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How to prevent web.config inheritance in ASP.NET child virtual directo

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:10:21 GMT

If you add a new ASP.NET web site as a virtual directory/application under an existing ASP.NET web site, then you'll probably be having some problems with web.config inheritance. Even if the sub-webapp is physically separate, just being in a virtual directory located within another webapp will result in many of the settings being inherited and messing up your sub-webapp.

Using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:37:46 GMT

Now that the latest version of BlogEngine.NET is out, it is easier than ever to get your blog running with VistaDB Express. I've been using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET for a little while now and just love it....

Newspaper - a free theme for BlogEngine.NET

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Newspaper is a free, lightweight, high-contrast, black&white theme for BlogEngine.NET. The name "Newspaper" comes from the fact that theme looks like real newspapers. You can see how does it looks like and download a free copy.

Creating widgets for BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:29:56 GMT

The new BlogEngine.NET 1.4 let's you easily create and distribute widgets like the ones you see on the right hand side on this page. Widgets are basically just small pieces of content and you can leverage the entire .NET Framework to create them. They can pull data from BlogEngine.NET itself or from external sources like web services or remote XML files. Everything is allowed and possible.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Upgrade Guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:01:04 GMT

The upgrade process is fairly easy but there are a few things to be aware of. more....

BlogEngine.NET 1.4 released

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:14:14 GMT

BlogEngine.NET comes with many new exciting features and possibilities for developers. It has taken some time, but now version 1.4 is finally available for download.

How to use the IHttpAsyncHandler in ASP.NET

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:21:17 GMT

Basically, the IHttpAsyncHandler interface allows you to serve content asynchronously from a HTTP handler. This is great when you need to free up the worker thread to do processing like IO work etc. ASP.NET actually uses fewer threads when it runs asynchronously, which is great for performance and scalability. That's because each thread is returned much faster to the thread pool.

High performance css minifier

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:02:11 GMT

CSS minifier based on jsmin idea that produce a small CSS file, much faster, and with much less memory overhead.

BlogEngine.NET Most Popular Posts Extension Fix

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:22:50 GMT

I found a small bug in the Most Popular Posts extension for BlogEngine.NET. If you unpublish or delete a post that has a counter file, the extension will throw object reference not found exceptions. I posted the fix. Hope this helps someone!

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

Getting BlogEngine.NET To Work With The Local Time Zones

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:23:53 GMT

BlogEngine.NET displays the times only in the server time zone by default. I wrote a JavaScript function that converts the server time to the local time of your users.

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We've seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I've collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn't always the culprit for your CSS woes.

Compress WebResource.axd in ASP.NET

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:52:23 GMT

A lot have been written about the compression of WebResource.axd over the years, but as far as I know, nobody has come up with a simple solution to it. Miron Abramson does have a very good library for compressing a lot of different file types, but I've never been much in favour of third-party libraries. There are several reasons why you want to compress the WebResource.axd. First of all you want to reduce the size of your website. On this blog ASP.NET inserts two WebResource.axd script with a combined file size of 43.3KB. If I use compression and minify the scripts, the total file size will be 8.1KB. That is a significant gain. The WebResource.axd is cached in the browser until midnight the same day, so the file size might not be that big a deal. Well, if we can make it expire on a much later date it would be much better since it never changes. So, if the WebResource.axd is minified, compressed and set to live longer in the browsers it really adds up.

Front-end vs. back-end developers

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:14:13 GMT

Pretty good article.

Argotic , an rss library for .net

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:42:00 GMT

How to use argotic to find link in some generic feeds uri.

An open source library to compress css, js, aspx and Webresource.axd

Mon, 26 May 2008 22:35:22 GMT

MbCompression is a library of handlers and modules to compress Css files, JavaScript files, pages and compress WebResource.axd It is easy to implement and improve the overall performance of your web project. The most unique Feature of that library is that the System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader that load the WebResources was rewritten to enable compression and better performance, without making HTTP request each time WebResource need to be served.

BlogEngine.NET - Powerful, open source blog engine written in ASP.NET

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:16:12 GMT

When I decided to run a new blog, I was in a dilemma whether to write engine from scratch or to use some existing solution. Since I wanted to do it fast, I started to search and BlogEngine.NET grabbed my attention. It is an open source project written in ASP.NET 2.0, which was a good starting point for me. Since I use Microsoft technologies in my everyday work it was easy to customize the solution.

Introducing Waegis

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:04 GMT

A new spam blocking service just hit the .NET space: Waegis. It's a service similar to Akismet, but written entirely in .NET

Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:31:03 GMT

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well.

CSS sliding doors technique

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:01:04 GMT

This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don't have to create an image for each button.

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.

MyspaceToolkit

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:02:24 GMT

.NET Toolkit for the Myspace Developer Platform (MDP).

Guide to the semantic web

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:01:02 GMT

The calm after the storm: Mads explain what is semantic web and why it matters. And how we can get ready for it when Web 3.0 arrives.

How do you Validate Method Arguments?

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:52:31 GMT

This is a great article on validating Method arguments by Fredrik Normén.