Master-PowerShell | With Dr. Tobias Weltner - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Great place to learn Powershell:
Master-PowerShell | With Dr. Tobias Weltner - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

The eBook can be downloaded as PDF : ClickHere

Identity Management: Windows Identity Foundation

Time to WIF :

Introductory Video which might help you get started: See it here.

The blog link for Gunnar Peipman: Click Here

Identity Management: Windows Identity Foundation
Started reading this stuff.




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Dibyendu

Debugger Canvas

Really cool stuff .. was waiting for this ..
Debugger Canvas

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert! - Joe On ASP.NET

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert! - Joe On ASP.NET

Stop Using Mocks

Read the Article to get good know how of what to write in a test and also a robust test case.

Stop Using Mocks

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Dibyendu

Some CSS Gotchas

Was going through CSS tutorials on w3schools, jotted down few points. Hope it helps as a reference:


Do not leave spaces between the property value and the units! "margin-left:20 px" (instead of "margin-left:20px") will work in IE, but not in Firefox or Opera.

Do NOT start an ID name with a number! It will not work in Mozilla/Firefox.

Do NOT start a class name with a number! This is only supported in Internet Explorer.

If the link to the external style sheet is placed after the internal style sheet in HTML , the external style sheet will override the internal style sheet!

If the name of a font family is more than one word, it must be in quotation marks, like font-family: "Times New Roman".

If you do not specify a font size, the default size for normal text, like paragraphs, is 16px (16px=1em).


If you do not specify a font size, the default size for normal text, like paragraphs, is 16px (16px=1em).

When setting the style for several link states, there are some order rules:

* a:hover MUST come after a:link and a:visited
* a:active MUST come after a:hover


Explanation of the different parts:

* Margin - Clears an area around the border. The margin does not have a background color, it is completely transparent
* Border - A border that goes around the padding and content. The border is affected by the background color of the box
* Padding - Clears an area around the content. The padding is affected by the background color of the box
* Content - The content of the box, where text and images appear

In order to set the width and height of an element correctly in all browsers, you need to know how the box model works.

Important: When you specify the width and height properties of an element with CSS, you are just setting the width and height of the content area. To know the full size of the element, you must also add the padding, border and margin.

The total width of the element in the example below is 300px:
width:250px;
padding:10px;
border:5px solid gray;
margin:10px;

Let's do the math:
250px (width)
+ 20px (left and right padding)
+ 10px (left and right border)
+ 20px (left and right margin)
= 300px
Imagine that you only had 250px of space. Let's make an element with a total width of 250px:
Example
width:220px;
padding:10px;
border:5px solid gray;
margin:0px;
The total width of an element should always be calculated like this:

Total element width = width + left padding + right padding + left border + right border + left margin + right margin

The total height of an element should always be calculated like this:

Total element height = height + top padding + bottom padding + top border + bottom border + top margin + bottom margin


None of the border properties will have ANY effect unless the border-style property is set!

The "border-width" property does not work if it is used alone. Use the "border-style" property to set the borders first.

The display property specifies if/how an element is displayed, and the visibility property specifies if an element should be visible or hidden.

Hiding an element can be done by setting the display property to "none" or the visibility property to "hidden". However, notice that these two methods produce different results:

visibility:hidden hides an element, but it will still take up the same space as before. The element will be hidden, but still affect the layout.

display:none hides an element, and it will not take up any space. The element will be hidden, and the page will be displayed as the element is not there:

Changing the display type of an element changes only how the element is displayed, NOT what kind of element it is. For example: An inline element set to display:block is not allowed to have a block element nested inside of it.

Positioning: The CSS positioning properties allow you to position an element. It can also place an element behind another, and specify what should happen when an element's content is too big.
Elements can be positioned using the top, bottom, left, and right properties. However, these properties will not work unless the position property is set first. They also work differently depending on the positioning method.


Try the code below for various cursor types:

Mouse over the words to change the cursor.

<html>
<body>
<p>Mouse over the words to change the cursor.</p>
<span style="cursor:auto">auto</span><br />
<span style="cursor:crosshair">crosshair</span><br />
<span style="cursor:default">default</span><br />
<span style="cursor:e-resize">e-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:help">help</span><br />
<span style="cursor:move">move</span><br />
<span style="cursor:n-resize">n-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:ne-resize">ne-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:nw-resize">nw-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:pointer">pointer</span><br />
<span style="cursor:progress">progress</span><br />
<span style="cursor:s-resize">s-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:se-resize">se-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:sw-resize">sw-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:text">text</span><br />
<span style="cursor:w-resize">w-resize</span><br />
<span style="cursor:wait">wait</span><br />
</body>
</html>


Dependency Injection References

To get a hang of what Dependency Injection I went through couple of these articles:

Design Patterns: Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection with Autofac

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Dibyendu

Regular Expressions --> Revisiting

Trying to brush up my regex, for this I came across couple of articles which helped me to grasp the concepts:

Part 1

Part 2

Code Standards | Isobar

Need to Read this ... Just posting for the reference.

Code Standards | Isobar

ASP.Net MVC Reference

Scott Gu is the Guru:

Part1

Part 2

Nerd Dinner Asp.net MVC tutorial

The Nerd Dinner Book

CSS Cheat Sheet

CSS Cheat Sheet: Good Reference for Any Web Developer

Cheat Sheet Collection: Cool collection to have handy and may be setup one of your monitor with this wallpaper.

Extending WCF with Custom Behaviors

Was not knowing the options available for validating the messages through the WCF, good to see this article from Aron Skonnard which in detail explains various aspects of WCF behavior extensions. 

Extending WCF with Custom Behaviors

Default Website of IIS 5.1 not starting

kinda old post to mention in 2010 but still a problem is a problem and you could run into it anytime ... Was not able to start default website in IIS 5.1.

Tried all the junk stuff like iisreset, net stop iisadmin and others but nothing came to rescue ... Thanks to Jon Galloway who showed me the light of the day ..

See this post

Summary is to keep ur dev box away from port blocking apps

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Advice for Storing and Displaying Dates and Times Across Different Time Zones

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Advice for Storing and Displaying Dates and Times Across Different Time Zones

Already Implemented in the project which I worked on 6 months back.. Hail Corillian ...

SQL Server 2008 Connection String Samples - ConnectionStrings.com

SQL Server 2008 Connection String Samples - ConnectionStrings.com

A set of connection strings to be used a quick reference helps.


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Dibyendu

Design Patterns: Model View Presenter

Design Patterns: Model View Presenter

An article which is gonna demistify the MVP patter for the ASP.Net Developer. Will Add some more points in this post on how to make the demo work for you.


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Dibyendu

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Must use if you are using JQuery with VS-2008. I was in dark about this for a long time thanks to Partha my colleague for finding this out for me.

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

"http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0696ad60-1c68-4b2a-9646-4b5f4f8f2e06"

JS enhancement

"http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0696ad60-1c68-4b2a-9646-4b5f4f8f2e06"

WTF is HTML5 (Infographic)

WTF is HTML5 (Infographic)