Whew. It's been a long time since I blogged but I think it's fine time to get back into it and this seemed to be a useful start. My job for the last few years has been in the electrical industr...
About an hour ago I didn’t have a MyGet account (although I knew about the service) but did have a repository on GitHub with a package that I was manually updating and pushing to NuGet . Than...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/automatically-publishing-nuget-packages-from-github
Are you as excited as I am about ASP.NET MVC but want to know more. Or have you been struggling all your life in Web Forms Hell and want to make the leap to MVC and don’t know where to start or...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/live-kitten-juggling-with-asp-net-mvc
This is such a simple thing but something every SharePoint developer should have in their toolkit (well, actually, this is something Microsoft should put into the product). The SPFieldCollection ...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/splistcollection-containslist-extension-method
A team site can be a boring place. Just a site with some documents, a list or two, maybe a calendar. Here’s a super simple way to make the page a little more interesting looking. Your team si...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/enhancing-your-sharepoint-team-site-homepage
Just a few simple Virtual Machine tips when developing in SharePoint My VMs are 40GB in size and pre-allocated. After installing SharePoint, SQL Server, and Visual Studio and all the tools I nee...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/virtual-machine-tips-for-running-sharepoint
Recently Scott Hanselman posted on his blog an ASP.NET Jump Start session they had which featured 9 videos (over 8 hours of content) on developing apps with ASP.NET. This is a great resource an...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/asp-net-training-videos-delivered-via-sharepoint
One of the key things to wrap your head around when doing good software development using frameworks like ASP.NET MVC is the idea of convention over configuration (or coding by convention). Th...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/convention-over-configuration-with-mvc-and-autofac
This was a question asked on the MSDN Forums but I thought it was worthy of a blog post as I could get more in depth with the explanation and show some pretty pictures (plus the fact I’ve never...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/defaulting-values-in-a-multi-lookup-form-in-sharepoint
These might be old but as I was going through doing some code reviews and optimizations I thought I would share with the rest of the class. COUNT() > 0 VS. ANY This is a bit of heated debate ...
Join me and 83,517 screaming nerds (everyone in the city is attending and a geek right?) on Thursday February 21st from 3-5pm to talk about building Metro style apps for WIndows 8. Here's what we...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/windows-8-and-the-lethbridge-technology-user-group
Here’s a script that will walk through all Site Collections in all Web Applications (i.e. your entire farm) and delete any user from the Site Collection that isn’t in ActiveDirectory anymore....
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/powershell-tools-removing-orphaned-users-from-sharepoint
As a SharePoint developer a wise choice is to run your Virtual Machines on a separate drive (separate from your OS drive). That way you gain some performance as two different operating systems ar...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/vmware-performence-with-usb-drives
As yet another follow-up to the various posts I made on building a Metro-style directory of sorts in SharePoint here and here , one thing that’s been asked a few times already is reading from ...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/metro-sharepoint-directory-reading-from-lists
Having some fun with a previous post I did about generating a Metro-style menu from a Custom List in SharePoint for the purpose of building something like an Application Directory. It’s a great...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/goodbye-ribbon-going-full-screen-metro-style-with-sharepoint
Tree Surgeon is a Visual Studio project generation tool originally written by Mike Roberts based on a series of blogs he wrote about building up a maintainable and testable development tree for ...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/tree-surgeon-alive-and-kicking-or-dead-and-buried
Back in the day, Marvel had a wonderful comic book series. It was called What If and featured titles like What If Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four, What If Captain America Became President, ...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/what-if-mad-men-landed-the-microsoft-advertising-contract
The premise of coding to interfaces has been around for awhile now. The concept is simple. Given a definition of something you create things based on that definition. That might be a horrible des...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/code-to-interfaces-right-what-s-an-interface
I started a new ASP.NET MVC project recently and wanted to give you a little insight on kicking off new projects. There’s some setup time you want to spend setting up your solution and getting ...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/getting-started-with-asp-net-mvc-3-logging-and-depency-injection
Recently the Windows Phone Developer Team posted an article about how App Insights work and specifically how Free, Top, and New apps work . It’s all accurate, a good read, and (to an extent) wi...
https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/broken-windows-phone-marketplace