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Why a standards compliant IE8 won't really mean much

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:16:02 GMT

"What would a standards compliant IE8 mean for web developers? Call me cynical, but I honestly don't think it will mean all that much for a long long (long long long long) time, and lets look at why I believe that."

Krypton 2.7.0 UI Controls released

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Phil Wright has released the latest version of his awesome .net UI toolkit with loads of new UI components. It's great, and a fair chunk of it's free too.

Dependency Injection Objection

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:01:04 GMT

"The amount of heat I anticipate receiving is so disproportional to the probable light gained that it makes me hesitate."

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.

Firing events with Extension Methods

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:31:06 GMT

A different way of firing standard .Net events using Extension Methods

Extension Methods Suck

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:01:03 GMT

The title says it all!

Type casting - the difference between as and () operators

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:16:02 GMT

In C#, you have two different ways to perform type casting (a.k.a. explicit type conversion) - as and () operators. The difference between the two operators is not limited to just syntax, they work differently. It is subtle enough to trap even experienced developers

What's Ailing ASP.NET Web Forms

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:31:03 GMT

Rick Strahl summarises the disadvantages of the current ASP.NET WebForms model, and how the new ASP.NET MVC framework might address some of these issues.

CTS: Reference vs Value Types in .NET

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:31:02 GMT

This is a quick introduction/review on reference and value types in .NET. It covers common examples of each as well as memory allocation, parameter passing, nullability, boxing/unboxing, and inheritance. The post contains lots of links for learning more.

aspneticons.com -- free icons for ASP.NET web applications

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:01:02 GMT

That's not all! There are more than 300 (three hundred!) professionally designed icons for your ASP.NET applications in this collection. And, they all are completely free!

Code reuse, next level

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:01:02 GMT

A common mistake that developers have been making over the years is to place conditional statements that always evaluate to the same result (until a property changes) inside a loop, here's an alternative to solve this problem

Get Around Database Locks with the NOLOCK Keyword

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:01:02 GMT

Using MBUnit's awesome Rollback attribute for unit tests cause the test to be wrapped in a transaction - which is well and good as that allows any changes made by the test to be undone. However, it also causes a database lock contention when you try to read from a locked row/table while debugging your unit test. Read on for a quick tip to get around this issue.

Best of both worlds - SessionCache

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:31:01 GMT

The Session and Cache objects each have their own advantages making it tricky to know which to use for a given piece of data. SessionCache is a simple class meant to bring together the best of both worlds.

ArrayList.Contains() race condition

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:54:21 GMT

Race conditions are notoriously hard to debug. Here's an example of how we tracked down a strange one inside the ArrayList.Contains() method.