Chris Stewart's ASP.NET Blog

I moved!

CompiledMonkey — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:07:00 GMT

I'm going to be moving my blog here on ASP.NET subjects to: CompiledMonkey.com . Please update your bookmarks!...(read more)

"A Beginner’s Guide: ASP.NET 3.5" Is Here!

CompiledMonkey — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:31:00 GMT

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to be the technical editor for McGraw-Hill's <em>A Beginner's Guide: ASP.NET 3.5</em>. After many months of waiting, the final copy hit my doorstep this morning! It's great to see something you worked...(read more)

Book Review: Programming .NET 3.5 by O’Reilly

CompiledMonkey — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:14:00 GMT

I just finished reading a review copy of “ Programming .NET 3.5 ” from O’Reilly. The book, published in August, is an overview of the latest .NET Framework revision. You’ll get an introduction to the topics that have been introduced along the way that...(read more)

Book Reviews Coming!

CompiledMonkey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:17:00 GMT

It's been way too long since I've posted here. Yes, I'm still around, and I'll be posting some topics very soon. I've been lucky to receive some great books related to .NET and I'll be posting reviews of each of them shortly. At work, I've been primarily...(read more)

Technical Editor for .NET Books

CompiledMonkey — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:24:00 GMT

I've had the pleasure over the last few months to perform technical editing for McGraw-Hill on an upcoming ASP.NET 3.5 book aimed towards beginners. This has been my first experience being a part of the process of putting together a book. I really enjoyed...(read more)

iPhone SDK Development

CompiledMonkey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:13:00 GMT

I know it's unrelated to .NET but I'm a Mac person, so I've been really drawn in to the iPhone SDK. Am I the only one from the Microsoft developer community? I've even started up a blog and forum dedicated to the topic: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com...(read more)

Book Review: LINQ Quickly

CompiledMonkey — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:11:40 GMT

I've been reading another book from Packt Publishing, called " LINQ Quickly ". Again, it's a pretty short book, coming in at 250 pages. The author does a decent job at explaining the basis of LINQ and the various implementations...(read more)

Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

CompiledMonkey — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:28:38 GMT

I've been working my way through " ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed " lately. Although I'm not quite finished, since the book comes in just under 2000 pages, I do feel confident in writing a review. The Unleashed series has a certain following behind...(read more)

Dependency Injection was made for ASP.NET MVC

CompiledMonkey — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:01:00 GMT

It's not that you can't use dependency injection in any .NET application, because you can. It's just that dependency injection fits so well in the ASP.NET MVC programming model. While building up a simple example for how my new application...(read more)

StructureMap for Dependency Injection

CompiledMonkey — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:44:53 GMT

I decided to go with StructureMap as the dependency injection framework for my next project. I choose StructureMap for a number of reasons. StructureMap has been around for quite some time. Not that this makes it better than any other framework...(read more)