Custom Controls In ASP.NET

ASP.net has that neat little feature where all the controls can start with <asp:. It makes it easy to code. I had numerous custom controls and I always had to register the control on each page to use it. Scott Guthrie had a great tip on how to register the controls in the web.config file so that it doesn’t have to be done in each page.Read More...

Jan

20

2010

MSDN Style Class Documentation

NDoc is dead. Long live NDoc! How to generate MSDN style documentation using Sand Castle on Visual Studio 2008. Read More...

Dec

03

2009

Features, Flags, Updates And Branches

Version control systems are wonderful tools and terrible tools all depending on the process used to manage the files stored in them. They allow tracking changes, updates, reversing updates, comparing to older updates, and creating multiple branches and variations of files ad-infinitum. What are good rules to keep good tools from going bad?Read More...

Sep

28

2009

Date And Time Tracking in .Net

Getting the right date and time sounds simple enough, but when you look at a few interesting scenarios with multiple teams coordinating actions across multiple time zones with multiple clients and servers, designing for the date and time for a given event becomes complicated very quickly. I’d like to share an some approaches that I think work well in .Net.Read More...

Jul

24

2009

Fields to Properties

How to automatically have Visual Studio 2008 convert fields to properties. Read More...

Mar

13

2009

Pretty Good URLs

With a little forethought and planning, it’s possible to create URLs that can be around the web for a long time and as Tim Berners-Lee pointed out cool URIs don't change. Choose wisely though, you may have to live with the URLs for much longer than you think, or if your not careful, you may end up with too many URLs pointing to the same content. Read More...

Mar

11

2009

Multi Post User Control

Trailing on the lead from Chris Blankenship and his singlepost user control, I created a multi-post user control. I’ve never been quite satisfied with the results of the recent posts control and Chris’s control filled in enough gaps for me to pursue this further. Read More...

Oct

15

2008