[update: Yonkly source code is now public]
I just released an updated version of Yonkly.
Here is a list of changes, additions and improvements:

Fixed email issues
Added About section under the avatar
Using TinyUrl for Url shortening.
Added profile Url under the avatar (so add your blog/website to your profile)

Added more stats and each one is linked to the appropriate […]

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Tags: asp.net, mvc, Open Source, yonkly

Yesterday, I gave a talk at CMAP Code Camp about the asp.net mvc framework and AJAX using JQuery. This is my first time speaking, so I was a little nervous. I think I did ok but I can’t really tell. Of course, the talk didn’t go as planned, because Visual Studio didn’t […]

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Tags: AJAX, asp.net, cmap, codecamp, jquery, mvc, talks

[update: Yonkly source code is now public]
Asp.net MVC framework rocks. I wanted to play with it more and decided why not build an open source twitter. Unfortunately, I couldn’t come up with a better name for it that had an available domain so Yonkly it is. Come to think of it Yonkly […]

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I am working on an asp.net mvc application and I wanted to make the user’s main page (profile) be www.domain.com/username.  This is a problem because the routing engine in MVC treats the first item after the domain as a controller.  Ofcourse I could do a {*catchall} and do my own parsing but why re-invent the […]

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Tags: asp.net, mvc, tips, url rewriting

I have just spent the entire day playing with Moq to unit test an asp.net mvc application I am working with. All I wanted to do is test a “create” method that simply adds a record to the database. So here it goes.
1. I created a Mock Http context to be used by my controller. […]

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Tags: asp.net, LINQ, mocking, moq, mvc, Testing, unit testing

This is the updated version of the Nikhil’s excellent example on how to use Ajax with ASP.net MVC.
I commented all the changes made in the code and prefixed them with //emad. So just search for //emad and you will see all the changes I made… Here is a quick list of the changes […]

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Tags: AJAX, asp.net, code, mvc