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

published 1 month ago, submitted by gt1329a 1 month ago

encosia.com — 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. read more...

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C#: Generate WebPage Thumbmail Screenshot Image

published 3 months, 27 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 3 months, 27 days ago

pietschsoft.com — There are a few services out there that serve up screenshots of any webpage for you to display on your website. One popular one is Kwiboo; this is the one that DotNetKicks uses. For some time now I've wondered what the easiest way to do this in .NET was, and today I stumbled upon the undocumented WebBrowser.DrawToBitmap method that makes this extremely easy to do. read more...

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Optimize WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd

published 4 months, 10 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 4 months, 10 days ago

blog.madskristensen.dk — Some weeks ago I wrote how to minify and compress the WebResource.axd handler. In the comments of that post someone asked how to do the same with ScriptResource.axd. I thought about it and realized it could be done much smarter.If you take a look at the HTML source at the CodePlex Issue Tracker page, you’ll see it references 13 WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd. That’s 13 different web requests on each page load. The ScriptResource.axd is using HTTP compression but WebResource.axd does not. None of them minifies the scripts.Therefore it would be cool to create a plug ‘n play HttpModule that combines all resource.axd scripts into one single web request and then minify and compress them. It would result in smaller HTML, fewer web requests and optimized JavaScript code. If you’re a YSlow nazi like me, this is a must-have. read more...

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15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

published 5 months, 7 days ago, submitted by rimsystems 5 months, 7 days ago

sixrevisions.com — Response times, availability, and stability are vital factors to bear in mind when creating and maintaining a web application. If you’re concerned about your web pages’ speed or want to make sure you’re in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here’s a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications. read more...

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Nikhilk Kothari's site (almost) made XHTML valid

published 5 months, 7 days ago, submitted by acyment 5 months, 8 days ago

aggiorno.com — I decided to try and make good old Nikhilk Kothari's personal site a valid one. I didn't have access to the source code, so all changes were made on the rendered ASP.NET. Why Nikhilk? I don't know, I guess I just like his web site! Short and entertaining video. read more...

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JavaScript: Warning the user when CapsLock is on

published 6 months, 2 days ago, submitted by rimsystems 6 months, 4 days ago

aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com — Describes a method for warning a user that their caps lock is on using JavaScript. Also includes an ASP.NET control read more...

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Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET

nayyeri.net — There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well. read more...

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Implementing Generic Caching

objectreference.net — I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications – and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem. read more...

6 comments | category: C# | Views: 61