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  • Barcodes


    Don  glad to see that Barcodes with .Net can be a subject for your presentation ;-)

    By the way I am going to start now doing your recommendations with SVG, and I will let you know if my barcode reader recognise the printout

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  • Rich text editor for all browsers


    Christopher talk about java applets to  make a rich text editor for different browsers.

    That's a valid point. Why in .Net, we don't have the equivalent of applets ?
    I see something for IE, but I would prefer a universal solution.

    I imagine all the benefits I can have, not only for an editor, but to run some small .Net windows project through a browser.

  • VS.Net Editor flaws


    Frans Bouma mention the issues with the HTML editor in VS.Net.

    But I can also add that I have also some issue with the code editor.
    It happens quite often, that the indentation stop working for no reason, most of the time in loops, and I have to force the indentation.

  • Matrix...


    Just to say that I received a cool invitation by email to see Matrix next Friday in Dublin as a private projection.... with Microsoft Ireland ;-)

    I don't have the email just there but they made a very good job about the graphics on this invitation.

    Pretty cool...

  • Coding performances

    Jesse replied to my post:

    You can cache at the control level. If you are using ascx files, the directive works the same as the page caching directive. If you are using custom/composite controls, then you have to do some footwork to cache the results, but the Cache object is both powerful and easy to use, so you can give whatever granularity you want without much difficulty.

  • Managing business rules exception


    How do you manage business rules exception?

    I am curious to see how other developers or architects deal with some case scenario, where like the project I am working on, everything works fine except that now you have a rule specific for one feature.

    I try to explain by an example.

    I have a class to populate three dropdownlist from a database, following some established rules.

    The dropdown are linked together working in cascade.

    Everything's ok but for one case, I have to change the way that the first dropdown bind to the database.

    So actually, I rely on a flag to switch between the rule and the exception, but I'm really sure that some other aproach should be possible.


  • Mass Mailing without timeout issues


    I am a big fan of ASPNetemail, because of the fact I can send 10000 emails without any timeout issues.

    See there the details and the code.

    Interesting too, they have a pretty good Javascript progress bar.

    The mails are sent using a Thread, and I am sure it's possible to adapt this code to the native framework emails functions.

  • Problem to read Sam Gentile stories


    I have difficulties to read Sam Gentile's blog.

    I am not sure why, but the right column (with all the links) come all the time over the story in the middle !?!?

    Scott maybe a problem with the template