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.NET - IP Address Location In ASP.NET

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:45:02 GMT

Get client's ip address from a free online web query.

jQuery demo and documentation

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:53:18 GMT

Demo and documentation of jQuery interactions, widgets and effects.

CLR Injection: Runtime Method Replacer

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

how the JIT compiles MSIL and create a utility that allow us to programmatically replace any JIT'ed method with another method at runtime. We will also create a debugging utility that will intercept JIT calls and print diagnostics information to the console.

Instinctive Performance Optimization Wastes Time

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:05:56 GMT

Some interesting observations about performance optimization. Includes real-world examples of some counter-intuitive performance optimizations and how sometimes users subjectively perceive a slower implementation as feeling faster.

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:04:40 GMT

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007

How To: Adding MVC items to an ASP.NET Web Application

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:35:54 GMT

Getting Visual Studio to serve up MVC templates (e.g. Views, Controllers) in an standard Web Forms application.

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Ed.

Wed, 20 May 2009 12:38:01 GMT

Reviewing an introductory book for unit testing with C# and NUnit.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 for MSDN Subscribers

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:46:09 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now on MSDN along with .Net 4 Beta 1. Some highlights from the information: .Net 4.0 Cloud Development - Windows Azure which is basically utility computing where you pay by the hour for your usage. Parallel Development - Not sure if this only means PLINQ for .Net developers or if they are only talking about C++ devs. TDD Improvements - Editor changes for building test cases first, and then writing the code. ASP.NET - CSS grids and design surfaces changes, more Javascript debugging improvements. C++ Compiler - Lots of changes for C++ development, including MFC. Sharepoint templates New Project Templates Windows 7 - MFC updates for Ribbon UI, and WPF changes. Application Model Changes - Reverse existing codebases, and lots of changes in Architect Edition to support more model types (including Class Libraries finally). Test Runner - This is potentially huge as it allows testers to submit bug reports complete with callstacks and traces that you can actually use to resume an app at the error point to avoid the dreaded No Repro on bug reports. I have seen this demo and it is quite impressive. We will see how it actually works though.

SQL Server 2005/2008 Diagnostics Queries and Configuration Checklist

Sat, 23 May 2009 13:46:14 GMT

Very useful queries by SQL Server MVP, Glenn Berry ..A must have

Using INNER JOIN/SELF JOIN to allow for smaller indexes.

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:33:14 GMT

How to use INNER JOIN to allow for smaller indexes.

Setting an EntityReference Using an EntityKey in Entity Framework

Fri, 15 May 2009 18:04:15 GMT

Yesterday I got a question in my blog concerning the ability to set a reference to an entity in Entity Framework by using a foreign key that exists in my hand. The answer is described in this post.

Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Say you're building a web application and you want, against your better judgment perhaps, to allow end users to easily customize the look and feel - a comment scenario within a blog engine or any hosted application

I Spose I'll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:21 GMT

I'm never shy about my opinion - why start now? I've been reading a lot of posts flying about on whether you should learn MVC, Summing up the differences so you can decide when to use it, I even found a post that offers a scorecard approach! I remember reading the latter post thinking to myself "how can you possibly put a number next to Testability? And why it is only 2 more points than "using a RAD designer"? Isn't this missing the entire point?

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible "big design flaw" in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode.

Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:16:13 GMT

a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.

Building a forum application, Part 4

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:08:07 GMT

I decided to take Magnus advice and user the "data everywhere" aproach to viewdata that Rob Conory user in his storefront application. This means that you will allways have everything available at all time in all pages. Rob does this by haveing methods at his base controller to set the data to the ViewDataDictionary. Then he have extension methods for his ViewDataDictionary to get the data in his views.

Creating a Cool UI effect on ASP.NET Panels using jQuery

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:01:14 GMT

see how to create a Cool UI effect on the ASP.NET Panels using jQuery

Cropping image using jQuery, Jcrop and ASP.NET

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:31:02 GMT

Fast and easy cropping image with ASP.NET, jQuery and Jcop (C#)

New Web Optimization tool available

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

Tired of not understanding what TIDY does to your web pages? Try out Aggiorno, now in its silverlight version!

Building Collapsible Panel Control using jQuery in ASP.Net Page

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:40:23 GMT

It is a technique where we can provide expand/collapse feature to a section of page. Technically, it is nothing but providing expand/collapse feature to a DIV element. So, a page with lengthy content can make use of this feature to display only less content and show the full content on demand.

Calling JavaScript from ASP.NET Master Page and Content Pages-Part II

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:31:04 GMT

A cool article describing common problems and their solutions of calling JavaScript from a Master/Content page. .

Building a forum application, Part 3

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:10:24 GMT

In this post I´ll show you the initial structure of the application. I have created a structure and a few base classes for the application, and I tought I´d walk you trought what I have done so far in this post.

Efficient Paging In Silverlight 2

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to create and consume a WCF service in Silverlight 2.0 and use efficient server side paging using LINQ to page through event log data.

Definitive Javascript RegEx Validation

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:31:53 GMT

A few snippets to use as base in case of client validation with RegExes: brutally Copy-Paste and tailor to your needs!

Top 4 reasons to join or start a local Alt.Net group

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:08:37 GMT

Last night I went to the first Charlotte Alt.Net User Group meeting. Everything went really well thanks to Matt Lefevre and Brady Gaster. Kudos to those guys for getting this thing off the ground. Also thanks to Brian Hitney from Microsoft for his on-going support. Here are my top 4 reasons to join or start a local Alt.Net group