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I am a LINQ-A-HOLIC

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:07:10 GMT

When you first start using LINQ you can quickly fall in love with it. Suddenly, everything looks LINQ-able. But don't thow away everything you know and love just for this new tool.

High performance css minifier

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:02:11 GMT

CSS minifier based on jsmin idea that produce a small CSS file, much faster, and with much less memory overhead.

Create your own new Type and use it on run-time (C#)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:00:46 GMT

It is not something you will use on daily bases. It doesn't have good performance. But one day, you will have to use it so it's good to know that it is possible and how it can be done. As you can understand from the title, I'm talking about creating a new type with fields and properties (it can also have methods), create instance/s from it and use it - on run-time!

An open source library to compress css, js, aspx and Webresource.axd

Mon, 26 May 2008 22:35:22 GMT

MbCompression is a library of handlers and modules to compress Css files, JavaScript files, pages and compress WebResource.axd It is easy to implement and improve the overall performance of your web project. The most unique Feature of that library is that the System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader that load the WebResources was rewritten to enable compression and better performance, without making HTTP request each time WebResource need to be served.

Prevent from the user to submit any 'not legal' input, in client side

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:20:33 GMT

Prevent from the user to submit any 'not legal' input, using client side validation. What if you have a rule that is for all inputs in the page, or in the site? for example, you want to prevent the user to submit any input that contains 'fuc*' , 'shi*' or what ever words that are not 'legal' for you, or input that is not valid for the ASP.NET such '<'or '/>' ?

Use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem With Anonymous Types

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Use the power of anonymous types, anonymous delegates and type inference to make ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem type-safe and easier to read.

Sorting a collection using Linq and 'SortExpression' string

Thu, 08 May 2008 03:30:51 GMT

Already happened to you that you had a collection of object from type 'X' with some properties, and you had to sort it one time by property 'ID', and another time by property 'Name' ?

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Beanstalk - Version Control with a Human Face

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:21:59 GMT

Hosted Subversion source control. Wow. Nifty.

Exception Handling - Do's and Dont's

Thu, 08 May 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Exceptions provide a consistent mechanism for identifying and responding to error conditions. Effective exception handling will make code more robust and easier to debug. Exceptions are a tremendous debugging aid because they help answer...

Some basic but useful C# methods implemented in JavaScript

Mon, 05 May 2008 06:21:27 GMT

Some basic but useful C# methods implemented in js: Cach object (ok, it is not a 'method') , String.Format(), String.IsNullOrEmpty(), StartsWith(), EndsWith() and Trim()

Windows XP SP3 Released

Sun, 04 May 2008 20:01:22 GMT

Windows XP SP3 Released

LINQ & Lambda

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:39:28 GMT

An innocent, unbeknownst programmer is possessed by the demons of C# 3. How is this young coder going to deal with his exposure to some dark and evil forces?

How to make a CheckBox fire the ItemCommand Event of a Repeater

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:59:07 GMT

At work today I tried to do something I though would be simple, I needed to add a check box control to a repeater's item template and have it fire the ItemCommand event on the repeater. The button and link button controls do this without a problem but for some reason Microsoft decided that the check box was going to be different. Luckily we have great tools like Reflector to help in situations like this

Events, Generics and Extension Methods

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:16:02 GMT

See some interesting new methods to deal with events and EventHandlers.

Uniform Distribution algorithm in C#

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:23:59 GMT

Uniform Distribution algorithm in C#. The algorithm gets a string and maps it into the set 0-999 (or any given range) with uniform distribution

Where's my .NET 3.5 (on IIS), Dude?

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:31:04 GMT

Can't find .NET 3.5 on the IIS ASP.NET Tab runtime tab? You're not the first to wonder why recent versions of the .NET runtime don't show up on the ASP.NET tab.

What the hell is a deadlock: The Parable of The Bathroom

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:31:02 GMT

An easy way how you can understand how locking can easily become a nightmare... Deadlock the curse you want to avoid :)

Extensions can make us free from testing against null

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:01:16 GMT

Extensions can make us free from testing against null, and help us avoiding errors on runtime environment.

All Objects Are Not Created Equal

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:50:20 GMT

C# object equality is one of those topics that seems easy on the surface but can get a little complicated when you dig into it.

Really quick "Downloads" page in ASP.NET

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:12:12 GMT

Really quick "Downloads" page in ASP.NET

Another version for the missing method: Enum.TryParse (in C#)

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:29:45 GMT

Another version for the missing method (in C#): Enum.TryParse, without using try & catch and ignore case.

Update to my compression module to compress also third party scripts

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:12:21 GMT

New version for my compression module that let you compress your pages, CSS, Javascripts, WebResources and also third party controls script files such Telerik controls that injects their scripts links into your HTML

Simple Generic Business Entities in c#

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:37:52 GMT

Simple Generic Business Entities in c#

Handling ASP.NET Session Variables Efficiently

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:34:57 GMT

Excellent post which explains how to write bug free and clean code to handle ASP.NET sessions variables efficiently