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Deploying your ASP.NET MVC3 site on Mono

In this blog post I am going to show you how easy it is to create a new ASP.NET MVC site and deploy it on Linux/Mono. Step 1 – Create project Create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project. Compile and run it.

MongoDB, C# and Mono

MongoDB is one of the many free open source NoSQL databases that exist today. I wanted to try out how well the official drivers for C# worked when using Mono. On the MongoDB web site they have pre built binaries of MongoDB for almost every platform, i grabbed the 64 bit binary for OSX. No […]

String interning in C#

Last week a coworker sent me an interesting piece of code: const string a = “”; const string b = “”; const string c = “hello”; const string d = “hello”; Console.WriteLine(ReferenceEquals(string.Empty, string.Empty) ? “Not so surprising…” : “Oh, the humanity!”); Console.WriteLine(ReferenceEquals(a, string.Empty) ? “But I thought string was a reference type!” : “Seems fair…”); […]

Updated version of SignalRChat

Yesterday I uploaded a slightly updated version of the test application I have built using SignalR. Besides from looking much better, it now uses the high level Hubs API (instead of the connection API) that SignalR provides. You find it here: http://signalrchat.apphb.com/ And you can find the source on GitHub: http://github.com/moberg/SignalRChat

Reference types are always passed by value in C#

Last week i had a discussion with a friend about C# and passing parameters to methods. My friend asked why it is possible to use the ‘ref’ keyword for a reference type in C# when passing it to a method, he was under the impression that reference types are passed by reference to methods. This […]

A simple image sprite generator in C#

Last week I posted the source code to a small program I wrote in Java to merge images into a sprite. This week I present the same application but in C#, pretty much translated line by line 🙂 using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.IO; using System.Linq; namespace NSpriteGenerator { class Program { static […]

AppHarbor – Heroku for .NET?

I have been reading about this new startup that offers a service called AppHarbor. It seems very much as the same idea as Heroku for Ruby, but for .NET. The basic idea is that you deploy your code by pushing your code onto the server using Git, the server then builds, runs unit tests and […]

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MVC 3 RTM Install Error (after upgrading to VS2010 SP1)

Yesterday I installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1 on my home computer. After the installation I wanted to upgrade MVC3 to the RTM version (I had the RC version installed), so i uninstalled the RC and downloaded the new version. The installation came half way, then stopped, in the log file i found this: Installation failed […]

The must have tools for C# development

Visual Studio 2010 I don’t think Visual Studio needs an introduction. VS 2010 brought us .NET 4.0 that contains a lot of new goodies! ReSharper ReSharper is the absolut must have for Visual Studio. It provides very improved navigation and search, refactoring, code generation, code cleanup and unit testing. I have gotten so used to […]

Thoughts on the Nokia / Windows Phone 7 deal

For the last week the news that Nokia has chosen Windows Phone 7 as their main operating system for all their new smart phones has been all over the news. A lot of people are very upset and say that Nokia should have gone with Android instead, or that they should have invested more in […]

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