The UpdatePanel is evil(blog.slaven.net.au)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 4 years ago

I think the UpdatePanel is really powerful. It allows you to write your code essentially the same as you always have, with a few small modifications. You then just wrap your ASP/HTML controls in an UpdatePanel and hey presto, you’ve got them running as AJAX controls. The problem is it makes the development of AJAX-type sites too easy. You don’t have to know what’s going on behind the scenes, you don’t have to understand the asynchronous calls made & the HTTP processes going on. read more...

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Comparing two arrays (or IEnumerables) in C#(blog.slaven.net.au)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 4 years, 2 months ago

An extension method to enable doing a value comparison of 2 collections read more...

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LINQ to SQL and NOLOCK Hints(madprops.org)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 4 years, 2 months ago

How to implement the NOLOCK hint in LINQ to reduce locking issues read more...

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.NET Framework Library Source Code now available(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 4 years, 4 months ago

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio read more...

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Opening .NET 2.0 Web Application Projects in Visual Studio 2008(blog.slaven.net.au)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 4 years, 6 months ago

Visual Studio 2008 handles Web Application Projects natively, but there are one or two things to look out for. read more...

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Always implement the ToString() method(blog.slaven.net.au)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 2 months ago

Implementing the ToString() method make debugging a whole lot easier read more...

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Compress strings in C#(madskristensen.dk)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 2 months ago

Compress the strings using a GZipStream and then decompress them later when needed. read more...

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NDepend 2.0 has been released(ndepend.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

NDepend is a tool for .NET developers that allows controlling the complexity and quality of .NET code. NDepend analyses source code and assemblies and generates a report. A GUI allows to visualize, zoom and control any part of the code. read more...

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Using ISAPI_Rewrite to canonicalize ASP.NET URLs(hanselman.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

Scott Hanselman shows how ISAPI_Rewrite can give IIS some of the power of mod_rewrite and create canonical URLs with 301 redirects read more...

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Simple RSS reader class in C#(madskristensen.dk)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

A basic caching RSS reading class for C#. Updates asynchronously. read more...

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Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should(sqlservercode.blogspot.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

A list of little-known but useful T-SQL functions read more...

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CoDe Magazine - The Missing LINQ(code-magazine.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

A good overview article about LINQ, coming at it from the perspective of a Visual FoxPro programmer familar with the Data Manipulation Language. read more...

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Search Engine Positioner(madskristensen.dk)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

Mads Kristensen has written a program that lets you lookup the position of a url in Google, Yahoo & AltaVista for different URLs read more...

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Podcast interview with the authors of Windows Developer Power Tools(webdevradio.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

Michael Kimsal interviews Jim Holmes and James Avery to discuss their book “Windows Developer Power Tools”. 40 minutes long, it's a good discussion on windows dev tools. read more...

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Paint.NET Effect Plugin Project Template for Visual Studio 2005(sepcot.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

A template for creating visual effects plugins for Paint.NET. read more...

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Composite keys are evil(codebetter.com)

submitted by dalziel(6230) 5 years, 3 months ago

Composite keys (multi column primary keys) make any kind of Object/Relational mapping and persistence in general harder. Life is so much easier with surrogate keys. You can always make unique constraints where it's necessary. read more...

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