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.NET - IP Address Location In ASP.NET

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:45:02 GMT

Get client's ip address from a free online web query.

Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core)

11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:15:00 GMT

An in-depth analysis of the performance concerns when using a popular jQuery selector and a couple ways to dramatically speed it up, including benchmarks.

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list:

Visual Studio Tips and Tricks - II

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:05:01 GMT

Learn how to format your code better in Visual Studio

Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio

Thu, 21 May 2009 05:06:38 GMT

As you begin developing more complex client-side functionality, managing the size and shape of your JavaScript includes becomes a key concern. It's all too easy to accidentally end up with hundreds of kilobytes of JavaScript spread across many separate HTTP requests, significantly slowing down your initial page loads. I hope you'll find that this technique is a good compromise between the tedium of using manual minification tools and the overwrought complexity of setting up some of the more "enterprisey" automation solutions.

Windows 7 Tricks and Keyboard Shortcuts

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:01:03 GMT

A summary of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts and tips.

Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Config

Wed, 06 May 2009 06:16:05 GMT

The fact that you can assign namespace and assemblies in your web.config file is one of the most underused features of ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:01:05 GMT

I like the compiler to catch as many errors as possible before I start debugging or release my application. This also applies to code nuggets in ASP.NET MVC views, especially since these are not unit-testable. This article shows how to enable compile-time View checking for ASP.NET MVC projects.

Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc

Mon, 04 May 2009 21:16:16 GMT

Phil Haack already posted how to use the jQuery grid 'jqgrid' on his blog haacked.com. What wasn't covered in that tutorial was editing, so I thought it would be nice to add that here.

7 Valuable Visual Studio Hidden Features

Fri, 01 May 2009 07:01:02 GMT

Visual Studio is a very powerful IDE and I have yet to find another IDE that comes close to all the features it offers. Yet they are some hidden gems that can make our every day tasks a little bit easier.

What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About jQuery

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:03:54 GMT

It's hard to believe that JavaScript is already well over a decade old. Often relegated to marginal tasks in its early years, JavaScript has grown to become a pillar of modern web development. With the current popularity of DHTML and AJAX, it can be difficult to find a site that doesn't use JavaScript anymore. One of the driving forces behind JavaScript's newfound popularity is a proliferation of JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery. Why? Though JavaScript itself is a great programming language, t...

Demystifying the jQuery selectors optimization

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:46:57 GMT

Lately, I've been experimenting a lot with jQuery selectors. I wanted to find the best way to select elements depending on the situations. I've found some information online, but most of them didn't have number and even worst, they were wrong. So I've built a little demo page where you can run the tests yourself, that way you'll be able to confirm the numbers. Please note that you need a browser that supports script profiling, that can be Firefox with Firebug or Safari/WebKit (those are the one I use).

Top 10 .NET Twitterers

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:46:11 GMT

If your not on Twitter you are missing out - here are some .NET tweeps to get you started.

How to Create A JQuery Plugin

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:45 GMT

A small tutorial about creating JQuery Plugins

11 Optimization Tips for Visual Studio

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:46:04 GMT

Sometimes ago I compiled this list for myself and our team to help get things done faster and deal with visual studio quirks.

22 amazing JQuery - Modal - Plugins

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:31:03 GMT

A collection of 22 amazing JQuery - Modal - Window - Plugins

JSON Serialization of a DataReader

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:46:03 GMT

On a few occasions recently I've ended up with DataReaders in my AJAX services. The data comes from low level componets with data from APIs over which I have no control and it feeds only feeds data from DataReaders. Rather than converting these readers into more complex data structures it can be more efficient to directly turn these DataReaders into JSON. Here are a couple of ways to do this using a custom serializer and a JavaScriptConverter for JavaScriptSerializer.

ASP.Net - Never again fear publishing your website with debug=true

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

What makes the deployment element special is that it is a machine level configuration element. When its retail attribute is set to true, it will disable the <compilation debug="true"> for ALL ASP.Net applications running on that machine. In addition, it turns of detailed errors messages being sent to remote machines and disables the ability to trace output.

Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:16:13 GMT

a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.

Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Seems like today is the day for performance optimization talks: in String.Empty, in calls to ActionLinks, in high-performance IoC containers. But people sometimes miss the point that these are micro-optimizations: thanks God Justin tries to bring a bit of sanity in this geeky world of micro-optimization

Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:16:02 GMT

As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing software and then save it. The pain is even more when I need to use two Buttons for a screenshot (Fn + PrintScreen) in my Laptop ;-). So I thought I will develop my own screenshot capturing tool which will allow me to take screenshots as well as save it in just two clicks. In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to develop your own tool using .NET. Let's get started.

string.Empty versus ""

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:02 GMT

The author shows ways that "" is better than string.Empty and results in clearer and possibly faster code.

I can't find my Find Dialog in Visual Studio

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:50 GMT

Ironic ain't it? I can't find my Find Dialog in Visual Studio and I can't use find to find it. Ok funny, but at the time it didn't seem too funny because I needed to really find something in a rather large JavaScript source file. But when pressing Ctrl-F (or Ctrl-H for Find/Replace) in Visual Studio rather than getting the familiar Find Dialog I got a slight flicker and a whole lotta nothing else.

Send attachments with jQuery

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:01:03 GMT

This little post shows how to send attachment to the server with ajax and jQuery