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A Google-like Full Text Search

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:17:24 GMT

You can tap into the self-education that comes from countless hours spent at home trying to locate information on the Web and turn it to your advantage in your own SQL Server-based search applications. With just a little bit of code you can help reduce your training costs and give your users an easy to use interface that will make them want to use your search applications.

25+ Best ASP.NET MVC Tutorials and Articles

Thu, 21 May 2009 15:32:36 GMT

In this article we collected best tutorials and articles about ASP.NET MVC.

Linq-to-SQL vs Linq-to-Entities : Revisited

Tue, 12 May 2009 05:31:02 GMT

After 2 months of nothing but L2E, I feel I can give a decent comparison. Linq-to-Entities is fully capable and can do almost everything Linq-to-SQL can do, it just takes a bit more code some times; the almost is for multiple database utilization. L2E is a great ORM, but many of us were spoiled with L2S, so it is now up to Microsoft to live up to the expectations that they put out for us with this framework that they are deprecating. I hope and assume it will become a superior ORM, but that is in Microsoft's hands now; for the time being, it is not.

Web Service Optimization

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:04 GMT

This article gives you 10 tips to optimize web services.

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

What's the difference between CONST and READONLY in .Net?

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:01:16 GMT

Ever sit around talking to your co-workers about random things, when all of a sudden you ask "What's the difference between const and readonly in .Net?". If so, you are not alone. If not, well, you're just weird.

23 amazing JQuery Photo/Gallery Plugins

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:01:03 GMT

A collection of 23 JQuery Plugins to prepare your site for the use of photos.

15 Most Interesting jQuery Tutorials

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:01:04 GMT

This time we collected the most interesting jQuery tutorials.

jQuery $document.ready() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Combine ASP.NET Ajax and jQuery and make $document.ready execute even after an asynchronous postback took place.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Vista-style dialog using TaskDialog (with Windows XP emulation!)

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:16:51 GMT

Examples and explanation on integrating a lightweight slick Vista-style task dialog (extended message dialog) within managed .NET code. Both Vista and lower compatible through emulation techniques.

.Net Membership Profile Administration Tool

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:26:06 GMT

While looking for a simpler way to manage membership in an application, I decided I'd first have a look at CodePlex as see what it turned up. I was pleasently surprised and encouraged by what I found.

How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:16:24 GMT

How to calculate utilization of a particular network interface in .NET using performance counters and a bit of math.

More jQuery Alert Dialogs Demo

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:16:13 GMT

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Cory S.N. LaViska's new jQuery Alert Dialogs Plugin. Since then I have used it quite a bit and have been really happy with its ease of use and simplicity. At the end of the my first post about the plugin I said I would try and show you a way to setup an alert from the server side so that it shows up once the web page loads.

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:01:14 GMT

jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

ASP.NET Confirmation Button using JQuery

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:46:04 GMT

Creating a ASP.NET Confirmation Button control that uses JQuery and its plugin SimpleModal to implement modal confirmation popups.

DayPilot Scheduler Control for ASP.NET

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:15:45 GMT

Flexible open-source scheduler control (resource booking, project management, timeline and free/busy visualisation).

37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:31:09 GMT

Find the most practical and best jQuery plugins for web developers, see demos, learn about and download them.

Pimp My Debugger - DebuggerDisplay Attribute

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:46:10 GMT

The other day I was reading some friends code, and I saw that he used a DebuggerDisplay attribute. It allows you to create a custom view of your objects in the Visual studio debugger. This attribute is very straight forward, but very powerful in the amount of time it can save you when debugging your application. I'll show you a cookie cutter example, but you can use your imagination as to how to use this particular attribute.

Visual Studio 2008 Tips & Tricks for Developers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:16:18 GMT

This article shows most common tips and tricks every .net developer should know,these tricks will help you in increasing your productivity while developing.I will make it a point to regularly update this post feel free to add few more tips,give me a comment if i find your trick worthy i will include it on this post.

Free Entity Framework Learning Guide

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Zeeshan Hirani presented this free EF guide too EF community. You can download this guide in PDF format.

Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - Part 2

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:46:05 GMT

This is the second in a multi-part series were we will guide you through various features of ReSharper.

C# Design Patterns - An Overview

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:31:03 GMT

Over the next number of posts I am going to be exploring the world of design patterns. We'll look at some of the most commonly used patterns and how they look in C#.

Search records in GridView and highlight result using C sharp ASP .NET

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:47:16 GMT

In this example i am searching records of gridview and highlighting the results based on search criteria user enter in textbox , This example is using AJAX and C# asp.NET

Detect Browser refresh to avoid events getting fired again in ASP .NET

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:40:41 GMT

If you have created a aspx page using C# and ASP.NET and have put a button on it , and in the Click event of this button if you are inserting some data in database , after click if user refresh the page than click event gets fired again resulting data insertion to database again, to stop events on the page getting fired on browser refresh we need to write bit of code to avoid it In this example i've put a Label and a Button on the page, on click the label Text becomes Hello and when i refresh the page label's text again becomes Hello