ASP.NET Resources

March 2009

Rediscovering Nolo

I’m my persistent quest for independent consulting, I have read several books by Nolo. In case you’ve never heard of them, Nolo publishes a wide array of titles for those of us who want to understand legal and accounting mumbo-jumbo. They neither get cutesy like the For Dummies series (those are great in their own way) nor do they sound like law dictionaries.

3/22/2009 |

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Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 / Application Architecture and Design

It is difficult to write about architecture because it’s such a subjective topic. The term itself means different things to different people. Given that Microsoft produces weak architectural guidance, I welcome any and all attempts to hone in on that illusive perfect architecture of a web application. Unfortunately, ASP.NET 3.5: Application Architecture and Design by Vivek Thakur falls short of my expectations.

3/22/2009 |

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Web Site vs Web Application Project (WAP)

In ASP.NET 1.x there was only one way to create a web app—the Web Application Project (WAP). In ASP.NET 2.0 WAP was killed, deliberately or not, and replaced with the lame Web Site “model.” WAP for Visual Studio 2005 was shipped separately later.

3/13/2009 |

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Cassini vs IIS

Cassini is a “simple, fully managed Web server that hosts ASP.NET” (source). It’s a lightweight “server” you get when you create a new ASP.NET application in Visual Studio.

3/12/2009 |

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Class View Pane: An Overlooked Visual Studio Gem

For me, a quick way to see if a project is properly structured is to go to View | Class View. This is one badly overlooked but handy Visual Studio tool.