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Page.GetPostBackEventReference Method

Page.GetPostBackEventReference returns a string that can be used in a client event to cause postback to the server. The reference string is defined by the specified Control object ex: Page.GetPostBackEventReference(Control) This will allow adding...

Clone Detective For Visual Studio

Clone Detective is a tool that integrates with Visual Studio and uses the ConQAT ( Con tinuous Q uality A ssessment T oolkit) to analyze C# projects and search for duplicated source code. Watch the videos and see if this is the tool you were looking for.

Azalea : .net Terrarium Plant - Survivor

I read lately a blog post for Bil Simser reintroducing the .net Terrarium project (2.0) . For those who don't know what is this project about check out these links:...

Z-index dilemma in IE

Z-index is generally used to organize layers appearance in HTML documents, layers with higher z-index value will appear on top. This fact describe general behavior of layers on browsers like SAFARI, IE, and FIREFOX.   The problem is when you got...

GhostDoc Tweaks

When moving to a new development machine recently, I noticed that I was using a couple of (minor) customizations to GhostDoc on the old machine that are not included in the default configuration. Most of them were rather specific, but three custom rules...

The State of IronRuby on the ALT.NET Podcast

Mike apparently took some time off from being a new Dad to gather up the latest news on IronRuby. The State of IronRuby

HTTP handler to combine multiple files, cache and deliver compres...

It's a good practice to use many small Javascript and CSS files instead of one large Javascript/CSS file for better code maintainability, but bad in terms of website performance. Although you should write your Javascript code in small files and break...

Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

I was just checking out the improvements the team has made in beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. While I haven't had time to mess with all of the improvements, I see lots of opportunities to create enhancements for my sites to allow visitors to get what...

Building a Custom XML Configuration System for ASP.NET – Part 2

In the first part I wrote about building an XML configuration system for the ASP.NET based on the XML manipulation API offered in .NET 1.x, 2.0 and 3.0 and promised to rewrite this system in the second part with new XLinq API introduced in .NET 3.5. So...

Build an RSS feed using LINQ to SQL

Every once in awhile, gosh, once a year at this rate, I crank out something simple to write for my ancient ASP.NET site. This year... Build an RSS feed using LINQ to SQL I haven't done a lot of writing since my book, and I kind of miss it. I just...

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