August 2006 - Posts
A few month's ago I created a little method to help me automate or at least make uniform the creation of anchor tags in my code. I decided to revisit this method because I had made it more or less specific to a particular page I really needed it for. Today I made it a little more generic.
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Normally I have been one to jump right into the latest technologies, unless I think the newer method would take longer to implement and manage than it is worth. Hence why I will most likely never do unit based testing and development (honestly, my clients do not want me to develop their app twice, they just want to be up and running). When the Data Application Blocks were release some years ago I was the first to jump on this. I had been developing my own version for about year as it was. Encapsulating commonly used code is the key to being a pragmatic programmer in my opinion. If you look at my code you will see SQLHelper all over the place.
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This is more applicable to ASP.NET 1.1, but can be used in 2.0 anyway. One of the top complaints I get from clients is the abiltiy to enter information in a form and just hit the enter key and the form post back. In ASP.NET this just cuases the form to post back and nothing get processed. Sort of lame, but there is a way to make this work.
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This evening I decided to suck it up and fix an ongoing problem with IIS. Basically some of the controls were not working correctly, the menu control and Infragistics controls mostly. It has been this way for about 2 months, but I have just lived with it because I am so busy with projects lately. But today I decied to fix this issue because I know there is something wrong at the core and as it turns out it is pretty easy to fix by removing IIS and re-installing it.
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Last month I talked about using the RSSToolkit to produce an RSS feed for your site . This month I am going to follow up on that by explaining how to consume an RSS feed into your web site or smart client application. Again I am going to use the RSSToolkit
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Scoble points out a big reason you may not have thought of that will kill Linux from ever advancing.
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Over the past 8 months or so I have been working pretty steady with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I thought I would drop an entry with 10 things you should either use or be aware of that I think really help my ASP.NET programming efficiency.
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