Wrap Your Name Value Variables

sitepoint.com — ASP.NET gives a developer a lot of loosely typed key-value collections in which to stash stash variables, depending upon persistence needs. The short list includes ViewState, Session, Application and HttpContext.Items. These collections can come in very handy when one needs to keep an object around outside of a single request or shuttle things between different bits of the http pipeline. But it comes at a price—these collections are loosely typed, just returning Objects. Moreover, there is no compile-time checking to ensure that you are requesting the right key in the right place. Errors can lead to crashes at best, and interesting data corruption at worst. Here is a handy technique to avoid such issues. read more...

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Page_Load is Evil

sitepoint.com — Page_Load is Evil. And here is why. read more...

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C# Generics Recipes

en.csharp-online.net — Learn when and where to use generics and find recipes for using generics to solve problems. Excerpt: A long-awaited feature, generics, is finally here with the advent of Version 2.0 of the C# compiler. Generics is an extremely useful feature that allows you to write less, but more efficient, code. This aspect of generics is detailed more in Recipe 4.1. With generics comes quite a bit of programming power, but with that power comes the responsibility to use it correctly. If you are considering converting your ArrayList, Queue, Stack, and Hashtable objects to use their generic counterparts, consider reading Recipes 4.4, 4.5, and 4.10. As you will read, the conversion is not always simple and easy, and there are reasons why you might not want to do this conversion at all. read more...

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.NET Framework 3.0 Is Out the Door!

ekampf.com — Microsoft officially released .NET 3.0 read more...

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How to: Execute (another's class) private methods

ebersys.blogspot.com — Do you need to get access to a method that has been marked as private? here's how you can read more...

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Code Better - Use String.Format

published 2 years, 1 month ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 2 years, 1 month ago

codebetter.com — Poorly handled exceptions might speak volumes about someone's coding abilities, but it's string concatenation that's a sure bet to kill a programs readability (thus maintainability). Everyone knows that they should use StringBuilder's for better performance when concatenating a lot, but to improve maintainability, string.format is king! read more...

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The simplest error reporting in ASP.NET

published 2 years, 3 months ago, submitted by madskristensen 2 years, 4 months ago

madskristensen.dk — In ASP.NET 2.0 I'll show you how to get notified by e-mail when an unexpected error occurs - ONLY by editing the web.config. No C#/VB.NET code needed! read more...

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C#'s new ?? operator

blogs.sagestone.net — From the post "I hadn't seen this in any of the C# 2.0 feature lists, but Fritz Onion brings this little gem to light for me. There's a new operator: ?? It's a lot like the old inline if statement." read more...

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