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Reading other people's .NET code

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Places to find great examples of .NET code

ASP.NET jobs vs Ruby & PHP

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:16:02 GMT

How many job listings on the major job boards for the different programming languages - Who Wins? Click to Find Out.

Creating Efficient ASP.NET AJAX Applications

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Tips to use update panels in ASP.NET AJAX

Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Scott's fantastic list of essential tools updated for 2007

Content-Aware Image Sizing - WOW

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:46:02 GMT

Cool video I found on YouTube about a software that resizes images with an content-aware algorithm. Must see...

Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

"Sure there are Community Server, MySpace, DotNetKicks and DasBlog; there are all very fine products, but compare them to LAMP, Rails and Java lineup: Digg, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Flickr, Backpack and the Company, Delicious, all the Google Apps, Mint, Meebo, Twitter, Zillow and of course Infinite Cat Project. If you checkout the new startups on TechCrunch, it seems like every new startup is something Linux based and is not ASP.NET."

Creating a scrollable and grouped Repeater Layout

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

A couple of people asked me today about a layout I put together for an application. The layout is bascially a scrollable and grouped repeater that looks a little like a ListView control in WinForms. This sort of layout can be great for longer lists when paging is not really the right choice - a common scenario in AJAX applications actually. Here's a quick walk through on how this layout is put together.

Seamless inline text editing with ASP.NET AJAX

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

A demonstration of how to use ASP.NET AJAX to implement a Label that swaps to a TextBox for editing when clicked and then saves its value when editing is completed.

Silverlight Based Search Engine

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:31:02 GMT

New Stunning Silverlight Based Search Engine

The Yield Statement in C#

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:16:03 GMT

The yield statement is another often overlooked keyword that was introduced in .NET 2.0. It is used to return items from a loop within a method and retain the state of the method through multiple calls.

The surprising behavior of "as" in C#

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Type casting and the "as" operator are not the same in C#. Not by a long shot.

Subkismet to the rescue

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:46:02 GMT

Since jumping to a PageRank of 6, DotNetKicks.com has become increasingly attractive to spammers. For the past year or so I has been deleting the posts manually, there would maybe be one or two spam posts per day. In the past week the number of spam posts has jumped to about 60 per day.

Using JQuery to Make Asp.Net Play Nice with Asp.Net

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:31:02 GMT

I have found that developing an Asp.Net application that makes heavy use of javascript is very difficult. One of the major pain points is dealing with the horrendously long ids that Asp.Net server controls generates. Here is how to overcome the difficulties with these Uber-long ids.

Logging Bugs: Do's and Don'ts

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Some thoughts about different do's and don'ts in regards to logging software bugs

Tired eyes? You're looking at the wrong part of your computer monitor!

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:16:02 GMT

How to look at your monitor without straining or tiring your eyes.

GridView and Paging Alignment

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

The GridView's Pager row is a pain to get properly right aligned in a cross browser fashion. While the alignment settings that the control provides work in IE, they fail to properly right align in Firefox and a bit of work is required to get it to work right.

Optimization: Your worst enemy

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Good article on why optimization can be bad, and what you can do about it.

New Notepad++ (Version v4.2.2)

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Great free source code editor for everyone. Beautiful solution to all developers, web masters and not technical persons.

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.

.NET Coding Guidelines - Commenting

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

Nice rant about developers who don't comment their code, I can sympathize.

Build an MSDN-style content rater with ASP.NET, MS AJAX, and jQuery

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:46:02 GMT

In the MSDN library, content can be rated by clicking on a star (from 1 through 5). When you hover over the content rateR on MSDN2, a textbox appears to allow comments to be added. Using the rating control and the jQuery library, we can very easily create a content rater simliar to the one on MSDN.

Nullable Types in C# and .NET 2.0

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:16:03 GMT

Nullable types were introduced in .NET 2.0. This article gives a quick overview of how to use them and some of the things to watch out for.

Asp.net Ajax Exception Logging

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

Error logging system using ASP.NET AJAX

SQL Optimization Tips

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Tips and Tricks which should be used while dealing with SQL

Three Easy Refactorings to Improve the Readability of Your Code

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:01:02 GMT

Here are three simple and quick ways to instantly improve the readability and overall quality of your code.