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How Do I Wrap Text In The ComboBox?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:10:07 GMT

WPF solution for wrapping text in a combo box.

Paging in ListView in ASP.Net 3.5

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:36:18 GMT

Like GridView, Paging in ListView control is not an integral part of the control itself. It can be provided through a new control in ASP.Net 3.5 called DataPager control. The advantage of providing this feature with a new control are, Paging can be separated from ListView Control and can be displayed at any part of the page. We can also attach the paging feature with the ListView control by placing the DataPager control in the LayoutTemplate of the ListView control which resembles GridView control.

Software Development: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back..

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:37:07 GMT

The common trend in some software development houses is "one step forward, two steps back..." and mine is no exception, even at the expense of months in time.

New C# and .NET oriented search engine

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:46:02 GMT

A new search engine is available. Created with the Google Custom Search you can: - Search in MSDN forums - Search in Microsoft newsgroup - Search in .NET related sites (including dotnetkicks.com) - Search in everywhere with the standard Google search - Find any .NET tools or components

Test Driven Development - Beginners Screencast

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:12:33 GMT

I produced a screencast (first ever!) to show some of the basics of getting started with TDD in .Net. I intend to go into some more advanced topics as the series progresses.

Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:46:06 GMT

I've been hearing from several colleagues about how their Visual Studio solution files have many (i.e. more than 10, and usually more than 30 -- in one case, more than 100!). So far, none of them have been able to give me any good explanation for why this is and most of them hate it but they can't change it because their architect/lead/whatever won't let them. I'm hoping that by getting the discussion going on this in the greater community, we can try to discourage everyone from having lots of projects in a solution.

Web developers. You suck.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Nice VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Good improvements to take notice of when utilizing VS 2008

Try-catching in a single line of code

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:01:07 GMT

Just another silly extension method hack :)

ASP.NET: Web Site versus Web Application Project

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:08:45 GMT

The differences between the two models have been pretty well covered, or at least so I thought...

Easter Egg in the VS 2008 Installer?

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:16:10 GMT

I can't reproduce it, but I'm pretty sure I saw an easter egg when installing Visual Studio 2008.

Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:46:03 GMT

While writing type-safe queries is great for most scenarios, there are cases where you want the flexibility to dynamically construct queries on the fly. For example: you might want to provide business intelligence UI within your application that allows an end-user business analyst to use drop-downs to build and express their own custom queries/views on top of data.

LINQ to SQL (Part 6 - Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures)

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:45:46 GMT

Scott Guthrie's great blog post explaining how to retrieve data from stored procedures using LINQ. It shows both C# and VB for this. Great pictures and examples.

CodeSnippets and Toolbox Items

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:45:58 GMT

Rob Conery shows you how to create your own code snippets and add them to the toolbox. He also provides some helpful snippets for the new MVC Framework.

Creating a Data Driven ASP.NET Localization

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:46:01 GMT

Find out how to build an ASP.NET 2.0 Resource Provider that uses database data for its localization storage rather than Resx files. Database resources can be much more flexible and this article demonstrates how to build a powerful ASP.NET resource editing front end that allows editing of resource data in a live ASP.NET application in a context sensitive manner.

Using LINQ to SQL (Part 1)

Mon, 28 May 2007 08:41:35 GMT

"LINQ to SQL is an O/RM (object relational mapping) implementation that ships in the .NET Framework "Orcas" release, and which allows you to model a relational database using .NET classes. You can then query the database using LINQ, as well as update/insert/delete data from it. LINQ to SQL fully supports transactions, views, and stored procedures. It also provides an easy way to integrate data validation and business logic rules into your data model."

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Anonymous Types - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 21 May 2007 07:46:01 GMT

Anonymous types are a convenient language feature of C# and VB that enable developers to concisely define inline CLR types within code, without having to explicitly define a formal class declaration of the type. Anonymous types are particularly useful when querying and transforming/projecting/shaping data with LINQ.

New Orcas Language Feature: Extension Methods

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:01:01 GMT

Extension methods allow developers to add new methods to the public contract of an existing CLR type, without having to sub-class it or recompile the original type. Extension Methods help blend the flexibility of "duck typing" support popular within dynamic languages today with the performance and compile-time validation of strongly-typed languages.

New C# 3.0 Language Features

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:31:01 GMT

New C# "Orcas" Language Features: Automatic Properties, Object Initializers, and Collection Initializers

Adding a DotNetKicks image via Javascript

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:46:02 GMT

Simple Javascript function which adds the DotNetKicks counter button to your pages.