Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

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 is a word in our development world) platform for web sites. I feel comfortable saying that ...

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 about the visitor’s IP address, such as location and store it in the database. Unfortunately I ...

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 argument I am given is that my classes or methods must then be too long. I really have to ...

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 go hidden in the more advanced section of a bigger book. I also chose to write them in the ...

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 I die. So far he is off to a great start and has some really great articles to help folks get ...

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 about loading scripts at the bottom of the page, this takes it to another level. Project ...

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 or are named slightly different for legal reasons, etc. Well combining these is as simple as ...

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 The Regulator. If you are not familiar with Visualizers then you should get to know how they ...

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 Fried Bytes. The next three episodes are great. I highly recommend checking this offering out ...

Last week I was talking some folks at TechEd and it seemed customized settings of Visual Studio came up in a few conversations. As a frequent speaker I am starting to learn some of the tricks of the trade to make Visual Studio perform during a presentation. This morning Sara Ford posted the recommended Visual Studio settings the TechEd organizers ...