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Welcome to the new DotNetKicks

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:14 GMT

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks - Lots of improvements and even more on the way!

Fastest Way - Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn the Fastest Way to get Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column

Win ReSharper Licenses Competition Update

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:30:03 GMT

Thank you to all those who have already entered the Cool Code Snippets Code-Off, the response has been great and there have been some truly excellent entries since the competition started. For those of you who have not seen the details check out the original post here for details of how to win your very own ReSharper Personal Licenses.

Win ReSharper personal licenses in the Cool Snippets Code-Off

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:30:02 GMT

All you have to do is submit a cool code snippet! JetBrains have agreed to provide a ReSharper personal license for every hundred entries.

Null dereferencing with MVC

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:52:12 GMT

A method of null dereferencing using an extension method with ASP.NET MVC.

Windows Azure Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:29:19 GMT

Today, during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 we announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs.

PLINQO 3.0 - Even Better

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:15:00 GMT

A review of PLINQO 3.0 from CodeSmith including an overview of new features since version 2.0. "In case you're not familiar with PLINQO, this set of code-generation templates are designed to enhance the LINQ-to-SQL development experience. They're not only a time-saver like most code generation templates, but they allow you to overcome many of the limitations of raw LINQ-to-SQL."

IE8 has been released

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:46:48 GMT

Running Windows Server 2003, it auto-detected my system and downloaded the appropriate file.

How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:31:02 GMT

A quick how-to on getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on Windows Azure.

ASP.NET MVC and Json.NET

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Bringing Json.NET to ASP.NET MVC

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:01:02 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.

NVelocity Server Control

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:31:05 GMT

A light weight server control which wraps the NVelocity implementation.

ASP.NET Caching and Performance

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:01:10 GMT

Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve's expertise in this area comes from first-hand experience as Lake Quincy's ad system serves over 60 requests per second and handles over 150 million requests per month.

Ra Ajax - Ajax Library for ASP.NET (and others)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:06:41 GMT

Ra Ajax is an Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono but its general nature on the client-side will make it very useful also for other server-side bindings like PHP, J2EE RubyOnRails etc all though other bindings than towards ASP.NET is not included.

Loading static content in ASP.NET pages from different domain for fast

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:20:41 GMT

Generally we put static content (images, css, js) of our website inside the same web project. Thus they get downloaded from the same domain like www.dropthings.com. As browser can only open two concurrent connections, all of these download only two at once. If you move the static content to a separate domain, browser can download more content in parallel and thus load the page faster. This HttpFilter parses the page output and automatically moves all static content links to a different domain as specified.

jQuery for ASP.NET MVC unleashed!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:46:05 GMT

jQuery plugins for the ASP.NET MVC framework

ASP.NET MVC UserControls Start to Finish

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:46:12 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC framework ships with a number of Visual Studio project and item templates to ease our development tasks. One of these templates is a UserControl built specifically for the MVC framework. We are going to walkthrough building a re-usable Header control that can be added to the top of related pages (in this specific case, this Control will be added to all Account pages).

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Showing some support for LINQ to SQL

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Great article detailing why LINQ to SQL deserves some attention particularly if you buy into the object oriented style of development or are currently working with an ORM such as NHibernate.

Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:01:03 GMT

As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com.

Ensure - load javascript and html snippet on-demand

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:14:34 GMT

A tiny javascript library that provides a handy function "ensure" which allows you to load Javascript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code. Ensure ensures that relevent Javascript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them.

Exception handling best practices in ASP.NET web applications

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:31:08 GMT

Exception handling plays an important part of application management and user experience. If implemented correctly it can make maintenance easier and bring the user experience to a higher level. If not, it can be a disaster. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of what exception handling is from the user perspective and the perspective of people who maintain the application, and to show the best practices of how to implement useful error handling in ASP.NET web applications.

CoolStorage.NET 1.2.0 released

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:29:53 GMT

It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET ("cool" open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn't mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version 1.2.

UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

Sun, 25 May 2008 07:42:16 GMT

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike IFRAME, it loads the content within the main document and you can put any number of UFrame on your page without slowing down the browser.

UFRAME: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

Mon, 26 May 2008 22:16:03 GMT

UFrame simulates the behavior of IFRAME on a DIV. Any page can be loaded inside a DIV and hyperlink navigation and form posts happen within the DIV. As a result, a regular page can start providing AJAX features without ever writing any AJAX code. ASP.NET MVC websites can now use UFrame instead of UpdatePanel.