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I’ve recently had a project that required a great deal of image generation and manipulation. Not having done image manipulation in a good long while I thought it would be good to capture some of the “tricks of the trade”. One of the things I noticed in...
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I've been doing a lot of REST based services lately and for something that is as simple a concept as REST it is actually not the easiest thing to find guidance for a .Net developer. It's simple, or at least it should be. My first stop was the WCF Rest...
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I have mentioned previously some useful tools for web development for IE, and now here are a couple more. DOM Helper This allows you to edit the css of a page much like EditCSS for Firefox Fiddler From the site "Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy...
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How often have you seen code like this? 1: string myAppSetting = ConfigurationManager.AppSetting[ "key" ]; 2: if (myAppSetting== null ) 3: myAppSetting = "MyDefaultSetting" .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black;...
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Firebug rocks. Nothing, I mean nothing beats it for debug web pages. But what do you do for problems specific to IE (most notably IE 6) Here are a list of tools I use to help cause telling the user to get a real browser is not a solution Internet Explorer...
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There I said it. I'm a C# guy. Now about 4 years when I started with .Net I started writing in VB.Net but I quickly decided to move C#. This, despite having spent the 3+ years prior working in ASP Classic. After a little bit of C# I quickly adopted the...
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I like the NUnit 2.4 Constraint based syntax . So In my new role I am having to implement Unit Testing so I decided on going with NUnit to begin with despite my preference for MbUnit . But once I got started writing my tests, I discover Is is a keyword...
So, I'm working on a Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2008 and I realize I don't have a strongly typed Profile object...So I Google around and find that this a Problem in Visual Studio 2005 and that Microsoft didn't fix the problem in VS 2008...
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Had a instance where I needed to close the Popup Control with JavaScript 1: < ajax:PopupControlExtender ID ="pceShowPanel" runat ="server" 2: TargetControlID ="showPanel" 3: PopupControlID ="popupPanel" 4: BehaviorID ="popupBehavior" 5: /> .csharpcode...
Tedious coding sucks. SubSonic saves lots of time. But I want it to save me more. So I've started working on a method that will fill out the controls for me so I don't have to. It's simple really. I just new() up a the model I will use and pass it to...
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