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The UpdatePanel is evil

Fri, 02 May 2008 22:03:58 GMT

I think the UpdatePanel is really powerful. It allows you to write your code essentially the same as you always have, with a few small modifications. You then just wrap your ASP/HTML controls in an UpdatePanel and hey presto, you've got them running as AJAX controls. The problem is it makes the development of AJAX-type sites too easy. You don't have to know what's going on behind the scenes, you don't have to understand the asynchronous calls made & the HTTP processes going on.

Comparing two arrays (or IEnumerables) in C#

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:47:21 GMT

An extension method to enable doing a value comparison of 2 collections

Can't think of a good class name?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Try this

Repository Base class in SubSonic 2.1

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Rob Conrey shows off how to implement a SubSonic Dal without using the Active Record Pattern.

Building an API with .NET

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

This article walks through setting up a simple REST API in C# by creating a custom HttpHandler.

SubSonic: New Project Site Online

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery talks about the new SubSonic web site.

LINQ to SQL and NOLOCK Hints

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:08:49 GMT

How to implement the NOLOCK hint in LINQ to reduce locking issues

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

SQL Server 2008 will have IntelliSense

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:31:02 GMT

Hurray!

Using Subversion to access CodePlex projects

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:16:02 GMT

A guide to using Subversion and the SvnBridge to access CodePlex projects and Team Foundation Server

Service Packs for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

Service Packs for the 2.0 and 3.0 .net framework for everyone not installing 3.5 yet.

Opening .NET 2.0 Web Application Projects in Visual Studio 2008

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:49:07 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 handles Web Application Projects natively, but there are one or two things to look out for.

An Architectural View of the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:31:03 GMT

Dino Esposito introduces the ASP.NET MVC framework.

ASP.Net MVC Framework - Exception Handling

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:16:05 GMT

How to handle exceptions with ASP.NET MVC Framework

Facebook Development Kit

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:46:02 GMT

Framework for developing FaceBook apps

Honeypot Captcha - new Subskimet Captcha control

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Comment spam bots love form fields

Rainbow Hash Cracking

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:31:01 GMT

The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure....

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Introduction and Explanation to sqlcmd

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:31:01 GMT

I decided to write this article to respond to request of one of usergroup, which requested that they would like to learn sqlcmd 101. SQL Server 2005 has introduced new utility sqlcmd to run ad hoc Transact-SQL statements and scripts from command prompt.

Getting Loaded on SubSonic - Collection Basics

Wed, 23 May 2007 23:46:01 GMT

SubSonic provides a handful of methods that make loading objects from your database simple. The most difficult part is just choosing which one to use.

Microsoft to Build a Subversion to TFS Bridge

Tue, 22 May 2007 07:16:01 GMT

The CodePlex team at Microsoft is set to unleash a Subversion to TFS Bridge. Essentially, it's Subversion on the outside, creamy TFS filling on the inside. If it works, it's quite an interesting technical accomplishment.

28 Great Programming Quotes that never saw daylight

Mon, 14 May 2007 11:36:33 GMT

Some nice quotes that never saw daylight but really should have ;)

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Lambda Expressions

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Scott demonstrates lambda expressions and linq

Powerusing Reflector 5

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:46:01 GMT

In this article, all the new functions (and the old ones you probably didn't know) of Reflector 5.0 are explained, so you get the most out of this tool.

Susonic Two Big Checkins

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Some big improvements happening to Subsonic.

DotNetKicks to be Open Sourced

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:16:01 GMT

As the community on DotNetKicks.com has grown in size over the past year, I have received received many offers of help with adding features and many requests for the source code. Due to other top secret commitments, I have recently not had as much time as I would have liked to continue the development of DotNetKicks.com. A discussion on DotNetKicks last week re-highlighted the issue of feature stagnation (the community is continuing to grow just fine). We are in the business of solving problems, and the best solution here is to open source the project. I had planned to release some code this past weekend, but some of the current dependencies include code that I don't wish to release. I am currently refactoring the dependencies, and I will be able to release some code very soon. Please shout it from the roof tops, we need all the contributers we can get.