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C#: Generate WebPage Thumbmail Screenshot Image

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:16:08 GMT

There are a few services out there that serve up screenshots of any webpage for you to display on your website. One popular one is Kwiboo; this is the one that DotNetKicks uses. For some time now I've wondered what the easiest way to do this in .NET was, and today I stumbled upon the undocumented WebBrowser.DrawToBitmap method that makes this extremely easy to do.

25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:46:02 GMT

A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides, .NET blogs and how tos about improving .NET performance.

A sneak peak at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0's client-side templating

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:31:15 GMT

Hot on the heels of the recent ASP.NET AJAX roadmap, Bertrand and team have released a limited preview of the new AJAX functionality coming in ASP.NET 4.0. Dave is giving a sneak peak about it

Introduction to the Ninject IoC Container

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Short screencast that will walk you through how to use the Ninject IoC (Inversion of Control) Container. This episode will also review the basics of the Strategy Pattern as it is critical to IoC.

XRAY Bookmarklet

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:30:16 GMT

XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.

jQuery Content Slider Tutorial

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

This tutorial shows how to make an horizontal content slider with jQuery and a plugin called jFlow.

ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:02 GMT

I'm very happy to announce that the first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. Thanks to everyone who made that happen and thanks to all of you for providing feedback on the Roadmap. This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side template rendering Declarative instantiation of behaviors and controls DataView control Markup extensions Bindings

Continuous scrolling pattern using JavaScript and ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:46:12 GMT

Continuous scrolling is very interesting pattern. If I would have to describe it in short I would say that new items are being loaded while you scroll down the content. It is a completely opposite pattern to a pagination. In this article, you will learn about this pattern and see how it can be implemented using JavaScript and ASP.NET.

Matt'sFeedback on ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:16:02 GMT

Matt Berseth sharing his ideas and feedback about ASP.NET AJAX Future.

ASPNET MVC P4 is on codeplex

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:31:02 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC pre-preview 4 source code + installer is available on Codeplex. Enjoy!!

jQuery.UI Messenger\Outlook like message notification Widget

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Messenger like notification widget using jQuery.UI, following Matt Berseth post about ProgressBar Widger using jQuery.UI

The Future of ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:46:16 GMT

My analysis of the ASP.NET Team's tentative road map for ASP.NET AJAX v.Next and beyond, followed by a few additional recommendations.

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

Nice blog posting for 1st time CodePlex User

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:26:31 GMT

This helped me a lot with the CodePlex client config!!

Upgrading to SubSonic v2.1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:46:09 GMT

I spent a few hours this morning doing the migration of our codebase and it seems to have gone smoothly. Migrating to v2.1 involved a few changes and this post will describe them briefly.

Five Common ASP.NET SEO Mistakes

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:16:06 GMT

Here's a checklist of five common mistakes that ASP.NET and the Viewstate/Postback model of development make it far too easy for unsuspecting developers to make:

ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:26:17 GMT

Interesting document ... Includes stuff like - adding jQuery style css selectors: $query("input[type=text][value~=foo]"); - client side templates

Visual Studio Power Toys Are Back! : Visual Studio Hacks

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:46:10 GMT

The missing power toys have been found and are now on MSDN Code Gallery.

An Open Letter to the ALT.NET Community

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:31:03 GMT

It seems as if everyone in .net land has chimed in on the whole Entity Framework "Vote Of No Confidence" petition recently, and up until now I have mostly stayed on the sidelines. As with any seemingly risky move, I was quite torn on the issue. And to a certain extent, I still am ...

Rejoinder #1 to "Vote of No Confidence in Entity Framework"

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:42:32 GMT

A balanced look at the Entity Framework's "Vote of No Confidence" from an architect that doesn't share the same conclusions as the authors.

Handling click-happy users using ASP.NET Ajax

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:21:09 GMT

It has become a standard to disable a user to start another postback while the current is still running. I believe that you already know about Ajax loading indicators and that you use them to notify users that the postback is in the progress. But there are a few more options you could use.

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:16:05 GMT

Internal email from Bill Gates detailing his difficulties with Microsoft.com, Windows Update, and more.

Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:16:04 GMT

An example of one way of using ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to implement client-side Repeater functionality. Using this technique on one of my own sites, I realized an over 400% performance gain.

Plot ZipCode Boundaries on a Map: Part 2 - Import Zip Code (U.S. Censu

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:55:39 GMT

Now that we've Made Sense of the U.S. Census ZCTA ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) files in Part 1 of this series, we are ready to import the U.S Census ZCTA Zip Code data into a database. In Part 2, we'll create database tables and import the Zip Code Boundary data into those tables in a MS SQL 2005 database.