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Eight Simple Tips To Improve Your Presentation Skills

Sun, 18 May 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Recently, a user group held a conference whose subject was Domain-Driven Design with nHibernate. Now, this is a really cool topic of discussion! So, I decided to attend the conference in order to improve my perspective and knowledge on the subject. Little did I know that the speaker was an introverted programmer who greatly lacked in public speaking skills. Many people, including myself, left early, as the presentation became unbearably tedious and awkward.

Unloadable plugins

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:16:02 GMT

A visual explanation on how to load and most importantly unload plugins in .net.

unit testing your events

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:01:02 GMT

In this article I will show you how you can unit test your events. I will show you a simple technique that will enable you to test if your events fire exactly as often as you want them to and I will provide you with two implementations. One implementation works well with the .NET Framework 2.0 and the second one uses .NET 3.0 (anonymous methods) in order to minimize the code necessary.

Localizing MVC for ASP.NET views and master pages

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:53:14 GMT

A class and technique to automatically use language-specific versions of views, user controls and master pages within MVC for ASP.NET.

Subversion visually explained in 30 sec

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

A simple flash explantion of Subversion with 2 concurrent users. Includes conflict solving.

How to share configuration files between projects

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:31:03 GMT

Sharing configuration files between multiple projects in Visual Studio is a simple task, but it is not intuitive in how it is done. In fact, until recently I did not know how to do it via the IDE, I would always hand edit the .sln file to enable this feature (sad I know). Today I thought I would throw up a simple set of screen shots to show everyone how easy it really is.

FormatWith - String.Format Extension Method

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:31:02 GMT

My first and favorite extension method.

Visual Studio Most Recent Files Utility

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:27:41 GMT

Manage your recent projects and solutions list for Visual Studio. Supports VS 2003, 2005, and 2008.

if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on...

Retaining Good Developers - 10 Things To Keep Them Happy

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

This is a great article. I just wish some of my previous employers would have done just a few of these things. I probably would have stuck around longer.

Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Interesting article by Daniel Moth about the Parallel Extensions.

MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application!

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:16:02 GMT

he MSDN Reader allows you to browse through MSDN Magazine articles like never before. Read through articles, view figures and code snippets in an intuitive and easy-to-use experience.

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file."...

VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 6: Custom TypeConverter 2

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:01:03 GMT

This post shows how to implement a custom TypeConverter for Enums and how to use the SupportedValues to show a custom values list .

How to check email works with no SMTP

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Testing code that sends email has always been a pain. You had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly...

Completely free PDF .NET library written in C#

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Want to add PDF support to your .NET project. Try this. Open Source library to create/edit PDF files. With unrestricted license to change, sell, sublicense.

ASP.NET MVC: Prevent XSS with automatic HTML encoding

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Tired of having to remember to HTML-encode all your strings to prevent cross-site-scripting? Here's a way to change the ASPX page compilation process so that output is correctly encoded by default.

5 signs your ASP.NET application may be vulnerable to HTML injection

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:01:04 GMT

HTML injection is an incredibly dangerous flaw to have in your application and ASP.NET does nothing for you automatically. Here's 5 tell-tale signs your application may be affected.

MVC Complaint: Checkboxes

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:16:03 GMT

Explanation of some issues you may encounter when using the MVC Framework and Toolkit and working with checkboxes. No dealbreakers, but there are some minor annoyances to be aware of.

ASP.NET MVC Framework and December CTP of Extensions released

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:31:03 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC Framework is now available as part of the December CTP for the ASP.NET and ADO.NET 3.5 Extensions.

How dangeous is HMTL injection?

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:23:44 GMT

f you are not familiar with HttpUtility.HtmlEncode but write web applications that output data into HTML you might well be writing applications that are open to HTML injection vulnerabilities that could be easily exploited. Includes link to a presentation that demonstrates vulnerable code and a safe alternative for both HTML and SQL injection vulnerabilities.

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:46:02 GMT

Here it is! Go get some MVC goodness. Official download page.

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

Free software projects need a pitch

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:03 GMT

Open source and free software projects still have much to learn from commercial software, the number one in my book being "the pitch"...