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Creating great thumbnails in ASP.NET

Sat, 10 May 2008 02:01:03 GMT

The built in function for creating thumbnails in ASP.NET is extremely convenient and very simple to implement. The trouble is that it produces relatively poor quality results and excessively large file sizes. The thumbnails tend to look very muddy when using this route, but many times it's good enough for whatever your needs may be.

ASP.NET Flash Remoting

Fri, 09 May 2008 02:26:46 GMT

Article about WebOrb, a free Flash/Flex Remoting Solution by the Midnight Coders for ASP.NET

Fundamentals of OOD, encapsulation scope

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:08:32 GMT

Part 2 of a series on Fundamentals of OOD covering encapsulation, scope, and the Single Responsibility Principle.

Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) part 1

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:05:52 GMT

Introduction to some design aspects of OOD, part one of a series.

Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler.

Prevent xss in Asp.Net

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:37:11 GMT

Class that prevents xss attacks in asp.net, including the regex needed to clean xss

Great Silverlight 2.0 example application

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Great example of how to make rich line-of-business apps using Silverlight 2.0. Scalable UI, DeepZoom, animation etc.

Programmer Productivity: The "Tenfinity" Factor

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:31:41 GMT

It's widely accepted in the software industry that some programmers are much more productive than others. Many experts cite an order-of-magnitude productivity difference between the "best" and "average" programmers.

ModalBox - An easy way to create popups and wizards

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:00:13 GMT

Nice javascript library that makes it pretty sickeningly easy to add modal dialogs to pages.

BlogEngine.NET Extension: In-line Tags

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:31:02 GMT

This BlogEngine.NET extension allows you to specify tags in the content of your blog post. This is useful when you post via software like Diarist or a gateway like Flickr that doesn't allow you to specify you blog tags.

Product Box Generator

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:58:00 GMT

This application will generate a software package box image with up to three images for the front, side and top of the box. Each image can be stretched to fit its area or centered with a background co

Introduction to the FSharp programming language

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:06:01 GMT

A brief introduction to the F# programming language that will be the next one to integrate Microsoft Visual Studio. From the point of view of a C# programmer there's a lot you must learn to master the new concepts related to this powerful functional programming language. See where to download the F# compiler bits and start programming today.

AutoComplete for Silverlight TextBoxes

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:16:02 GMT

An implementation of AutoComplete functionality that you can add to your TextBoxes in XAML... ala Google Suggest and the ASP.NET AutoComplete control extender (built on top of the behavior framework).

C# Object-Oriented Programming

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:04:53 GMT

A twenty-two part tutorial explaining the basics of object-oriented programming using C# and .NET.

Windows Vista SP1 Available on Windows Update

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:02:21 GMT

Just got the following update notification

A Templated ASP.NET RSS Feed Reader Control - Stefan's ASP.NET Blog

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:54:07 GMT

Nice implementation of a server control that displays RSS feeds using a templated approach.

Automatic Error Handling

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:09:40 GMT

Download code Microsoft's best practices[1] regarding error handling are pretty clear. They are designed to avoid losing information that might be helpful to the developer, provide a reasonable user experience, and to prevent a huge performance hit every time something goes wrong. ...

Mobile Controls - Device Specific Rendering

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:05:44 GMT

I got a chance to do some analysis on the ASP.NET 2.0 Mobile Controls. I was doing some R&D on the rendering behavior of the mobile controls, trying to generate a similar user interface with the same page for WML as well as HTML specific devices. For example: I

The One Single Tip to Comment Your Code

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

You've heard about 13 tips to comment your code, but what about the One Single Tip?

ASP.NET Controls for amCharts Released

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:50:16 GMT

AmCharts are very customizable and flexible Adobe Flash charts. However generating data and modifying settings on the fly requires a substantial amount of data transformations and XML generation. This is where "ASP.NET Controls for amCharts" step in. This set of ASP.NET controls allows .NET developers to work with amCharts as they would normally do with any native data-bound ASP.NET controls.

GoDaddy setup with BlogEngine.NET (Step by Step)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:19:18 GMT

Step by step process of how to setup Blogengine.net on Godaddy. Very good tutorial.

Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:14:15 GMT

"The main reason why I'm doing this is because I feel that there isn't enough examples of real world skinning using the new Silverlight 2.0 bits. There needs to be more samples out there for people to learn from, I for one would of loved to have more demo's to digest in the early days of the Silverlight 2.0 beta release."

C# 3.0 Auto Implemented Properties

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:44:27 GMT

A feature I only recently became aware. Pretty good summary of the old problem and what 3.0 does to fix it.

Amazon releases DevPay in limited beta

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:09:21 GMT

Amazon DevPay is a simple-to-use billing and account management service that makes it easy for developers to get paid for applications they build on Amazon Web Services.

Pagination with ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:45:43 GMT

This article shows a way to paginate a large data set using a stored procedure in SQL Server and a user control in ASP.NET.