ASP.NET Resources

December 2007

Show Some Respect For Your Users

For the past three years Drew McLellan has been editing 24 Ways—a site which comes to life twenty-four days before Christmas and publishes one article a day. Articles focus on web standards, usability, client-side coding, and the like.

12/27/2007 |

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So How Do You Set The Last-Modified Header?

What happens you want to set the Last-Modified HTTP header and all you have is a UTC date? Most likely you’ll get an exception.

12/27/2007 |

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Are ASP.NET Themes Worth The Trouble?

The debate of tables vs. divs has been waged on so many occasions that I feel discussing it is like beating a dead horse. I abandoned tables-for-layout four years ago and never looked back. I recommend you to do the same. Nonetheless, Peter’s recent post mentioned ASP.NET themes, which got me thinking.

12/25/2007 |

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Design-By-Contract with Spec#

I was reading Billy McCafferty’s introduction to design-by-contract (DBC) and stumbled upon Spec# which extends C# to support contracts in the form of object invariants, pre- and postconditions, throws sets; non-null types, etc. Microsoft Research has a great intro whitepaper, The Spec# Programming System: An Overview (PDF) which is definitely worth reading if DBC is of any interest to you.

12/17/2007 |

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LINQ Standard Query Operators Cheat Sheet

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time with LINQ retrofitting custom collections of days past to become LINQ-ified. I dug through the somewhat outdated articles on MSDN, blogs and 101 LINQ Samples (outdated as well) to wrap my head around LINQ.

12/17/2007 |

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Monopoly: C# 3.0 Edition

Coming to a Toys R Us near you:

12/5/2007 |

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