Building a news aggregator module for a trading platform -Introduction

I am working on a project where I going to build a news aggregator which takes certain keywords and searches a predefined set of websites, company statements etc for stories or blog posts that have that keyword in it. The keywords are mostly a combination of company names or stock ticker codes and mood indicators, [...]

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Phil Haack’s Route Debugger

Another great tool in the Microsoft space. This tool is absolutely essential when developing MVC sites using .NET. It is extremely simple to use and can be downloaded from the NuGet package handler. (See previous blog post on NuGet).  It can of course be downloaded and configured manually (all that seems so 2010 now ) [...]

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Converting MVC2 projects to MVC 3

Now that the MVC 3 RTM is out, I thought it would be a good opportunity to upgrade and do some needed refactoring in one of my projects. I found an excellent post on how to do this manually which gives a good idea of the changes that are being made. And for the lazy [...]

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Elmah – Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET

Installation Elmah is error logging third party library which you can add to ASP.NET application to enable capture of almost all errors. You can add this to your project in about a minute by using the very cool tool NuGet. http://nuget.codeplex.com/ I discussed this briefly in this post “NuGet, the new way to get third [...]

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NuGet, the new way to get third party dlls into your application

I thought I’d write about this very cool new application hosted on code plex called NuGet. NuGet is a Visual Studio 2010 extension which manages packages. Roughly speaking this means that you can add third party dlls to your application without having to set any of the configuration or reference dependencies manually. There is a [...]

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