Nuno Gomes /* ASP.NET Adventures */

.NET – The Garbage Collector and Finalizers

I’m not used to use Finalizers in my everyday job but I always thought that if I use it more frequently I could achieve some extra performance. Well, I’m a natural lazy programmer and that prevents me from digging deeper and doing some tests to clarify...

.NET - Determine Whether an Assembly was compiled in Debug Mode

Finding out whether an assembly was compiled in Debug or Release mode is a task we must do from time to time. I know two ways of accomplish this: Searching for the System.Diagnostics.DebuggableAttribute Searching for the System.Reflection.AssemblyConfigurationAttribute...

ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : Introduction ( Part 1)

Some time ago, while developing a large corporate ASP.NET application with high complex layout requirements and thus, many custom composite controls, I was faced with the following problem: The generated HTML of my pages don’t meet my bandwidth...

.NET Framework 2.0 SP1 - TagMapping Undocumented hotfix

While searching a way to solve the HtmlControls tag mapping problem I found that the new SP1 bring an extra undocumented hotfix. This undocumented hotfix changes MainTagNameToTypeMapper.GetControlType method so that, for every tag name regardless is kind...