Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

Making NUnitASP work with xUnit

Tanzim Saqib — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:31:34 PDT

NUnitASP is a tool for automatically testing ASP.NET websites. It’s an application of Test-driven Development technique, commonly known as TDD. It was initially developed as NUnit extension. NUnitASP is a class library which allows you to load webpage...(read more)

Quickly Secure Your Site Using HttpModule

Tanzim Saqib — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:38:00 PDT

You have a top secret site hosted on the web and you want to demo it to certain people only. There may be several ways to do it. I wanted to do it under 5 minutes. I created a HttpModule to redirect to a login page. That page will validate against an...(read more)

New Open Source project - MyStream: Social Lifestreaming with ASP.NET 4

Tanzim Saqib — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:42:00 PDT

There are just way too many social networking sites out there to keep up and that's where lifestreaming services come in. Lifestream is a time ordered stream of activities, that functions as a diary of your electronic "social" life. In this...(read more)

DropZone: How I built a database-less secured file storage using dotnetopenid

Tanzim Saqib — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:13:27 PDT

One of my friends work for a company where he has to work in a remote PC and where he lives he does not have good internet connection. He neither has permission for opening up third party email website such GMail, nor he could download email with 100MBs...(read more)

Success story from Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

Tanzim Saqib — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:05:57 PDT

As you probably know from the earlier posts or you might have attended already Microsoft Day , I spoke on Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data, Futures] on June 20th. Some of the enthusiasts still communicating with me even after the Microsoft...(read more)

Presentation at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

Tanzim Saqib — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:27:46 PDT

As I have told earlier about the Microsoft Day @ Dhaka event , and as I have promised, this post is about the presentation slide the audience was asking for. I am so glad to receive appreciation about the session and overall event. I am really happy the...(read more)

I will be speaking at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

Tanzim Saqib — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:58:40 PDT

Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Starter Kit for Visual Studio 2010

Tanzim Saqib — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:47:14 PDT

I have described before in my prior post how you can run your ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2010. There is currently no support for ASP.NET MVC project types in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. So what I did is I created a starter kit for ASP.NET...(read more)

Running a ASP.NET MVC project on Visual Studio 2010 Beta1

Tanzim Saqib — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:37:57 PDT

You probably already know that ASP.NET MVC is not included with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 since MVC was released when Visual Studio release was being locked down. I hope it will be available from Beta2. It also looks like if you install ASP.NET MVC after...(read more)

Building a basic Menu control for ASP.NET MVC

Tanzim Saqib — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:23:47 PDT

There are two different ways to build controls for ASP.NET MVC as of now. The most common way is by HTML Helper extension methods. You will find such methods being used in numerous places inside Views. Such methods can take any complexity of parameters...(read more)

CallQueue: Implementing a Sequential Web Service Call Queue for AJAX application

Tanzim Saqib — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:12:36 PST

In AJAX based applications its common that user might end up breaking your AJAX calls by clicking on numerous places in very short interval of time. Let us assume there is a page where there are several of hyperlinks which make WebService calls and do...(read more)

My eye friendly Visual Studio dark theme

Tanzim Saqib — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:11:07 PST

I am not sure about how you guys feel about your IDE look & feel. First few years it was alright for me. However the more I used Visual Studio, the more I experienced problem with my eyes as well as monotony of the same old white background IDE. So...(read more)

Client Perspective of Windows Azure Services Platform

Tanzim Saqib — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:11:16 PST

Windows Azure was announced on PDC 2008 (Oct 27) and will hopefully be released mid next year. You probably already know about Azure by this time. If no, I would like to quote some from www.azure.com as intro: The Azure Services Platform is an internet...(read more)

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Tanzim Saqib — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:09:30 PST

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? I have recently written an article on Windows Azure which guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to...(read more)

Building applications for Windows Azure

Tanzim Saqib — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:12:18 PST

Windows Azure is an upcoming operating system for the cloud from Microsoft, announced on October 27 at PDC. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft...(read more)