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The other day I listened to a very informative webinar with Scott Bain. He talked about lean programming and designing as you go through the dev cycles.
To view the iPod Video go here.
This
code formatting utility facilitates for formatting code for
1) C#
2) VB
3) html/xml/aspx
4) t-sql
5) msh
Convert Code to Html format for Blog posting
When writing code and documentation for source files, there is lots of manual work. Often you follow a specific code standard and some code you write quite often with small changes. Dan Handevik has developed a set of Macros for easing your daily work.
See the full article.
This is a great little macro that can save some time. More
This is a great list of tools.
Application performance has always been a concern for Web Application developers. This article contains guidelines and tips for maximizing application performance in ASP.NET.
These are some
tips for commonly faced problems in .NET
Dino Esposito continues his series on ASP.NET 2.0 controls development with this look at how to create template properties in a custom control.
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Sometimes the simplest things in ASP.NET 2.0 turn out to be the hardest things to implement. One example is trying to have a shared property across all your web pages. For example, let's say that you want to have a User object that is on all of your pages and that object be initialized on Page_Load.
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Who said client deployment has to be difficult? The ClickOnce technologies baked into Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 make distributing your application either online or offline much easier.
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If you register for this offer you will get a free exam if you fail on your first try.
Reviews both Visual Studio 2005 Web project and ASP.NET 2.0 framework changes that affect Web project conversion, and then discusses common issues and solutions for converting using Visual Studio 2005.
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The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Model is a new web project option for Visual Studio 2005 that provides the same conceptual web project approach as VS 2003 (a project file based structure where all code in the project is compiled into a single assembly) but with all the new features of VS 2005 (refactoring, class diagrams, test development, generics, etc) and ASP.NET 2.0 (master pages, data controls, membership/login, role management, Web Parts, personalization, site navigation, themes, etc).
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ASP.NET 2.0 contains a wealth of new features and capabilities for ASP.NET developers. Learn how to best use the new features and explore the changes to the architecture in ASP.NET 2.0. More
Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now
Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now
Some things to think about
Development of a framework for master-pages using ASP.NET and C#. More...
Masterpage framework in ASP.NET 1.X and ASP.NET 2.0 More...
The
Regulator is an advanced,
free regular expressions testing and learning tool written by
Roy Osherove.
It allows you to build and verify a regular expression against any text input, file or web, and displays matching, splitting or replacement results within an easy to understand, hierarchical tree.
Good
article on .net project architecture
An
article about the Multiformity Open Source project.
How to programmatically control an NT Service.
I recently discovered that the app/web.config file can reference an external config file to get some or all of its appsettings. [
Paul Wilson's .NET Blog]
AJAX, if you haven’t already heard, stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. If you’re unfamiliar with what AJAX is, I suggest reading
AJAX: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett. AJAX is a relatively new name for a set of technologies that have been around for quite some time. More
here.
This
web site is a demonstration page of the Ajax.NET library
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