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Generating thumbnails in ASP.NET (DotNetSlackers)
I just published a new article on DotNetSlackers . The post is about generating scalable and secure image thumbnails. http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Generating-Image-Thumbnails-in-ASP-NET.aspx
Improving PHP by running it in IIS
Mike Volodarsky wrote a fantastic article in the January 2008 issue of MSDN magazine in which he explains how you can take an existing PHP application (he uses QDig , a popular image gallery) and improve it without touching a line of its code. This is...
I'm now officially a slacker
Well, at least a Dot Net Slacker ... My first article on DotNetSlackers just got published. It shows how to handle the back button with ASP.NET Ajax using pure server code. Check it out (registration required) : http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax...
Immutability in C#
For some reason, there's been a lot of buzz lately around immutability in C#. If you're interested in algorithms and data structures, it's a fascinating subject. Immutable objects, according to Patrick Smacchia , have the following advantages: They simplify...
Posted: Jan 16 2008, 03:36 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 8 comment(s)
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Ajax usage survey among .NET developers
Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson...
What InterpolationMode and CompositingQuality to use when generating thumbnails via System.Drawing
For some reason I keep writing photo thumbnail generators lately. The last time was this week for an internal app building contest. One thing that I never seriously investigated before was how to optimize the quality of the generated thumbnails. So today...
.NET framework: now with source code
Scott just announced it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx This will make debugging .NET apps a lot easier... More details on how this is going to work exactly on Shawn's blog...
JSON-style dictionary parameters in C#?
Eilon has an interesting post about using the new anonymous object initializer syntax in APIs that take dictionaries. The end result looks very much like the JSON parameterized function calls that are very common in many JavaScript frameworks, which shows...
Microsoft Ajax events - part 2: exposing events from custom classes
In part 1 , I showed how to subscribe to events exposed by JavaScript classes built on Microsoft Ajax. In this post, I'll show how to expose new events from your own classes. Theoretically, the only things you have to do to expose an event are to implement...
Woohoo! I'm on TV!
The latest episode of the .NET show is all about ASP.NET Ajax. Brad and Matt first have a really interesting discussion of the history and architecture of ASP.NET Ajax and then you can see me demo-ing UpdatePanel, extenders and localization. Most of the...
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