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Silverlight Photo Browser

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:10 GMT

Automatic on-the-fly image discovery and on-the-fly thumbnail creation make this Silverlight Photo Browser / Gallery application very easy to use.

6 Steps to N-Tier ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:25 GMT

Learn to move the data context of a Dynamic Data website from the web layer to a lower level. This will allow you to reuse the data context as well as any other logic or wrappers you create around the data model.

IIS7 GAC Viewer

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:15:13 GMT

DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our platform - including IIS Manager Remote Delegated Access to the Web Site and many other cool tools - has just built and released yet another cool module that extends the IIS Manager capabilities by having a GAC Viewer for their customers.

Article on ASP.NET MVC in .NET magazine

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:40:09 GMT

Download the up-to-date example code of my MVC guestbook on my blog.

22 useful links for ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:07:51 GMT

A collection of useful ASP.NET MVC -related links.

Why SortedList<Key,Val> Is Useless

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:16:04 GMT

The other day I wan in the need of a sorted collection. I found that there are 2 sorted collections available. SortedDictionary and SortedList. Now let me ask you, what do you think is the difference?

Showing some support for LINQ to SQL

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Great article detailing why LINQ to SQL deserves some attention particularly if you buy into the object oriented style of development or are currently working with an ORM such as NHibernate.

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

Developer training, a real (non)success story

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:31:09 GMT

Helping new Developers catch-up

71-432 SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:14:36 GMT

Good overview of the upcoming 71-432 SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance exam. With the constant stream of exams being pumped by Microsoft it's great to have an idea of what's coming down the pipeline.

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

Server.Transfer / Response.Redirect

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:03:33 GMT

Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect are causing a new page to be processed, but the big difference is how they are doing it. - Server.Transfer terminates the execution of the current request (Response.End) and begins execution of a new request using the supplied url. No trip back to client is performed. - Respose.Redirect creates a special header, sends it to the client to ask the server for a different page. o Response.Redirect(url) == Response.Redirect(url, true). In this case, right after creating the header, the page execution is done - Response.End is called, and this one causes the current thread to be aborted (ThreadAbortException will be thrown). o Response.Redirect(url, false) doesn't abort the thread, so it is recommended because it avoids the exceptions. This form is used for example by FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage method.

Batching WCF calls

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Great approach to overcome unnecessary roundtrips to a WCF service!

A Safe & Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL & Inheritance

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

This post discusses ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams, including an explanation about how this is possible both through traditional inheritance and also through some indulgence in hacking of object protection levels by emitting custom IL.

HashSet to the Rescue

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast.

Gold Coast : WPF and Virtual Earth revisited

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:59:16 GMT

I worked on a more creative/reusable approach to hosting Virtual Earth in a WPF application. If you have looked at any of my previous samples showing how to host Virtual Earth in a WPF app, you'll recall I was using the WinForms WebBrowser control to host an html page that in turn hosts Virtual Earth. Additionally, I used the WebBrowser control's ability to enable communication between managed code and JavaScript. One of the frustrations with this approach is that when using WinForms interop, all WinForms controls take the highest z-order in your app which means you cannot render WPF elements on top of the map. The other thing that has always bothered me about my sample is although it showed how to implement the general approach, it did not wrap all the functionality into a reusable WPF Virtual Earth control. Good news! I have an updated sample.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:01:11 GMT

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog. Everyone wants their twitter feed on their blog. Now you can using silverlight. More...

Queuing up Your Remote Invokes

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Serializing requests for remote invoke or multiple requests at will? Here is some sample code and a free download that can help with setting this up.

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

The 5 types of poor software architects

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:31:06 GMT

The types of software architects you never want to meet in your career

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We've seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I've collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn't always the culprit for your CSS woes.

Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

You might think that really stylable HTML needs classes all over the place. That's not true, thanks to descendant selectors, which let you target elements inside a parent element.

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.