Adventures of adding YahooUI (YUI) to a MVC Site
I decided that I wanted to give the YahooUI (YUI) framework/library a go recently. My first task was to get a few of my data listing pages on... more »
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Visual Studio Tip: Split Views
There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most... more »
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Practical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables)
Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern. What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded... more »
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Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it
A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Here’s the same kind of list for Microsoft’s... more »
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How to open popup windows in IE/Firefox and return values using ASP.NET and Javascript
This article explains how to transfer values between the Parent page and a Pop-up window. The code has been tested against IE7 and Firefox.
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Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code
Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code. In this case the query run time went from 24 hours+ to 36... more »
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Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or not) and My Silverlight Wishlist
I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some... more »
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Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea
Why exposing the database through a web-service (RESTful or otherwise) is wrong.
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Pagination Class for ASP.NET MVC
A class for creating different types of pagination link in Asp.Net Mvc.
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.NET Memory Management
Garbage Collection sure is great, isn’t it? We don’t have to keep track of all the memory we’ve allocated and we don’t need to release that memory... more »
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Who is afraid of ADC? - Introduction to AJAX Data Controls - Part I
ADC stands for AJAX Data Controls. It is one remarkable set of script data controls built with the Microsoft AJAX library. Emulting the enormously... more »
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.aspx extension instead of .php? WHY???
For some reason, there are some people who write web sites with PHP, but put the ".aspx" extension at the end of their files. WHY???
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ASP.NET gets no Respect
Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!
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SmartInspect 3.0 Released: New Log Server SmartInspect Router
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our advanced .NET logging, Java logging and Delphi logging tool SmartInspect 3.0. The new... more »
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Starting with jQuery
This is the first of number of posts to come on getting started with jQuery with no previous knowledge of the framework. Over the course, various... more »
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Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post
Folks were hassling me in the comments for not posting the picosecond that .NET 3.5 SP1 came out (or, as I like to call it, .NET 3.6 - although the... more »
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Expressing Asynchronous Control Flows With Program Translation
A paper by Thibaud Lopez Schneider shows that we can transform a function written with conventional control structures and synchronous function calls... more »
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XML Data Manipulation with XLinq
A short screencasts on how to do XML Data Manipulation with XLinq
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VB.Net: Single Instance application the better way
A better way to create a single instance application
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Low-Latency GC in .NET 3.5
GC flavors are a static performance optimization for the .NET garbage collector. Under various circumstances, applications can opt-in (before... more »
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Creating a wysiwyg HTML editor in C#
A tutorial explaining how to use MSHTML in the .NET framework to create a WYSIWYG HTML editor. (Visual Studio - C#)
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What's new in the VS 2008 SP1?
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 introduces significant new functionality as ADO.NET expands and evolves to change the way that we program against data. Between... more »
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Trends in the IT field
Based on her experience in being in the programme committee at several IT conferences, Aino Vonge Corry takes a guess on the upcoming trends in the IT... more »
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Customization of PowerShell hash table merges
PowerShell provides the += operator to add one hash table to another hash table. By default this operation will result in an error, if both hash... more »
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ASP.NET FAQ - Intermediate Level
The questions mentioned here are usually asked for intermediate users having relevant years of relevant ASP.NET experience.
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