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How and when (not) to use Extension Methods in C# and .NET?

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:46:11 GMT

Lets first briefly examine Extension Methods, show some basics usages and then we will tackle some more advanced and concrete examples used to provide fluent, natural DateTime operations (similar to Date and Time operations available in Ruby on Rails).

ScottG:October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Latest quality link collection by Scott

Creating a Outlook Calendar using WPF (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:46:03 GMT

A detailed article on how to create a Outlook Calendar clone using WPF

Neptune (personal SMTP testing server)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:46:13 GMT

Neptune is a SMTP Development Server targeted for use in automated testing. It's a SMTP server that does not relay the message and allows you to query for messages and their content.

Copy text from a MessageBox

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

How many times you wished you could copy text from the MessageBox. YOU CAN.

How to add startup JavaScript code from Content Page to Master Page?

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:12:49 GMT

If you are creating a website that has Master and Content Pages and if you need to add some JavaScript code from your Content pages that should run when the page is loaded you fill find out that its not straightforward. Content page do not have all the elements of HTML page like BODY tag that you could hook up to and add your script code to its onload event...

Add grunge effect to text using simple CSS

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Excellent, as usual, demonstration on how to do something pretty cool-looking using css by janko. Excellent style and idea inside...

How to control ASP.NET Validators ClientSide validation from JScript?

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:10:03 GMT

Recently I needed to disable some ASP.NET RequiredFieldValidator controls on one page depending on the user input. This is trivial you say. But the problem was that this needed to occur instantly on Client Side based on the state of one CheckBox control and not after a full page PostBack. There is a simple way to do this...

Delicious 2.0 is alive!

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:27:08 GMT

YAY! The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week. The new Delicious is just like the old Delicious, except for the way it looks. They're also promising that it will be "faster, easier to learn," and "hopefully more desirable."

How to Capitalize the First Letter of All Words in a string in C#

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Often we need to capitalize the first letters of some word or some text (for example when we want to display users name or city name etc). Since string class does not have a method to do this we could think that there is no built-in solution in C# for this problem, but...

Build Scalable ASP.NET Websites using Asyncronous Programming Models

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:35 GMT

Excellent MSDN Webcast on how to use Asynchronous Programming model in your ASP.NET 2.0 pages to avoid using up all your threads from threadpool for some lengthy operation (remote web service call, remote sql server query etc).. A must-watch!

List of usefull ASp.NET stuff

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:25:28 GMT

Interesting links for Web Developers

How to disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications?

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration Inheritance and it can cause serious headaches if you are not fully aware of how it works...

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.

Handy list of all JavaScript KeyCodes

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Very often when programming in ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX we have to write JavaScript code. When writing JavaScript that interacts with user we have to deal with keyboard events. Here is the list of (almost) all JavaScript KeyCodes we could find:

How to convert System.Drawing.Color to the HTML color format and back?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:28:27 GMT

For some time i have been using my own custom methods for converting System.Drawing.Color to the HTML color format and the opposite: converting HTML color format to System.Drawing.Color type. Then i bumped into this on MSDN...

How to remove duplicate Whitespace Characters from a string?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:03:05 GMT

Luckily for us developers .NET has some very slick string handling routines we can use for this task. Also we have an alternative approach: Regular Expressions. We will cover here both implementations and compare them regarding their efficiency.

How to easily insert row in GridView with SqlDataSource?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:33:30 GMT

Asp.Net 2.0 GridView control is very powerful control. Developers at Microsoft really did a great job when designing it. Its like Swiss Army knife for selecting, editing, sorting, paging and displaying data. Combined with various DataSource controls (ObjectDataSource, SqlDataSource) it helps you execute most of your Read, Update and Delete operations without writing a single line of code. Off course, nothing is perfect. For example, creating new data is is one common task that is not so simple to accomplish with GridView. Let see how we can easily insert new rows of data using GridView and SqlDataSource...

How to do Cross Page Postbacks in Asp.Net 2.0 - Tutorial with examples

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:31:51 GMT

Back in the days of ASP.NET 1.x there was no easy way to make post-backs to pages different than the current page (so called Cross Page Postbacks). From Asp.Net 2.0 this is solved with built-in features that allow us to easily send information from one page to another. Lets see how...

How to send HTML Email from ASP.NET using your Gmail account?

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:46:48 GMT

Yes it's possible so why not use it? This little tutorial shows you how to set up your web application to send emails using your Gmail account. Just don't abuse it, ok? :)

How to fix ASP.NET Ajax Rating control jump to top of page bug?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:53:45 GMT

This little hack shows how to overcome little bug in Asp.Net Ajax Control Toolkit Rating Control that causes focus to jump to the top of page when user clicks on the control to rate some content.