Chris Stewart's ASP.NET Blog

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)

But I like my dependencies!

CompiledMonkey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:14:00 GMT

Recently I've been talking about dependency injection and ASP.NET MVC. Each are interesting technologies and are "hot topics" in the ASP.NET world right now. I had decided that my newest project would utilize these, if for nothing...(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)

Which Dependency Injection Framework?

CompiledMonkey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:16:58 GMT

I'm in the planning phase of a new ASP.NET project. Currently I'm evaluating the various software components and packages I'm going to use to put this project together. With all of the hype surrounding Dependency Injection, I've decided to...(read more)

Book Review: Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion

CompiledMonkey — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:08:06 GMT

I just finished an interesting book, " Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion ". Trac, a ticket management system, and Subversion, a source control management system, are open source software that are very popular in the...(read more)

Book Review: Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, 2nd Edition

CompiledMonkey — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:25:27 GMT

Over the last few weeks I've been working on finishing the latest book from SitePoint on ASP.NET, " Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, 2nd Edition ". The authors did a great job on this book. It's fit for a beginner...(read more)

Book Review: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials

CompiledMonkey — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:01:20 GMT

Not long ago I received an email from someone at Packt Publishing asking if I would review their latest ASP.NET book. I gladly accepted as this is something I'd like to do more of. I have another book on my bedside table waiting for a review...(read more)

Strongly-Typed Session in ASP.NET

CompiledMonkey — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:52:00 GMT

Session state is a very useful tool for an ASP.NET developer. I use the Session object in every project. I use it to store information related to the current user that I need quick access to throughout their visit. It's important not to overuse the Session...(read more)

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC

CompiledMonkey — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:38:00 GMT

By now we've nearly all heard of the ASP.NET MVC framework available in CTP form. The Model View Controller architecture has been around for quite some time but more popularly in the desktop world. Java has seen its share of MVC web frameworks over the...(read more)