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Welcome to MitchelSellers.com, this is my personal blog/commentary site and is in no way, shape or form affiliated with my employer.  On this site you will find a few key pieces of information.  In the Blogs section you will find technical articles focused around .NET Development, mostly C# content articles and with an emphasis on ASP.NET and DotNetNuke implementations.  If you are looking for technical assistance the Forums section is a great location to ask for specific help, I try to respond to all forum postings as quickly as possible.

For those looking to interact with me in a more direct route, such as Consulting or for a Speaking Engagement, these sections of the site will provide you the needed information to get in contact with me.  If you are looking for more information on my career and experience you may review an online copy of my Resume, or Contact me for more information.

Lastly for those attending any classes that I teach for the Business Information Systems department of Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) you can view the Courses section to download any course specific documents.

 

Recent Blog Postings

Latest Blog Posts

Code PaLOUsa 2013 Presentation Materials by Mitchel Sellers

This week I have been at Code PaLOUsa 2013, which has been a truly amazing event.  Over the course of the last two days I have given a total of three sessions on various current .NET development topics.  In this posting you will see all of my presentations materials, they are provided for reference only!  If you have any questions or comments please fee free to reach out in the comments below.

ASP.NET Web Forms Model Binding – My Favorite ASP.NET 4.5 Feature by Mitchel Sellers

I have been working on this blog posting for over 2-3 weeks, by far one of the longest writes of any posting that I’ve done in the past. The reason for this is that I’m writing about a concept that you should already be aware of which is the inclusion of Model Binding Support for Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.5. You can find a number of resources out there that talk about this, including this amazing tutorial series. So why do I feel the need to spend so much of my time writing about this feature? Well read on to find out!

Southern Fried DNN 2013 Presentation Materials by Mitchel Sellers
Last week I was a trainer and a speaker at the Southern Fried DotNetNuke event that was held in Charlotte, NC.  This event was fantastic with a day of optional training on Friday and a series of sessions on Saturday in the format of a regular Code Camp event.  As I promised the attendees of my sessions I would be posting information and assets from these presentations here on this blog.  This posting is an overall aggregate with information on the two sessions and trainings, future blog postings will expand on the information contained within.

Simplifying DotNetNuke Module MSBuild Packaging With Auto Set Package Name by Mitchel Sellers
DotNetNuke module development became a lot easier when it became easy to use MSBuild to simply build your project and get a nice install-able module package in the end.  I've been using this process for a number of years now, but there have always been those little things with the default templates that many have been distributing that just don't meet my needs 100%.  For example a few years back I blogged about a fix for Auto Packaging Multiple Modules.  This post shows a fix for one of my other biggest pet-peeves when it comes to the auto-package process and that comes from the determination of the 'PackageName' that is used to name the destination file.