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30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part II

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:01:02 GMT

In the previous article, 30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part I, we explored 15 common String operations while working with the String class. In Part II of the article, we will continue with the series and cover 15 more.

Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Learn how the Microsoft.com operations team meets the demands for one of the top 5 websites on the Internet today. The team supports the server product teams at Microsoft by "dogfooding" products such as Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS7 years before being released to customers. Keith and Woody sit down with Brad LeRoss and Jim Dobbin of the MSCOM team discuss the Microsoft.com architecture and infrastructure, history of the team, the process of content delivery and a few funny stories.

VS 2005 Error 1: "Could not load type..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:29:17 GMT

You can receive this error "Could not load type" error message in your ASP.NET Application, when you browse to .aspx page by using Visual C# .NET or running from local IIS. SYMPTOMS When you browse to an .aspx page, you may receive one of the following error messages: Could not load type 'Namespace.Global'. -or- Could not load type 'Namespace.PageName'.

ASP.NET data binding essentials

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:28:36 GMT

ASP.NET introduces a new declarative syntax, <%# %>. This syntax is the basis for using data binding in an .aspx page. All data binding expressions must be contained within these characters. The following list includes examples of simple data binding from multiple sources...

More information about ASP.NET Page life-cycle and common events

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:26:41 GMT

I've found wonderful document about ASP.NET Page lifecycle events on http://john-sheehan.com/blog. Little information about general page Life-cycle stages and events...

Outlook Programming: how to find the parent message for a reply or...

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:22:16 GMT

I'm currently involved in developing Outlook add-in. During that I've faced the problem how to find the parent message for a reply or forward message. The idea is that all messages in a conversation have the same ConversationTopic value, while the ConversationIndex is increased by 5 bytes with each change.

Software I can't work without

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:46:10 GMT

I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.

More Details Emerge On Microsoft Master Certification

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:01:11 GMT

Few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new certification called Microsoft Certified Master. In an ever growing cluster of Microsoft certification this one allows you to specialise in a particular technology area. So what does this mean? Aren't other certifications specialising as well? According to Microsoft, Master certification is intended towards candidates who spend most of their time working with one product. This is different than your average developer who needs to know about many technologies such as ASP.NET, SQL Server, WCF, WFP etc.

Using The "Using" Statement On a Method Rather Than a Class

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Have you ever tried using the "Using" statement with a method and not a class? Why not take the "Using" statement and make it more useful. The Dispose method we want to be called does not have to Dispose of stuff, it can do anything we want!

StringBuilder Secrets

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Article goes beyond the basics and looks at some more detail of StringBuilder in C#, and a benchmark that can help you improve your code that already uses StringBuilder. With graph

Jump between braces in Visual Studio.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:01:09 GMT

Move fast between open and close braces. No more scrolling to find beginning of that illusive if statement.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Programming Is All About Passion

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Passion! Passion! Passion!

How to: Optimize the memory usage with strings

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:16:03 GMT

System.String type is used in any .NET application. We have strings as: names, addresses, descriptions, error messages, warnings or even application settings. Each application has to create, compare or format string data. Considering the immutability and the fact that any object can be converted to a string, all the available memory can be swallowed by a huge amount of unwanted string duplicates or unclaimed string objects. Now let's see how a string object should be handled to preserve memory.

ASP.NET MVC Source Code Now Available

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap. Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release. Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here. Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of great ASP.NET MVC tutorial videos that you can watch to learn more about it here....

The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Yet another great post from Jeff Atwood.

More than Just MVC for WPF

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:16:02 GMT

This article shows some problems you can find when using the MVC in WPF for a large project. The article describes how one can use the Mediator Pattern together with the MVC to fix such issues...

ASP.NET Security : 1- Basics

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:01:07 GMT

how the Identity of the thread executing a website in IIS is determined

Going Mouseless - Implementing Keyboard Shortcuts in ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:46:03 GMT

Keyboard shortcuts improve productivity by accomplishing tasks more quickly and without much effort. In applications, where the user has to select from a variety of actions to perform, keyboard shortcuts can save on time and effort. If you have used the new YahooMail or Gmail, you will be quiet familiar with these shortcuts. Let us see how to implement these shortcuts and use it in our ASP.NET applications.

Exploring the Global.asax file in ASP.NET

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:06:11 GMT

Using the Global.asax file, you can define event handlers with application-wide or session-wide scope. The link given explores the application and session level events exposed in the Global.asax file and how we can utilize these events in our applications.

ASP.NET MVC - Testing issues Q and A

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:51:33 GMT

Some commonly asked questions when developing ASP.NET MVC and unit tests.

Visualizing the .NET Framework

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large - e.g. 39,509 types.

Vista's 1st Service pack available...

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:12:17 GMT

Vista SP1 download

ASP.NET MVC In-Depth: The Life of an ASP.NET MVC Request - Stephen Wal

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Lifecycle of request in ASP.NET MVC application.