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More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

Work smarter: MS AJAX's JavaScript base type extensions

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:31:08 GMT

Examples of using Array.contains, Date.format, String.format, and other base type extensions to accelerate ASP.NET AJAX client side development.

SQL Server 2008 will have IntelliSense

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:31:02 GMT

Hurray!

Free software projects need a pitch

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:03 GMT

Open source and free software projects still have much to learn from commercial software, the number one in my book being "the pitch"...

ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged the first in a series of posts I'm going to write that cover the new ASP.NET MVC Framework we are working on. The first post in this series built a simple e-commerce product listing/browsing scenario. It covered the high-level concepts behind MVC, and demonstrated how to create a new ASP.NET MVC project from scratch to implement and test this e-commerce product listing functionality.

Beyond Ajax: Software Development, Two Years from Now

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:46:03 GMT

An interesting look on what web development could have in store for the next two years, with predictions from some of the brightest web development tool builders out there, including Scott Guthrie and Dean Hachamovitch.

visual studio: changing color schemes

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:35:24 GMT

a quick how-to for saving, exporting, and importing color schemes.

15+ FREE Visual Studio Add-ins - Part 2

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins (Part 1) was such a hit, that I've decided to use the feedback (and Google) to create Part 2 of the list. If I'm missing a FREE must have add-in, I'd love to hear about it.

Official ASP.NET MVC framework will get first CTP in "next few weeks"

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Microsoft's Matt Gibbs announced today that the first CTP for ASP.NET MVC will appear in "the next few weeks". At last we can get our hands on the bits and try out the biggest shift in ASP.NET since its birth!

Annoucing AutoTest.NET 0.1

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:46:04 GMT

A .NET version of the popular ruby program autotest. AutoTest.NET watches your code and whenever you save it builds your code and runs your tests right away.

Copying and pasting rectangular blocks of code in Visual Studio and Ma

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

Did you know that the Visual Studio and Management Studio editors allow you to copy and paste rectangular areas of code (not just lines of code)? This blog demonstrates how. Very handy when copying and pasting variable names!

SEO Best Practices - Dynamic Pages in ASP.NET

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:10:58 GMT

Avoiding the negative SEO impact from improperly handled server errors.

SEO for Ajax and Silverlight Applications

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:06:59 GMT

This post contains a writeup of an Ajax pattern I demonstrated at one of my MIX07 talks around improving the indexability of Ajax and Silverlight, and in general RIA applications as part of an SEO effort...

Highlighting keywords in text using Regex.Replace (Perfect for SEO)

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:01:01 GMT

I needed to take some text and bold certain keywords before returning the data to the web browser (this was to enhance Search Engine Optimization). The following example shows how I achieved it.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Checklist

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:31:02 GMT

Search engine optimisation is pretty much part and parcel of creating websites these days. Getting the basics right don't require a large amount of work, but can make all the difference. Many of these also improve the general usability and accessibility of your site too - so you get three major benefits rolled into one.

Search Engine Positioner

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:46:01 GMT

Mads Kristensen has written a program that lets you lookup the position of a url in Google, Yahoo & AltaVista for different URLs

Another SEO Tip - googleoff / googleon Tags

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:31:02 GMT

I came across these recently... thought I'd share The googleoff/googleon tags disable the indexing of a part of a web page. The result is that those pages do not appear in search results when users search for the tagged word or phrase.

Affiliate Tracking - Redirect a page using a Header

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:01:01 GMT

Any keen surfer will be familiar with Affiliate Marketing, its a huge industry with Google's Adwords driving "Pay Per Click" campaigns. Google provide the Adwords application and Google Analytics to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns from click through, to page view, lead generation and sale, with the tracking easily implemented by inserting a small snippet of JavaScript in the page.