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Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor.

Use .NET Built-in Methods to Save Time and Headaches

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:45:00 GMT

During our everyday programming tasks we run into several repetitive code blocks that after the 20th time you implement them become really annoying. In this post I will take you through several of such blocks and show you how to implement them using built-in .NET methods.

Windows 7 Optimizations on Solid State Drives

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:30:00 GMT

Be default, Windows 7 disables Superfetch, ReadyBoost, as well as boot and application launch prefetching on Solid State Drives (SSD) with good random read, random write and flush performance. These technologies were all designed to improve performance on traditional hard disk drives (HDD), where random read performance could easily be a major bottleneck. Because of the design changes, Windows 7 powered PCs with SSDs run fast. To understand how these design changes improve overall system performance, read this team blog post by the Windows 7 product group.

Why You Should Use the Null Coalescing Operator

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:52:43 GMT

Introduced in C# 2.0, the null coalescing operator (??) allows one to program in a concise, declarative fashion when performing null checks. This was important in 2005 as it made it easier to utilize another important feature: nullable types.

.NET Memory Management

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT

A great video explaining memory management in .NET

Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

DimeCasts.NET - Free education vidoes.

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:01:02 GMT

DimeCasts.NET offer free education vidoes in field of various Microsoft related technologies. Advantage is most of these vidoes are 10 minutes or less in length.

Tricky Simple File Download Proxy Handler

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:27:52 GMT

Today I wanna play a bit with Streams and specially with Response.OutputStream. So I decided to make a Simple File Download Proxy Handler in order to Download Files through an HttpHandler which download Files from Remote Site.

Delegates,Why everything you have been taught was different

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:30:41 GMT

This posts discuss about what really delegates are.And it takes a different approach to explain the delegates.

Top 10 Common Mistakes in .NET Development

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:29:50 GMT

In this article I'll list some Common Mistakes that .NET Developers might make .

C# Tip: Don't Concatenate, Use String.Format

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:51:37 GMT

Using String.Format is much better for code readability over using concatenation.

Client Side Table Sorting, Paging and Filtering with jQuery Demo

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:34:57 GMT

I have been incorporating client side table sorting, paging and filtering using jQuery and some great plugins that I first wrote about earlier in the week. In the first post I only mentioned the the tablesorter paging plugin and did not demonstrate it. I finally had the chance to start working with the paging plugin and it couldn't be much easier. One thing I ran into though is that by default if you are paged into the data and then click sort, the pager does not reset to the first page. Some searching didn't turn up any similar concerns so since I work from home for a one developer company I thought I would ask you if this makes sense or if I should try and reset the pager when the table is sorted. Please be sure to vote in the poll when you view the live demo.

Functional .NET - Fighting Friction in the BCL with Directory.GetFiles

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:43:48 GMT

The Issues There are several issues that lead me to come up with an alternative for this situation of getting all files in a directory. Arrays shouldn't be returned from method calls Processor intensive for iterating over large directory trees instead of calculating only what I need, when I need it Filtering is weak, and only uses file format patterns Access denied internal messages occur for no apparent reason which halts the method

Dynamic Paging For DataList Control with PagedDataSource

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:42:29 GMT

This article explains the concept of displaying multiple pages of records in a DataList control with a dynamic paging technique using PagedDataSource.

Client Side ASP.NET ListView Sorting via jQuery TableSorter Plugin Dem

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

I was recently asked to provide sorting on a ListView that I knew needed it, but had left off originally because I was having trouble with the way I normally handle sorting ListViews with this particular page. This led me to searching for another way. I think what I came up with may replace the way I have been handling user requested sorting (all server side) up until now. What I found was the jQuery TableSorter plugin plus a few extras. The plugin, like just about all jQuery plugins is really easy to use. You just point it at your table and it does the rest (make sure your table has thead and tbody tags though). Of course there are many options that you can set for your particular situation. Check out the demo.

Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Two interesting ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2008 performance tips that were not documented and discovered by chance

Uploading a File with FTP

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:33:24 GMT

Easily upload a file through FTP using pure C#.

BacktoBasics-Life After If,For and Switch - a Data Structures Reminder

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:07:52 GMT

Alternative code writing methods, sometimes using if, switch and for gets to much, this article shows some alternative solutions, e.g. using a dictionary as a map instead of using large if or switch statements.

Evolving a .NET Framework 2.0 Application to .NET Framework 3.5

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:51:33 GMT

Ythos shares a whitepaper they wrote on their experiences with migrating existing applications from .NET 1.1/2.0 to .NET 3.5. It includes tips on moving from WinForms to WPF, WS-* to WCF, etc. Great for those of us who aren't doing greenfield development! Link found via Brad Abrams at http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/09/10/evolving-a-net-framework-2-0-application-to-net-framework-3-5.aspx.

Best way to end user session asp.net

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:01:02 GMT

What's the best way to end session after user logs out.

Render ASP.NET Control as String

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Some simple tips and a handy extension method for rendering any ASP.NET control as a string, which can then be passed via a web service to an AJAX call.

Software Development and Programming Podcasts

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:46:03 GMT

I couldn't find a good list of software development and programming podcasts so I created my own. Feel free to chime in with any you recommend!

4 ways to send a PDF file to the IE Client in ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:33:50 GMT

4 ways to send a PDF file to the IE Client in ASP.NET 2.0. Read more...

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by batching javascripts downloads

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:01:12 GMT

Hack for the .Net script manager to pull all needed javascript files at once and push them to the bottom of the html to speed up rendering.

The easiest way to export to MS Excel

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:46:34 GMT

The easiest way to export some tabular data to a MS Excel file.