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15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:16:14 GMT

Response times, availability, and stability are vital factors to bear in mind when creating and maintaining a web application. If you're concerned about your web pages' speed or want to make sure you're in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here's a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications.

Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:02 GMT

This article shows how to highlight a current context on a complex web forms using jQuery. You can see how to highlight current row or current group of rows, and how easily it could be done by uisng powerful jQuery selectors.

Dime Casts .Net - Short howto videos for .Net developers

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Check out this new cool site with screencasts around 10 minutes in length. Great resource for .Net developers.

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:01:04 GMT

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a request. Web application responded by displaying a yellow message box with an exclamation icon saying that data processing is still in progress. He checked several more times, but he didn't notice that at one moment the message changed to "Account available". But the message box hasn't changed. He continued to check a few more times and eventually he realized that the request was successful. I don't know what was in the minds of developers and designers who created this application, but it certainly wasn't the user. This poor bank official was really frustrated. I can't imagine what the rest of the application looks like.

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

Web standards VS add-in beta version out

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Aggiorno is an add-in for Visual Studio that can swallow horrible non-validating markup and help you make an ASP.NET site web standards compliant in a couple of minutes. Beta 1 has just been released, so you might want to give it a try and send some suggestions to the development team.

Comprehensive Comparson of 7 Popular JavaScript/Ajax Frameworks

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:16:02 GMT

After four days of ASP.NET AJAX training with Stephen Walther I set out to learn more about my options in choosing a solution for a JavaScript/Ajax framework. If I realized days later I would be writing this comprehensive post on 7 of the most popular frameworks, I may have just went with the "Inny-Minny-Miney-Moe" method! I decided to share my research, analysis, links, resources, and personal grade for each of the frameworks compared - jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. I put together a comparison matrix to illustrate where many of the frameworks differ...

Subversion visually explained in 30 sec

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

A simple flash explantion of Subversion with 2 concurrent users. Includes conflict solving.

ASP.Net MVC Framework 2 - A step by step guide

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:16:13 GMT

If you're just getting started with ASP.Net MVC you should read this article; it goes step by step and explains how to use MVC in a quite simplistic (yet clear) example.

Visual LINQ Query Builder - VS 2008 Add-In

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Visual Linq Query Builder helps you create Linq to SQL queries for your programs

Trying out PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Generally, I don't like to install any Visual Studio extensions at all, but I thought I should give this one a chance. I installed PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008, and went to play with the new functionality. Here is what I found as the most useful...

6 free online editors for your asp.net project

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:16:04 GMT

A list of web editors that can be easily embedded in your asp.net projects

How to Branch Properly

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Good discussion of source code branching specifically with Subversion.

Regular Expression Generator

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:31:08 GMT

Generate regular expressions from sample text input

Timeline .NET

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:02 GMT

Timeline .NET is the most complete ASP.NET WebControl which wraps the MIT Simile Timeline API.

inline asp.net tags... sorting them all out (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:46:02 GMT

There are all sorts of different inline tags, and I haven't found a place that explains them all in one place, so here is the quick and dirty...

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

Visual Studio Gallery launches

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

To add another resource to enhance your development experience, today we're launching the Visual Studio Gallery. This site provides a catalog that showcases free and commercial products that complement or extend Visual Studio.

Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals?

TDD for Beginners Series

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

Series of posts geared towards the beginner developer to TDD. These are meant to be as simple as possible to get the understanding across about TDD.

Hundreds of design patterns, antipatterns and refactorings listed

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Good source of common patterns (GoF etc), antipatterns and refactoring types. The examples are good and clear, but the code samples are only in Java/C++. However, the articles and samples are platform neutral enough to be useful even for .NET-purists like us ;)

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

Log4Net Config to Make Your Loggin' Rockin' | From C Sharp to C Sharp

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Hot config for your Log4Net needs.

Microsoft Sync Framework Support in Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:03 GMT

How to add synchronization framework to your app in several mouse clicks in Visual Studio 2008.

Stable SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition Released

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:16:05 GMT

.NET Edition of the one of the most popular Open Source web based WYSIWYG editor controls has been released. Industry unique multi-document tabbed WYSIWYG editor is finally available to .NET developers. Includes designer support for Visual Studio 2005.