My 25th Birthday
Looking in the past is usually nostalgic for many people including myself specifically in the past few years after passing 20 as I ought to waste much time for things beyond my power like the military service. One of the advantages of having an old blog like this is the opportunity to go back and read your own archive to see what has happened in your life, and how you’re chang

Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC
One common feature of any modern web application to improve its SEO and traffic is the use of sitemap as a standard XML derivation. I’ve been using such sitemaps on my blog for a very long time. I can remember the days when sitemap was an extension to Community Server written by the community, and the days when it became a built-in feature. I also had written a plug-in for Graffiti CMS to add sitemap to my blog. However, for Behistun (my new ASP.NET MVC powered blog engine) I had to implement the sitemap with my own code. In ASP.NET WebForms the most common way

Now Running on Behistun and ASP.NET MVC
It was quite a long while that I had decided to migrate my blog from Graffiti CMS to a new engine, and today I finally completed this task. There is a long story to tell about this process and my reasons to choose my own blog engine after over 4 years of using Telligent products (Community Server and Graffiti CMS), and I try to talk about them shortly in this post. Why Migrate? Old followers of my blog know that I’ve been using Telligent products since the beginning of this blog for a very long time. First I was using Community Server as a single-blog and then migrated to Graffiti CMS as a more appropriate option for my blogging style. I used to be an

Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package - Part 6
In the past couple of months I’ve been writing a blog post series about Visual Studio add-in and integration package to compare their structure, applications, and differences, and some related stuff. So far I’ve written five parts: An overview and historical perspective Technical structure of an add-in and its applications Technical structure of a Visual Studio integration package its applic

Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1
It’s been quite a long while since the last time that I wrote something about Visual Studio Extensibility as a topic that I used to write a dedicated book for. Therefore, to improve my blogging activity and feed those readers of my blog who are interested in VSX, here I’m going to publish a post series with a few posts that discuss add-in and integration package, contrast their similarities and differences, and talk about the process of upgrading an add-in to a VSPackage. By the way, this is a good topic to elaborate because in many areas add-ins and VSPackages may overlap in their applications, and it may be difficult for a newbie to choose which of these two main ext