http://blogs.ilmservice.com The Pulse of the .NET Community, from ILM Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The October event for the Minneapolis/St. Paul .NET User Group was on Ping Pong Pair Programming, the combination of test-driven and pair-programming techniques in which one developer writes a unit test, a second developer writes application code to pass the test, and then they switch places. I will be updating this ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/usergroup/2008/10/ping-pong-pairing-event/ There are many articles and blog posts out there that talk about ViewState in-depth and how to handle it when it becomes too large. A large ViewState slows down your user's browsing experience due to larger page sizes. There are many ways to address this issue: decreasing your ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/dotnet/2008/09/aspnet-viewstate-compression-and-ajax/ Tips and Tricks for Dealing with Data in Silverlight Scott Davis Ignition Point Solutions Scott talked about why you may want to use Silverlight for line-of-business applications. He asks: Is anyone aware of any good reporting solutions written for Silverlight? When planning your Silverlight application, a design consideration is that everything is ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/silverlight/2008/08/aug08-minneapolis-silverlight-user-group/ Several folks have already posted about using System.Web.Routing with standard ASP.NET WebForms, and I'd like to extend the concept for use with MonoRail. The default MonoRail router is not terribly sophisticated. It works by using pairs of regular expressions to match and then rewrite a url into /area/controller/action/id format. Here ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/dotnet/2008/08/using-system-web-routing-with-monorail/ I have recently started a habit of writing interesting quotes on my white board. I didn't think much of it at first but it drove a healthy amount of reactions from various folks at ilm. One thing let to another and I found myself writing a new quote every other ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/leadership/2008/07/the-quick-and-the-dead/ Ok, Ok, I know. The web sites for both user groups look hidous, so last century. Actually, if the internet was invented in the 16th century then that is how those websites would have looked like. :-) So, it is time for you to stop complaining and start contributing. :-) We have ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/usergroup/2008/07/volunteers-needed-for-the-new-website/ This has been yet another exciting year for the developers community initiatives at ILM. The .NET User Group has held successful events this year on ASP.NET MVC, Identity Federation, Share Point CMS, Model based Testing, and WCF/WF working together. The SilverLight user group held its first three events attracting over 100 attendees ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/usergroup/2008/07/seeking-speakers-for-the-dotnet-and-the-silverlight-user-groups/ I am very happy to announce the introduction of the Ask the Expert (ATE) sessions for the Twin Cities .NET User Group. I have been seeking for a while to diversify the user group's format to be more than just speaker driven presentations, and this format came highly recommended by many ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/usergroup/2008/07/announcing-ask-the-expert-ate-sessions-for-the-twin-cities-net-user-group/ Sample Code for Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Powerpoint: SEO for Silverlight Applications Sample Ecommerce Site Demo Today was the Minneapolis Silverlight User Group. It was my first user group presentation, so kind of glitchy! All the GUYS (ok there were Four women this time) were very kind and attentive.  No one got ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/silverlight/2008/07/july08-minneapolis-silverlight-user-group/ The third Tuesday in June, 2008 was the second Silverlight User Group at Microsoft offices in Edina.  Wow.  Lots of Men there!   ( OK, I counted three women, 123 men inside the presentation area.  But that's a topic for another blog post.) Doug Nelson presented to us and very skillfully demonstrated how ... http://blogs.ilmservice.com/silverlight/2008/06/june08-minneapolis-silverlight-user-group/