ASP.NET Resources

July 2006

Snapshot vs. Live Collections

Don has recently reminded me of a section in Framework Design Guidelines about live collections and snapshot collections. What’s the difference and why should you care?

7/31/2006 |

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How To Properly Group Partial Class Files in Visual Studio 2005

Partial classes have been a very useful addition to the .NET Framework. You’ve seen this before: Visual Studio 2005 places code-behind logic of every Web Form in a partial class. This allows you to split code into several files, each with a public partial class Xxxx declaration to be eventually complied into one class.

7/30/2006 |

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How To Make Domain Model Presentable

Mats Helander wrote a short yet thought-provoking essay in Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns. In this essay he discusses the so-called Presentation Model.

7/19/2006 |

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Bizarre Information Architecture

How’s this for ultra dumb design? I only wanted to read an article, but got bombarded by crap.

7/19/2006 |

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The Internet is a Series of Tubes

The architecture of the Internet is much simpler than we thought. Learn more from this episode of the Jon Stewart show. Also, find out how horse racing and interstate lotteries help clear traffic jams on cyber highways. I nearly cried all the way through this video.

7/17/2006 |

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Passing Values Between Pages in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0

While reading up on what’s new about passing values between pages in APS.NET 2.0—namely cross-page postbacks—I noticed some folks complaining this wasn’t possible in 1.x, while others complained about the need to give properties of the calling page public visibility. Technically, neither complaint is correct.

7/16/2006 |

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Conversion to Web Application Project Resets AutoEventWireup

Suppose you have an ASP.NET 1.x project and you want to migrate it to 2.0. You load it up in Visual Studio 2005 and run the conversion wizard.

7/15/2006 |

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Book Review: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns

I’ve finished reading Jimmy Nilsson’s recent book Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET.

7/9/2006 |

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What Happened to Good, Clean, Simple Hardware?

I honestly do not understand hardware manufacturers’ obsession with huge bulky keyboards with every imaginable media and entertainment key on them. I understand it’s very much a matter of personal taste, but I love clean, simple hardware that does its job.

7/9/2006 |

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SQL Server 2K5: Either Drop or Create Annoyance

I’m really loving SQL Server 2005 with its new Management Studio and other goodies, but there’s one feature that drives me nuts. In SQL Server 2000 you could script both the deletion and creation of a stored procedure, table or what have you. In SQL 2K5 it’s either one or the other. That’s annoying!

7/9/2006 |

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Keyboard Shortcuts in Office 2007

I have recently installed Office 2007 Beta 2 right on top of Office 2003. Everything has been smooth so far, and I’m happy with how Office 2007 is shaping up.

7/6/2006 |

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July 2006