Introducing ‘Smidge’ – an ASP.NET 5 runtime JS/CSS pre-processor

During the past month I decided to dive deep into learning ASP.NET 5, and what better way to learn than to start a new OSS project :) I chose to make a new new simple and extensible Javascript/CSS runtime pre-processor for ASP.NET 5. It does file minification, combination and compression, has a nice file caching layer and it’s all done in async operations. I ported over a few ideas and code snippets from CDF (client dependency framework) but with a more modern approach. I’ve called it ‘Smidge’ = something really small.…

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ClientDependency 1.8 released

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Umbraco 4.1 Benchmarks Part 1

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.This is the first installment of what will hope…

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Client Dependency Framework Beta Released

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.I’ve posted a new Beta release on CodePlex, you…

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ClientDependency now supporting MVC

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.I’m please to announce that the ClientDependenc…

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Umbraco 4.1 Benchmarks Part 1 (Do Over)

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.Doh! Turns out that my first Umbraco 4.1 benchm…

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ASP.Net Client Dependency Framework RC1 Released!

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.With the community feedback, bug reports, patch…

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Adding embedded resource with ClientDependency

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.The uComponents project for Umbraco is coming a…

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VirtualPathUtility Fixed in .Net 4

If you are not already aware there’s an issue with the VirtualPathUtility object in the .Net framework. If you are trying to use the IsAbsolute or ToAbsolute methods with a path that contains a query…

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Multi targeting a single .Net project to build for different framework versions

Consider this scenario: I have a project that relies on ASP.Net MVC and currently this project is built against the .Net framework 4.0 and MVC 4 I want to support MVC 5 for this project To support…

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