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How to quickly configure ASP.NET XML based authentication

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:39:52 GMT

The .NET framework (starting with v2.0) has some great built in role and member based authentication that is easy to tap with a little setup.

A .NET Cryptography Primer, part 3

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:01:02 GMT

This part covers symmetric encryption, more commonly known as password-based encryption. Goes over the different types of symmetric algorithms available, concepts such as initialization vectors, and includes code examples.

.NET Obfuscators

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Comprehensive list of all .NET obfuscators available today and online reviews.

Hello World of Rhino Mocks

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:01:07 GMT

A lot of tutorials on Rhino Mocks are long and complicated. This post gives you just enough basic code to start working with rhino mocks so you can see what is going on.

Building A Better Xml Serializer

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:07:09 GMT

How to handle the serialization and deserialization of objects that maintain a recursive reference, that is an indirect reference to itself.

Beyond Ajax: Software Development, Two Years from Now

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:46:03 GMT

An interesting look on what web development could have in store for the next two years, with predictions from some of the brightest web development tool builders out there, including Scott Guthrie and Dean Hachamovitch.

How MVC, jQuery, and SubSonic will make you smile

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:46:03 GMT

Rob shows off some early prototype bits for some mvc.net bits that he's baking into SubSonic.

DotNetKicks: Searchable and a new build server

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:01:03 GMT

We have recently added a new search feature and a build server to DotNetKicks.com.

Little Gamers Public Demo

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:46:02 GMT

Epsicode has released a public demo of his awesome XNA game (And Dream Build Play Finalist I might add): Little Gamers. I spent quite some time today playing this game and I can't get enough of it! Be sure to drop by and check it out and say hi to Epsicode while you're at it :)

Dishwasher Dead Samurai T-Shirts on sale

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:01:23 GMT

A pointer to some really awesome shirts for a really awesome game built on the XNA framework and destined to come out on XBLA.

Concatenate Column Values from Multiple Rows into a Single Column in S

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:47:52 GMT

An article that explains how to combine column values in a table into a single column to be able to do a filter or search. All the work is down on the database side so no coding is needed.

Uncommon C# Keywords

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Everyone knows the basic C# keywords, but some are more obscure. This article dives into some useful C# keywords that you may have yet to encounter.

Speed up Visual Studio 2005

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:46:12 GMT

Nice tricks to speed up Visual Studio 2005

ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:31:09 GMT

Scott Hanselman talks about the conference and links to Silverlight videos of his presentation and Scott G's presentation on the new Model View Controller.

Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

Where to find .NET drivers for Oracle, MySQL, SQLite 3 and nHibernate.

October 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and .NET

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:31:02 GMT

October 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and .NET

Subversion via IIS

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:46:03 GMT

I have been working a few days on a solution to give access to an SVN repostory through IIS. I came up with a proxy handler between a working Apache environment and IIS. It works on http and https.

Ten CSS tricks you may not know | evolt.org

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:16:03 GMT

Much better! Just a couple of words of warning: This CSS shorthand version will only work if you're specifying both the font-size and the font-family. Also, if you don't specify the font-weight, font-style, or font-varient then these values will automatically default to a

Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Some more information from ALT.NET on the new ASP.NET MVC framework.

Confessions of a Terrible Programmer

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:01:07 GMT

I'm a terrible programmer. You would think that having done this for nearly 25 years that I should be pretty good at it by now. But nope, I still put bugs in my code, use the wrong types for variables or subprogram arguments...

SQL Command Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:31:02 GMT

A visualizer for SQL Command objects. Displays a more useful representation of a SQL Command object when debugging. Show details of the command, it's connection and lists all parameters, their properties and current values.

Revisiting Programming Fonts

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:46:03 GMT

Jeff Atwood discusses programming fonts including the new one on the block, Inconsolata.

My Favorite (Visual Studio) Keyboard Shorctuts

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:01:03 GMT

Christopher Bennage's favorite visual studio and resharper keyboard shortcuts.

How To Debug Web Applications With Firefox

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:31:04 GMT

Not strictly .NET related, but here are some tips and tools for web applications client-side debugging and tuning.

Tracking Silverlight-enabled Browsers via Analytics

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:01:04 GMT

A technique for using Google Analytics to track how many users of your site have Silverlight installed... and which version.