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UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

ASP.NET MVC Framework out on CodePlex

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:46:02 GMT

This morning, I was browsing the new projects page on CodePlex and noticed something nice! The ASP.NET MVC team already rumoured around making the ASP.NET MVC framework source code available on CodePlex, but here it is: the ASP.NET MVC project on CodePlex.

.NET Event Techniques

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

Kevin@Work: Bag-o-Tricks March '08 Edition

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:50:10 GMT

Collection of excellent WPF controls and implementations for you to use. Binaries and source available.

MDX Named Sets in SQL Server 2005/2008

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:46:09 GMT

An MDX Named Set is a list of members, based on some pre-defined retrieval logic. You may have a named set that lists your Customers in zip code order or products sold for 2005 in sales order amount. Since an MDX Named Set is simply an MDX expression, you could create a more complex Named Set using other MDX functions like DESCENDANTS to build a list of members from a customer geography, starting at a certain level (Region) down to another level (Market).

Data Binding an Enum with Descriptions

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:47:31 GMT

Finally a SIMPLE, straight-forward, well thought out way to do DataBinding with an Enum.

ASP.NET Multiple File Upload With Progress Bar

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:14:42 GMT

Download code Introduction It is difficult to find a decent upload control that handles large files, shows a progress bar, and still works in a medium-trust hosting environment. The problem with these controls is that medium-trust does not allow Reflection. But this does not mean that...

Performance Woe of Binary XML

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:13:58 GMT

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes 5 to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's...

Gridview/DataGrid Merge Header

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:06:29 GMT

Downlaod code Introduction During development with GridView, we might come across many situations in which we need to extend GridView for our requirements. For example, we need to have a separate header other than the header provided by GridView. In that case we need to add new GridVie...

Visual CSharp Debugger

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:42:40 GMT

Debugging issues ASP.NET Debugging *If you can't find the error message that you're looking for in this section, please check the section which deals with general debugging issues or remote debugging issues

Master Pages

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:59:01 GMT

A simple way of doing master pages in asp.net 1.1

Displaying Row Details Tooltip on GridView using JQuery

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:16:02 GMT

Displaying Row Details Tooltip on GridView using JQuery