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I have been slogging my way through the MS MVC architecture. There are some good parts and some really hard to get used to parts. Some stuff just has me completely puzzled. For example when your used to setting an autopostback property on a drop down control, the need to have to hand code some [...]

Wow, I really have been leading a pretty sheltered life as a consultant. There is a toolset I have used for a number of years that has predictably delivered results. When it comes to projects where you deliver or you dont eat its pretty important that your tools work. Along the way I was fortunate [...]

After returning from a wonderful vacation, its back to business. We are currently working on an interesting WCF project in which I actually get to dogfood our service implementation. At least thats the plan. Working with a distributed team, Jeff one of my guys,  is located in Northern California. He happens to be responsible for huge [...]

Have you ever gotten into a situation where your customers development team uses tools that you know full well are not best of breed, but you go along with it and use them for their project because…. well they are the customer and pay the bills. I have precisely such a case. The customers [...]

Karin Huber describes her Master Pages idea for WPF applications in an article on CodeProject. Why does that remind me so much of ASP.NET 1.1 home made master pages? Good article !

For pointing out the following:
“….A tip o’ the hat to Ayande Rahien for having the guts to point out today that the stuff that comes out of Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices (P&P) group is mostly over-abstracted, over-architected crap. He said it nicer than that, and he rightly pointed out that it’s not that the [...]

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

While I haven’t used CSLA in a few years, I have always looked to Rocky and the code in his library as great examples of how to structure frameworks and how to use certain technologies. For example for ASP.NET 2.0 Rocky went ahead and worked on a custom DataSourceControl which was (to me) very trail-blazing. [...]

Dare added together the some of his experiences. You would be surprised how many projects I’ve seen like this. I especially like the piece on Schedule Chicken. Its fantastic.
I think this list is almost as great as Spolsky’s top 10 check list for tools and process.
Link here…..

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 [...]