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My experience at MVP Open Day India - Day 2
Unity (ubuntu desktop) is good
Z-Index in Silverlight / WPF
Web Camp Anchor HTML5 & CSS3 Resources
SQL Server Management Studio Alternatives that are Free
Pictures from Microsoft Tech·Ed 2011 - DevExpress Awards and Fun! #msteched
MVC CheckBoxListFor Helper Extension
Model Binding Checkboxes in MVC
Roadmaps and promises
The Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup (LASLUG) Mentioned in the Weekly MVP Newsletter

My experience at MVP Open Day India - Day 2

Posted: 20 May 2011 02:54 PM PDT

Yesterday (20th May 2011) was the 2nd day at MVP open day. It was with full of session in various tracks and also

Unity (ubuntu desktop) is good

Posted: 20 May 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) is the world's most popular Linux distribution, with more that 12 million installations. The most recent version of Ubuntu, 11.04, shipped

Z-Index in Silverlight / WPF

Posted: 20 May 2011 11:36 AM PDT

I was working on some animations the other day. To make a long story short, I had a Listbox in a Grid that

Web Camp Anchor HTML5 & CSS3 Resources

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Scott Stanfield (http://twitter.com/seesharp) today in Silicon Valley. Presenting with Scott was

SQL Server Management Studio Alternatives that are Free

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:20 AM PDT

There are some nifty, better-than-SSMS tools that cost nothing to use. One of them is already in your toolbox and you might not

Pictures from Microsoft Tech·Ed 2011 - DevExpress Awards and Fun! #msteched

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Check out these pictures of DevExpress crew having fun and working hard at Microsoft Tech·Ed 2011 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Awards Recap

MVC CheckBoxListFor Helper Extension

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

This has been done a few times, here's my attempt: public static MvcHtmlString CheckBoxListFor(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression expression) where TValue : IEnumerable { var name = expression.Body is ParameterExpression ? ((ParameterExpression)expression.Body).Name : ((MemberExpression)expression.Body).Member.Name; var sb = new StringBuilder(); var values = ((IEnumerable)expression.Compile().Invoke(htmlHelper.ViewData.Model)).Select(x => x.ToString()); foreach (var value in values) { sb.Append(string.Format("{0} ", value, name, value)); } return new MvcHtmlString(sb.ToString()); } I included a ParameterExpression just in case the model is an IEnumerable so if your

Model Binding Checkboxes in MVC

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Just so I don't forget, again, it's as simple as this: Controller: public class HomeController : Controller { public ActionResult Index() { return View(new []{"one", "two", "three"}); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Index(IEnumerable items) { return View("Result", items); } } View: @model IEnumerable @using (Html.BeginForm()) { foreach (var item in Model) { @item } } ...(Read whole news on source site) (http://geekswithblogs.net/Nettuce/archive/2011/05/20/model-binding-checkboxes-in-mvc.aspx)

Roadmaps and promises

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

I've just replied to a thread (http://community.devexpress.com/forums/p/101256/345168.aspx) in our General Discussion forum (http://community.devexpress.com/forums/126.aspx) that I think is worthwhile bringing to a wider audience