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This is an age old problem and one that’s probably been solved countless times before, but I’m going to write about it anyways. Say you’re writing code like this: < p > You have the following themes: </ p > < ul > @ foreach(var theme in Model) { < li > @ theme.Id </ li > } </ ul > The natural inclination for the lazy developer is to leave enough alone and stop there. It’s good enough, right? Right? Sure, when the value of Model.Count is zero or larger than one. But when it is exactly one, the phrase is incorrect English as it should be singular “You have the following theme”. I must fight my natural inclination here! On the NuGet team, we have a rallying cry intended to inspire us to strive for better, “Apple...

It seems that auto-complete is very popular these days with different sites...

Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code.  You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible. There are a number of tips on this blog already that deal with managed code and ways to optimize it.  But one of the things that we don't look at as often are other areas of code that we are dependant on.  For example, if you P/Invoke a native function, whatever it is doing, is something that you need to be aware of.  Because there is a lot of native functionality that is still available to us, I wanted to remind everyone of some of the tips you can use when dealing with C/C++ code. A great place to start is with: Tips for Improving...

We recently had a customer that wanted to sort a dynamic column in a DataGrid and so I thought it may be something that others would like to be able to do. You get your data for your dynamic column and then do something like below to insert it into an...

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able to step into the .NET Source from within Visual Studio...

So we recently came across an issue where Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Designers were not respecting assembly binding redirection. Scenario We have a file which is now version 2 and stored in the GAC .  So the assembly version is 2.0.0.0.  We...

If you try to make an asynchronous call, you will notice that the thread that executes the call doesn't run under the same account as the thread that called it, assuming you are using impersonation. There are a number of ways to change this if you...

A few weeks ago, I mentioned the new MSDN Code Gallery .  Well we now have a page setup for the ASP.NET Support Team .  Feel free to check it out, we will be updating it with samples to help customers. There are only a few samples currently...