Category: Asp.Net 2.o
23 May, 2007 (05:19) | Asp.Net 2.o, Software Quality | No comments
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 […]
14 May, 2007 (07:45) | .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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.
Watch the show here
3 February, 2007 (21:11) | Asp.Net 2.o, SQL Server | No comments
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, […]
26 October, 2006 (19:05) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
21 October, 2006 (19:11) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o, SQL Server | 34 comments
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 […]
20 June, 2006 (05:16) | General, .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
11 April, 2006 (20:09) | .NET, .NET Tools, Asp.Net 2.o, Software Architecture | No comments
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 ! […]
22 March, 2006 (20:13) | .NET, .NET Tools, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
6 March, 2006 (07:57) | Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
1 January, 2006 (07:57) | .NET, Asp.Net 2.o | 1 comment
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 […]
6 December, 2005 (02:05) | .NET, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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, […]
16 October, 2005 (06:53) | Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
16 October, 2005 (04:50) | Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
3 July, 2005 (19:48) | .NET, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
Learn about the unit testing features of Team Test from a TDD, test-then-code approach with this walkthrough.
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4 June, 2005 (19:13) | .NET, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
Via Mike Gunderloy - a very nice discussion of reasons why InvariantCulture is deprecated in 2.0 Read More
26 May, 2005 (18:49) | General, .NET, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
23 May, 2005 (14:59) | General, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | 1 comment
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 […]
17 May, 2005 (18:54) | General, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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 […]
17 May, 2005 (18:49) | .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments
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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12 May, 2005 (17:23) | General, .NET, Asp.Net 2.o, Software Architecture | No comments
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. […]