I wrote a beginners article on how to create your own extension methods in .NET 3.5 and then how to go about testing them using new built-in features in VS2008. Please go read the article at the Code Project : http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ExtensionUnitTests.asp . If you are interested in extension...

SOLUTION: Ok fired up SQL profiler and see my problem, the non compiled query seems to not evaluate the query until you actualy use the object. But the Compiled version is hitting the database straight away. And as I was not using this data the non compiled version seemed fast as it never hit the database...

ÜberUtils Series posts so far : Part 1 : Cryptography - Hashing Part 2 : Cryptography (Continued) - Encryption Part 3 : Strings Part 4 : Collections I am now going to finish off the cryptography part of my ÜberUtils project. If you don't know about it, check it out . In the first article I released the...

ÜberUtils Series posts so far : Part 1 : Cryptography - Hashing Part 2 : Cryptography (Continued) - Encryption Part 3 : Strings Part 4 : Collections If you read my previous post , you would know that it is my time to give back to the community. So where should you start when creating the ULTIMATE REUSABLE...

Hello, I am currently working on a little project I call GeekTube, it is going to be an internal repository for videos. Implementing my BLL has never been easier. My approach has been to implement all my static helpers as part of a partial class. For example: partial class Video { public static Video...

Hello all, I decided to implement tagging on my video library. My first solution was to use one table for the tags. Containing the videoid and tagname. When I loaded in 1,000,000 test tags this became slow to generate my tag cloud data. My new solution was to split up the tags into two tables. One containing...

I am beggining to really like to ease of using LINQ, On a project I am working on now I am storing configuration in an XML file like so: <sites> <site id="1" sitename="foo"> <domains> <domain url="www.foo.com" /> </domains> <settings> <setting key="foo" value="foo...

Needing a solution to fix transparent PNG in IE6 I came to start using one of the many javascript based solutions to do this. But when it came time to use ajax and populating new images in my postbacks this obviously broke. So I created a custom ASP.NET Component to help me do this... Control: I created...

Hi All, Have run into some issues with using default values in my SQL database with LINQ. I set AutoGenerated in the LINQ Designer to true which made use of my default values but this did not let me update this manually as it would throw an exception. I got a good suggestion from Young Joo to keep autogenerated...

Hey All, As you may know to postback a page to another page i..e Cross Page Postback you set the PostBackUrl to the page you would like to post the page to. But what if you would like to post back the page and have it open in a new window. I thought easy just set the forms target before it does the postback...