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Formatting enums using ICustomFormatter

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:07:19 GMT

C# enums are named constants, making code easier to write and read. But the enum names should not be written to the UI. This post shows two methods of formatting an enum to a string suitable for the UI.

Visual Studio 2010: Web.config transforms

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Recently I wrote about Visual Studio 2010 and multiple web.config files support. Let's see how to play with web.config transformation so we can use one configuration on development environment and the other for production environment.

Should You Use ASP.NET MVC?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:01:03 GMT

There are a lot of ASP.NET web forms developers out there that admit that they don't "get it" when it comes to all the hubbub surrounding ASP.NET MVC. In some ways, I can sympathize with them. The vocal minority that raves about ASP.NET MVC gush about it with such zeal that they make it sound like you'd have to be a fool not to switch over. But in actuality, the decision isn't nearly as black and white. There has been talk about how the ASP.NET MVC framework is a web forms killer (despite the objections from those creating it), and if you listened only to them you would think that ASP.NET web forms development was done for -- cast to the wayside as an obsolete framework suitable only for amateur drag-and-drop developers.

Web Service Optimization

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:04 GMT

This article gives you 10 tips to optimize web services.

ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design Part 2

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:26:50 GMT

Implementation of entity equality and test cases to describe the behavior. Fluent NHibernate mapping and integration testing. Implementation of IRepository<T>.

ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:01:03 GMT

The first in a series of posts detailing how to create ASP.NET MVC projects in a way that facilitates DDD. Fluent NHibernate, NHibernate.Burrow, and MVCContrib will be used.

Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:48:39 GMT

coded real-world examples of themeable buttons and toolbars using the jQuery UI CSS framework, a system of classes developed for jQuery UI widgets that can easily be applied to any plugin, and even static content.

appSettings Cache

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:58:55 GMT

You want to improve the performance of the appSettings in ASP.NET using site-wide caching. Retrieving application settings in ASP.NET is needlessly slow.

Dynamic Compilation in a Web Application

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:12:07 GMT

With a simple trick, you can mimic the dynamic complilation of a Web Site in a Web Application.

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. During my work I fall into few issues that I resolved and wished to share them with you

Arthemia theme ready for BlogEngine

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:26:32 GMT

Original I didn't believed that it was possible, but I managed to do it anyway and here it is: the Wordpress theme Arthemia 2.0 ready for BlogEngine

Make a wish for a BlogEngine.NET theme

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:04:28 GMT

Do you have a favorite blog theme that sadly only available to Wordpress or Blogger - now it's time to suggest it for adapting to BlogEngine.NET.

3 themes adapted for Blogengine.NET

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:46:03 GMT

3 wp themes: Notepad Chaos, FreshCitrus and Scruffy adapted for Blogengine.NET 1.4.5... more to come ;-)

Simplifying prevention of undesired Css/Js file caching

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:26:34 GMT

Nice automated method of versioning CSS and JS files.

Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:46:10 GMT

Shows a very simple and powerful way of serving .js files with the right localized text strings.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

Chris van de Steeg's blog - » jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:31:10 GMT

So, quite some things have changed in preview 3, which made me decide to change a lot in the jQuery for Asp.net mvc (jqmvc) too. To start with most radical one: I ditched the ajax.master. This little 'framework' does not rely on a special masterpage in your website from now on. Since things have radically changed, I'll start all over again on how to use this project.

SQL Server Programming Hacks

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:16:02 GMT

This is a collection of SQL hacks, right now there are 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks.

Why dependency injection rocks

Thu, 29 May 2008 05:42:37 GMT

Describes how dependency injection using an inversion of control (IoC) container can simplify development.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Sat, 24 May 2008 02:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

JavaScript: Warning the user when CapsLock is on

Sun, 18 May 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Describes a method for warning a user that their caps lock is on using JavaScript. Also includes an ASP.NET control

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by batching javascripts downloads

Sat, 17 May 2008 01:01:12 GMT

Hack for the .Net script manager to pull all needed javascript files at once and push them to the bottom of the html to speed up rendering.

CSS sliding doors technique

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:01:04 GMT

This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don't have to create an image for each button.

ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Moving away from the postback mindset and utilizing the Post, Redirect, Get pattern within ASP.NET MVC to achieve true separation and less chance of reposting form information.

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.