Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

Recently I was asked how to use a Singleton in an ASP.NET application. To be more specific I was asked how would I use a singleton and make sure it was applied at the application level. If you have no idea what a Singleton is I will give you my simple definition. It is a pattern used to ensure that an object is only instantiated once. The classic ...

This weekend was a great weekend for .NET developers in the Smoky Mountains as CodeStock rocked the mountains. There were several hundred passionate geeks that came out to Pellissippi State to learn, socialize and have an all around good times, and I guess a few wanted the Master Chief helmet too! I really want to give a special thanks for ...

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 ...

I am honored to be one of the selected speakers for Code Stock in Knoxville, TN August 9th. I will be demonstrating how to leverage custom httpModules and httpHandlers. There is a fantastic lineup of speakers; including a keynote by my good friend Jeff Prosise. Other friends that will be making the trip include Steve Andrews, Rachel Appel, ...

I am honored to be speaking at the TRIAD .NET Developers Guild next Tuesday on custom httpHandlers and httpModules. This will be the first time I get more than 75 minutes to run through my demos and explaining the various ins and outs of integrating httpHandlers and httpModules in an ASP.NET Application and I have a few new things to enhance ...

WROX, one of the .NET community's best friends over the years, has started a new line of eBooks called WROX BLOX. I like the idea of publishing in an eBook format, because you can buy just the part of the book you really want and it give authors the ability to focus on a topic to produce something that can go deeper than a magazine article, but ...

I get this question all the time and if you happen to attend one of my presentations on using each you should know by the end of the presentation. I also see this asked often on the ASP.NET forums and I thought it would be worthwhile to address the question here for a reference point. The quick answer is httpModule works with the web application ...

I did a sort of impromptu presentation on httpModules Thursday at Mix 08. The Open Spaces Crew has posted the httpModule presentation on the Mix site for you to view. I run through three of the modules I wrote about in my upcoming WROX BLOX on httpModules. I show a simple way to execute a background thread, block unwanted visitors and finally move ...

Yesterday Google started hijacking 404 status codes through the Google Toolbar from unknowing Web sites to show pages with ads. TechCrunch even has a poll asking if you think the Google hijacking is a good thing or not. While Google publicly states they do not like Made For Adsense sites (MFAs) they have gone out of their way to force their own ...

The geekSpeak I did with Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit last week is now available on Channel 9. Wow I have something I did on Channel 9, who would have thought that? This is a pretty popular presentation I do on custom httpModules and httpHandlers. So if you get a chance feel free to either watch it straight off the site or download it and ...