Download dasBlog theme
I’ve had some requests from other dasBlog users that I should make this design available as a theme for download. That was actually my plan from the beginning, but I haven’t gotten around to it before now. I wanted to...
Atlas – the new AJAX engine for ASP.NET
Atlas is an ASP.NET control collection for creating AJAX enabled websites. It is also developed by the man who brought us ASP.NET some years ago, the one and only Scott Guthrie . The idea behind Atlas is to make it easy...
The one true rich text editor
Just this moment, I am writing this sentence in a rich text editor here on my blog. It let’s me format text, insert images, tables and a lot of other great stuff as well. I can do bold or italic fonts, which helps...
Generate random password in C#
I recently had to make a method that creates a random generated password in C#. So, I looked at the web for such a function and I found this one . It was really simple and short and just what I was looking for. But...
Do not catch general exception types
If you use FxCop , then you are probably also aware of this rule . Exceptions should only be catched if they can be handled. A lot of exception handling code I’ve seen, are handling exceptions that could easily be...
10 - the new community site from Microsoft
10 is Channel 9 's new community sister site loaded with videos and blogs. There is, however, a great difference between the two. Where Channel 9 is about the people within Microsoft who build software, 10 is about...
Calling GC.Collect from ASP.NET
It can be a risky business to manually intervene with the Garbage Collector. You have to trust it to know how to manage the memory efficiently. Otherwise you could end up stressing the web server unnecessary or even...
AJAX used the right way
I find AJAX to be a great way of combining server-side and client-side experiences. Its' the perfect example of synergy, where the whole experience is greater than the sum of it's parts. Having said that, a lot of...
GhostDoc for XML code comments and documentation
"GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments." I have known about GhostDoc for some time now, but didn’t believe it to be very useful in any way. I expected it to...
A .NET resource editor application for .resx files
Working with resource files (.resx) in Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005 is very easy and straightforward. A .resx file is a fairly simple XML file that can be used for a lot of things. Where I have used it the most is for...