Many people have asked from time to time about creating or finding a NHibernate Data Source to use with ASP.NET.  Here are a few that I have found.

NHibernate Data Layer Generation

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhib-gen/

This project is hosted on SourceForge.  This project requires CodeSmith to generate the code.  The project generates, C# classes for business layer, data layer, and DataSources.  In addition, these templates will generate some based Insert, Update, Delete ASP.NET pages.

NHibernateDataSource

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/NHibernateDataSource.asp

My first official blog post here at http://weblogs.asp.net/jguadagno/.  I intend for this blog to do two things...

1. Provide tips and tricks I learned while rebuilding my web site (http://www.josephguadagno.net) using ASP.NET.
2. Provide in sites to new / advanced ASP.NET development
3. Provide answers to commonly faced problems / questions in ASP.NET development.

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Object Oriented AJAX class and objects structured for ease of use and maintainability for multiple requests.

Pablo wrote a very cool article on the CoDe magazine which should be very useful to most people developing VS packages. With extensive screenshots and wizards, it should make your VS extensibility life MUCH easier.

Give it a shot!

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I have already hinted at this in a previous post, but this time it's a bit different. Sometimes it's useful to switch to a full System.Type when you're doing code-generation or general CodeModel navigation within VS in an addin or VSSDK package.

The trick is to retrieve the ITypeResolutionService from the DynamicType associated with the current project:

private ITypeResolutionService GetResolutionService()
{
    DynamicTypeService typeService = GetService<DynamicTypeService>();
    Debug.Assert(typeService != ...

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This is actually a very simple trick to do inside of your modules, though you might need to setup an option to allow this to be turned on or off depending on what the site administrator wants the page title to be. In C# you can use the following code DotNetNuke.Framework.CDefault tp = (DotNetNuke.Framework.CDefault)this.Page; tp.Title = "This is my page title"; So the next time you're coding a module and need to change the page title, it's that simple. See you all at OpenForce07 in Vegas !...(read more)

The Validation Guidance Bundle is a new set of extensions to the Ajax Control Toolkit introducing AJAX enabled validators.  This is great for situations where a user is entering data unto a web form that needs to be validated against the server.  I have a current situation where I need to make sure that a posting's chosen Url is unique.  With this bundle, I can simply point it to the CustomValidator control which is already tied to a server-side validation method and AJAX will take care of the rest.  When the user tabs off of the txtUrl control, it will go back the server and validate the input in your custom method.  This is also valid for when users are choosing a login name or when you need to do any validation that you don't want to put on the client.

It also works directly with the EntLib Validation Block through a set of property proxies.

One minor gotcha that I ran into is that the assembly references a specific version of the AjaxControlToolkit assembly.  If you are using the latest build of the AjaxControlToolkit, you'll get some ugly errors about not being able to load the correct assembly.  I finally noticed that in the prerequisites for the validation bundle, it is stated that you need release version 10618 of the toolkit (as oppose to the latest 10920 version).  Some more uses are described below:

• Improving UI responsiveness while reusing entity business validation logic across screens when performing validations such as:
•  Length of Employee name.
•  Employee’s email.
•  Order number is unique.
•  Order is complete.
• Improving UI responsiveness for applications utilizing Server-Side ASP.NET validators.
• Determining what type of validation to use for improving responsiveness and security.

Internet safety is something important for parents and their kids. I have the chance to work on the subject as the developer of Webwise.ie (a .Net site by the way!) to give advice for parents and kids about the dangers of the web. In Ireland and more generally speaking in Europe, we try to educate not to ban Internet access, so the site try to keep a positive attitude. If you want to know more about the project, watch my colleague Simon Grehan talking about the subject on a Irish TV show ....(read more)

An article on how web standards can be used in ASP.NET control development

Javascript for Submitting/Closing modal popup on Enter/Esc keypress..

This week on the Silverlight site Shawn Wildermuth presents three videos that demonstrate how ASP.NET and Silverlight work together, with a focus on using ASP.NET to generate dynamic, reusable XAML.

The most advanced works which you can do with GridView in ASP.NET 2.0.

custom client side javascript sorting using generic function