Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong

Few platforms draw the same amount of ire as ASP.NET (or .NET in general) from the development community. While there are certainly valid criticisms of the platform (what platform doesn’t?), the majority of negativity comes from those who haven’t spent any time with .NET. Those developers typically rely on misconceptions… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Oct 31-Nov 6, 2011

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

The Best Way to Learn ASP.NET

You’re looking to learn ASP.NET? I can’t blame you. Not only is it an extremely flexible platform, but .NET developers are in high demand and will continue to be. Unfortunately, it can be an intimidating platform to learn — especially if you are brand new to development or have never… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of Visifire Charting Tools

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Visifire – Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Charting Tools were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them Visifire.

Winners of Visifire Charting Tools

Affan Ruslan
Zee Patel
Peter
Deep
Dorothy

Visifire is a set of data visualization controls – powered by Microsoft®Silverlight™… read more

Visifire – Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Charting Tools Giveaway

Visifire is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the single Developer License with Premium Support worth USD 499 each. Well, you guys know what is Visifire? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

Visifire is a set of data visualization controls – powered by Microsoft®Silverlight™ & WPF. Visifire is… read more

20 Forum Addons, Extensions and Appplications

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Discussion Forums are a great way of ensuring active participation from your website’s visitors. Of late, many established blogs and websites have been running forums wherein their users can interact and discuss matters of relevance (and irrelevance, depends on the mood).

When it comes to running a… read more

Generating Traditional URLs with ASP.NET MVC3

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There are certain truths in the world: we’re born, we die, and URLs should end with a slash if it doesn’t point to a file. The ASP.NET MVC framework bucks tradition and convention, and the built-in methods that generate URLs do so by omitting the trailing slash. It may… read more

The Ins and Outs of WebMatrix: .NET Programming Using the Razor Syntax

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This tutorial gives you an overview of programming with ASP.NET Web Pages using the Razor syntax. ASP.NET is Microsoft's technology for running dynamic web pages on web servers. ol ul li, ul ol li { background: none !important; } td .tutorial_image { display: none !important; } What You'll Learn:… read more

80 Apps and Resources for Cloud-Based Web Dev

Web development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The value of the web has become apparent and business and individuals alike have jumped on board the web bandwagon. During it’s humble beginners, you might find a web developer writing his code in a text editor like… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, June

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

ASP.NET from Scratch: Views with MVC3

ASP.NET MVC3 is now available, and it includes a new View engine called Razor. In this lesson (dubbed 9.5), we download the MVC3 bits and look at Razor and rebuild the application from the previous lesson with the new View engine. Subscribe to our YouTube page to watch all of… read more

Exciting Job Opportunities in Social Media Marketing, Sales & Development

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How… read more

Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC

Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC

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40 Fantastic Self-Hosted Business Apps

The cloud is awesome; it’s convenient, flexible and extremely scalable. There aren’t a lot of arguments that go against using a cloud based app, except for concerns regarding security and cost. However hard one tries to argue against these Notions, we will have to agree that to a significant… read more

ASP.NET from Scratch: Views

The last major piece of the ASP.NET MVC Framework is the View engine. In this lesson, we look at the default View Engine in MVC2 – the WebForms View Engine – and learn how we can use views to display information to the user. Subscribe to our YouTube page to… read more

ASP.NET and AJAX

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the things you can do with ASP.NET and AJAX in your web applications. It’s more than just wrapping an UpdatePanel around some buttons, textboxes and grids! Asynchronous JavaScript and XML There are many caveats with arbitrarily dropping UpdatePanels onto webforms… read more

A Guide to Web Hosting Security Issues and Prevention

Web hosting security can be a real nightmare, especially if you don’t know what goes wrong. What you don’t know about Web hosting can hurt your business. Hackers are constantly trying to find new ways into your server and are becoming more and more clever each day.

While web hosting companies… read more

Create ASP.NET Server Controls from Scratch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build an ASP.NET server control by creating a HTML5 video player control. Along the way, we’ll review the fundamental process of server control development from scratch. Introduction ASP.NET comes with its own set of server-side controls, so why create our own? By… read more

Job Openings at Mashable and Other Great Companies

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social… read more

How to Build an RSS Feed with ASP.NET

Over the course of this tutorial, we’ll review how to create an RSS Feed with the ASP.NET framework. Having an RSS feed for your site has become a necessity in recent years. With blogs or news sites being updated frequently, and with the vast amount of blogs and news websites… read more

Editing CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS5

Dreamweaver CS5 includes a new collection of CSS layouts you can customize to create webpage designs. These layouts are designed to work well in a variety of Web browsers, and they can help you avoid common problems with CSS. This tutorial shows you how to edit these layouts to make… read more

Getting Ready for a Job Interview

by Justin Johnson

As web designers and/or developers we have a certain luxury afforded to us with the location and times; where and when we work. Ours is an industry that allows us to sit at home and work at whatever times (and in whatever conditions) are convenient to us. However,… read more

Getting Ready for Your Job Interview

by Justin Johnson

As web designers and/or developers we have a certain luxury afforded to us with the location and times; where and when we work. Ours is an industry that allows us to sit at home and work at whatever times (and in whatever conditions) are convenient to us. However,… read more

ASP.NET From Scratch: Controllers and Simple Model Validation

This latest episode continues to delve into the ASP.NET MVC framework by looking at controllers and their role in MVC applications. You also learn how to perform model validation by implementing the IDataErrorInfo interface. The Complete Series Lesson 1: Getting Started Lesson 2: Improving an Email Form Lesson 3: Class… read more

40+ Social Media and Web Development Job Openings

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social… read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Integrated Development Environments

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

If you’re new to programming (or new to programming in a particular language) you might be looking for an IDE — that’s an integrated development environment, the handy, dandy piece… read more

ASP.NET from Scratch: Routing in MVC

In today’s episode of ASP.NET from Scratch, we’ll look into URL routing in the MVC framework, and examine how a request can be routed to a controller and action method. You’ll learn how to use constraints to gain better control over your routers, and also discuss best practices in adding… read more

ASP.NET from Scratch: MVC

Lesson 6 ditches WebForms in favor of ASP.NET MVC. In this introduction, you’ll get a taste of ASP.NET MVC and recreate a EmailForm application using the MVC framework. The Complete Series Lesson 1: Getting Started Lesson 2: Improving an Email Form Lesson 3: Class Inheritance Lesson 4: SQL Server Lesson… read more

50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins

The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.

Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find… read more

The Most Powerful and Feature Rich Web-Based Code Editors (IDEs)

With all the talk of Cloud computing at the moment and after reading a short article on Dzones blog a few months back that questioned whether or not It Was the Right Time for Web-Based IDEs? (it was a split poll), we were inspired enough to venture out and find… read more

Save Time with Templates in Dreamweaver

Templates come in many shapes and styles on the Web. You can find templates for Adobe Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, WordPress blogs, and more, but not all templates work in all programs. This column is about creating templates with the .dwt extension—a timesaver when creating custom sites in Dreamweaver.

1 BEST USES… read more

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

Being web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming,… read more

Handset Detection Optimizes The Mobile Web Experience

One of the fastest growing segments on the Internet today is the mobile web. More and more people are starting to surf through websites and download a myriad of content onto their cell phones, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Unfortunately, much of the Internet has been designed… read more

101 Apps for Your Web App Startup Toolbox

With the multitude of web applications available today, it can be difficult choosing, let alone finding, an application that fits your needs and wants. There are so many fantastic apps available, many of which are bound to be beneficial for you and/or your business.

From mind mapping, design and development to… read more

ASP.NET from Scratch: Master Pages

This latest lesson in our ASP.NET from Scratch series delves into Master Pages – ASP.NET’s built-in templating engine. You’ll learn what Master Pages are, and how to use Master and Content pages to provide a consistent look and feel to your web application.

The Complete Series

Lesson 1: Getting Started
Lesson 2:… read more

How to Build a Simple Twitter Widget with ASP.NET

In this tutorial, I’ll be walking you through how to a write a Twitter widget for ASP.NET in the form of a reusable server control complete with nice things such as automatically turning URLs into links, and caching to speed up page load times.

Step 1 Getting Started

To follow… read more

Interactive Flash Graphs and Charts For Your Website

By Usama Alam

Charts and graphs provide the visual representation of your data and help you facilitate the understanding of whatever it is you are trying to deliver. Whether you are publishing a survey report, an election result or a financial analysis, charts play a major role in data presentation.

Due to… read more

35 Fresh JavaScript/jQuery Tools and Resources

It’s time for more JavaScript and jQuery goodies here on Noupe. Today we are featuring fresh JavaScript Development Frameworks, code optimization and minimization tools, reference tables, compatibility issues, common coding errors, image manipulation techniques and graph solutions. Please feel free to submit further resources in the comments to this post!

JavaScript… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Jobs

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts… read more

DotNetNuke Makes It Easier For You To Build Feature-Rich, Interactive Web Sites And Applications

DotNetNuke Community Edition is a leading free open-source content management system for ASP.NET websites.  With DotNetNuke, you can quickly and effectively deploy dynamic web applications with almost no technical knowledge, however if you are an ASP.NET developer, you can customize it in the way you want to fulfill your specific… read more

Need Interactive Charts For Your Personal Website? Try Highcharts

If you have a non-commercial website and you need to add charting capabilities in your website, Highcharts may suit your needs.  Highcharts is a free charting control developed purely with Javascript so that you can show interactive charts on your website.  Since its purely developed with Javascript, you don’t need… read more

Extend the Firebug Console with these 15 Extensions

There are a lot of useful tools for web designers and developers, they do tend to come and go and it usually depends on personal preference whether or not any tool is used. There is only one tool that has lasted the test of time and is not only universally… read more

ASP.NET for PHP Developers: Part 2

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KENTICO CMS For ASP.NET: An All-In-One Solution For Your Web Site And Now With Free Editon Too

Kentico CMS for ASP.NET is a powerful and fully featured Content Management System. This robust and stable CMS can be used for building and maintaining websites including Intranets, Online Stores and Social Community Networks using the Web 2.0 features on the ASP.NET platform. In addition it comes with a Free… read more

Code Snippets To Implement 301 Redirect

Sometimes, if you use a CMS like WordPress or Movable Type, you could need to change the URL structure in use on your blog with a more SEO friendly structure.
This is a big problem especially if your site is already indexed and some posts are popular on search engines:… read more

45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials

By Paul Andrew

As many of us know, the initial 15-20 seconds of a new user’s visit to a web site will have a large impact on whether on not they are going to like or dislike the site, prompting them to decide whether they will stay or go. This means… read more

5 Great IDEs to Start Coding in the Cloud

Cloud computing has started proceeding beyond the hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption. Gartner had included cloud computing in their list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. They also reported that worldwide cloud services revenue is on pace to surpass $56.3 billion in 2009. As we… read more

25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers

Creating an accessible data chart or graph in HTML is very tricky to achieve, especially with some elements, such as images, that allow only the most basic features that give textual information to non-visual users. What are the solutions?
PHP, Flash, Javscript (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype) and CSS can all be… read more