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Google Doctype

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:01:10 GMT

Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more.

How to Capitalize the First Letter of All Words in a string in C#

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Often we need to capitalize the first letters of some word or some text (for example when we want to display users name or city name etc). Since string class does not have a method to do this we could think that there is no built-in solution in C# for this problem, but...

Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler.

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

Empty try blocks

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:01:02 GMT

The article explains why you might see functions that do nothing in the "try" block.

Steve Sanderson's blog » Blog Archive » Improve scalability in ASP.NET

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Asynchronous controllers

The importance of System. Environment.NewLine

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

When using \r\n can screw you!

Common console commands for the typical ASP.NET developer

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Common commands to manage your ASP.NET websites.

ShortGuid - A shorter and url friendly GUID class in C#

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:46:08 GMT

Extending Mads Kristensens "shorter and URL friendly GUID"

Why throw; is not allways the best way to rethrow exceptions

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:01:02 GMT

This blog post explains why the standard throw; approach of rethrowing exceptions is not the best in case you care of the full stack trace information

Using Subversion to access CodePlex projects

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:16:02 GMT

A guide to using Subversion and the SvnBridge to access CodePlex projects and Team Foundation Server

VisualSVN Server

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:31:11 GMT

The guys that already made VisualSVN, a plugin that integrates into Visual Studio and provides a way to manage your source code changes into Subversion, just realized VisualSVN Server.

Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:46:03 GMT

Ever wanted to index your intranet, external sites, documents etc but didn't know how.....well there are various alternatives (.net flavours of lucene), solr, nutch but now Microsoft have just announced they are releasing an Express edition of their search server with no document limits. Sounds good and worth a look. Original blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2007/11/06/announcing-microsoft-search-server-2008-express.aspx John

Building release builds with pdb files

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:46:04 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 builds release builds with pdb files by default Find out why that is a best practice for the release builds

The expando attribute

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:31:02 GMT

It can set JavaScript properties on any element you would normally reference with document.getElementById('elementID'). That means you can control the state of your HTML elements from the code-behind in a very easy manor. It also means you can control HTML elements that don't have a runat="server" attribute.

Don't use the ThreadPool in ASP.NET

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:01:01 GMT

You can use the ThreadPool in exactly the same way in ASP.NET and it works just as you would expect. The problem is not in the ThreadPool itself but in what else ASP.NET uses it for at the same time.

Silverlight site is now Live!

Wed, 02 May 2007 11:46:01 GMT

The official website for Microsoft Silverlight is now Live.

New sitemap features in robots.txt

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Describes how to enable your sitemap for autodiscovery by all search engines by editing robots.txt.

Render PNG from ASPX

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Workaround for exception that results from the following: Syste.Drawing.Bitmap.Save(HttpContext.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);

.NET Open Source Wiki

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:46:01 GMT

Its GPL'd, built on .NET 2.0, does not require SQL Server 2005, works in a medium trust enviroment (that means that you hosted types can use it!) and has many other features which are listed here...

ASP.Net Quick Tips - Web.config

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:31:02 GMT

ASP.Net web.config tips.

.NET Reflector 5.0

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

Lutz Roeder shipped new version of .NET Reflector.

Generics without Collections, Part 2

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

Using generics for things other than creating collections.( This time, a filter for collections) Advanced Generics use

Generics without Collections, Part 3

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Using generics for things other than creating collections (Enums this time). Advanced generics use

Generics without Collections, Part I

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:31:01 GMT

Using generics for things other than creating collections. Advanced Generics use.