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OK that was goofy. But it shouldn’t distract from Goijko’s post describing his experience of using Selenium and Fitnesse together to run some very nice functional tests of web sites. To me this is a great example because software testing can be a bit of a chore. Sure unit tests are nice, but how often […]

dnrTV has a very nice episode full of information on using Debug.Writeline and Trace Statements to help debug applications. I continue to be blown away occassionally by the depth of Scotts knowledge.
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This is really very useful in larger sites. Now I only wonder if having a SiteMap provider can increase SEO. It even includes a nice little example of SQL 2005 cache dependency

The one drawback to site navigation is that XmlSiteMapProvider is the one and only site map provider included in the box with ASP.NET 2.0, […]

Codeproject article on serializing a custom class (Via Frans Bouma)
Another drop in the CSS Friendly Adapter Toolkit. Its a nice way of changing the html/css output for server controls.It brings their output more in line with current CSS practices.
Ryan Farley discusses RSS Feeds in IE and Vista. Both have built in FeedReader classes.
Scott […]

My collection of interesting links has been growing for weeks and I haven’t had the time to post them. So here they are in one massive list.

Daniel Zeiss is on rev 9 of his major Ajax framework comparison. Great stuff.
Today I installed ScrewTurn Wiki in 10 minutes (as opposed to an hour for […]

Via Jason Haley – WebServiceStudio, a small utility program that can be used to test web services interactively. Might be fun to try out.
Poor Man’s Camtasia . Yes Software produces a screenshot animation tool that costs only $50..00 and can be used to produce software demo’s and training snippets.
AJAX and the market saturation of […]

Remember the jingle during Michael Jordan’s days? “I wanna be like Mike..” Well as many links as I’ve been posting I think I wanna be like Mike Gunderloy  

Dr. Peter has an article that delves into caching.
Tim Bednar uses FireFox and some extensions to edit css live within the browser – rock on ! […]

I’ve mentioned that I am working on a code generator. Its quite a bit of fun. And I am purposefully going an “old-school” route by using System.CodeDom.Compiler.IndentedTextWriter to produce text. Yes I know this is NOT the most sexy way of doing things. If I were to follow the advice of people who have blazed […]

With all of the buzz about Ruby on Rails and AJAX, not a lot of people have noticed that Microsoft is making another really good run at the web development space. Based on book sales data, it looks like ASP.Net 2.0 is on fire, with ASP-related book sales up 53% since the same period a […]

Question: We are in the process of developing an application that will be used internally. We have just started coding using Visual Studio 2005. Part of the design uses overloaded functions and methods. This works fine until I start building some Web Services that we need. For some reason I keep getting the error that […]

There is a good chance we may end up trying to write our own datasource for the project I’m on at the moment. But first we need to understand all thats involved. Nikhil wrote a series of articles on his blog that help out.
“….ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a powerful new declarative data-source model. Among other things, […]

This week I came across an issue that took a little bit of research to figure out. So for posterity, here is a solution that worked.
When working with user controls it frequently becomes necessary to notify the container of the user control that some event occurred within the control itself. Especially when the result of […]

Fritz Onion discusses the new ControlState property which allows you to disable the overall Viewstate of a page (?) yet still retain the ability of various controls to respond to events that do require state – paging in a grid for example
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 At the same time Fritz also points out that the ViewState itself […]

Learn about the unit testing features of Team Test from a TDD, test-then-code approach with this walkthrough.
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Via Mike Gunderloy - a very nice discussion of reasons why InvariantCulture is deprecated in 2.0 Read More

So I’ve been playing with some of the features found in the VS 2005 IDE and came up with a couple interesting improvements. Here are some screenshots.

This first one shows an alignment aid when working with WinForms in layout mode. The slight purple line on the left side of the text controls helps to align […]

It appears that MS not only provided VS 2005 with a new “Object Datasource” - allowing me to bind controls to business objects, MS also has become more and more vocal about the need of using proper domain objects instead of datasets. Thats nice. After 3+ years of railing against datasets as the “cure-all of […]

So there I was perusing the Beta MSDN Documentation when I came across this little ditty.
MS has finally decided to give us a class that lets us deal with a connection string in terms of properties as opposed to a straight out string. So now you can do stuff like “builder.Password = someNewPassword”.
Wadda ya […]

Uuuuuhhhhh, ahhhh…. nice!
Peter Provost touches on the use of generics to replace casting certain interfaces. Now thats what I’m talking ’bout! What a fun concept.
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I received a free copy of a very anemic Visual Studio magazine. Leafing through it I was reminded how I used to read at least 3 different magazines on a monthly basis. I don’t anymore. As a matter of fact I used to read business related materials incessantly. Programing books, magazines, websites you name it. […]