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.
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The ASP.NET MVC framework source code is now available on CodePlex for viewing and bug fixes.
Common issues and solutions for unit testing ASP.NET MVC controllers, focusing on mocking Request.Form and ASP.NET Membership.
A collection of useful links and resources for ASP.NET MVC developers, covering tools, tutorials, and lifecycle explanations.
Announcement and recap of the Microsoft TechDays 2008 conference in Belgium, focusing on Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET and Silverlight.
A 2008 blog post exploring TextGlow, a project combining Silverlight 2.0 and OpenXML to create a web-based Word 2007 document viewer.
PHPLinq 0.2.0 released, bringing .NET's LINQ query syntax to PHP for querying arrays, XML, and other data sources.
A tutorial on implementing data-driven web testing in Visual Studio 2008, focusing on linking databases and validation rules.
A tutorial on implementing Data Driven Testing for unit tests in Visual Studio 2008, using a database as a data source.
A tutorial on using Visual Studio 2008's built-in performance profiling tool to identify and analyze a memory issue in C# code.
A technical tutorial on indexing Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) files using the Zend_Search_Lucene library in PHP.
Explains how to implement load-balanced session state partitioning in ASP.NET to distribute sessions across multiple state servers efficiently.
Explains how to implement ASP.NET Session State Partitioning to scale session storage across multiple servers using a custom resolver.
Introducing PHPLinq, a library that brings C#-style Language Integrated Query (LINQ) functionality to PHP for querying arrays and objects.
A tutorial on creating an ASP.NET handler to preview Word (.docx) files as HTML using OpenXML and LINQ to XML.
Explores implementing Forms-based security in ASP.NET MVC, covering Web.config limitations and using Code Access Security attributes for authorization.
Explains a common ASP.NET DataPager issue where paging fails after the first PostBack and provides a lifecycle-based solution.
A developer's introduction to the ASP.NET MVC framework, highlighting its advantages over WebForms and providing a basic sample photo album application.
Microsoft releases ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP preview, featuring AJAX improvements, MVC framework, Dynamic Data, and Silverlight support.
A tutorial on using LINQ (Language Integrated Query) in C# to query and process files from the filesystem, demonstrated with a photo album example.
Preview of the upcoming ASP.NET MVC framework release, with insights from Scott Guthrie's examples.
