In the year of 2006 it can be hard to avoid doing web development to some extend no matter what kind of developer you are. The lines between the traditional windows applications and the more web based ones have become...

Recently at work, we had to find a way to examine Gif images to find out if they were animated or not. It’s a good thing to know when dealing with banner advertising. The solution was to create a method that would return...

I recently played with building a C# media player with built-in music library and wanted it to show album covers like Windows Media Player 11 does. It proved quite difficult because there is no free service for downloads...

Custom web controls for your ASP.NET application are a brilliant way to separate, reuse and “refactor” your code pieces. In that sense I consider myself to be a control freak and that's a good thing! In our product...

I regret to tell you, that this is the best I could come up with today. No code samples or anything interesting or any kind at all. The reason is that we had to meet an important deadline at work today and that kept me...

After reading a post on The Cafes about the lack of dynamics in the CSS language, I found myself inspired to do something about it. It became clear that something had to be done and that we couldn’t wait for the W3C to...

The built in webserver in Visual Studio 2005, formerly known as Casini, uses a dynamic or static port on the localhost machine (e.g. http://localhost:2049/default.aspx). It is dynamic by default, but you can make it...

Scott Hanselman showed us how to add MicroSummaries to a website using an .ashx file. It was clean and simple, but it would be really cool if we could use the description meta tag instead so we don’t have to maintain two...

I’ve written about whitespace removal before , but I think this is the best solution so far. It is a plug n’ play HTTP module that works simply by adding the class to the App_Code folder. It uses regular expressions to...

Social bookmarking is often thought of as being something used only on blogs. That’s probably because you only see them on blogs, when they in fact could be used at most other types of websites as well. It is a feature...