Contents tagged with Visual Basic
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ClubStarterKit - where do we go?
Wow, what a year. Not exactly what I'd expected. Before I dive into where we are now, let me preface this post by saying I have NOT forgotten ClubStarterKit! Although I was not the original author, I feel like it's my baby. I can't just forget about it. Not going to happen.
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Source Code conversion as part of a Build Process
If you're like me, you want a particular piece of code in your particular language. For example, a lot of people want the Club Starter Kit 2.0, 3.0 in C# since it has been written in VB. Me being the lazy open source developer that doesn't get paid :), I keep delaying the CSK conversion to C# because of my personal stuff. Then I was thinking, what if it were a part of the build process? Then I wouldn't have to go through the arbitrary process of converting a whole application to another language for a release that I will most likely be changing.
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Improve ASP.NET Performance - CSSmin
If you follow Douglas Crockford's work, you might know about JSMin, a bit of code written for various languages to optimize JavaScript to make it smaller. One thing it does is makes everything go to one line, eliminating some of the space by removing white space.
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TIP OF THE DAY : Override the tag in a webcontrol
For my New Years Resolution, I'm going to try and start blogging more both here and on my company blog. As a result, I'll most likely revert to these small babies -- Tip of the Day. Hopefully these posts can be short and sweet.
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SubSonic ASP.NET Providers Revisited
It's been quite a while (2 months actually) since I announced the creation of the SubSonic ASP.NET Providers. Since then, I haven't really done much with the code base, mostly since I have to spread my time out between a lot of things now a-days. But I am about to do some major testing. This is mostly due to the fact that I will plug the SubSonic Membership and Role providers that I built into the new SubSonic Forums built on ASP.NET MVC (appropriately code-named Halawai).
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Determine if a user enables JavaScript
I made a post over on my business' blog about the general concept of my post today, determining if a user has JavaScript enabled.
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Easier way to manage your ASP.NET Cache
I was recently told by a client of mine that the ASP.NET app I developed was WAY TOO SLOW! I had to agree; the site was pinging the database twice on every load of the home page. So I said, "Give me a week... I'll make it work better". I went home feeling bad... my app was slow and I really didn't know where to begin. I had a lot of code that depended on pinging the database and I didn't want to sift through it all. What I ended up doing was using the cache object.
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SubSonic of the Day - The Query tool
By now, you have probably heard of LINQ. LINQ, as you probably know, stands for Language Integrated Query. The LINQ queries you build inside of C# or VB are baked into the .NET 3.5 framework.
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SubSonic of the day - Collections
I am going to start spreading the goodness of SubSonic. I think SubSonic is sometimes overlooked for flashy things such as LINQ and Project JASPER. SubSonic is in a transition point (which is apparent when reading Rob Conery's blog), but I think the project still has tons of momentum and is an INVALUABLE resource for ANY .NET developer. If anything, look at the code... it's some good stuff!
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Converting to and from VB and C#
The easiest way to convert from VB to C# or C# to VB is this: learn the language.