Category Archives: OSS

NuPack– .Net Package Management… and much, much, more

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Yeah.. so all the Ruby and Java guys are saying.. Its about time .Net got a package management system. There were a few growing in the open source space, but none have really gained any traction.  Nu seemed to be … Continue reading →

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MSDN License Giveaways for Open Source Projects

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I am totally excited to support the folks over at Devlicio.us and their giveaway.  They are giving away MSDN  Licenses to Open Source projects in need of said licenses.  As a Microsoft MVP, I was given three MSDN License’s to … Continue reading →

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MvcContrib – Portable Area – Visual Studio project template

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I just uploaded a visual studio project template for creating portable areas.  You can find the release here: http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/releases/view/43162 This project template includes a little msbuild trick to automatically include all of your content files as embedded resources, so you … Continue reading →

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A Call for Help – Vote for my Codeplex Issues

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Eric Hexter

This is my second time of calling to the community to support some feature requests I have made for the CodePlex website.   The first time I did this, I got a great response. The community voted my issue up and … Continue reading →

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ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas via MvcContrib

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Eric Hexter

Follow me on RSS and Twitter Follow @ehexter   This is a multi post series on ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Sample Portable Area Part 3 – Usage of a Portable Area Part 4 … Continue reading →

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Breaking changes in Ncover 3.0 integration with Cruise Control .Net

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Eric Hexter

  There were some changes to the nCover xml reports for code coverage which will break your existing integration with cruise control .net. Specifically if you use the Statistics feature of Cruise Control which is one of the best features … Continue reading →

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MvcContrib source code has moved to GitHub

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Eric Hexter

We recently moved the MvcContrib projects source code over to GitHub.  We are hoping that the ease of creating forks and pulling them back into the trunk will allow for more contributions to the project.  I know that GIT seems … Continue reading →

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Opinionated Input Builders – Part 9 override the default Date Time picker

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Eric Hexter

  Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator Part 6 – the Performance Part 7 – the Performance Take … Continue reading →

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Opinionated Input Builders – Part 7 More on Performance / Take 2.

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Eric Hexter

Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Label Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator  Part 6 – the Performance Part 7 – the Performance Take 2 … Continue reading →

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Big Props to the Codeplex team!

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Eric Hexter

  A month back I was on a mission to get a feature included in Codeplex that would allow my projects to better support the companies which fund my projects.  I reached out to the community to help vote this … Continue reading →

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