Debugging 101 - Measure, do your homework and think out of the box

submitted by Klaus 4 days, 2 hours ago

tellingmachine.com — Being confronted with an occasional bug in a complex system can be quite overwhelming. There are three disciplines that help you to stay strong: 1) Read and learn about your platform and how to debug it. 2) Use tools to quickly get the low hanging fruit. This might be enough in most of the cases to identify the bug. 3) Think out of the box and try to be creative. Build a model, play with it, break it and fix it. In the worst case, you won't have found the cause of the bug, but you learned at least something new about your software. read more...

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Rendering ASP.NET UTC time as local time of the browser's time zone

submitted by Klaus 1 month, 23 days ago

tellingmachine.com — It is a common practice to store time as UTC on the server and render it as local time based on the time zone the browser is running in. This blog post describes one simple approach to solving this problem. read more...

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Over-clocking BlogEngine.NET

published 2 months, 19 days ago, submitted by Klaus 2 months, 21 days ago

tellingmachine.com — Getting the time stamps and time zones right is straight forward. There are many options. Making it transparent to the user is an interesting challenge. It will require some plumbing changes in the core on top of a BlogEngine extension. read more...

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TOC TOC! - Who is There? - XOXO

submitted by Klaus 3 months, 25 days ago

tellingmachine.com — This post introduces a BlogEngine 1.3 extension that automatically generates a Table Of Contents based on h1-h6 heading tags that are found in the body of posts and pages. The TOC is going to be rendered as either a <ul> or <ol> html list of anchors (links) to the corresponding heading tags. read more...

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One-Stop-Shop for BlogEngine 1.3 Extensions

published 4 months, 20 days ago, submitted by Klaus 4 months, 25 days ago

tellingmachine.com — I just finished upgrading my blog to BlogEngine version 1.3. While in the process of porting it to the new release, I spent some time experimenting with the extensions and the new BlogEngine 1.3 Extension Manager. I tried to keep track of most of the extensions that get posted on CodePlex and I thought I write a blog post that lists all the extensions that I found and demonstrates them in this post, if applicable. This way BlogEngine fans that don't keep track of all the traffic on CodePlex would get be able to quickly check the availability of a specific add-on for BlogEngine. read more...

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Reflecting over ArchestrA Object Attributes

submitted by Klaus 6 months, 29 days ago

tellingmachine.com — This article is about a utility to export ArchestrA Object Attribute Properties. This C# console application is used to reflect over the Meta data of ArchestrA Object primitives. It is also an example of command line argument parsing and accessing the registry. read more...

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LINQ to SQL (Part 8 - Executing Custom SQL Expressions)

submitted by Klaus 7 months, 16 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query the database with them, as well as update/insert/delete data. read more...

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How to change the tooltip of a 3rd party composite .NET control like t

submitted by Klaus 7 months, 27 days ago

tellingmachine.com — This article describes how to change the ToolTip of constituent .NET controls that are part of a third party composite control. read more...

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