This is the first time I develop for SharePoint, something that I wanted for a while, yet never got a project to do so. I have been a SharePoint user for many years, normally because all companies I have worked they use it as their document repository, “link provider”. There are a few steps that are...

Scott Hanselman had a post last week to zip your Session state. a great idea I thought to be able to save memory on the computer. Yet I didn’t want to change all my source code to use another class to do so, a nightmare to track all the Sessions in every application, or worse when you don’t have access...

The last three weeks I have visit several companies and talked about writing good code. It's amazing to see how different developer thinks about writing good code. Here are some comments when I asked if it's important to write good code: - I don't care as long as it works it's fine. - I don't have the...

// ***** First Method *****// var rdolist = document.getElementsByName("rdolist"); if (rdolist[1].checked) txtMessage.value = "First"; if (rdolist[2].checked) txtMessage.value = "Second"; if (rdolist[3].checked) txtMessage.value = "Third"; // ***** Second Method *****// var rdolist_0 = document.getElementById...

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; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier...

The second Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 27th and 28th, 2008, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. Register for free here I’ll be presenting Saturday 27th at 3:45 pm follow by a Geek Dinner. On Sunday I won’t miss Woody Pewitt’s presentation about Microsoft Live . Code camps...

Often when I take a look at sample code there are a lot of regions. I need to open them all the time, it really start to make me crazy. Why does people even use Region in their code, what's the point of hiding code? I think it's only an excuse to hide code because of a too large file. What do you think...

Zichuan Ye, a coworker wrote for fun a factorial calculator. It does both, multiplication and factorials providing a postback and callback implementation in ASP.NET and VB.NET. A great tool to download and learn from it. He was kind enough to provide the source code to share this great tool with all...

Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code.  You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible. There are a number of tips on this blog already that deal Read More......( read more )

GeoRSS is a great way to share geographic information that updates all the time, sending simple geography (points, lines and polygons to a consumer. GeoRSS is RSS with a collection of points, as flexible as RSS with the advantage of providing location to your information. A great tool that I personally...