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One of the most common questions I see on ASP.NET forums relates to sending E-Mail. I have addressed many of those issues already, so I wont get into how to send E-Mail from an ASP.NET web site. This week I have been working on testing applications and
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Today I was working on a Web Form and noticed a property in the TextBox control called AutoCompleteType . I had never noticed it before and my interest was piqued. My first thought was it must be an injected property from an AutoComplete extender on the
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One of my favorite web development books is Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites from O’Reilly. In fact I created a session I give from time to time at Code Camps and never have enough time! Yesterday’s DotNetRocks episode is an hour long discussion
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So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample
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In college I majored in polymer chemistry and I thought I would use some of that chemistry today to demonstrate how to use Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) (VB.NET), Dictionary<TKey, TValue> (C#) class. The generic Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) class is
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Microsoft announced a new distributed caching application, code name ‘Velocity’, at TechEd. Since then I have been sort of toying with it and I have my issues and dealing with the learning curve. One thing I kept noticing and had a hard time finding was
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Most of the last two years of my career I have been developing applications behind the firewall and let’s face it most ASP.NET applications sit behind the firewall. This is unfortunate because ASP.NET offers the most scalable and performant (yes that
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Trolling the ASP.NET forums this afternoon I came across this thread about creating a custom httpHandler to log IP information to a database . What the requester was trying to do was call a remote site’s ( www.ShowMyIP.com ) REST API to get information
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Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with. The opposing
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Recently I was able to publish my first two eBooks via WROX BLOX, httpModules and httpHandlers . Each of these books gave me an opportunity to share some valuable information, experience and demonstrations on each of these niche topics that might otherwise
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The web is great, it has helped me build relationships with folks from all over the world. Recently Bartek Marnane contacted me to let me know he was kicking off a new Blog about ASP.NET. Bartek is from Australia, which I am going to visit one day before
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So much stuff going on. Last week I did a lot of performance and scaling research and I think that is reflected here. Client-Side Use Ensure to load client scripts on demand - Hey, this is pretty good. If you come to my Front-End performance talks I talk
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I got to talk to some of the Zune team members at TechEd and learned a few new tricks to manage the content on my Zune. One I am so thankful for is the ability to drag and drop artist to combine them. I have many artists that are essentially duplicates
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This week I saw a twitter from Roy Osherove about a new Regular Expression Visualizer he built. If you do not know Roy yet, he is a very smart .NET developer for TypeMock and has done some great work with regular expression tools, such as Regulazy and
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So the latest thing to enter my regular schedule this month is Deep Fried Bytes , a new podcast hosted by Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff . So far they have published 4 episodes, with the first one being an introduction to what they wanted to do with Deep
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