Design Patterns for Dummies
Just recently getting into Design Patterns and am blown away by it, but difficult to find easy to absorb text or screencasts on it. Anyone reckon they can do a "Dummies" style intro on them? Could turn into a ground-breaking series. More
media management
Hi, it would also be cool if some kind of media gallery could be added, where sources could be pictures (categorized), video (user uploads, youtube, soapbox), ... Users could tag this and comment on pics koen More
NHibernate
An introduction on using NHibernate More
Screencast Videos
Demonstrate your websites and products with videos that show you using them and talking about their features. (Similar to what Carl Franklin does on Dot Net Rocks TV) More
SEO friendly urls
Hi, It would be nice to offer some small tips on SEO friendly urls ? I used the previous TBH code as a sample and create urlrewriting myself, but it would be nice to put this in a small chapter for the next book. More
Creating custom configuration sections in your app.config/web.config
I was thinking of doing an episode where we cover how to create custom configuration sections in your app.config/web.config Love it or Hate it? More
Series using the Windsor Castle IoC Container
I was thinking of doing a series on the Windows Castle IoC container. This would walk someone thought the different ways you could use the IoC Conatiner. Love it or hate it? More
Series using the StructureMap IoC Container
I was thinking of doing a series on the StructureMap IoC container. This would walk someone thought the different ways you could use the IoC Conatiner. Love it or hate it? More
Cache Application Roles
Nick Berardi 51 days agoIn any application that uses roles, there is a hit to the database on every page request to fetch the role for the current user. This is quite inefficient. The ASP.NET Framework contains a mechanism to easily allow roles to be cached in a cookie. Just takes a couple of lines of extra code. Unfortunately, the original application doesn't do this. This is something that should definitely be implemented in the new editions. More
Support for LINQ to Entities
Nick Berardi 51 days agoIt would be very nice to integrate LINQ to Entities into this site. if only to show how it could be done. This would allow you to connect to any DB for which an ADO.NET provider is available (Oracle, MySQL, DB2, VistaDB, etc), and would thus allow you to retain Marco's "plug-and-play" DAL provider model. It'd be a shame to lose that. More