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Why change-tracking has to be part of an entity object

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:46:01 GMT

Frans Bouma raises some valid concerns on the Entity Frameworks entity state management.

Remove the www subdomain from your website

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:46:01 GMT

Many websites have two points of entry for each individual page - one with www and one without. It means that if other websites link to yours, they might link to the same page using two different addresses. If you make sure that all incoming links point to the same address, you also make sure that various page ranking algorithms of the different search engines give the page full credit for each incoming link.

ASP.NET 2.0 DataBinding Examined

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:31:01 GMT

Checking out how ASP.NET 2.0 databinding features work under the hood.

Creating a live.com image search GUI with MS Ajax for ASP.NET

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:46:01 GMT

Three part tutorial on how to create a gui such as the one found in live.com image search

Paging Implementation With SQL

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:16:01 GMT

When you see how the paging is a piece of cake now in .NET server controls (fro example, GridView), you can imagine how much amount of work was needed to do paging if you haven't these server controls. You can for example fetch all thr data block and put them on the session and just do your paging in you business layer! Ok..I heared someone say what are saying. Ture. This is really a miss when you working on huge data blocks. So, the best way is to do you paging inside the datalayer...

CSS Friendly Control Adapters - Add 'em to Your Site

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:01:01 GMT

An overview of how I integrated CSS Friendly Control Adapters (used to render clean CSS based markup) into a project working on... and a couple of tips/tricks to help you use the adapters for your projects.

What Is DBNull Needed For Anyway?

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:31:01 GMT

My point of view on the ever popular quesstion: What is DBNull needed for?

Query and join tables across db server instances

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:01:01 GMT

Sometimes you need to query across servers, even servers of different type such as doing a table join from MySQL to Oracle. I'm going to show you two ways you could do this if you have access to an SQL Server. There are ways to do this with other servers, and there are more than two ways to do this in SQL Server, but I'm only covering two methods both using SQL Server here.

Intro to JSON

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:31:03 GMT

A brief introduction to the Javascript Object Notation

ASP.NET AJAX(ATLAS) RC Released

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:31:02 GMT

A direct link to the new release of ASP.NET AJAX(ATLAS) RC

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 RTM

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:01:02 GMT

Service Pack 1 of the development platform includes user reported fixes and more than 70 improvements for common development scenarios, including new processor support for code generation and profiling, as well as performance and scale improvements in Microsoft's TFS (Team Foundation Server). Although Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 bits to manufacturing, official news of the release is not expected until Monday [18.12.2006], sources close to the company said.

Sort Routines

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:01:02 GMT

Need to sort through lots of data? Choose a C# sort routine to suit your requirements. One of the fundamental problems of computing is ordering a list of items. There are many solutions to this problem: these are known as sorting algorithms. Some sorting algorithms are simple and intuitive, while others are extremely complicated, but produce really fast results. Seven of the most common sorting algorithms are: Bubble Sort, Heap Sort, Insertion Sort, Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Selection Sort, Shell Sort.

Video: Using XPath with the XmlDocument Class

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:01:02 GMT

In this video tutorial I walk through how to use XPath statements to parse an RSS feed and display results using the XmlDocument class.

Microsoft Expression Web Ships

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:01:02 GMT

Expression Web is the successor to FrontPage and has a lot of features that were sorely missing: standards validation, strong css support, asp.net support, xml and xslt. While FrontPage was designed for the casual user, Expression Web was designed with the professional in mind.

XNA Game Studio Express Has Been Released!

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:01:02 GMT

"To download the released product for Windows, head over to: http://msdn.com/xna/gse/. You can now also purchase a subscription to the XNA Creators Club from the Xbox Live Marketplace on your Xbox 360 console if you have an active silver or gold Xbox Live subscription. Before you purchase a subscription to the XNA Creators Club please take the time to go over the PC and Xbox 360 console requirements in the readme. Once you've done that here's how to get it: 1. On the Xbox Live blade, go to "Xbox Live Marketplace" 2. Select "Games" and then "All Game Downloads" 3. Scroll down the list to find the "XNA Creators Club" 4. Here you'll be able to go under Memberships to purchase a 4-Mo membership for $49.00 or an Annual (12-mo) membership $99.00. The prices used here reflect the subscription rates for the United States and pricing may differ for your local region or country if outside the USA. 5. You'll also need to download the XNA Game Launcher from the same area. Having done so, you will find a new XNA Game Launcher program on your Games blade under Demos and More."

Escaping Tables With CSS

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:31:02 GMT

While this isn't totally .NET related, I think that the crowd here will be able to relate to this dilemma. We're .NET developers who do HTML and CSS, and this is a common problem that we've all run into.

Controlling IR Devices in ASP.NET

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:01:02 GMT

A quick and easy (but cool) hack for combining ASP.NET and $12.50 to control whatever InfraRed device you can think of.

ASP.NET AJAX under the hood secrets

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:31:01 GMT

Microsoft recently released Beta 2 of ASP.NET AJAX. Although it's a very powerful framework, when you will build a real AJAX site like those out there in the Web 2.0 world, you will face many problems that you will hardly find documented anywhere. In this article, I will show some advance level ideas that I learned while building Pageflakes. We will look at the advantages and disadvantages of Batch calls, AJAX call timeouts, browser call jam problem, ASP.NET 2.0's bug in web service response caching, and so on.

Video: Debugging ASP.NET AJAX Applications with VS.NET 2005

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:01:01 GMT

Debugging is a key skill that every developer has to learn to become productive. However, how do you debug ASP.NET AJAX applications and client-side JavaScript? In this video tutorial Dan Wahlin walks through a few required steps to enable debugging and shows how to use tools such as the Script Explorer to simplify the process.

Using System.Drawing to Create dynamic charts

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:01:01 GMT

Excellent beginning tutorial that covers using System.Drawing to create dynamic charts. It starts from the basics of figuring out coordinates and progresses through creating the chart and saving it as an image file. Downloadable code is included.

Express Yourself With Custom Expression Builders

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:31:01 GMT

Phil "Haacked" Haack explains how to add Custom Expression Builders to your ASP.NET 2.0 application. Yet another gem of the 2.0 Framework has been exposed!

TabStrip within ASP.NET 2.0 - Building a Composite Control

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:01:02 GMT

A WebForms TabStrip control.

CTS: Reference vs Value Types in .NET

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:31:02 GMT

This is a quick introduction/review on reference and value types in .NET. It covers common examples of each as well as memory allocation, parameter passing, nullability, boxing/unboxing, and inheritance. The post contains lots of links for learning more.

C# Regular Expressions Recipes

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:31:02 GMT

Learn some common solutions to regular expression problems (System.Text.RegularExpressions) in the C# language. Excerpt: Included in the .NET Framework Class Library is the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace that is devoted to creating, executing, and obtaining results from regular expressions executed against a string. Regular expressions take the form of a pattern that can be matched to zero or more characters within a string. The simplest of these patterns, such as .* (match anything and everything) and [A-Za-z] (match any letter) are easy to learn, but more advanced patterns can be difficult to learn and even more difficult to implement correctly. Learning and understanding regular expressions can take considerable time and effort, but the work will pay off. Regular expression patterns can take a simple form-such as a single word or character- or a much more complex pattern. The more complex patterns can recognize and match such things as the year portion of a date, all of the <SCRIPT> tags in an ASP page, or a phrase in a sentence that varies with each use. The .NET regular expression classes provide a very flexible and powerful way to do such things as recognize text, replace text within a string, and split up text into individual sections based on one or more complex delimiters. Despite the complexity of regular expression patterns, the regular expression classes in the FCL are easy to use in your applications.

A must-have ASP.NET Controls pack

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:31:02 GMT

A very useful collection of ASP.NET controls that I'm using on a daily basis. The collection includes controls such as an ImageCheckBox and an ObjectDataSource. A must have :-)