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Using Microsoft POS for .NET in 2011

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:22:29 GMT

How to work around the various issues that occur when working with Microsoft's POS for .NET with newer technologies such as .NET 4.0.

Gotcha: iPad versus ASP.NET

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:22:31 GMT

Your ASP.NET application may fail on the iPad after it is saved to the home screen.

Re-skin your existing web app using jQuery Mobile

Tue, 24 May 2011 19:58:02 GMT

Did you know you could easily integrate jQuery Mobile controls into your existing web application?

Slash your ASP.NET compile/load time without any hard work

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:41:32 GMT

Tips & tricks to make your ASP.NET development more enjoyable (cut down compilation time / first load time).

Lambda IEqualityComparer<T>

Mon, 17 May 2010 17:49:35 GMT

New extension methods to replace IEqualityComparer<T> for the most common scenario, comparing objects with a key.

Tekpub MVC 2.0 Starter Site

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:10:35 GMT

Steven Sanderson and @robconery give an indepth setup for an ASP.net MVC 2 site. Pretty cool stuff, and definitely a great 1.5 hour free screen cast... enjoy

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Breaking Old Links

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:40:55 GMT

A bug fix in BlogEngine.net 1.6 broke older links to our blog.

ASP.NET Regenerate .designer.cs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:53:08 GMT

Your ASPX or ASCX .designer.cs file stopped being generated by Visual Studio and you don't know why? Here is a little trick for you.

Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:30:01 GMT

The challenge of uploading large files in ASP.NET through HTTP is not a new challenge. In addition to handling large files, users often request an experience that shows the progress of an upload as it occurs. When you have either or both of these requirements, or if you simply need direct control of a stream of file data uploaded from a browser, you invariably hit the wall. I set about solving the problem in an ASP.NET MVC-specific way.

jQuery 1.4 Released!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:00:07 GMT

In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we're really quite proud of it.

ASP.NET callback not being fired in Internet Explorer

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:08:25 GMT

Solution to ASP.NET callbacks not being fired in Internet Explorer.

IE6 Update: Help kill Internet Explorer 6 (BlogEngine.NET Extension)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:30:05 GMT

IE6 is like an illness that just won't go away but now there is another new project to kick his ass: www.ie6update.com - With this small extension you are able to include this project into your BlogEngine.NET with just copying a single file.

Gotcha: gzip compression in SOAP message calls

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:16:33 GMT

Do not forget to enable gzip compression in your large SOAP requests.

YUI Compressor for Visual Studio

Wed, 13 May 2009 02:01:14 GMT

Add a custom tool in visual studio for YUI Compressor.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 7) - Versatility

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:01:04 GMT

Today we'll talk about of the key lessons that we learned in university that helped us during the first two years of our business: versatility.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 6) - Looking back at one failure

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:16:02 GMT

After a few months, we've decided to kill a project and call it a failure. Read more about the project's postmortem note in this article.

Being a software startup in a recession

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 4) - Year Two

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:01:02 GMT

LavaBlast is now two years old. Part 4 in our series shares lessons learned during our second year of operation.

Migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit)

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:01:04 GMT

A few main issues encountered during our migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit).

What Constitutes Ethical SEO?

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:31:02 GMT

As a web developer / someone who has a blog, I understand dealing with spam is one of the necessary evils of having a comments enabled on my site. Too often, SEO companies use unscrupulous tactics in the name of website optimization. What is the best way to prevent link spammers from overrunning your site?

Declare your ObjectDataSource using lambda expressions

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:55:47 GMT

Configure your ObjectDataSource TypeName, SelectMethod, SelectParameters from a lambda expression. Here is a simple example: ObjectDataSource ods; ods.SetSelectMethod<ProductController>(ctrl => ctrl.FetchAll());

Software usability is like eggnog

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:09:30 GMT

Creating a proper usability study is hard.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Gotcha: ASP.NET and exceptions in asynchronous threads

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:50:32 GMT

If an unhandled exception occurs in a secondary thread which has been launched by your ASP.NET application, IIS will force your application to restart.