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Integrated social networking in ASP.NET

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This riff explores how to move all common social networking features of a web application, such as tagging and commenting, to a separate assembly to make them re-usable across all of your projects.

Why C# Compiler Is so Picky About Type Parameter Constraints' Position

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:54:14 GMT

The C# syntax dictates the ordering class, structs, new(), and base-class constraints in the generics. This post elaborates on this a little bit.

Display nicely formatted .NET source code on your blog

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:03 GMT

How to quickly display nicely formatted and colored source code on your blog using the CopySourceAsHtml VS plugin.

Batch Thumbnail Creator

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:01:04 GMT

Thumbnailer will open every image in every folder supplied and will create a thumbnail image is the same proportions as the original image, but will not exceed the maximum width or height.

Using JQuery DatePicker in ASP.Net

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:11:27 GMT

How to use the JQuery DatePicker in Asp.Net. Show how to setup the JavaScript, the code behind, and the text box control.

Response.TransmitFile + Close will kill your application

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:35:53 GMT

Just before last weekend I noticed that a website I'm responsible for started spitting out "Server is busy" messages, not something you want to see on a website with millions of visitors per day. The quickfix was to recycle the application pool, and thus I solved the symptoms by setting a 15 mins recycle cycle on all the application pools. Not exactly optimal, but sometimes pissing your pants is the way to go.

.NET Event Techniques

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

Do You Really Need A Distributed Architecture?

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Does the question sound rhetoric to you? Do you think the answer is "Yes" by default these days? Think twice. Ask yourself the questions below. You may change your mind at the end.

But I like my dependencies!

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:15:43 GMT

"Recently I've been talking about dependency injection and ASP.NET MVC. Each are interesting technologies and are "hot topics" in the ASP.NET world right now. I had decided that my newest project would utilize these, if for nothing else but to learn them in more detail."

Flexibility and control (thoughts on management styles)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:11:22 GMT

A brief discussion about management styles, predicating success, and developer efficiency.

Back To Basics: Integers

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:09:25 GMT

An explanation of integers, and how they are represented in most computer systems.

Associating String values with enums in C#

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:52:33 GMT

Ever wanted to have an enum which has a value that is a string rather than just an numeric type? Well, now you can have your cake and eat it too!

Duplicate code is a pain

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:19:31 GMT

Detect duplicate C# code with Simian

10 reasons why I chose MySQL over MSSQL2005 Express

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

10 reasons why to choose MySQL as database engine for your websites instead of MSSQL 2005

Overloading True and False in C#

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:34:43 GMT

The ninth article in the C# Object-Oriented Programming tutorial continues the discussion of operator overloading. In this article, the overloading of the true and false operators is described, allowing an object to be used in conditional processing.

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:31:02 GMT

If you are using Subversion source control, you will be familiar with the .svn folders that SVN adds to any folder under the source control, these folders are used to keep track of the current state of the folder, but sometimes, I want to copy my code and get rid of these folders, and instead of doing this manually which becomes a headache if you have a very deep hierarchy of folders, this is a Shell Script comes to the rescue

Don't Be a Validation Nazi

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

"Postel wrote that in an RFC that defined TCP, but it applies much more broadly. It's natural that developers, used to the exacting nature of writing code for a compiler, where even the most minor of typos can bring a program screeching to a halt, have a tendency to apply such exactitude on their users."

How to Use the Action and Predicate Delegates

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:23:37 GMT

How to Use the Action and Predicate Delegates in VB.NET

Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

"Sure there are Community Server, MySpace, DotNetKicks and DasBlog; there are all very fine products, but compare them to LAMP, Rails and Java lineup: Digg, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Flickr, Backpack and the Company, Delicious, all the Google Apps, Mint, Meebo, Twitter, Zillow and of course Infinite Cat Project. If you checkout the new startups on TechCrunch, it seems like every new startup is something Linux based and is not ASP.NET."

The Yield Statement in C#

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:16:03 GMT

The yield statement is another often overlooked keyword that was introduced in .NET 2.0. It is used to return items from a loop within a method and retain the state of the method through multiple calls.

The surprising behavior of "as" in C#

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Type casting and the "as" operator are not the same in C#. Not by a long shot.

Who will champion the health of the business?

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:57:25 GMT

Let me tell you a fictitious story. Ok, so it's not fictitious, but I swear I've never seen it happen where *I* work. It's a story of an enterprise losing a whole lot of money..

Someone please defend Visual SourceSafe

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:52:16 GMT

Is there anyone out there that uses VSS and likes it??

Standard questions to be asked when logging bugs

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:06:30 GMT

Set of standard questions that should be asked when logging bugs.

Subkismet to the rescue

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:46:02 GMT

Since jumping to a PageRank of 6, DotNetKicks.com has become increasingly attractive to spammers. For the past year or so I has been deleting the posts manually, there would maybe be one or two spam posts per day. In the past week the number of spam posts has jumped to about 60 per day.