Community Blogs

I was stepping through some code in a debugger today and noticed a neat little feature of Visual Studio 2010 that I hadn’t noticed before. When debugging, you can easily examine the value of a variably by highlighting it with your mouse. Nothing new there Read More......( read more ) Read More...

I saw a bug on Connect today in which someone offers the suggestion that the PageRouteHandler (new in ASP.NET 4) should handle IHttpHandler as well as Page . I don’t really agree with the suggestion because while a Page is an IHttpHandler , an IHttpHandler Read More......( read more ) Read More...

This tutorial will help you how to install the MS Chart extension and create a column graph with MS Chart in ASP.NET 3.5 (C#). Note: MS Chart will work with ASP.NET 3.5 and above only. Download and install: Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&displaylang=en Chart Control to your toolbox: Right-click > Choose Items > Program Files > Microsoft Chart Controls > System.Web.DataVisualization.dll. Adding Reference-: Program Files > Microsoft Chart Controls > System.Web.DataVisualization.dl Also, we need Web.config entry reference-: <system.web> <httpHandlers> <add path="ChartImg.axd" verb...

If you’re a manufacturing plant, one way to maximize profit is to keep costs as low as possible. One way to do that is to cut corners. Go ahead and dump that toxic waste into the river and pollute the heck out of the air with your smoke stacks. These Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago . Download Page Release Notes Roadmap Some of the cool new features we’ve added Read More......( read more ) Read More...

One great new feature being introduced in ASP.NET 4 is a new code block ( often called a Code Nugget by members of the Visual Web Developer team ) syntax which provides a convenient means to HTML encode output in an ASPX page or view. <% : CodeExpression Read More......( read more ) Read More...

First - Many thanks to Windows 7 (and 2008 R2), there has been some very useful enhancements in my “Digital Lifestyle” recently! Windows Vista didn’t fly with me so well as development machine, and I’d always go back to Windows 2003… mostly for SharePoint development setup on my working desktops. Once Windows 7 was RTM, I was quick to jump off RC (no stability reason really). That also gave me a reason to re-look at my existing setup, which wasn’t working comfortably well for me. So without much ado, let’s see what all I have in my setup and what I did to improve, and what is perhaps missing that you can suggest I can do to further improve... What do I have and wanted to improve – and did? Desktop : AMD Quad CPU, 4 GB DDR2 800, 2 SATA-II drives...

Warning : What I’m about to show you is quite possibly an abuse of the C# language. Then again, maybe it’s not. ;) You’ve been warned. Ruby has a neat feature that allows you to hook into method calls for which the method is not defined. In such cases Read More......( read more ) Read More...

How many times do you have a data point in your application that is a date but not a datetime? For example:  birthdate, receiptdate, licensedate, etc.  Things can get really weird when doing date math if these “dates” have times on them – for example:  2.33333 years instead of 2.32.   We have even seen some strange things happen with timezones - 8/2/1955 00:00 becomes 8/2/1955 01:00 (still puzzled by this one although I have seen it a few times). Kevin explores some solutions to this problem in our latest team blog post . The one option I have seen several clients use on projects is to store the date as a varchar(8) in YYYYMMDD format.  While the ISO formatting does allow sorting, it just feels icky.   Jonathan...

David has a Strategy Pattern post on the Thycotic team blog in the expanding series of Design Pattern posts.  This one focuses on the Strategy Pattern and the flexibility it can bring to cover future implementations.   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship web-based password management product. Read More...