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ASP.Net Load Testing and Optimization Toolkit

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:46:02 GMT

A discussion of 9 types of tools every developer should have when stressing and optimizing applications.

Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:05:07 GMT

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 are now available for download.

There's some darkness in your silver light.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:16:05 GMT

Rob voices his complaints about Silverlight 2.0 from the perspective of a developer of WPF and Flash applications.

10 Tips for Building Selenium Integration Tests

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:58:37 GMT

A list of ten tips, best practices and code snippets to make writing integration and acceptance tests with Selenium much easier, especially for AJAX applications.

Creating Self Signed SSL Certificates on IIS 6.0 and Win Server 2003

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Step by step tutorial (with screen shots) on creating self signed SSL certificates on IIS 6.0 and Win 2003 development / test servers using the FREE SelfSSL tool which comes with IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. You can even use it to secure your local intranet.

Dynamic type support in C#? Sweet!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:19:21 GMT

Ok, so it's just in the planning stages, but you may have run across Charlie Calvert's recent blog post about supporting dynamic (aka runtime) lookup for methods/properties/etc which would avoid having to deal with that ghastly beastie that is reflection (even though I'll admit the reflection API's are probably about as good as they can be given the nature of what they're doing).

There Ain't No Such Thing as the Fastest Code

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:23:20 GMT

He then posted his program as a challenge for readers of PC Techniques-- can this optimized assembly word count program, from an acclaimed industry expert on assembly optimization, be made even faster? Well, I think you can guess what happened next.

HTML manipulation with System.Xml.XmlDocument

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:16:03 GMT

Using the System.Xml namespace for HTML manipulation can be very powerful. In this simple example we show how to get started using it by geenrating a simple table of contents from a well-formed html document.

10 Mistakes in Icon Design

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:12:35 GMT

It is much easier to criticize somebody else's work than to create something cool yourself. But if you apply a systematic approach to criticizing, make a numbered list and prepare illustrations, it will be regarded as a fully-fledged analysis! In my opinion, icon design is undergoing a transitional period. On the one hand, screen resolutions are increasing, hence enhancing icons. On the other hand, we still have good old pixels. Icons sized 16×16 and even smaller are still widely used. And so, here are the most commonly observed mistakes in icon design.

The DotNetKicks Effect - Enjoy While it Lasts

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:46:05 GMT

DotNetKicks is great source of .NET related information but is it going to survive the shortcomings of "digg" concept?

Great ASP.NET AJAX Web Portal Starter Kit: dropthings.com

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:24:05 GMT

I was very excited to see that Omar AL Zabir, co-founder & CTO Pageflakes has created a very cool AJAX based Web portal http://dropthings.com. And even more excited to see he has posted all the code in an open source way! Now you can build your own Ajax portal fun!

Build Providers: Strongly typed page urls in ASP.NET

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

A look at using a build provider to generate IntelliSense for pages within your project.

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers.

Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:30:20 GMT

The Validator Toolkit provides a set of validators for the new ASP.NET MVC framework to validate HTML forms on the client and server-side using validation sets. By defining a validation set, e.g. a LoginValidationSet class, the toolkit will generate code, in conjunction with the JavaScript library jQuery, to validate on the client-side and will use the same set of rules to validate on the server-side.

Code Camp

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:01:15 GMT

Interesting read regarding the performance of ASP.Net applications.

TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained.