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ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:31:02 GMT

The series will cover the things you *shouldn't* do if you hold some sort of managerial stake in a software project. Sadly these tales will be from my own personal experience working for companies that have drifted into disarray. These examples will be embellished somewhat to drive the points home, but by and large, everything you will read in these posts will be true.

Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:46:11 GMT

Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they're nice decorative pieces for your office. In this article, you'll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:46:08 GMT

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

7 free online editors for your asp.net site (part 2)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

This is second part of a two-part article about free online editors for you Asp.Net(Web) projects

A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by adding some features which we all want built into Visual Studio. PowerCommands provides the following...

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources to Rock Your Development

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Get the grand tour of today's best ASP.NET MVC resources

Move ASP.Net ViewState to SQL Server

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

ViewState is a great feature, but it can get really bloated with data, especially if you have loads of controls on a page, repeaters etc. You could think about setting enable viewstate to false, but you'll need it for posting pages back. This tutorial moves the viewstate to a SQL database, by implementing a simple class that all your pages will inherit from.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 3) - Marketing, Sales

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:46:05 GMT

A few software startup lessons concerning marketing, sales and growth.

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:46:02 GMT

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

A Set of Useful Extension Methods for DateTime

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Presenting 11 time-saving (oh, the pun!) extension methods for the DateTime class.

Can't think of a good class name?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Try this

Over 250 High Quality Royalty Free icons set

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Free Icon Download Offers High Quality Royalty Free icons for Windows, Mac and Linux.

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

Reading other people's .NET code

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Places to find great examples of .NET code

How to add Google Maps to your .Net site in 10 minutes

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Add Google Maps to your .Net website in 10 minutes. Full code to display a map with a marker & also geocoding (supply address in text & have the map display it).

Most Active Open Source Projects in Codeplex

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:46:02 GMT

It is nice to see the open source projects' progress in Microsoft world, especially it is been extremely fast growth after the Codeplex launched, and also GotDotNet suggests their hosted projects to move on to Codeplex. As you might remember, I have submitted a post about Codeplex a few weeks ago; Microsoft Open Source Projects. This time, it is proud to list most popular and active top 25 projects that has been hosted in Codeplex.

Writing a full JSON Serializer in 100 lines of C# code

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:16:02 GMT

After looking at the specs for JSON, I figured it couldn't be too hard to write a JSON serializer in C#. Not only was it not that hard, it was very short too: about 100 lines of code.

Efficient data paging with SQL Server 2005 using ROW_NUMBER()

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Paging large amounts of data in SQL Server 2000 used to be a real pain, creating temporary tables, suffering bad performance after the first few batches of data or using ROWCOUNT to ignore large numbers of rows. Luckily SQL Server 2005 delivers a couple of new functions to make efficient painless data paging a reality.

Free refactoring tool for ASP.Net and Visual Studio - Must See!

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Developer Express released a free version of their refactoring tools for ASP.Net. There are also links to a funny screencast and to an article with many screenshots in the blog entry.

Using Text-to-Speech in ASP.NET

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:16:02 GMT

Make your web sites talk! Use Microsoft's text-to-speech enging in their Speech API to make your web sites speak text aloud.

12 HTML Tags You May Not Know (Or May Have Forgotten)

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:16:01 GMT

Here are some lesser-known and lesser-used valid, non-deprecated (X)HTML tags that may be helpful the next time you're developing a website.

SQL Query Optimizations

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:16:01 GMT

A couple of SQL query optimization tips Execution plan pictures for some of the queries are included so that you can see the difference

Why UI design first is important

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:01:01 GMT

"Like most developers, I work with other developers. Most are computer sciency and kick ass when it comes to class design and architecture. The problem with this is that this creates a UI design culture that is not always optimal. There will always be bigger picture architectural design decisions that need to be made. So much of what we write code for doesn't even involve UI, especially since big systems are distributed and service-oriented. But when someone comes to you with something from a competitor site, and says, "I want to do this," starting somewhere deep in the application is the wrong place to go."