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There is More Content than Just the Front Page on DotNetKicks

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:01:03 GMT

Are you tired of going to DotNetKicks and finding the same stories on the front page for days in a row? Trust me, there is some great content out there that never makes the front page. You just have to look a little deeper. When you do, you can help put some of that great new content in front of the masses. Even if you don't submit stories yourself, you can still help out by giving the initial votes that push a story to the front page.

How to rotate JavaScript ads during ASP.NET AJAX requests

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:16:18 GMT

An examination of why it's difficult to work with JavaScript based advertising during ASP.NET AJAX partial postbacks, and my suggested solution to solving that problem. Additionally, if you click within the next 15 minutes, a bonus deferred ad loading technique is included at no extra charge. Operators are standing by to take your HTTP request!

Fun With Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:31:02 GMT

Recently I found myself in a situation where I wanted to format a string using a named format string, rather than a positional one. Ignore for the moment the issue on whether this is a good idea or not, just trust me that I'll be responsible with it.

Skip the Visual Studio Splash Screen

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:16:03 GMT

Anything to speed up Visual Studio.

Username Availability Validator AJAX Control, Release Demo

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:46:02 GMT

Back in September last year (2008), I posted a demo about Username Availability Validator Control. This control developed by the community on a contest initiated by Dave Ward on August 2008 as I remember. At that time the control was in beta. On October 2008 the control was released to public on its first version. And finally I wrote a a very simple documentation on the project Wiki.

Get SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle - Karl Seguin

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:31:02 GMT

SOLID is a popular acronym that refers to a set of 5 important class design principles. Today I want to talk about the first part of SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP).

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

PagedList Sorted Edition

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:16:10 GMT

Sorted Edition of PagedList

C# Structs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

What are the benefit of structs in C#? When can they improve performance and memory use? See examples and benchmarks as well as screens from CLRProfiler and the Visual Studio debugger. Is this is the best struct article in the world? Maybe!

Boy Scout Check-ins

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

How to leave your code campground cleaner than you found it.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 12: More jQuery in ASP.NET

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:45:20 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, and Scott Koon conclude their discussion of Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement. Continuation or Episode 12.

Are your applications 'legacy code' before they even hit production?

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:46:06 GMT

When a business has custom software developed, it expects that software to last for a long time. To do this, software must A) continue operating - by adapting to changing technology needs, and B) continue be useful - by adapting to changing business needs.

Using jQuery to display a modal UpdatePanel confirmation

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

An example of using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to display the result of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel's partial postback as a modal confirmation dialog.

Latest ASp.Net AJAX and jQuery links from Scott Gu

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Latest ASp.Net AJAX and jQuery links from Scott Guthrie

ALT.NET Podcast 11: jQuery in ASP.NET

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:16:03 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.

Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:31:10 GMT

An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback.

Custom jQuery Selector for ASP.NET WebForms

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:16:13 GMT

My quest for a better way to select ASP.NET auto-generated IDs with jQuery.

Avoid this tricky conflict between ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:31:03 GMT

One example of how ASP.NET AJAX can conflict with jQuery's plugins, due to its modification of some JavaScript base types, and how to fix the problem in this particular case.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Contribute to open source, get a shot at a free book

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Win one of three copies of Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls by participating in an open source contest on CodePlex.

Red Gate to continue development of .NET Reflector

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:56:24 GMT

Red Gate has taken on Lutz Roeder's .NET reflector and will continue development on this in the future. It will continue to be free for the community.

Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:31:14 GMT

An in-depth example of using jQuery to build client-side paging, including progress indicators, to page into any server side data source that can be JSON serialized by ASP.NET AJAX.