When to assembly
Over the years, I’ve used a lot of third-party components and self built control libraries. It an easy way to add functionality to your code projects – just reference the dll file and that’s it. This encapsulated...
One year anniversary
Exactly one year ago this website saw the light of day and in that time the archive has grown to 201 posts about C#, ASP.NET and a little bit of other related stuff. This will continue in the year to come. Because I’m in...
The death of the ArrayList
In the good old .NET 1.x days where Generics wasn’t born yet, the ArrayList was the class to use for just about any type of collection. It was much easier to use compared to an array of objects and it did the job very...
Why App_Code is better
I remember when ASP.NET 2.0 beta 1 was released about 2 years ago and I eagerly tried it out. The first thing that struck me as strange was the new application folders like App_Code, App_Data, and App_Themes etc. They...
Refactor the code before you write it
Have you ever heard the saying “If you don’t know where to look, don’t look at all”? Think about this saying and coding. If a piece of code somewhere in the system is causing an error, don’t split the whole thing apart...
Is ASP.NET too difficult?
There is no doubt in my mind, that ASP.NET is the most powerful and versatile platform for web applications at the moment. By leveraging the .NET Framework you can do absolutely anything in no time, but is that power...
Looking at The World as an outsider
Lately, I’ve felt a bit alone in The World of what’s new, cool and wonderful. If you’ve been following the Web 2.0 blogs lately, you know what I’m talking about. I feel like everybody is talking a language I don’t...
Where is .NET?
The developer community has gotten big on the Internet the last couple of years – very big. New blogs are constantly adding value to the blogosphere which seem to grow by the second . There is no doubt in my mind that...
Traditional developers vs. web developers vs. CSS
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...
Long hours and crappy posts
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...