Archives
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Link: The Windows Shutdown crapfest
I saw this via Frans, but it's worth linking to...
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Is there a way to count SQL transactions in an ASP.NET Request/Response cycle?
Is there a way to count SQL transactions in an ASP.NET Request/Response cycle? In other words, is there some simple bit of code you can wire into an HttpModule at starts and ends counting in the events of my choice?
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Daunting UI
I was refactoring some of my moderation logging stuff on the forthcoming v8, and was curious to see how some other forums do it. I had not looked at vBulletin in a very long time, and was excited to see that they have a demo system that launches a completely new instance of the app with a fresh database for you. Sweet. While I can't really get into PHP, I'll be the first to admit that it's one of the best forum apps out there, even if it does flirt with being too feature rich.
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Pissed about Vista and MSDN subscription
Me and a friends were talking about how annoyed we are that Vista just hit MSDN, less than a month after our subscriptions expired. I'm sure there are a lot of people like us, who are independent developers that bought in right around the Visual Studio 2005 launch, with the implied promise of Vista in the distance. We were hosed.
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The developer-as-UI-designer requirement: Flexibility
After two years or so of having my thumb up my, uh, nose, and not writing any meaningful code for myself (and my damn forum app), I realized that perhaps the most important requirement isn't adhering to data API's or connecting to various frameworky things, but rather the flexibility to design UI with as little code as possible.
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The missing FindControl() method
Most ASP.NET developers have probably used the FindControl() method before. It lives as a member of the Control class, way up in the inheritance hierarchy. Most also know that it's limited to finding only immediate child controls, unless you specify the UniqueID. That always seemed weird when you used the method from the Page object, because you'd think it would go deeper.
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Linear thread or Usenet-style?
I think the world rightfully has accepted the linear thread in discussion forums. The negative of this is that people quote entire, untrimmed, posts and that's annoying. (Of course, lazy asses did this on Usenet too, but whatever.)
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VS2005 Web designer bug
I was refactoring my little heart out on a project when I realized I had a Hyperlink control in several places that always pointed to the same place. So I made a derived class in App_Code, added it to pages/controls in web.config (<add assembly="App_Code" namespace="Awesome.UI" tagPrefix="Awesome"/>), and replaced away.