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Removing unused CSS Classes from your web application

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:31:14 GMT

2 ways to clean up your Css by removing unused classes.

UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:16:02 GMT

The definite guide to the tricks and tactics employed by some IT recruting agents that made the UK software consultant's recruting process a nightmare.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

The Definitive C# Singleton

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:01:04 GMT

The .NET framework makes it very easy to write thread safe, lazy initialized, singletons. Here's how.

Singleton WCF Proxy

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:45:55 GMT

Javi shows how to implement WCF singleton proxies with Castle taking into account faulted state scenarios.

C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation

Source Control for .NET Developers, The open source approach

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:31:03 GMT

A brief and good tutorial for .NET developers to implement source control for their projects inside Visual Studio.

Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Two interesting ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2008 performance tips that were not documented and discovered by chance

Read and Write compressed data to a binary file using ASP.NET

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

The BinaryReader and BinaryWriter in System.IO namespace read and write primitive types in binary, to a stream. The System.IO.Compression.GZipStream provides methods and properties to compress and decompress the stream. In this article, we will learn how to use compression techniques to compress the stream and write it to a binary file. We will then use the BinaryReader and the GZipStream class to decompress and read the file to display it on the webpage.

ASP.NET MessageBox Server and Client

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:31:11 GMT

An ASP.NET Message box that can be used from the server and from the client side!

Tips & Tricks: Use DebuggerDisplayAttribute for easier debugging

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

When debugging, it's common to hover over an object to get a quick view of what its properties are. This is where DebuggerDisplayAttribute comes in. The format string looks similar to normal .NET format strings in that the values to replace are between curly braces, but instead of being told what to substitute the debugger treats these values as expressions and attempts to evaluate them using the current context.

MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:46:13 GMT

Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book, all the vagueness that I've been able to shunt aside to a little corner of my brain has surfaced like a long-lost brother beggin' for college money.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

Creating Custom Configuration Sections fo

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:46:15 GMT

A short screencast on how to Creating Custom Configuration Sections for you App.config/Web.config

Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Sidar discussing the need for more agile documents in business environments.

Render ASP.NET Control as String

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Some simple tips and a handy extension method for rendering any ASP.NET control as a string, which can then be passed via a web service to an AJAX call.

Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:16:14 GMT

I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with WPF. So I started to get my feet wet to create a Vista style Login Screen using Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

Remotely Log Off Remote Desktop Users

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

How to remotely log off remote desktop (terminal service) users when you get that annoying: "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections."

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

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:46:02 GMT

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

30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part I

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:01:08 GMT

This article compiles some common String operations that we encounter while working with the String class. In Part I, 15 common string operations have been covered .

Localizing Linq to SQL Entities

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:31:10 GMT

Sidar shows a possible strategy to localize Linq to SQL entities

Introduction to LinqPad - Intermediate Usage

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Short screencasts that reviews LinqPad. This is an introduction to LinqPad (Intermediate Usage). This episode we will look at how to execute native .Net code.

How to Search the File System Using LINQ Queries

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Say you are writing an application and one of the requirements is to allow File System search. You could always start using loops and such. I thought to myself why not do it in LINQ? I played around with it and in fact it is not so hard...

Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:16:12 GMT

MEF doesn't support POCO injection and XML Configuration off the shelf. Sidar implements an XML congiguration binding mechanism on top of MEF, and the article gives an insight about what to expect from MEF Extensibility models in detail.

Reduce ASP.NET Page size and complexity using JQuery-Part 1

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:04 GMT

This is my first post on asp.net blog. ASP.NET Ajax and JQuery are two different ajax framework. In this post I will show, how we can enhance gridview using ASP.NET Ajax and JQuery. I also compare the implementation of these frameworks. In next posts i will explain more about JQuery and ASP.NET Ajax and also tell you "How to combine the power of both framework". My Future post will related to ASP.NET and related frameworks.