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LINQPad – A Studio for LINQ
I have been creating a lot of ASP.NET websites lately, and have been using LINQ for most of the database interaction throughout the sites. One frustrating piece about LINQ is debugging. In order for me to see what the query was running and returning, I would have to turn on the trace features and then [...]
Display Alternate Syle for Alternating Rows in C#
This is just a quick little tip to help you display alternating row colors in your C# code for a DataList or GridView control. Using the AlternatingItemTemplate method is a pain, as it forces you to duplicate your entire ItemTemplate block just to add the alternating CSS class. While trying to find another means of [...]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Released to MSDN
Just a quick note that Microsoft has released beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 to MSDN subscribers. This also includes the first look at .NET 4.0. Currently it’s only available to MSDN subscribers, but should be released to the general public on Wednesday. You can read all the information on VS 2010 on the Microsoft [...]
Using Dynamic Meta Tags In .NET
I’ve been working on an ASP.NET project recently and came across the need to dynamically set the values for all of the HTML tags. The site is built using ASP.NET master pages and I have a default page for each section that the URL Routing functionality calls to load up the content. Each page can [...]
Using jQuery and ASP.NET
I’ve been using jQuery quite a lot lately in my ColdFusion apps. I’ve been working on a .NET site and yesterday I needed to throw a little jQuery into that site. I quickly found that ASP.NET poses one issue when using jQuery or simple Javascript in the situations where you are performing an operation on [...]
URL Writing in .NET 3.5 SP1
I have just finished one of my first complete ASP.NET projects at my workplace. I learned a ton while going through the process, but one item stands out: URL Routing. While developing the MVC framework, Microsoft added routing capabilities into SP1 of the 3.5 .NET framework. The great thing is that the features can be [...]
10 Skills Developers Will Need
Justin James at TechRepublic posted an article yesterday that covers his opinion of the 10 skills developers will need in the next 5 years. You can read his article and I’m sure you will agree with some of his items and there will be some you take a different view on. Here are my thoughts: [...]
.NET: Using a Regular Expression To Make a Link
If you saw the post last week on using the tweetsharp Twitter library for .NET, you saw a sample of the output for our quick little test. If you revist the output of the code, you will notice that the Twitter API will return plain text only, meaning the links contained in a tweet are [...]
tweetsharp: A .NET Twitter Library
I’ve been diving into the world of .NET development a little more these days and decided to further my leaning some by playing around with the Twitter API. In looking around the net I came across a cool Twitter library for .NET named tweetsharp. It appears to be a fairly new project, so the documentation [...]
Free ASP.NET MVC eBook
Microsoft will be releasing their new ASP.NET MVC framework any day now. With that announcement, Scott Guthrie has also announced his free eBook that explains step by step how to create a new application using the new framework. Thanks to Scott for providing this a great free resource for developers. You can read Scott's description [...]
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