Let me start off on a modest note: I am not an expert on dependency injection. I am, however, certain of the value that it provides. TDD After having engaged in the same conversation time and time again, I have become convinced that there is indeed "one...

So recently I was having a conversation with someone about my JSONP update for the ExtJS library. We were talking about how I added error handling to their default implementation, and exactly what trick I had used to do that. However, we should probably...

On the road again, I just can't wait to get on the road again! The life I love is making code with my friends, and I can't wait to get on the road again! Dates New York July 6th - Fairfield DNUG - Code Generation July 7th - Long Island DNUG -...

The Arkansas leg of the tour went really well. Hey, rest of the US: Arkansas has an amazing .NET community! I don't know what's better, their top notch developers or their gorgeous scenic byways? Either way, I am officially a huge fan of Arkansas...

The .NET community is the best development community ever. How do I know that? Because they ask the best questions! Here are two really important questions that we have been asked concerning PLINQO for Entity Framework that I wanted to call some extra...

It has been spring now for a few weeks, and while the weather in my home state of Texas still seems to be confused about this, I am just happy to finally have the sun set after the work day ends! With the changing of the seasons also comes (for us) the...

OAuth 1.0 was one complicated beast. The OAuth 2.0 spec greatly simplified things, but that also had the wonderful side effect of rending all of our old OAuth 1.0 code obsolete. They say that "the only thing a pioneer gets is an arrow in the back...

The CodeSmith Tools are hitting the road (and even the skies) to talk about .NET technology all around the US! Want us to speak at your local user group? Just drop me a line! We will post again each month with updates and additional details , so stay...

As my Uncle Ben once said, "with great insomnia comes great responsibility." Or maybe that was Spiderman, I don't remember. All I know is that I couldn't go to sleep last night, and when I came to this morning there was a proof of concept...

So, what else is new in MVC 3? MVC 3 now has a GlobalFilterCollection that is automatically populated with a HandleErrorAttribute. This default FilterAttribute brings with it a new way of handling errors in your web applications. In short, you can now...

In MVC3 a GlobalFilterCollection has been added to the Application_Start. This allows you to register filters that will be applied to all controller actions in a single location. Also, MVC3 web applications now add an instance of HandleErrorAttribute...

Ever since CodeSmith Insight was featured on the Sencha Product Spotlight I have been getting a lot of questions about ExtJS. Specifically how to start learning it, and what tools we recommend using. Well rather than respond to these inquiries one email...

Sometimes I think that people don't realize how much code CodeSmith Tools has open sourced over the years. Sure some of these projects are CodeSmith specific (such as our many schema providers), but many of them are not dependent on us at all. General...

The ExtJS library does include a JSONP component, but I found it to be lacking a very important piece of functionality. The Problem: No Error Handler Anyone who know's anything about JSONP is immediately going to call attention to the fact that JSONP...

The Dallas Day of .NET is coming! http://www.jointechies.com/ This will be a two day event, Friday March 4th through Saturday the 5th, and it will be held at the Microsoft center in Irving, TX. There are going to be a lot of big names and speakers there...

The CodeSmith Insight Launch Party was a huge success. Thanks to the almost one hundred people that came out and partied with us. It was a blast, thank you all so much for coming out! We did a 15 minute demo of Insight before we gave out prizes. To show...

I love how testable ASP.NET MVC is, I also love MVC2's model validation. However when trying to unit test a controller method that used the ModelState, I quickly learned that the ModelState is not populated when just newing up a Controller and calling...

We are very excited about our upcoming CodeSmith Insight Launch Party . We rented out the Addison Convention Center, ordered ten old school arcade machines, bought over $1,000 in prizes, booked flights for the entire CodeSmith Tools team is come in from...

One of the top benefits of integrating CodeSmith Insight into your application is that it will automatically catch and report all unhandled exceptions. As quick and easy as it is to just let Insight do all the work, you may want to make customizations...

The primary goal of CodeSmith Insight is to "unite different forms of communication", and email is a crucial medium with which users communicate with us. This is why Insight is capable of both importing and sending email, and this is why Insight...

If you have not had a change to play around with the Selenium 2 and WebDriver , let me assure you that it is worth checking out! We have been using WebDriver to help create unit tests for our new product, CodeSmith Insight , which is build using ASP.NET...

If customer facing issues are your top priority, then you are already adhere to the primary principle of Exception Driven Development. Exception Driven Development It's a pretty simple concept: Collect application data, especially regarding errors...

One of the most exciting new features in MVC 2 is "Enhanced Model Validation support across both server and client". The new enhanced support allows for client side validation to be dynamically generated into a view quickly and easily using...

The CodeSmith Tools (Shannon and Tom) are back on the road and delivering their first presentation of the new decade, in Houston! If you or any developers that you know will be in the Houston area on Thursday, March 11th, you should come see us and learn...

The immediate uses of PLINQO Future Queries are readily apparent: Do you have multiple queries that need to be executed back to back? Add future to the back of them and save yourself a few database trips. What might not be quite as easy to spot, are those...