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. More...
How To Restart ASP.Net Applications
Many times, from an administration perspective, it's desirable to restart an ASP.NET web site without restarting IIS on the whole server. More...
Silverlight 2.0 Released
On October 14, 2008, Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0, the cross-platform browser plug-in for both Macintosh and PC platforms.
Silverlight includes several Rich Internet Application (RIA) features, including:
- WPF UI Framework
- Rich Controls
- Rich Networking Support
- Rich Base Class Library More...
Using Cache And Compression For Performance
Most browsers and servers have default values that provide fairly good performance with a minimum caching of static file content. A little bit of coaxing can result in better performance with less traffic and less bandwidth.
There are two types of caching I discuss: static content (*.JPG, *.JPEG, *.png, *.gif, *.ico) rarely updated and semi-static content (*.js, *.css) updated very infrequently. The decision to cache page output (*.aspx, *.html, *.htm) long term is too dependent on application functionality decisions to discuss generically. More...
Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 and .Net 3.5 SP 1 Released
Microsoft announced August 11 availability of the following new downloads.
Source Control Tools
The limitations of your tools are your limitations. Choose your tools wisely. More...
ASP.Net Cached XML File Settings
How to use ASP.Net Cache settings to automatically read and update values from an XML file when the file is updated, and how to lookup a value in the XML file.
.Net surprises me every day. I think about how I want to do things and then I dig a little (some time a lot) into .Net components and viola, I find it provides some new interesting functionality that I didn't know about before.
I recently wanted to implement some features for using configuration values for an ASP.NET application. My requirements were as follows. More...