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Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Working with other colleagues, I found these C# syntaxes are still not well-known and used

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 2

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:01:12 GMT

So it is nice to be able to use a combination of JQuery selectors to grab an array of elements, however, it would be better if we know how to inspect them one by one and operate on them.

MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book, all the vagueness that I've been able to shunt aside to a little corner of my brain has surfaced like a long-lost brother beggin' for college money.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Another epic post by The Gu

Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

A guide on how to easily script out an entire database (schema and data) using the Database Publishing Wizard. A tool that you may not know you have access to. And if you have Visual Studio 2008, you already have installed!

12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:01:18 GMT

"In this post we look at a dozen unit testing tips that software engineers can apply, regardless of their programming language or environment."

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:31:03 GMT

"CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques."

25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides, .NET blogs and how tos about improving .NET performance.

Source Control and Continuous Integration On The Cheap

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Setup source control (Subversion via VisualSVN Server) and a continuous integration environment (JetBrains' TeamCity) in less than 3 hours!

ASP.NET MVC: Choosing Your Data Access Method

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery discusses the pros and cons of using Linq To Sql, SubSonic, and NHibernate with MVC (and ASP.NET in general).

NAnt Starter Series

Thu, 25 May 2006 00:17:01 GMT

A series of articles that will walk you through the layout of your project directory, compiling your projects and test projects with NAnt, as well as dealing with multi-developer scenarios (regarding databases).