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Finally, a SelectedItems Option (yaaay)

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

The .NET framework does not include a way to get the selected items from a CheckBoxList, ListBox, DropDownList, or RadioButtonList, without iterating the Items collection. This post provides a generic extension method for retrieving the selected items from any ListControl.

Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Use Visual Studio's post-build events to make unit testing automation awesome!

Massive BlogEngine.Net Security Hole - Fix Provided

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A massive security hole in BlogEngine.net was just revealed that allows anyone to see your passwords... Danny Douglass explains the issue and provides a patched BlogEngine.Core assembly to resolve the issue until the next release of BlogEngine is available.

Browser Beta Battle IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A quick comparison of page load times on IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

ASP.NET MVC Action Filter - Caching and Compression

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Playing with Action Filters

ASP.NET MVC: Store Routes in the Database

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:44 GMT

Routing in the new .NEW MVC Framework is a synch to customize. This post shows how to move route definitions out of the global.asax.cs and into the database.

Hidden Gem: Singleton Factory in C#

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:01:04 GMT

Simple and generic implementation of singleton factory in C#.

WebConfigurationManager for Multiple Configuration Files

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:11:13 GMT

If you've ever needed to manage multiple web.config files in a single application this post provides a class for doing just that!

Inject Dependency with Spring.NET and Generics

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:08:35 GMT

This post provides code for a generic method to do Dependency Injection with Spring.NET.

Type less in SQL Server 2008 (variable init and multi row inserts)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Among the large number of new features in SQL Server 2008 there are two, almost insignificant features, that I use almost constantly. These are variable initialization and the values clause of insert statements that now accept multiple rows.

You Want To Trace.Write... How About No!

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:48:00 GMT

Diagnostics tracing getting you down? This post explains differences between ASP.NET Tracing and System.Web.Diagnostics Tracing.

Adobe Responds To Silverlight

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:16:02 GMT

The move that Adobe is making is to include the ability in include C, C++, Java, Python, and Ruby code into Flash that will get comiled into ActionScript. This is a smart move by Adobe which will strengthen Flash and remove the major reason a developer might decide to switch to Silverlight.

Memcached's .NET cousin - Cacheman

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Sriram from Microsoft develops Cacheman, a fast distributed hashtable similar to Memcached written in pure managed code.

How To: Dependency Injection with Spring.NET

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:16:37 GMT

If you've been interested in Dependency Injection or Inversion of Control and haven't had a chance to try it out, check out this simple example with sample project download.

XmlDocument fluent interface

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

A simple fluent interface for creating XmlDocuments & strings.

Congrats! Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform. Previously general manager, Guthrie will continue to oversee several development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

Chaining the C# ?? Operator

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:01:02 GMT

The C# 2.0 ?? operator makes it easy to assign a default value to nulls. Nothing new here, but did you know that you can also chain the operator to quickly check many value and find the first non-null value?

A Generic JSON Serialization Extension Method Starring DataContractJso

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:44:23 GMT

Providing data in the JSON format has become a fantastic way to deliver information to a client side consumer over the web. This post provides steps to creating a generic ToJSON extension method to make JSON serialization as easy as possible in the .NET 3.5 framework.

Microsoft Sync Framework Support in Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:03 GMT

How to add synchronization framework to your app in several mouse clicks in Visual Studio 2008.

MVC: Template Fix

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:46:03 GMT

The recent MVC CTP has a bug which prevents codebehind files from working as expected. A workaround exists to get it working, but this article and download will permanently fix the MVC templates once and for all.

ASP.NET MVC and Accessing Server Controls in CodeBehind

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:14:10 GMT

... and this is done with the help of designer file

Selecting Random Records With SQL

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:46:02 GMT

Have you ever wanted to be able to SELECT a random record or records from a database table, but was unsure how to do it with SQL, instead of through code? Fortunately there is a way to do it in SQL Server (and MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, SQLite, and yes, even your favourite, MS Access), and I'll show you how.

SQL Server Indexes: The Basics

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:31:06 GMT

Indexes directly affect the performance of database applications. This article uses analogies to describe how indexes work. The estimated execution plan feature of the Query Window is utilized to compare the performance of two queries in a batch.

Xml Serialization with Generic Lists

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:42:04 GMT

Provides an example of how to xml serialize a generic list.

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.