Today, I needed to store images in XML files so I had to serialize an image file into text so it could be written in the XML file. Of course, it should also be deserialized back to an image again by reading from the XML...
In almost every web project of any size, you would probably use a lot of user controls to separate the content and UI logic. Many of the user controls are used only at one place in the solution while others are used by...
A week ago I wrote about the native client callback feature of ASP.NET 2.0 and why it isn’t always the smart choice. That post got me some good feedback that inspired me to build a custom callback implementation so you...
Some years ago there was a lot of fuzz about the importance of the W3C XHTML standard. I’ve always been a firm believer of the standards and built every website to comply with them. But why? Very brief history The...
I was ones faced with the issue of enforcing copyright on different files on a website. That meant that images and dynamically created XML files had to be blocked if accessed from outside the website. So, I had to find a...
Finally Internet Explorer caught up with the rest of the browsers and introduced tabs. For some reason I don’t know, the tabs feature doesn’t work the way you would expect from your experience with Firefox, Opera etc...
Some say that screen scraping is a lost art because it is no longer an advanced discipline. That may be right, but there are different ways of doing it. Here are some different ways that all are perfectly acceptable, but...
Some time ago, I wrote a post called “ Is ASP.NET too difficult? ” and I strongly believe that it is. Yet at the same time it cause problems by making it too easy to do relative advanced programming. It doesn’t seem to...
The built-in AJAX feature of ASP.NET 2.0, also known as Client Callback, is simple to utilize but a beauty in disguise. I’m not talking about the “Atlas” toolkit for ASP.NET but the ICallbackEventHandler interface that...
Update February 11th . The class now updates every feed in the cache asynchronously and automatically. On the login screen of Headlight , we are soon adding news updates so that our customers can see what is going on...
