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Scripting an ASP.NET installation in Win2k3

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:16:03 GMT

A concrete example of setting up an ASP.NET website using a batch file.

15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

After some extensive researching (Googling), I've compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies.

Increase Your Productivity With Query Analyzer/SQL Server Management S

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:31:02 GMT

2 tips to make you more productive with Query Analyzer/SQL Server Management Studio

Edit your CSS code live in Internet Explorer and Firefox

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:31:02 GMT

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. This is like Firebug (CSS only) both in IE & Firefox.

Try..Catch ...Now What

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:16:02 GMT

Story from the trenches of how NOT to use try..catch blocks.

SubSonic: Creating a JOINed Query

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:01:01 GMT

"To facilitate JOIN support, a new Query constructor overload has been added. This overload takes a table schema reference, and one or more table columns as parameters."

SQL Server: The proper and fastest way to check if rows exist

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Simple yet very underused way to check if rows matching a condition exist.

They (spammers) look like ants from here

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:31:03 GMT

Since adding some basic user visualisation to DotNetKicks.com the other day, I have become slightly addicted to viewing the who's online page. This morning I added colour coding to the users based on their status - green for new users, blue for existing users and red for spammers.

CS2 - a personal source code search engine

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:01:01 GMT

CS2 is an open source C# source code search engine, to allow people to easily search through code stored in their machines with a simple web user interface built on ASP.NET.

Secret functionality of the "Find" combo in Visual Studio

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:01:03 GMT

Quickly open or create files, set breakpoints, or execute commands and/or macros using the "Go To Find" combo in Visual Studio.

A Better .NET Regular Expression Tester

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:46:02 GMT

A simple and fast AJAX-powered .NET regular expression tester.

"Nothing has changed" - Determining when a procedure has been altered

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Cool little script to determine when a stored procedure was last updated.

RSS in .NET Made Easy with XML Serialization

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:01:01 GMT

Easy as pie RSS using PONO (Plain Ole .NET Objects) and .ToString method. There's also a method to deserialize an RSS Document. Lots of cool potential here (think: log files).

Log4Net And External Configuration File In ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:01:01 GMT

Describes a potential problem in trying to configure Log4Net to work with an external configuration file.

C# Equivalent of SQL Coalesce

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:31:01 GMT

This blog post describes the use of the null coalescing operator.

Additional VS2005 C# Code Snippets

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:29:37 GMT

This is a set of task-based code snippets in C# that can help you with programming tasks ranging from working with databases and windows applications to writing mobile device applications and networking programs.