My top 21 Most Viewed Blog posts

Here are the top 21 viewed pages on my blog in the past year and a half:

  1. Essential Software to install on a new computer
  2. Dataset Hell: "Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contains values..."
  3. Strip HTML Tags from a string using regular expressions 
  4. Convert a DataReader into A Dataset
  5.  BackgroundWorker implementation - in c#
  6. Make your .NET application support scripting - a practical approach
  7. Simplified Database Unit Testing using Enterprise Services 
  8.  Train to be a keyboard master with Keyboard Jedi
  9. ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET
  10. MbUnit vs. NUnit vs. Team System Unit Testing - choosing a unit test framework
  11. Unlocking an attachment blocked by outlook
  12. Testing Guidelines (Category page of testing guidelines posts from my blog)
  13. Introducing XtUnit:  An Unofficial Unit Testing Extensibility Framework - Add new attributes to NUnit or MbUnit easily!
  14. It's Time For Violence: a song about Databases
  15. Free Sharepoint 2007 book download 
  16. Microsoft gets Design For Testability with new MVC framework for ASP.NET- Finally. 
  17. The 3 ways to create a Thread-Safe GUI with .NET 2.0, with one clear winner. (note: there is even a better way)
  18. Understanding the different generic collections in .NET (List<T>, BindingList<T>, Collection<T>)
  19. Fixing "mapi32.dll is an invalid Extended MAPI Library" and "Mail is not installed on your system" on Windows Server 2003 with Exchange 
  20. Windows Media Player problem? Here's a very good FAQ Page
  21. Choosing a Mock Object Framework (I need to create a new poll!)

 

There is something to think about when you look at this:

  • About half of these are more than two years old
  • two of them are dataset relates
  • a couple of them have nothing to do with .NET at all

 

What conclusions can we deduct from this little experiment?

Published Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:45 AM by RoyOsherove
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Comments

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:02 AM by Casey

# re: My top 21 Most Viewed Blog posts

>>>About half of these are more than two years old<<<

Google is catching up, while the quantity of blogging out there is growing, so you are becoming a smaller fish.

>>two of them are dataset relates <<<

We all suffer DataSet  pain!

>>a couple of them have nothing to do with .NET at all <<

You write interestingly and eloquently on many subjects ... sometimes we just enjoy reading comment for the sake of the comment, not the subject

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:42 PM by David Fauber

# re: My top 21 Most Viewed Blog posts

"Strip HTML Tags from a string using regular expressions "

Heh, this one is pretty much completely not why I read your blog at all, but it ended up being really useful when I used it on a personal project.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:25 PM by Kalpesh

# re: My top 21 Most Viewed Blog posts

While I learn a lot from your blog & other bloggers, the content on your blog has changed more on the products of TypeMock.

This is just an observation & not a critical comment :)

I will appreciate more of what is mocking, why it is needed, examples of using framework including typemock.

Thanks.