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Crazy Expression Web Bug

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:36:22 GMT

Just ran into this stupid problem today. Microsoft Expression Web really sucks! This blog post deserves a kick for explaining the problem.

Sad Way To Do Business

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:01:03 GMT

how to make a bad impression with poor support and bad atitude and throw away thousands potential customers.

Saving Time Through the Command Prompt Explorer Bar

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:24:07 GMT

A brief tutorial of using the Command Prompt Explorer Bar to assist in command line tools and operations from with in Windows Explorer.

Slow Http client calls from ASP.NET 2.0? Make sure you check your Prox

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:30:48 GMT

Useful information about how your proxy settings could slow down your web client calls.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part II

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:01:02 GMT

In the previous article, 30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part I, we explored 15 common String operations while working with the String class. In Part II of the article, we will continue with the series and cover 15 more.

30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part I

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:01:08 GMT

This article compiles some common String operations that we encounter while working with the String class. In Part I, 15 common string operations have been covered .

Visual Studio Tip: Split Views

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:01:08 GMT

There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

ASP.NET Browsers Filter!!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way...

ASP.NET Themes Don't Like IE8's X-UA-Compatible header; Neither Do I

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:31:02 GMT

"I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I'll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I'll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible thing, and why I think the way that turned out was bad for everyone."

JSON Serializers in .NET - not there yet

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:01:02 GMT

.NET Framework 3.5 provides a couple of choices for JSON Serialization and Deserialization. Find out how you can use them and also some of the problems that both of these tools impose.

Launch Firefox Instead Of Internet Explorer When Debugging

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:46:02 GMT

This article tells you how to launch Firefox instead of Intenet Explorer when running an ASP.NET web application in debug mode. This is something I needed to troubleshoot a project that presented a problem only in Firefox.

Web developers. You suck.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:46:03 GMT

A new release of Dropthings, open source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX portal. Features many performance and scalability techniques and a new design. Showcases: - 10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets. - Fast ASP.NET page rendering by deferred script loading. - Load large amount of Javascripts in batch and thus load AJAX sites a lot faster. - Fast Streaming AJAX proxy that solves double downloading problems and continuously streams content from external domain. - Making best use of cache for high performance website. - On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites.

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:31:03 GMT

The article lists few of some of the many performance tweaks that can be implement to boost up ASP.NET performance.

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.

Minify your CSS through Regex

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Decreace the size of your CSS stylesheet through a few simple and easy Regex replacements.

SubVersion Server Installation

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:32:49 GMT

Finally found some detailed instructions on how to install SubVersion for Visual Studio source control.

DotNetKicks with WordPress

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:46:09 GMT

How to add DotNetKicks icon to a WordPress blog.

Easily Test Custom Controls Inside of Visual Studio

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:16:01 GMT

Here's a quick way easily test and debug your custom WinForms controls right inside of Visual Studio without having to launch your entire application.