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Are you making these 3 common ASP.NET AJAX mistakes?

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

An overview of the impact several ASP.NET page life cycle issues have on ASP.NET AJAX development, and how to avoid them.

How To Create a Blog Badge in VB.NET

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:23:59 GMT

Here's a simple code example class that you can use to create 80×15 pixel blog badges. You could even add this class to your own ASP.NET web site and, with a little fleshing out, make your own badge generator.

Show Mercy to Keyboard Users

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:06:42 GMT

Keyboard support is often considered to be something done just for people who, for various physical reasons, can't use a mouse. That's an important community to serve, but not the only reason to think about keyboard users.

More Facebook Application Development Tips

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:14:45 GMT

When making service calls in Facebook.NET, leave the "field" specification null, Get a Facebook Application Test Account, Improve Response Time with Facebook Modal Dialogs by 99%, Experiment with Facebook JavaScript (FBJS), and Create "Debugging" and "Live" Versions of your Application.

How To Create Application Plug-ins In VB.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:38:01 GMT

This article walks you through the steps to create application plug-ins using Reflection in VB.NET

Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

Where to find .NET drivers for Oracle, MySQL, SQLite 3 and nHibernate.

Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:46:02 GMT

Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files

Patterns and Practices For New Hires

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:56:48 GMT

Not specifically about coding but would generally useful tips: "Whether you're a new hire or taking on a new job, here's some principles, patterns and practices to be more effective. They're lessons learned from the school of hard knocks and they represent some of the proven practices that have worked for others and have stood the test of time. "

Sacred Cows Make Great Steaks

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:44:46 GMT

Do you feel like you are in a creative rut either as an individual or a team? How many sacred cows does your organization have? I started thinking about this after reading the US Navy Monkey Experiment article. Often in software development teams, and individual programmers as well, invent sacred cows. These 'cows' eventually get to the point where the organization becomes unable and unwilling to adapt to change.

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:46:03 GMT

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. They've gathered 43 extremely useful AJAX applications for use on any website.

Confessions of a Terrible Programmer

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:01:07 GMT

I'm a terrible programmer. You would think that having done this for nearly 25 years that I should be pretty good at it by now. But nope, I still put bugs in my code, use the wrong types for variables or subprogram arguments...

10 awesome Windows Live Writer plugins for developer

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:31:02 GMT

I've made this list of 10 plugins for Windows Live Writer. Some of these plugins will help beatify your published code, while others will help you create code archives or retrieve a link from MSDN.

Revisiting Programming Fonts

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:46:03 GMT

Jeff Atwood discusses programming fonts including the new one on the block, Inconsolata.

Coding Horror Interview

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:31:03 GMT

Coding Horror Interview at ScribeSonic. An interview with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame.

.NET TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools and Tips For Working With .NET

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:06:52 GMT

Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we've gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks.

On the Abuse of IEnumerable « Code Beast

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:10:06 GMT

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!

Delegates and Visitors in C#

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:01:03 GMT

The GoF visitor pattern is useful but awkward. The usual c++ or Java-y versions typically involve some kind of visitor interface which your visitor must subclass. Java somewhat mitigates this with anonymous classes, but not fully. In C#, if we're clever with the use of delegates, we can make tasks like tree traversal look about as simple as iteration.

How To Compare Files in VB.NET

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:26:08 GMT

This VB.NET code example looks at a way of comparing files and capturing the differences between them.

String Splitting and Tokenization Techniques in .NET

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:41:44 GMT

Different ways how strings in .NET can be split/tokenized and why String.Split can be evil

3 Handy Icon Functions You Can Use

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:14:02 GMT

The System.Drawing.Icon class provides several ways for you to work with icons. In this article we'll look at using its functions to get the icon for a file, creating an icon from a bitmap file, and converting a bitmap to an icon.

Understand C#: Proper use IDisposable and using keyword

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:11:16 GMT

Most System.Data, System.IO and System.Windows.Controls objects use the IDisposable interface, as well as many others, to free up unmanaged resources that may have been created when the object was initialized. Unmanaged resources are any calls that are made outside of the .NET environment, this can be GDI+ calls, SQL Driver calls, Disk IO calls, or basically anything that cannot be accounted for by the Garbage Collector.

Introduction To FileSystemWatcher

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:46:37 GMT

This article looks at the basics of using the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor file activity in VB.NET.

Make your website faster using Content Delivery Network

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:31:03 GMT

Great article about CDN's.

5 Facebook.NET Development Tips

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:46:02 GMT

5 Facebook.NET Development Tips - Use Steven Treffen's Visual Studio.NET starter kit for Facebook.NET, develop and debug your application as an <iframe> application, use strongly-typed references to Master Pages in all of your .aspx files, Use <fb:FacebookHyperLink> extensively, and Use the FBML Test Console.

Profiling .NET Applications

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:31:02 GMT

A guide with screen shots illustrating how to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in a .NET application using a profiler