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Taking the Magic out of Expression

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:31:12 GMT

Concise introduction to expression trees.

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman discusses a recent podcast with the team from StackOverflow where it was mentioned that they compress the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET, enabling them to store about 5-10x more data.

Insidious Dependencies

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Many dependencies in code are obvious, such as relying on a particular framework or database implementation. Others can easily be overlooked. This article exposes some of the more insidious dependencies that commonly exist within applications which may be overlooked as such.

Neptune (personal SMTP testing server)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:46:13 GMT

Neptune is a SMTP Development Server targeted for use in automated testing. It's a SMTP server that does not relay the message and allows you to query for messages and their content.

Client Templating with jQuery

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:16:05 GMT

Client templating in Javascript can be a great tool to reduce the amount of code you have to write to create markup content on the client. There are a number of different ways that templating can be accomplished from a purely manual approach to a full templating engine. In this entry I'll look at several different approaches.

Pluggable ASP.NET CacheManager

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:01:04 GMT

A CacheManager class that you can easily write your own providers (memcached, Velocity, etc.) for. Includes providers for request-length caching and ASP.NET's built-in Cache object.

A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:16:13 GMT

After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams, it is completely online and...

Avoid this tricky conflict between ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:31:03 GMT

One example of how ASP.NET AJAX can conflict with jQuery's plugins, due to its modification of some JavaScript base types, and how to fix the problem in this particular case.

The Definitive C# Singleton

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:01:04 GMT

The .NET framework makes it very easy to write thread safe, lazy initialized, singletons. Here's how.

Simulate a Windows Service Using ASP.NET to Run Scheduled Jobs

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Back in 2005 Omar Al Zabir (Co-founder and CTO of PageFlakes) posted an article on the CodeProject web site Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs that many of you have probably seen. If you liked the idea at the time but didn't do anything with it, you may want to take another look now. In the comments, dselkirk provided an alternative that really cleans things up that Erichero then improved upon slightly and converted to C#.

Important questions a developer should ask a prospective employer

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:01:08 GMT

A list of questions that software developers should ask a prospective employer during their interview process. Similar to the Joel test, but more in-depth.

The GetHashCode Method

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:09:12 GMT

An explanation of the GetHashCode method and an example of its use.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

Tips and Tricks - ASP.Net AJAX Applications

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:31:03 GMT

This article is aimed to provide some tips and tricks that very useful while implementing ASP.Net AJAX applications.

jQuery Form Serialization without ASP.NET ViewState

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:31:10 GMT

When building AJAX applications that send client form content to the server, ViewState and EventValidation fields can get in the way. Using jQuery you can make short work skipping over these fields and send only the raw POST data to the server.

7 principles of clean and optimized CSS code

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:01:02 GMT

With the popularity of CSS layouts and JavaScript-enriched web page experiences, it's not uncommon, particularly for large sites, for the CSS files alone to grow in size, but there are some principles to consider during and after you write your CSS to help keep it tight and optimized. Optimization isn't just minimizing file size - it's also about being organized, clutter-free, and efficient. You'll find that the more knowledge you have about optimal CSS practices, smaller file size will inevitably come as an direct result of their implementation. You may already be familiar with some of the principles mentioned in this article, but they are worth a review. Being familiar with this concepts will help you write optimized CSS code and make you a better all-around web designer.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

Create apple.com-like breadcrumb using simple CSS

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Janko shows an extremely simple and nicely polished way to create graphical breadcrumbs like on apple.com.

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Describes what is needed to add OpenID login as an option to traditional ASP.NET Membership and integrating both.

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.

Recommendations From My Developer Toolbox (June 2008)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:31:03 GMT

This is an updated version of my January 2008 list of must have software for your developer toolbox. Kudos to Scott Hanselman for the inspiration.

Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and MultiCore CPU

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Title says enough or you're just dead from the neck up if you're not interested...

Must Have Tool for ASP.NET Developer

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

NetFXHarmonics DevServer is a web server hosting environment built on .NET 3.5 using WPF, WCF, and LINQ technologies that allows multiple instances of VS-like web servers to run in parallel

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.