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Vine Offers New Possibilities

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:34:09 GMT

A brief summary of Microsoft's Vine services.

Failure To Captcha

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:21:51 GMT

A quick analysis of how common captchas are being defeated by bots.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It's time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it's useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world.

Summing Up ASP.NET MVC & IIS6 in One Picture

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:43:47 GMT

Frustrating

3 More Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know by 2010

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:14:06 GMT

A follow up to previous article on the 6 things every developer should know by 2010

6 Things Developers Should Know By 2010

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

A list of 6 things I think asp.net developers should know by 2010

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:31:20 GMT

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.

ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:31:02 GMT

I've published my session slides and samples from the Fall 2008 ASP.NET Connections conference. The sessions include: jQuery and ASP.NET, WCF REST and JSON with ASP.NET and Dealing with Long Running Requests in ASP.NET.

StyleCop was just released!

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:31:02 GMT

StyleCop was just released! A tool that does all the styling for you in VS 2008 and 2005. It helps you adhere to styling guidelines and standards of your Code. It is a Great tool.

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

Stop and Start Index Service Remotely

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:21:24 GMT

Article written to walk you through how to start and stop indexing service remotely and integrate it into your build process. This can be very helpful when you have files that are "locked" by the indexer.

Test your apps faster with Firefox Server Switcher

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:50:24 GMT

Just a quick little article noting the great add-on available for Firefox to help toggle between dev and live servers.

SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Outlook Read Receipts Are The Devil!

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:56:25 GMT

Don't use them!

SubSonic - Dynamic Database Schema Page

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:31:02 GMT

How to build a dynamic database schema page using SubSonic and Reflection

Re: MySQL versus SQL Server

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:41:28 GMT

A response to the ISV blog article about MySQL vs. MSSQL.

SubSonic & Oracle - Play Nice!

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:26:44 GMT

Making SubSonic work right with Oracle when generating objects.

Nullable Objects must not have values

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:59:14 GMT

A real breif thought on Nullable (of type) objects in .net.

Web Deployment projects on 2005

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:48:07 GMT

ScottGu describes how to use Web Deployment Projects for VS 2005.

System.Web.Security.MemoryLeakProvider

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:29:45 GMT

How to fix memory related issue when using the .net membership provider.

Why ASP.NET Message Board Systems Have Failed

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:50:03 GMT

A brief summary of why so many web sites still use php message board systems over asp.net systems.

Software Development - It's like ice cream, only better

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:24:47 GMT

A look at the analogy of software development and ice cream.

Visual Studio, References, And You

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:57:40 GMT

How to manage dll references for stable build and deployment.

SubSonic Events Preview

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:41:21 GMT

A look at new templates that enable event handlers for SubSonic generated objects.

The World's Most Over-Thought Redirect

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:46:08 GMT

Why does Microsoft do this kind of stuff?