In my previous post I described how to start working with SASS using Mindscape Web Workbench.
In this post I am taking next step - start working with Compass - CSS Authoring Framework.
Immediately after installing Web Workbench, you can create/edit SCSS file, which are compiled into CSS. By default, Web Workbench compile SCSS files with SASS compiler. But there is a trick:
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
Tools: SlowCheetah - XML Transforms
If you have different Debug/Release configurations and want to switch them automatically when you run application - this tool is "must to have" for you.
SlowCheetah - XML Transforms
"This package enables you to transform your app.config or any other XML file based on the build configuration. It also adds additional tooling to help you create XML transforms.. Written by: Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, Chuck England and Bill Hiebert"
SlowCheetah - XML Transforms
"This package enables you to transform your app.config or any other XML file based on the build configuration. It also adds additional tooling to help you create XML transforms.. Written by: Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, Chuck England and Bill Hiebert"
Just used it with my application, it works like a charm, no more lines of code in build script changing configuration for production environment.
Highly recommended!
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Add power of SASS to ASP.NET application
I always wanted to find a way to develop CSS in a way I write C# or JavaScript. The main problem in CSS as a language for me were complexity of refactoring and code reuse.
There were projects such SASS and LESS, but there was no way to adopt them into .NET/Visual Studio environment easily.
About month ago I met amazing product - Mindscape Web Workbench . It is a Visual Studio plug in, allows you to write SASS, LESS and Coffee Script with Visual Studio and therefore use power of those technologies in ASP.NET project.
There were projects such SASS and LESS, but there was no way to adopt them into .NET/Visual Studio environment easily.
About month ago I met amazing product - Mindscape Web Workbench . It is a Visual Studio plug in, allows you to write SASS, LESS and Coffee Script with Visual Studio and therefore use power of those technologies in ASP.NET project.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
TypeScript lambda expression
In my opinion, TypeScript is the best solution for MS/.NET oriented development.
At first - it is very similar to C#, that makes .NET developer's life easy.
At second - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, and you can mix "pure" JavaScript code with "typed" TypeScript. It is very important in case you have a lot of JavaScript in your project and want to take advantage of modern web technologies. I have an example - my IZWebFileManager project
At third (but not less important) - it has Lambda expression
I am using JQuery AJAX, and used to write such code:
It is simple closure, that I use to keep reference to the instance that I work with from ajax callback.
This pattern became routine and very annoying.
But TypeScript bring the solution:
It is much simple, no need to care of what 'this' is anymore. It just does all this annoying routine behind the scene. There is compiled JavaScript output:
It worth to move to TypeScript just because it is a great feature
At first - it is very similar to C#, that makes .NET developer's life easy.
At second - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, and you can mix "pure" JavaScript code with "typed" TypeScript. It is very important in case you have a lot of JavaScript in your project and want to take advantage of modern web technologies. I have an example - my IZWebFileManager project
At third (but not less important) - it has Lambda expression
I am using JQuery AJAX, and used to write such code:
This pattern became routine and very annoying.
But TypeScript bring the solution:
It is much simple, no need to care of what 'this' is anymore. It just does all this annoying routine behind the scene. There is compiled JavaScript output:
It worth to move to TypeScript just because it is a great feature
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Junk Email - free source of Unicode characters
When you test Unicode support of an application, you likely use text snippets of foreign language.
Recently I found a free source of such texts - it is Junk Email. There you can find tons of text in Chinesе, Turkish, Russian and more. :)
Recently I found a free source of such texts - it is Junk Email. There you can find tons of text in Chinesе, Turkish, Russian and more. :)
Monday, March 4, 2013
IZWebFileManager got better!
Today I released a new build of IZWebFileManager - v2.8.0.
This is a new minor release, but it includes a major changes.
First of all, I dropped IE7 support. Previous version 2.7.2 works in IE7, and you may stick with it if you really need IE7 support.
A new "supper" feature has been added - Select Folder dialog. When you copy or move selected item, then Select Folder dialog is open to allow you to pick up a destination.
In additional, there are many new properties were added to support look and feel customization:
This is a new minor release, but it includes a major changes.
First of all, I dropped IE7 support. Previous version 2.7.2 works in IE7, and you may stick with it if you really need IE7 support.
A new "supper" feature has been added - Select Folder dialog. When you copy or move selected item, then Select Folder dialog is open to allow you to pick up a destination.
In additional, there are many new properties were added to support look and feel customization:
- SelectedItemBackColor
- SelectedItemForeColor
- SelectedItemBorderColor
- SelectFolderTreeStyle
- DetailsColumnHeaderStyle
- DetailsSortedColumnStyle
- DynamicMenuStyle
- TextBoxStyle
Demo project contains samples of using of them.
You can download this new build from project's page.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Converting existing JavaScript code to TypeScript in Visual Studio
The best way to learn new technology is to start using it with real project. I have such - IZWebFileManager. It was written when ASP.NET MVC wasn't event in mind and Web Forms was only framework for web application in .NET. IZWebFileManager is an ASP.NET Server Control and has about 1300 lines of JavaScript code.
The challenge is to convert all existing JavaScript code in the project to TypeScript. The result of this effort you can find here: https://github.com/manishma/IZWebFileManager/tree/typescript
It this post I'll tell you about steps I went through.
The challenge is to convert all existing JavaScript code in the project to TypeScript. The result of this effort you can find here: https://github.com/manishma/IZWebFileManager/tree/typescript
It this post I'll tell you about steps I went through.
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