov 24 2008, 05:27 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• ASP.NET MVC RedirectUrl on Login

  In my first attempt at creating a real applicaiton using the new ASP.NET MVC project template ( Codeplex Preview 5 ), I found that when I clicked a new tab I'd created linked to a specific controller and an action I'd decorated with the [Authorize... Posted Sep 17 2008, 08:20 AM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• Live Writer Source Code Format Plugin

  I've just installed the plugin blogged about by Mike Ormond and here's an example of it's output taken from code in the Atrax project I've just published to Codeplex . namespace Atrax.Library { [DataContract, Serializable] public class... Posted Sep 09 2008, 12:22 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Code

• Atrax Keyword Extraction Algorithm

  Two and a half years ago I wrote an implementation in C# of an algorithm published in 2003 in a short academic paper by Yutaka Matsuo and Mitsuru Ishizuka in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Of course, the algorithm is not a... Posted Sep 07 2008, 02:12 PM by tsJensen.com - My Technology Blog Filed under: Code