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Windows Live Writer: Out of Beta

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:46:02 GMT

This great free product from Microsoft comes out.....of beta.

Wicked Code: Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:16:04 GMT

Comprehensive interesting article about going asynchronous with ASP.NET Web Forms from Jeff Prosise.

.netTiers Downloadable Documentation

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:52:40 GMT

Because all .netTiers documentation was an online Wiki, I saved all print version of this documentation pages into HTML and PDF version and now you can download a 3.7 MB compressed file!

Convert.ChangeType extension method

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:28:27 GMT

A couple of nice C# 3.5 extension methods for Convert.ChangeType.

Visual Studio, References, And You

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:57:40 GMT

How to manage dll references for stable build and deployment.

Web IM / Presence has been released..it's prett cool.

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:06:51 GMT

Many of you may have alread seen Angus's blog and the introduction of a web IM/Presence control on the left side. For those who haven't...check it out :) So for anyone who uses Messenger and has thought to themself.."gee, it'd be really handy to be able to have a messenger control on my site so people can talk to me without having Messenger", your wishes have been granted. I'll be doing an article about setting this up in the next couple of days..so watch this space... If you want to have a play yourself here's the cutdown version of what to do:

Three Ways To Return Null If A Value Is A Certain Value

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:01:02 GMT

Described are three ways to return null if a value is a certain value

Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:46:03 GMT

Ever wanted to index your intranet, external sites, documents etc but didn't know how.....well there are various alternatives (.net flavours of lucene), solr, nutch but now Microsoft have just announced they are releasing an Express edition of their search server with no document limits. Sounds good and worth a look. Original blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2007/11/06/announcing-microsoft-search-server-2008-express.aspx John

Exception Handling Techniques in C# 2.0

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:31:01 GMT

Believe me handling exception is one of the toughest things to do for a programmer. It taking your wife for shopping to a very expensive place and allowing her to choose what she wants to buy. :-) Exception handling techniques explained in a best possible way.

Preventing Caching of an ASP.net page in c#

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:45:31 GMT

The following code prevents a page being cached.

Getting the Virtual Path of a Request in c#

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:16:02 GMT

This simple bit of code will get you the Virtual Path of your current request.

Fixing Form Action on UrlRewrite

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:33:07 GMT

IF you're rewriting URL's, you've probably come across the same problem I had.

MyGeneration 1.3 Beta - The 100% Free Code Generator

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

The first official MyGeneration since it has gone open source on SourceForge.net under the BSD licensing model is coming soon. There are some very cool new features as well. First, and very importantly, you can now install the new MyGeneration side-by-side with the MyGeneration 1.2.0.7 release that is on Download.com. MyGeneration is still going strong with over 100,000 downloads on download.com and MyGeneration already ranks 172nd on SourceForge.net. Many have joined in on the project. MyGeneration is getting much more powerful, please help us keep this wonderful, totally free, code generation tool moving forward. Many have done so and we thank you. The next EntitySpaces beta we put out will support this version of MyGeneration also.

Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:46:07 GMT

Here's a simple way to remove all of those ugly switch statements and enums and to buy yourself a little more flexibility and testability as an added bonus!

Triple DES encryption wrapper

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:17:06 GMT

Here is a handy wrapper for Triple DES encryption. Uses MemoryStream, not FileStream like most other examples

Code snippet for 'protected void MethodName(object sender, EventArgs e

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:47:51 GMT

When adding a method to handle server events (such as OnClick) I often found myself copying the Page_Load method and changing the name. I looked for a snippet which would create this method for me but had no luck, so I wrote one.

How to get more than 3GB in Windows Vista 32-bit

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:10:44 GMT

Out if the box, Vista (32-bit) only detects a maximum of 3GB of RAM. You're probably gutted if you just bought a 4GB PC. All is not lost...

Creating your first ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Application

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Over the last year or so, AJAX has taken the web development world by storm. AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is an approach to building dynamic web applications that behave less like the static web pages we're used to and more like desktop applications.

Error connecting to undo manager of source file

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:48:09 GMT

The Problem If you are using the Web Application Project Template (with as the Add On or as part of SP1) you can get this error.

Adding a Strong Name to an existing DLL that you have no source to

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:03:25 GMT

There are times when you need a DLL to have a strong name; putting it in the GAC for example. With 3rd party DLL's this could be a pain. This is how you do it:

Fixing Actionscript XML newline problem

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:57:31 GMT

I was having a nightmare with a newline \n coming through from an XML document literally as \n when I passed the text into a DynamicText object in ActionScript 2, Flash CS3. Mark Page found this solution...

Custom JS attributes work differently in IE compared to Firefox

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:18:34 GMT

Adding custom attributes to HTML tags is a really valuable programming method. It's something I do quite often.

Parameter Order Wrong With ObejctDataSource

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:08:34 GMT

This one came up today and I felt in a sharing mood. I had a GridView using and ObjectDataSource (ODS) and this was used for automatic updates via Inplace editing. When updating the GridView this would then call the UpdateMethod of the ObjectDataSource, but it would fail with the above error.

Returning a value from a PageMethod using MS AJAX

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:28:34 GMT

If you've ever returned data from a web service using MS AJAX this technique will look familar.

What Screen size should we be building sites for?

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:46:02 GMT

Monitors are getting cheaper and cheaper, is 800 x 600 a thing of the past???