ASP.NET Resources

October 2005

Steve Miller Is the Man

Steve Miller, CEO of Delphi—the largest U.S. auto supplier—gave a fabulous speech at Washington the other day. The speech was delivered on the heels of Delphi’s recent filing for bankruptcy protection. What is striking about this high-ranking exec is that he didn’t hide behind happy corporate talk; didn’t deliver yet another sermon on strategies of achieving proper return-on-investment, reducing overhead, etc. Although recent Chapter 11 filings have unions written all over them, Mr. Miller looks at this problem from several angles.

10/31/2005 |

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On Utility of Provider Model

I’m putting in my best effort to understand how your would retrofit the Provider Model into an existing web application. Scott Guthrie posted a nifty how-to on putting together a couple of server controls, the membership system and custom profile properties to streamline user registration and account management. I dare to say that most of us (if not all) have written this by hand at some point in time, so it’s good to see this streamlined.

10/31/2005 |

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Treehouse: New Online Magazine For Web Aficionados

Particletree has debuted with an edition of Treehouse, a new online magazine for people involved in web design, web development, web marketing, and the like. The first edition is available as a free PDF download, with a $15 subscription for 6 subsequent months.

10/27/2005 |

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MonthNames Property Returns 13 Months?!

What I love about the DateTimeFormatInfo class is that it allows you to get a list of day and month names in the language of the current culture. It took me aback the other day that MonthNames property returned an array of 13 strings, twelve of which were month names plus one empty entry.

10/26/2005 |

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Book Review: Peopleware

I think by now I’ve recommended this book to all my friends in the software industry. My only regret about Peopleware is that I haven’t read it sooner.

10/18/2005 |

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My First Impression of Profile Providers

I’ve been poking around profile providers for several days now trying to understand one simple thing: besides hard coding profile properties by hand, is there an API for creating properties programmatically?

10/18/2005 |

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Minimalist Code-Behind Template

Scott Allen asks: in your code-behind, do you prefer Page_Load or OnLoad? Those who read my article on “remastering” web forms know how uneasy I feel about the template VS.NET dishes out when you create a new web form.

10/13/2005 |

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Code Samples: Inline or Code-Behind?

When you read ASP.NET–related books, do you prefer ASPX pages with inlined server-side scripts, or ASPX and code-behind separate?

10/13/2005 |

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Broken Windows of Blogs

What I’m alluding to is the famed Broken Windows Theory which is attributed to Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychologist. In 1969 Mr. Zimbardo conducted an experiment that went as follows:

10/4/2005 |

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Back From MVP Summit

The long journey from the West coast to the East coast is over, and it’s good to be at 127.0.0.1 again. I truly enjoyed the MVP Summit at Microsoft and the opportunity to meet many folks I only knew virtually by URL as well as Product Group members I’ve been giving grief over DOCTYPE pickers and such. :) Communicating with product groups in person is so much more effective and accurate.

10/2/2005 |

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October 2005