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Negative Attitudes are a Cancer to Successful Teams

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:16:09 GMT

Team members with a negative attitude are thieves, robbing the team of its potential, its moral, and often its success.

Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:01:02 GMT

I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu.

ASP.NET and Performance

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:30:34 GMT

Perfmon and ASP.NET and where to get information on what counters to look at, etc.

Setting Up Compression with IIS 6.0

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:42:06 GMT

One of the most commonly missed features of setting up a web server is configuring compression. All modern Browsers support both GZip and Deflate compression for content. All commercially viable web servers support GZip and Deflate compression types. IIS is no different. The reason many miss this feature is you have to configure it the way you need it to work in order for it to work. I am going to cover configuring compression in IIS 6 in this entry.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 5: Dependency Injection and Inversion of Contr

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:46:11 GMT

Part one of a two part discussion with Nate Kohari and Brad Wilson on Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control containers.

Sorting in Generic List

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:22:14 GMT

With the introduction of 2.0 framework we got so many new useful features that makes our development ease in our applications. Generic list is one of such feature which we can use for creating a collection of similar objects. We can create our collection with generic List, where T can be our BO, which can be strongly typed.