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How to Find Memory Leaks With CLRProfiler

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:01:07 GMT

Track down, discover and eliminate memory leaks in your applications with this free open source tool.

Turning a Linksys WRT54GL Router Into a VPN Server

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:31:59 GMT

Ever need that spec document or need to check into Subversion when you're at home? I find myself in that situation often, and the best way to access the office is via VPN. Using a Linksys router, the open source DD-WRT firmware and OpenVPN client, I now have a full featured VPN appliance. Setup was a little convoluted, so I've posted the process I went through to make this happen.

SqlDataSource and AJAX Reorder List from Codebehind

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:04:15 GMT

How to use a SQL Data Souce with the ASP.NET Ajax Reorder List control

Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

There are times when I need code to calculate the distance between two geocodes (Lat/Long points). I don't need it very often and until now I didn't have a code snippet that I could jus copy and paste. I was searching and found Rob Conery's LINQ and Geocoding post. It's an interesting post and he includes a sample of how to use Lambda expressions in C# 3.0 to calculate the distance between two geocodes in Miles. I decided to copy his code snippet and make sure it works in .NET 2.0 and also convert it to JavaScript.

TDD for Beginners Series

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

Series of posts geared towards the beginner developer to TDD. These are meant to be as simple as possible to get the understanding across about TDD.

dashCommerce / Commerce Starter Kit goes somewhat un-open source

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:15:47 GMT

Chris Cyvas, project lead for dashCommerce (Formerly Commerce Starter Kit by Rob Connery of SubSonic Fame), recently announced the somewhat surpising roadmap for Version 3 of dashCommerce. It seems that all open source development has stopped at v2.2 and v3 is moving forward as closed source and for profit to the dishartening of the community.

Essential Graphic Design Tools for .NET Developers

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:46:07 GMT

Use Paint.NET, BluePrint CSS Framework, and the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Adapters to quickly chalk up an ASP-Driven user interface.

How to Write a Provider Model

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:46:02 GMT

In this article Keyvan teaches you how to write your own data provider for .NET applications using the provider model.

LIVE: The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:07:00 GMT

LIVE: The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit

The LINQ DataContext

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:50:17 GMT

In an earlier post I showed how LINQ developers can connect to a database and write a simple query. This post steps behind the scenes of a LINQ to SQL application and describes the classes auto-generated by the Object Relational Designer (aka LINQ to SQL designer). The focus will be on two key items: * The Customer and Order entity class * The DataContext itself

Review: dtsdoc and dbdesc

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:01:47 GMT

Sister products dtsdoc (for documenting SQL Server 2000 DTS packages) and dbdesc (for documenting schemas of several database products) are reviewed, with a complete waklthrough or using them and the data produced.

Linq to Sql Surprise Performance Hit

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:01:02 GMT

JD outlines a classic case of making assumptions while performance tuning. It turns out there are cases where Linq To SQL can take longer to compile a query than the round trip to SQL.

Easy browsing of public subversion repositories.

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:46:04 GMT

Subversion Reports is an open source ASP.Net application capable of browsing and displaying stats for any URL-accessible subversion repository. It makes it easy to see at a glance who has been committing code to the repository as well as what was committed or changed. The project is under active development and a demonstration is available at: http://www.subversionreports.org/ The project is also actively seeking contributors and developers to help expand the functionality and feature set.

C# WebCam User Control

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:32:10 GMT

Control WebCams right from C#. The author of this post explains how, and even provides source code.

Get VS2008 Pro fro free - Large list of Installfest locations

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:13:06 GMT

Tim Heuer has come up with a large list of installfest dates and locations where you can get your free copy of VS2008 Professional.

Copy Source As Html add-in for Visual Studio 2008 RTM

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:59:06 GMT

The title says it all. Article contains a link for VS2005 -version, too.

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Free MS and non MS tools for easoer work with SQL Server 2005 and 2000

Free charting for ASP.NET

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Open Flash Chart is an open source flash control that can display charts on a web page. The latest release contains an ASP.NET libary.

Phi-ling Up Your UI

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:59:48 GMT

Math isn't just for breakfast anymore. In fact, it turns out, there's a lot you can actually do with Math, aside from using it to sound like you know a lot of stuff.

Three CSS Roll Over Techniques You Might Not Know About

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:16:05 GMT

When it comes to rollover effects in web design the most common way to accomplish the effect has traditionally been with JavaScript. The reason this method is used so commonly is because it is simple to implement and, more importantly, avoids the "lag" on the first mouseover that comes when using a CSS background-image switch on an selector:hover rule due to the delay required to download the rollover image. One thing that a lot of people don't realize is that there are methods to accomplish this effect in CSS without the initial rollover lag.

URL Rewriting in ASP.NET without using HTTPHandlers or ISAPI.

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:01:02 GMT

How to perform URL Rewriting by writing a custom HTTPModule. This technique even works on shared hosting plans.

MVC or MVP Pattern - Whats the difference?

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

This awesome post explains differences between MVP and MVC patterns using VS Class Diagrams

ASP.NET and LINQ

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:55:13 GMT

The Language Integrated Query (LINQ) facilities make querying a first-class concept in the .NET Framework 3.5. Because ASP.NET is just a development platform built on top of the .NET Framework, there's no reason why you can't query data in a Web context using LINQ.

OpenWinForms - open source windows forms and controls

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

OpenWinForms is a open source website for windows forms and controls. Here you can find windows controls and libraries for free. This is a non-commercial open source web site. This site mainly focuses on Microsoft technologies e.g. Microsoft .net, VB.net, C#.net etc. You may use these for any commercial or non-commercial purpose for free.

Dynamically adding controls to ASPX pages (web forms) and assigning ev

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:00:13 GMT

Although I've seen a lot of articles describing how to dynamically add controls to a Web Form, few mention even a little hint to how you can make event handlers actually WORK with dynamically-added controls. This article may seem (and probably is) a beginner-level one, but I think it's essential to cover this issue.