ASP.NET Resources

April 2004

Scott Mitchell Explains Adaptive Rendering

As you might've noticed sometimes ASP.NET emits different markup for different browsers. This has been bugging me for some time now. Luckily, after a brief discussion in his blog, Scott Mitchell kindly wrote an article on this subject.

4/29/2004 |

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Chernobyl Anniversary

I will be brief. This day, April 26, 1986, one out of four blocks of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went up in smoke.

4/26/2004 |

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Form Inside of a User Control - Q817779 And Q817779

Those of you who have been unfortunate to place a server-side form inside a user control probably know that the form seizes to work. Why?

4/20/2004 |

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Visual SourceSafe Daily Aggravation

To this day Visual SourceSafe looks like an old shabby patch on the latest Visual Studio.NET. I should hand it to Microsoft folks—they managed to make its “integration” in VS.NET look nice. In the days of ASP SourceSafe was your every day companion and worst enemy at the same time. You can’t live with it, can’t live without it.

4/20/2004 |

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Do You Feel Dumb Yet?

Being developers we naturally overlook the fact that we speak jargon at work and in everyday life. More often than not we carry this '3lee7 5p3@k' on to the products we develop. Do you feel dumb seeing a message on your screen that you don't understand? Well, join the club because you surely aren't alone.

4/19/2004 |

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Visual Studio.NET Posters

If you have $12 USD burning a hole in your pocket I can suggest to put them to good use by buying Visual Studio .NET Posters from Microsoft. The posters show hierarchies of ADO.NET, XML, ASP.NET, MFC, ATL Server, etc, classes. Not that your would read them before going to bed, but they serve as awesome references.

4/17/2004 |

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Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map

Eric Gunnerson has shared a link to Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map. This is an enormous reference of which assembly and method in the .NET Framework corresponds to which Win32 call. Impressive. Very impressive.

4/16/2004 |

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Accessibility Toolbars

Most of us love fancy gizmos to our favorite browsers. Information workers tend to spend a lot of time online, and browser add-ons make it a little more fun.

4/15/2004 |

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Microsoft Security Summit - New York, NY

This past week I had a chance to attend a Microsoft Security Summit in Manhattan. Check the schedule of these summits for dates when they are coming to your city. I strongly recommend attending one.

4/10/2004 |

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Designer's Crib Sheets

A couple of months back I stumbled across a link to VisiBone in somebody’s blog. Basically, this company offers a line of beautiful color charts, foldouts with HTML, JavaScript, CSS references and the like in printed form, as well as a number of online tools. What I loved the most were color charts and the Color Lab.

4/10/2004 |

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Spammers Push the Envelope of Web Standards

Spammers have become an integral part of our lives. Without them we'd never know that there are more deaths in the US from obesity than from heart attacks.

4/5/2004 |

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VS.NET - Designer's "Best" Friend

With the advent of Visual Studio.NET the landscape of developer tools has changed significantly. The bar for quality of these tools has been raised. Web developers have been empowered with a powerful addition to their toolset. I have yet to meet someone who misses the old Interdev with its clumsiness and many corks. Nevertheless, as any evolving product, VS.NET 2003 (the latest version as of the time of this writing) has several features that make no sense. They can truly give you a hair-pulling experience. Here they are...

4/5/2004 |

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What Is get_aspx_ver.aspx?

The other day I ran into a really weird problem. Upon opening a web project my custom error handler would fire me an email that a 404 (page not found) was encountered. It's strange because it happens right when Visual Studio.NET 2003 loads a web project. You don't even run the project, you only load it but a 404 is already thrown. Taken aback by this issue I did a quick search at the ASP.NET Forums and found two posts: see this thread and this one.

4/2/2004 |

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Run, Run As Fast As You Can

For the past couple of weeks I've been reading Andrew King's Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization. This is a truly impressive book. It's a collection of very helpful techniques targeted to make your pages smaller, leaner, faster. Almost like the old "Altius, Citious, Fortius" Olympics slogan.

4/2/2004 |

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The Quick Firefox Jumps Over The Lazy IE

If you haven't heard of a browser called Mozilla Firefox I'm glad you're reading this. Firefox is the latest and greatest in browser technology. It's a relatively small browser used primarily by geeks, but it's been consistently gaining momentum and winning loyal users across the board.

4/1/2004 |

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We Be Bloggin'!

The blog is finally live! After much procrastination and denial I've spent about a week developing the blog portion of this site. It's just that I feel it will be easier to share smaller pieces (as opposed to bigger articles) and exchange knowledge faster. What you see here is a blog powered by a small CMS of my own making. Why design my own blog engine? As Oracle put it, "What do men with power want? More power." I get more control over the code and I can tweak it any way I want it. It's been exciting to use a whole slew of ASP.NET tricks during the development. There are two HttpModules involved—one for navigation and page redirects and one for HTTP compression (more on this later), a page filter, an XSLT transform to streamline the RSS feed, a CAPTCHA, etc. Good things.

4/1/2004 |

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April 2004