There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster . I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smallestdotnet and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find Read More......( read more )

My blog was down a few days ago. I've had downtime in the minutes over the last few years, but as far as I recall, it's never been down for any significant time. Keyvan noticed that a bunch of us were attacked. Phil Haack was also, ahem, haacked. I host Read More......( read more )

Yesterday I blogged about the cause of ASP.NET validators and validation summary slowness . At that point I wasn't aware of the existence of the XHTML conformance configuration (thanks Nuno ). With the XHTML conformance configuration set to Legacy , the rendering of controls works like it worked in ASP...

When building ASP.NET pages, if you use too many validators and validation summaries your pages can become very slow. Have you ever wondered why? Lets build a simple page web page with a few validators. Something like this: The page is composed of: 2 TextBox es 1 RequiredFieldValidator for each TextBox...

While preparing the demos for my session at TechDays Portugal 2008 , I've noticed some changes in the Web Client Software Factory 2.0 that prevented the EventBroker Extension from compiling and running. The problem ended out just being a little change in the WebClientApplication class. The virtual methods...

Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor . This very nice free win app allows you to easily edit your resx files, each language in the same row! Download link: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ZetaResourceEditor.aspx

The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works with C# and VB.Net in all project types that...

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 February 2008 Release Resources MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf About the Deliverable The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise...

I needed to compare the web.config files generated by Visual Studio for ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 projects. (In my opinion, web.config files are totally out of hand in ASP.NET 3.5, but that's another blog post.) My search for a free Diff tool turned up SourceGear DiffMerge from the folks who make the...

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other developers' experiences, problems, and recommendations...