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Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

SQLite on .NET - Get up and running in 3 minutes.

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:16:02 GMT

The quick and dirty guide to setting up SQLite with .Net in 3 minutes. Small, fast, and ass-kicking like a transactional Jackie Chan. Good background information and tutorial to get you from download to querying in no time flat.

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.

.NET Format String Quick Reference/Cheat Sheet

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:31:01 GMT

All standard and custom DateTime and number format strings (for use with String.Format(), .ToString(), etc) in one handy document.

Common Pattern For Working With DataReader

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:01:01 GMT

A description of a common pattern for working with DataReader object which as described here: http://vaultofthoughts.net/WhatYouShouldDisposeWhenUsingADONET.aspx Is IDisposable and should be disposed!

Dark Room the .Net clone of WhiteRoom

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:31:02 GMT

Dark Room is a Windows Clone of WriteRoom, one of my favorite Mac applications. Dark Room, written in .NET 2.0. The fact that its default state is green text on black isn't the point; you can change the colors. It's the lack of distraction.

Masterpages hate logic, throw interfaces at them

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:01:01 GMT

Wyatt Barnett explains a good way to keep your logic and presentation independent.

Subtext 1.9 "Daedelus" Released!

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:01:01 GMT

A new version of Subtext has been released. The major change is that Subtext is now an ASP.NET 2.0 application, paving the way for many other improvements.

Dustin Campbell: Giving Enums a Little Love

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Dustin Campbell (Developer Express' Senior "Whipping Boy") discusses improvements that should be made in order to round out the Enumeration data type in .NET (to provide for both increased functionality and improved readability of code that uses enums).

RSS in .NET Made Easy with XML Serialization

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:01:01 GMT

Easy as pie RSS using PONO (Plain Ole .NET Objects) and .ToString method. There's also a method to deserialize an RSS Document. Lots of cool potential here (think: log files).

Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:31:01 GMT

Hanselman lists his top 10 indispensable tools & products for development, plus 5 from his list last year that got knocked out.

Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers.

Cool (and Free) Threading .NET 2.0 E-Book

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:01:02 GMT

"This is a very cool threading online reference and freely downloadable e-book (PDF). Using C# for its examples, in 76 pages it covers basic synchronization, locking, BackgroundWorker, async delegates and more." Via: http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com

DotNetKicks.com integration into Blogger.com

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:31:02 GMT

The quickest way to submit your post on Blogger.com to DotNetKicks.com.

The Power of "View Source"

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:01:01 GMT

Jeff Atwood explains why view source has helped make Javascript so popular, and why Reflector can do the same for .NET

AnkhSVN 1.0 release candidate available

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:31:02 GMT

VS.NET addin for the Subversion version control system.

TheBeerHouse: CMS & E-commerce Starter Kit

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:01:01 GMT

Another "best practices" starter kit, featuring e-commerce, online payment clearing, and CMS capabilities (via web parts).

Add true confirmation to the ASP.NET Button control

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:01:03 GMT

The JavaScript confirm() function is simple to implement on a Button control, but you can only use it for one particular purpose and that is to confirm a postback. Wouldn't it be cool if you could use it to ask users a question and act depending on their answer from the code-behind?

JavaScript: Alert.Show("message") from ASP.NET code-behind

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:31:01 GMT

In Windows Forms it is very easy to pop up a status message by calling MessageBox.Show("message"). It is that kind of object model we want in ASP.NET for printing out JavaScript alerts. We want Alert.Show("message") in ASP.NET. This is as easy as it gets.

Replacing Start Run - The Quest Continues

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:31:02 GMT

So many ways to launch programs. A good launcher doesn't just launch, it also auto-completes paths for you, starts your search engine or browser and generally saves you 15 minutes a day. No need to learn all the hotkeys like those Keyboard wonks who try to guilt you. Just learn ONE and make it do everything.

TRULY Understanding ViewState

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:01:01 GMT

ViewState is a very misunderstood animal. I would like to help put an end to the madness by attempting to explain exactly how the ViewState mechanism works, from beginning to end, and from many different use cases, such as declared controls vs. dynamic controls.

NDbUnit - Database Testing

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:31:02 GMT

NDbUnit is a .NET library for putting a database into a known state. NDbUnit may be used to increase repeatability in unit tests that interact with a database by ensuring that the database's state is consistent across execution of tests. NDbUnit does this by allowing the unit test to perform an operation on a dataset before or after the execution of a test, thus ensuring a consistent state.

Howto - Contribute a patch to an Open Source Project

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:01:01 GMT

In this blog post, Scott Hanselman lays out all the steps necessary to contribute a patch to an open source project.

C# Best Coding Practices

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Here is a list of best coding tips in a C# development environment.

Memory in .NET - what goes where

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:31:01 GMT

A lot of confusion has been wrought by people explaining the difference between value types and reference types as "value types go on the stack, reference types go on the heap". This is simply untrue (as stated) and this article attempts to clarify matters somewhat.