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My friend and coworker at SpringPoint David McCoullough is blogging. David is a talent ASP.NET developer who has attacked SharePoint development with a ferocious passion. Welcome to the BlogoSphere David! Technorati Tags: SharePoint , David McCoullough...
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The .NET Framework allows developers to write managed code. The term managed refers to how memory is handled by a computer system. For example, C/C++ code is commonly known as unmanaged because developers must allocate and de-allocate memory. In contrast...
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I'm sure, like me, you've seen plenty of production web.config files with debug=true set. Most senior ASP.NET developers will recognize that debug should be set to false for the production build. However, this small detail is often over looked...
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Last year we deployed a new underwriting system. Since the Fall of 2006 we have been steadily releasing updates to the system. Supporting the large user-base of this application has required us to improve our debugging and performance monitor skills....
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Our business partner began reporting all bullet points were being converted to question marks during the archiving of Word Docs. An early hunch that perhaps our FTP component was defaulting to ASCII transfer mode instead of Binary proved incorrect. With...
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< xhtmlConformance mode = " " /> is new to ASP.NET 2.0 and can be added to the Web.Config to specify the XHTML rendering mode for an ASP.NET Application. Mode can be set to Legacy, Transitional, or Strict. Using the Legacy mode is not...
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More ASP.NET sites are AJAX enable. This means more client side JavaScript which means heavier bandwidth usage. This tool http://fmarcia.info/jsmin/test.html eliminates white space, comments, etc from a script which is basically a crude form of compression...
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On Sunday April 1, 2007 I received the following letter from Microsoft. Needless to say I was so glad they weren't kidding. [;)] ...
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Windows Services are similar to UNIX daemons. They are applications that start when Windows boots and continue running until Windows shuts down. A Windows Service might be used to implement a timer that continually polls a source looking for new data. When new data is found an import process might be kicked off. .NET has made developing Windows Services much easier than past methods. As mentioned above a Windows Service is an application and as such requires installation. In the remainder of this post I would like to propose an alternative to developing a Windows Services for cases when an ASP.NET Application has already been developed....
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Third Annual South Florida Code Camp, Hacking Reporting Viewer Examples and Power Point...
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Using TiddlyWiki within ASP.NET Application as a help system....
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ASP.NET 2.0 Connection String Section can be referenced in the web.config from an external file....
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Many interesting projects are showing up on www.CodePlex.com such as the Best Practices Analyzer. This tool is an engine for analyzing applications for Best Practices Compliance. The tool is Shared Source and is architected using a "Plug-In" design. This means the tool is easily extendible via new Plug-Ins and rules....
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I have use the Report Viewer Control included in Visual Studio 2005 to embed reports within our Smart Client. The control allows me to create professional reports without the use of a third party tools. Plus I can always scale up to Reporting Services should the need arrise. There is a Report Viewer Redistributable available for download. However, the Redistributable is an MSI and installs all components in the GAC. This action requires administrator permissions which is not a choice due to our corporate security policy. ...
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The Report Viewer Control available with Visual Studio 2005 is perhaps one of the most powerful and most over looked control. This control is new to Visual Studio 2005, comes in both Win Forms and ASP.NET versions, and is freely redistributable....
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