Maarten Balliauw is a cloud and web development expert specializing in .NET, C#, Microsoft Azure, and application performance. Frequent international speaker and Head of Customer Success at Duende Software.
438 articles from this blog
A tutorial on implementing form validation in ASP.NET MVC Preview 5, showing controller and view code for validating user input.
A technical guide on creating a custom, security-trimmed sitemap provider for ASP.NET MVC applications, including XML configuration and dynamic nodes.
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 integrates community-contributed features like error handling filters, output caching, and membership functionality.
Author's article on ASP.NET MVC framework published in a Dutch .NET magazine, with updated code examples available online.
A technical guide on extending ASP.NET MVC's OutputCache to support dynamic content substitution within cached pages, similar to classic ASP.NET.
A tutorial on implementing a custom OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute for server and client-side caching in ASP.NET MVC applications.
A developer details creating a custom Visual Studio Team System check-in policy to run solution-specific unit tests, addressing a multi-solution project challenge.
A tutorial on creating a custom GridView extension method for ASP.NET MVC using C# lambdas for templating, paging, and editing.
A developer's review of NDepend, a tool for analyzing code dependencies, metrics, and quality using visual diagrams and a custom query language.
Announces ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release, detailing key changes like new controller action returns and routing updates.
A technical guide on building a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC framework, detailing the process from theory to implementation.
A tutorial on creating a custom ImageResult class in ASP.NET MVC to dynamically render images directly from controller actions.
A humorous article detailing IT pranks to encourage a project manager to lock his desktop, including fake icons and email tricks.
A developer shares the process and satisfaction of creating a custom template for their BlogEngine.net blog after 11 months.
Highlights two new Team Foundation Server projects on CodePlex: TeamReview for in-IDE code reviews and TFS Sticky Buddy for project status tracking.
Guide to integrating Zend Studio with Team Foundation Server for PHP development, enabling source control and team collaboration in mixed environments.
Announcing an ASP.Net MVC authentication starter kit with OpenID and Windows Live ID support, providing an alternative to the Membership Starter Kit.
Urgent security alert for BlogEngine.NET users about a vulnerability exposing user credentials, with a patch recommendation.
An overview of the MvcMembership project, an ASP.NET MVC starter kit for implementing membership and authentication features with extensible controllers.
A tutorial on using PHPExcel to integrate and reuse existing Excel-based business logic in a PHP web application, avoiding duplicate code.
