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How to respond with code 404 (Not Found) in ASP.NET

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:01:01 GMT

Quick tip on using HttpException

Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:46:11 GMT

There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser.

Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A guide on how to easily script out an entire database (schema and data) using the Database Publishing Wizard. A tool that you may not know you have access to. And if you have Visual Studio 2008, you already have installed!

Json.NET 3.0 Released

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

The latest version of Json.NET brings lots of new features including Silverlight support.

Delayed execution and "yield return"

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A quick look at "yield return" focusing on arguably the most important aspect...delayed execution.

Behind the scenes of the C# yield keyword

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:10 GMT

Yield is not a CLR feature, it's just about the C# compiler. This post explains how this works.

Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:31:25 GMT

It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can't you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure? Isn't the structure of a program more similar to a graph, than a list? Besides the momentum of the past, what is keeping us tied to having our code in this format?

How to wrap the ASP.NET session state

Mon, 19 May 2008 13:16:16 GMT

A handy C# code snippet for accessing ASP.net session state data. Exceptions are handled, usage is intuitive.

Nice way to store data on a single tread (Ambient Context Pattern)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:40:27 GMT

Lars writes about how to store contextual data in a nice way. His approach uses the using statement to have a value set only in a certain scope. He also provides the full source for his implementation as a downloadable zip-file.

ReSharper 4.0, I love you but it may be time we break up

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:01:03 GMT

What's happening with R# 4? Every build has more issues than the previous one...

Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

Correctly disposing using the using()-statement

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:16:07 GMT

A nice little article for newbies about how the using()-statement in C# works.

A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!