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Captcha validation in asp net 2.0 website

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:16:42 GMT

Here is a nice way of reducing the spamming attempts on your website. The implementation of a captcha control in asp .net 2.0 can be very useful.

Including FusionCharts flash charts in your web application

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:46:35 GMT

A clear concept included in the "Web 2.0 bouquet" is what we know as a Rich User-Experience. This is the field where the last year and a half brought a major explosion of novelty and improvement. Techniques like AJAX, Adobe Flash, Flex, Java and Silverlight have evolved and reinforced the user-experience in browser-based applications.

Share Your Christmas Wishlist / Hatelist with Silverlight

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:02:32 GMT

The application demonstrates a range of capabilities: integration with Live Search and Live ID, HTML / Silverlight integration, reuse of simple controls written in JavaScript, ASP.NET server integration.

Here's what you as a programmer need to know about LINQ

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:01:11 GMT

How much do you know about LINQ? If you only heard about it, you should read Mark Whitehorn's article.

It Had Too Many Functions

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:11:02 GMT

"It has too many functions, which means it's slow. My class only has 3 functions, so it's much more efficient."

Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part II: The Basics

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:36:07 GMT

In part one of this three part series, I offered what we'd ideally like when using NHibernate, or any ORM for that matter, with custom collections in the domain layer. To reiterate, the ORM should have as little impact as possible on how custom collections within the domain are structured and how relationships between classes are declared. At the very least, there should be no references to the ORM, or ORM-supporting assemblies from the domain, whatsoever. The discussed solution achieves these goals.

C# 3.0: Querying XML in C# with LINQ to XML

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:33:46 GMT

You can use LINQ to XML to perform LINQ queries over XML that you retrieve from the file-system, from a remote HTTP URL or web-service, or from any in-memory XML content.

How to create Windows Explorer shell browsing UI

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:31:32 GMT

Shell MegaPack.Net recreates the entire Windows Explorer shell browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds.

.NET Discount of the Week

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:26:58 GMT

On Blocks4.NET, you can find every week a discount offer for a .NET component.

Check 1000s of images for duplicates in .Net

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:09:52 GMT

Here is the complete code which shows how to detect and remove duplicates from 1000s of images - quickly!

435+ links for the web savvy developer

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:17:24 GMT

Links to -> Ajax Portals * Blogs worth reading * Colors * CSS * Stock photos * Forums * Web 2.0 Generators * Graphic Sources * Icons * Inspiration * Web Tech Magazines * Templates * XHTML + more - Dont take my word for it, see for yourself

Are you sure [Prompt User Validation]

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:57:58 GMT

there's so many times when you need to ask a user "are you sure?" but you want it to be quick and painless you don't want to do one more server round trip just for that

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the clien

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:51:52 GMT

by default asp.net checks for the scripts in requests so that if it finds a user that is posting javascript or HTML in a request body it will throw an exception "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client"

Technology doesn't matter!

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:46:02 GMT

Solving problems does. Often geeks get caught up with upgrading to the latest stuff only because it is the latest stuff. Often this can be a flawed approach but we tend to ignore that because of the pleasure we gain from new technology.

Lambdas and Closures and Currying. Oh my! (Part 3)

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:01:02 GMT

In part three of the series we look at higher order functions and how to implement the fold (also called reduce) higher order function.