Jose Guay

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Hi all. Today Scott Guthrie just announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 as Open Source under MS-PL. Checkout the story here. The news is also available from Scott Hanselman here. Cheers!

Hi all, just to share a note from JetBrains. Take a look:   Hello, Just a quick note to let you know that ReSharper 4.5 will be released next week. The beta is available now at: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/beta.html?010409R You can also check the benefits of ReSharper at: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/docs/ReSharper_benefits.zip?010409R If you have ReSharper 4.x, the upgrade to […]

So, what do you know… Less than 12 hours later vol 1.2 is released 🙁 If you are a subscriber you can get it at the Client Center. http://www.devexpress.com/ClientCenter/ If you are not a subscriber, you can checkout the free CodeRush Express and the free tools.

Hi all. Just to share the news, the newest volume of Developer Express Tools is out (despite the beta announce in the home page). If you are a subscriber you can get it at the Client Center. http://www.devexpress.com/ If you are not a subscriber, you can checkout the free CodeRush Express and the free tools. […]

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Hi all. I want to share some thoughts about this book from Apress. So, the book is very well organized and written. The ideas are very clear and it actually make me think in the way I normally architect projects. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not doing it that bad, is just it has opened […]

Hi all. In this capsule, I’ll show you how to login a user using Forms Authentication but programmatically. The process is actually simpler than you might think. If you know the username you can login the user with the following line of code: 1: FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(UserName, false); Now, the first parameter is obviously the username of […]

Hi all. For the first ASP.NET Capsule, I want to show you how to setup SQL Server to support forms authentication with the Membership Provider in an ASP.NET website. So for that, the framework provides with the tool aspnet_regsql.exe that you can launch from the command line (for best results, launch the Visual Studio 2008 […]