I hope everyone in Arizona and southern California is planning to attend this years Desert Code Camp on 6/13 and SoCal Code Camp in San Diego on 6/27 - 6/28. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET … Continue reading Phoenix and San Diego June Code Camps
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Firebug for Firefox
If you are a web developer, then Firebug for Firefox puts a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Check it out by going to:http://getfirebug.com/
Fixing LIne Feeds In a GridView
If you are displaying text in a GridView control that contains line feeds, it won't display correctly. You would think that setting the HtmlEncode property in a BoundField would do the trick, but no! Nothing I did would work. Below is the only work around that I could find: protected void EventLogMessagesGridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e) … Continue reading Fixing LIne Feeds In a GridView
IIS 7 Extentions
Check out this site where you can download and install lots of cool extensions to IIS 7 that adds features like FTP Publishing Service, WebDAV, URL Rewriting and more!http://www.iis.net/extensions
SoCal Code Camp – Fullerton
I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp at Cal State Fullerton on 1/24 - 1/25. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" at my sessions for $11, … Continue reading SoCal Code Camp – Fullerton
Visual Round Trip Analyzer Released
The Visual Round Trip Analyzer tool helps web developers and testers visualize the download of their page, identify best practices and changes that improve web performance. The network Round-Trip between the client and server(s) is the single biggest impact to web page performance – much greater than server response time. VRTA examines the communications protocol, … Continue reading Visual Round Trip Analyzer Released
Finally Chart Controls for .NET
Finally... Microsoft has released chart controls for .NET (only 8 years late). They include controls for Win and Web forms. To download go here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&DisplayLang=en
Central Coast Code Camp
I hope everyone in California is planning to attend this years Central Coast Code Camp up in San Luis Obispo on 9/27 - 6/28. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" at my sessions for $11, … Continue reading Central Coast Code Camp
Serialize Your Objects to and from JSON
Here is some easy, generic code to serialize your objects to and from JSON:Public Shared Function JsonEncode(ByVal input As Object) As String Dim serilizer = New DataContractJsonSerializer(input.GetType) Using ms = New MemoryStream() serilizer.WriteObject(ms, input) Return Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray()) End UsingEnd FunctionPublic Shared Function JsonDecode(Of T)(ByVal input As String) As T Using ms = New MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(input)) Dim serilizer … Continue reading Serialize Your Objects to and from JSON
Why I LOVE VB.NET!
I recently started a new job that uses C#. I have been trying for two frickin hours to get Trace Listeners working in an application here with no luck at all. So to test that I have the web.config setup correctly, I added the following:var log = new Microsoft.VisualBasic.Logging.Log();log.WriteEntry("VB Log"); Bam, it works! Dang I … Continue reading Why I LOVE VB.NET!
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