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XAML Power Toys

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:01:09 GMT

Karl has released a excellent add-in for Visual Studio called the XAML Power Toys

Dynamically Create a Zip File Your Users Can Then Download

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:46:03 GMT

I recently had a requirement to allow users to select a group of files and then dynamically create a zip file on the server of the selected files that they could then download.

250+ .NET Interview FAQ's for Developers

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:16:11 GMT

A comprehensive list of 'good' ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET and .NET Framework questions for beginners and experienced people. Also a good read for people who want to refresh their memory with .NET concepts or take interviews on a regular basis.

ASP.NET Caching and Performance

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:01:10 GMT

Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve's expertise in this area comes from first-hand experience as Lake Quincy's ad system serves over 60 requests per second and handles over 150 million requests per month.

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Configure Database Mail - Send Email From SQL Data

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:46:02 GMT

First and Complete article of SQL Server 2008 Database Mail configuration. From start to end - Complete article. Bookmark it!

CoolMenu: A Silverlight Menu Control

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:16:14 GMT

I thought it would be cool to try building a reusable container control so I came up with CoolMenu. You really have to try this one out to get the full experience, a screen shot just doesn't do it justice. CoolMenu is a Silverlight container control that gives you a nice wave-like effect as you move your mouse over the menu items. Clicking a menu item causes the item to bounce.

Silverlight: How to Add a Context Menù to a FrameworkElement

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:03:29 GMT

A tecnique to add a context menu anchor to any framework element in a silverlight application

The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.

Reduce ASP.NET Page size and complexity using JQuery-Part 2

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:16:02 GMT

This is part 2 of my series for ASP.NET AJAX and JQuery comparison. You can read part 1 here. In my last 2 articles (Dynamically create ASP.NET user control using ASP.NET Ajax and Web Service and Dynamically create ASP.NET user control using JQuery and JSON enabled Ajax Web Service), I explained how to access JSON data from ASP.NET AJAX script service using ASP.NET AJAX client side framework and JQuery. In this post I will compare response/ request for these two implementations.

BackgroundWorker Component For .NET Framework 1.1 with vb.net

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:21:08 GMT

I was asked to work in 1.1 of the Framework with doesn't have some of our helpful things that we have gotten used to in later versions of the framework. I was asked to write a backgroundworker component developers could use for SQL operations within this .NET Framework 1.1.

How To: Create Dynamic File System Directory in TSQL

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:50:44 GMT

I have created a Backup Script to backup all the databases in our SQL Server 2005. I want to keep old backups for sometime for some reason; so I want to create subdirectory with the run date as the name of the folder to separate the set of backups by date.

MySQL versus SQL Server

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:16:02 GMT

"We were recently in a review where the ISV was using both SQL Server and MySQL. Of course working for Microsoft my first question was to ask why they had chosen to use MySQL."

StringBuilder Secrets

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:31:02 GMT

Article goes beyond the basics and looks at some more detail of StringBuilder in C#, and a benchmark that can help you improve your code that already uses StringBuilder. With graph

How to Scale with Memcached on .NET

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:16:08 GMT

Though .NET apps scale well thanks to caching, you can always use Memcached to scale further.

Using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:01:13 GMT

Now that the latest version of BlogEngine.NET is out, it is easier than ever to get your blog running with VistaDB Express. I've been using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET for a little while now and just love it....

Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:46:11 GMT

Sure, SQL Server 2008 is getting ready to drop, but are you familiar with all of the new features that 2005 gave you? Or maybe you haven't used 2005, well, this is a good article to introduce to you several of the new features in SQL Server 2005.

SQL Sparklines

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:47:36 GMT

Edward Tufte style sparklines in your favourite SQL tool :)

Regular Expression Visualizer-A Must Have Tool

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:48:52 GMT

A review and example of Roy Osherove's new Regular Expression Visualizer for Visual Studio.

Online regular expression tester with Help

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:06:46 GMT

Cool Online regular expression tester with Help

How to rename batches of files using .NET Regular Expressions

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:10:49 GMT

The tool that I am presenting here renames batches of files that have some kind of numerical index as part of their file name. It can rename the text before the index, it can shift the index numbers, give the files a new extension and add or remove leading zeros to and from the numerical index part of the file name. It uses Regular Extensions to parse the file names.

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks on CodePlex

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:31:03 GMT

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks is now on CodePlex

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\

A better way to string.split using RegEx

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:38:50 GMT

An example to use RegEx to split a string in C#

SQL Server 2005: Immediate Deadlock notifications

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:48:15 GMT

Deadlocks can be a pain to debug since they're so rare and unpredictable. The problem lies in repeating them in your dev environment. That's why it's crucial to have as much information about them from the production environment as possible. This is one way of getting it immediatly when it happens,

Google Doctype

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:10 GMT

Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more.