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Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:46:10 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 13:16:11 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 09:31:10 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

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:16:02 GMT

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

Why dependency injection rocks

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:42:37 GMT

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

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 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

Sat, 17 May 2008 22:16:02 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

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:01:12 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 14:01:04 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 08:01:02 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 08:46:02 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.

Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A useful page that provides a nice listing of various CSS tips, tricks and tools.

Free Tool - Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A Microsoft tool - Resource Refactoring Tool. This tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files.

Howto get live detailed info about all online visitors of your website

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:16:02 GMT

If you ever had 'Online visitor counter' feature on your website, at some point of time, you have undoubtedly asked yourself: "who are those 17 people that are currently browsing my precious website ?" "What are their IP addresses? When did they come here, what page they first opened and from where did they came from?" Here is the complete tutorial on how to display detailed list of all visitor currently browsing your ASP.NET website.

How to grayout an image in .Net

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:31:02 GMT

This article shows how to gray out an image in .net programmatically. This can be useful for making "Disabled" versions of images, etc.

How to: Optimize the memory usage with strings

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:16:03 GMT

System.String type is used in any .NET application. We have strings as: names, addresses, descriptions, error messages, warnings or even application settings. Each application has to create, compare or format string data. Considering the immutability and the fact that any object can be converted to a string, all the available memory can be swallowed by a huge amount of unwanted string duplicates or unclaimed string objects. Now let's see how a string object should be handled to preserve memory.

CSS Message Box collection

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:31:05 GMT

a collection of some simple CSS styles you can apply to your message boxes

Integrate PayPal Checkout Button with ASP.NET 2.0

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:01:02 GMT

I recently posted a solution to the eternal PayPal / ASP.NET form submission problem using Jeremy Schneider's custom GhostForm class. Since then, several people have made mention of a problem of a problem that I came across myself when coding this, namely getting your project to recognize the reference to the new custom form class.

960 Grid System

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:58:31 GMT

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

13 Tips to Comment Your Code

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Following are 13 tips on how to comment your source code so that it is easier to understand and maintain over time.

When TDD goes bad

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:46:03 GMT

Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I'm a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a short list of things that Ian identified as symptoms that TDD has gone bad in a project, along with my comments...

Cropper the C# Screen Capture Program - Johan Danforth's Blog

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Nice screen capture program written in c#.