- 5/1/2009
- Author: Peter Morano
- Category: Applications
- 1680 Views
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As Twitter continues to grow in popularity, integrating your applications will become an essential step in effectively reaching a community. Fortunately, connecting your .NET applications with Twitter can be a trivial ta...
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- 4/27/2009
- Author: Michael Wick
- Category: Applications
- 892 Views
- 1 Comments
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Mozilla Firefox has a very powerful add-on tool called Firebug. Firebug allows web developers to inspect web pages to do such things as identify CSS styles being applied to sections of a page, easily inspect sections...
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- 4/8/2009
- Author: Peter Morano
- Category: Applications
- 472 Views
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If you need a solution that allows users to quickly change their NT account passwords on a web server that resides outside of their domain, you can use the DirectoryServices namespace. One example of when this might be n...
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- 3/24/2009
- Author: Brian Pautsch
- Category: Code Snippets
- 1577 Views
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When it comes time to migrate code and database changes for a project, you often need to create new rows in the various environments (i.e. QA, Staging, Production). Some migrations involve creating rows for list tables, ...
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- 3/11/2009
- Author: Chris Grove
- Category: Thoughts
- 4234 Views
- 6 Comments
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The last song on the radio, as I was parking my car today, was Turning Japanese (bonus points if you can name the artist without using Google). This is not the ideal song to have running through your head on a wo...
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- 1/12/2009
- Author: Brian Pautsch
- Category: Applications
- 2136 Views
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We recently built website software for a client that had a requirement to handle 1,000 concurrent users for 3 minutes. During the initial stress testing, the software performed perfectly up to 250 users. Once it hit 250 ...
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- 12/10/2008
- Author: Peter Morano
- Category: Applications
- 1188 Views
- 1 Comments
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With SQL Server 2005, you can use .NET Framework languages to create database objects and retrieve and update data. You can create stored procedures, triggers, aggregates, user-defined functions, and user-defined typ...
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- 11/14/2008
- Author: Brian Pautsch
- Category: Code Snippets
- 1570 Views
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Upgrading an ASP.NET application from IIS 6.0 and lower (Classic ASP.NET Integration Mode) to IIS 7.0 (Integrated Mode) can be a lot of work. To help, Microsoft provides an application that does the work for you.
II...
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- 10/17/2008
- Author: Brian Pautsch
- Category: Code Snippets
- 1364 Views
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We recently came across a scenario where an ASP.NET page was caching on the user's browser and causing issues. ASP.NET pages are dynamic and their content should never cache. To force the browser to not cache the page, a...
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- 9/25/2008
- Author: Brian Pautsch
- Category: Code Snippets
- 1847 Views
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When saving strings to XML, it important to escape invalid characters. The following table shows the invalid XML characters and their escaped equivalents.
Invalid XML Character
Replaced With
<
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