Just noticed a new article on MSDNfrom Scott Mitchell which pretty much covers everything you need to know about ASP.NET Viewstate. This is one of these ones which will become my first suggestion for...
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One of our developers had a problem where his VS.NET 2003 installed on Windows Server 2003 was greying out all of the options under the Source Control menu - took a little while to find the solution...
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I posted earlier about the MSDN Magazine CHM downloadable, just found a little CHM reader (in .NET yay!) on Codeproject, mobile MSDN magazine! (OK, so technically, always been mobile!)
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Basically, Joel covers a whole bunch of ground in this article, including issues like why it's not in Microsoft's best interest to support DHTML and advance Internet Explorer (which actually explains...
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Really just a wrapper around the really nice native C library, but could be handy when you need to compress stuff in the quickest way possible...here's the SourceForge homepage
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Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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Just noticed this link in a post on Kent Sharkeys blog. The article by Scott Mitchellcovers various methods of making ASP.NET 1.1 based sites conform to WAI accessibility guidelines (or US Section 508...
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Should mention I suppose the I lied in yesterdays post on threading using .NET...mea cupla :-). In that post I mentioned using delegates for multi-threading and said that you always had to use...
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This is a common puzzler for people new to .NET (who aren't in the US!), just how do you parse a DateTime to be correct for your culture?
Answer, pretty easily...the DateTime.Parse has an overload...
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I found some really interesting articles on the new ASPNETResources.com site, including stuff on Doctypes which was pretty good and tips on getting CSS2 Intellisense support in VS.NET - worth keeping...
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I have a tendency to forget that people don't necessarily know everything (in counselling we called it "contextual framing" - basically aligning your mindset with that of the person you're...
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OK, terribly documented, but it works...this is just the source for a little HttpModule which tracks hits to a .TEXT blog - pretty simple but should give anyone who wants to do it a start. I'll post a...
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Via Alex Barnett's post, with the earning potential of these things I can think of nothing better than for some of the cash to go to charity! You can get more details on the Big Noise Music site,...
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I used to work with Michael at a previous company, one of the most creative coders around any certainly worth keeping an eye on...He also has a really interesting post on Web Accessibilitywhich links...
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Well, this is the first of a few updates to this site over the next couple of days (prefer to take these things in steps - starting with the biggest). The update was fairly straightforward - one thing...
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Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet....
Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me!
Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going...
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Look here...the evil pooch will go away!
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It's always a thing I've been fairly weak at - partly because in the past it was of limited use due to stupid browser incompatabilities - but now there's really no excuse for not being a CSS devotee,...
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I'm planning (fingers crossed) to update this whole thing with the latest version (heavily modified by me) of .TEXT this weekend coming - I currently have a new snazzy skin (for the blog, my skin...
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Wish I had this the other week when I was doing my HTML image grabber thing...took me ages to find this stuff. Anyway, nice tool found here which lets you easily use some of the cool Win32 PIIVOKE...
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I was doing some work on the new version of my first article last night and I got to thinking, all the code in the new version is in the same font / colours that I use in my VS.NET. So, I was showing...
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