A little while ago, Scotts Guthrie and Hanselman presented on MVC in ASP.NET (and Dynamic Languages) at the oddly named ALT.NET conference in Texas.  I'm with ScottH that ''Alt'' is a pretty silly name and something like Agile or Pragmatic would be a much better descriptor.  Alternative is not terribly descriptive since anything that ...

I found out that I should be speaking at the DevConnections show this fall.  The show is being held in Las Vegas again, November 5–8th.  I apologize to anybody that had hoped to see me present last month in Orlando at the spring show – I was unfortunately out of the country due to circumstances beyond my control (but which ...

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed.  For some components, I can create a new instance of the control or component and test its IsLicensed property.  For others, the assembly itself is ...

Plasma is an ASP.NET in-memory web server emulator that can be used for ASP.NET unit testing or automation.  Its initial codebase was written by Microsoft and its current incarnation is a community project licensed under the Microsoft Permissive License.  I’ve been working on the project with several others and have just put the ...

I gave a presentation on Visual Studio Team System last night to about 30 students at Wayne State University in Detroit.  I don’t think it was one of my better presentations, for a number of reasons, which I’ll lament here and attempt to improve in the future. First off, this was an earlier presentation than most of the INETA ...

I'm considering having my web-page tests, currently implemented using NUnitASP and some Cassini-implants, test for broken links (prompted by someone reporting one from one of my sites).  I haven't gone any further than to have the idea that this might be a good idea, so I'm wondering if anybody has done it and would care to comment?  If ...

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=152&thread=82646I'm wrapping up some tests of AspAlliance Cache Manager (no URL yet) and wanted to ensure that my output was valid XHTML.  So I did some googling and found this thread which led me to create this technique in my unit test: private bool IsUrlValidXhtml(string ...

I've uploaded my presentations from last week's ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas to the ASPAlliance Resource Directory's Presentations area.  Enjoy!

I'm leaving in the morning for Las Vegas for ASP.NET Connections, where I understand attendance is extremely high relative to expectations, no doubt related to the fact that Microsoft is launching many of their new dev products this week.  I'm going to be hosting three sessions this week and look forward to meeting folks in person whom I've ...

Soma announces Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Beta 3 will be released in September.  The Beta 3 will feature a Go Live license, so organizations can immediately begin using the Team System features.  Release of TFS is slated for the first quarter of 2006, and all data in the Beta 3 edition will ...