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Back to Basics: Interfaces

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:46:09 GMT

When it comes to object-oriented programming there are few concepts as basic and important as interfaces. Only recently though, and at a snails pace, have .NET developers started to take advantage of the simple benefits interfaces have to offer. This interest stems from the core role interfaces play in some pretty hot topics, including: dependency injection, unit testing and mocking (to name a few).

Introducing SemanticEngine.NET

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:16:15 GMT

Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. They are used to create cross-site profiles of people and also represent relationships between them. XFN and microformats are somewhat easy to start using, but FOAF, APML and SIOC are a different story. Here's a new class library to make it easier..

Developing PHP On Your Visual Studio 2008/2005

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:16:03 GMT

check out this great add on for visual studio which will allow you to develop PHP websites.

Algorithm to Detect Blank Images

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:50:41 GMT

Nice piece of code to help with detecting blank images.

Visual Studio Tip: Split Views

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:01:08 GMT

There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:16:11 GMT

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

C#: Generate WebPage Thumbmail Screenshot Image

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:16:08 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.

.NET Utility Libraries Galore

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:23:09 GMT

Yesterday Karl Seguin announced a new .NET Extension Library. One of the really interesting pieces of the library is a streamlined approach to a simple dictionary imagecache, which is similar to the one described in another interesting looking utility library called ShadeTree. Recently, Ayende Rahein reviewed another .NET utility library called Umbrella, which looks like a pretty wide and deep set of utilities. As I am about to create a new solution to consolidate the utility functionality we use across our various projects, it got me thinking it might be time to pick an established (or growing) library from the community and try to contribute any missing pieces we need for our own projects.

Add jQuery Intellisense To Your Visual Studio

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Enrich your working environment with free great jQuery intelisense addin

Foundation of Programming FREE EBook - CodeBetter.Com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:46:05 GMT

The Foundation Of Programming Series Free ebook By Karl Seguin

List Of Free & Open Source ASP.NET Web Applications

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:18:41 GMT

I thought it would be a good idea to create an ever growing list of all the open source ASP.NET applications I could find

MySQL backup,compress and FTP from your WinForms app

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:10:08 GMT

Rough code showing you how to implement remote open/save functionality from within your app by backing up/restoring MySQL database and saving/getting it from a FTP location.

Release of a simple validation framework for ASP.NET

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:58:38 GMT

SimpleValidation is a framework that enables you to tag your entities' properties with attributes, and it will generate web validators based on those attributes, and add them to your edit form. No more manual adding of those numerous RequiredValidator!

How to Capitalize the First Letter of All Words in a string in C#

Sat, 10 May 2008 22:01:02 GMT

Often we need to capitalize the first letters of some word or some text (for example when we want to display users name or city name etc). Since string class does not have a method to do this we could think that there is no built-in solution in C# for this problem, but...

10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:02 GMT

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

.NET - Some Top Must-Have Tools for an ASP.NET Developer

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:32:51 GMT

Of all these years, working as a .NET developer, I have collected and compiled a set of tools that will help you out in your ASP.NET projects, the same way as it has done for me. Since the number of utilities in my Software folder will take more than one post to mention, I have decided to pick up a few of them, which are used frequently in my ASP.NET projects.

.NET - Searching a ListBox or DropDownList using the ListSearchExtende

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:50 GMT

The ListSearchExtender control is a control that ships with the Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit. ListSearchExtender enables the DropDownList and ListBox to be searchable. The user can navigate to and select an item in the list by simply typing the first few characters. This could be especially useful if there is a long list to be searched.

Douchebaggery

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:31:02 GMT

To imply that programmers using Windows "don't care enough about their tools to get the best"? I have a pretty thick skin based on the psychic scars of the thousands of petty internet religious wars I've participated in, and this one even ruffles my feathers a little. I

Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages.

Common console commands for the typical ASP.NET developer

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:46:03 GMT

Common commands to manage your ASP.NET websites.

AlligatorTags.com - The PopURLs.com for ASP.net

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:46:03 GMT

Aggregating the latest ASP.net news, tips and tricks from across the web in one place, refreshed daily.

Asp.Net: Why not a App_MasterPages folder?

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:31:02 GMT

If there is a app_data, a app_themes, why not a app_masterpages?