http://www.dzone.com/links/tag/.net.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 16 May 2008 10:33:53 GMT The DZone community 2008-05-16T10:33:53Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/.net/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/unit_testing_aspnet_pages_using_watin.html Unit testing is an integral part of the application design. Unit testing is applied at different levels of the application. In this article we will focus on the User Interface level unit testing. We will use WatiN to test our ASP.NET application .net tools web design Fri, 16 May 2008 03:08:27 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80740.html mswatcher 2008-05-16T03:08:27Z Unit testing is an integral part of the application design. Unit testing is applied at different levels of the application. In this article we will focus on the User Interface level unit testing. We will use WatiN to test our ASP.NET application]]> 80740 2008-05-13T11:40:10Z 2008-05-16T03:08:27Z 6 0 70 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80740.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/use_visual_studios_postbuild_events_to_automate_u.html How to use Visual Studio's post-build events to help automate unit testing for your solutions. .net frameworks tools trends Thu, 15 May 2008 21:28:09 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80939.html bluevoodoo1 2008-05-15T21:28:09Z How to use Visual Studio's post-build events to help automate unit testing for your solutions.]]> 80939 2008-05-14T12:22:15Z 2008-05-15T21:28:09Z 9 0 102 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80939.jpg bluevoodoo1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/265753.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/fast_aspnet_web_page_loading_by_downloading_multi.html A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes pause rendering while a script is being downloaded and executed. This makes web pages load and render slow when there are multiple javascripts on the page. .net ajax javascript Thu, 15 May 2008 16:26:31 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80616.html mswatcher 2008-05-15T16:26:31Z A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes pause rendering while a script is being downloaded and executed. This makes web pages load and render slow when there are multiple javascripts on the page.]]> 80616 2008-05-12T17:20:28Z 2008-05-15T16:26:31Z 7 0 118 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80616.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/aspnet_mvc_living_in_a_web_forms_world.html When developing ASP.NET MVC applications, most examples or sites have shown you starting from complete scratch. This is all and well if you have the time to completely re-write an existing application for 6+ months or have started a v1 product. Right, in the "real-world" the former rarely happens and if your a developer wanting to stay on the bleeding edge, introducing a new architecture into an existing ASP.NET application is fairly tedious. From converting existing pages, supporting legacy routes, and possibly the lack of allowing multiple forms all prove to be a challenge. .net frameworks web design Thu, 15 May 2008 16:04:02 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80791.html mswatcher 2008-05-15T16:04:02Z When developing ASP.NET MVC applications, most examples or sites have shown you starting from complete scratch. This is all and well if you have the time to completely re-write an existing application for 6+ months or have started a v1 product. Right, in the "real-world" the former rarely happens and if your a developer wanting to stay on the bleeding edge, introducing a new architecture into an existing ASP.NET application is fairly tedious. From converting existing pages, supporting legacy routes, and possibly the lack of allowing multiple forms all prove to be a challenge.]]> 80791 2008-05-13T16:23:03Z 2008-05-15T16:04:02Z 8 0 137 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80791.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/loading_and_executing_javascript_files_from_javas.html Quite often we need to load js files dynamically right from javascript. With ASP.NET AJAX it is simple. ASP.NET AJAX library has internal ScriptLoader class that can be used to load js files, specify callbacks that will be invoked when script is downloaded and ready, and execute functions inside newly loaded files. I will not list all available methods from ScriptLoader class - you can see them in more details in AJAX source. I will demonstrate how to load files and execute some functions in it. .net ajax javascript Thu, 15 May 2008 15:59:02 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80669.html mswatcher 2008-05-15T15:59:02Z Quite often we need to load js files dynamically right from javascript. With ASP.NET AJAX it is simple. ASP.NET AJAX library has internal ScriptLoader class that can be used to load js files, specify callbacks that will be invoked when script is downloaded and ready, and execute functions inside newly loaded files. I will not list all available methods from ScriptLoader class - you can see them in more details in AJAX source. I will demonstrate how to load files and execute some functions in it.]]> 80669 2008-05-13T01:17:45Z 2008-05-15T15:59:02Z 4 0 65 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80669.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/using_aspnet_routing_independent_of_mvc.html One of the demos I've been doing at the MSDN Roadshow is to take the new ASP.NET routing capabilities (currently in preview) and show them in isolation from MVC / Dynamic Data. Although the new routing capabilities were developed for the MVC framework, they've been factored out and are now shared with Dynamic Data and, of course, you can use them in your own ASP.NET applications as well. .net frameworks Thu, 15 May 2008 15:56:41 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/81080.html mswatcher 2008-05-15T15:56:41Z One of the demos I've been doing at the MSDN Roadshow is to take the new ASP.NET routing capabilities (currently in preview) and show them in isolation from MVC / Dynamic Data. Although the new routing capabilities were developed for the MVC framework, they've been factored out and are now shared with Dynamic Data and, of course, you can use them in your own ASP.NET applications as well.]]> 81080 2008-05-15T07:18:46Z 2008-05-15T15:56:41Z 6 0 79 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/81080.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/ordering_directories_by_creation_date_using_linq.html How to use LINQ to order directories by creation date, pretty neat piece of code .net how-to microsoft windows Thu, 15 May 2008 14:08:53 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/81157.html SQLMenace 2008-05-15T14:08:53Z How to use LINQ to order directories by creation date, pretty neat piece of code]]> 81157 2008-05-15T13:23:12Z 2008-05-15T14:08:53Z 9 0 72 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/81157.jpg SQLMenace http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/207082.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/dynamically_build_linq_queries_using_reflection.html I was recently working on a project where there was an option to export data from the database. The export function simply exported 2 hard-coded columns that were returned by a stored procedure into a tab-delimited text file. .net database methodology Thu, 15 May 2008 13:34:28 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80858.html mswatcher 2008-05-15T13:34:28Z I was recently working on a project where there was an option to export data from the database. The export function simply exported 2 hard-coded columns that were returned by a stored procedure into a tab-delimited text file.]]> 80858 2008-05-14T01:32:03Z 2008-05-15T13:34:28Z 11 0 101 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80858.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/how_to_manage_aspnet_validation_from_javascript_w.html Validators are a great part of the ASP.NET framework: they provide a standardized and easy way to add validation to form fields. But even if the framework provides different kinds of validators, there are so many different validations patterns that sometimes you have to write custom code to match your specific requirements. .net javascript web design Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:31 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80908.html mswatcher 2008-05-15T02:05:31Z Validators are a great part of the ASP.NET framework: they provide a standardized and easy way to add validation to form fields. But even if the framework provides different kinds of validators, there are so many different validations patterns that sometimes you have to write custom code to match your specific requirements.]]> 80908 2008-05-14T09:17:06Z 2008-05-15T02:05:31Z 6 0 115 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80908.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/3_wysiwyg_editors_for_webmasters_in_aspnet_and_wh.html 3 Editors for ASP.NET and why I chose FreeTextBox. .net ajax web 2.0 Wed, 14 May 2008 22:28:37 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80945.html cheetahtech 2008-05-14T22:28:37Z 3 Editors for ASP.NET and why I chose FreeTextBox.]]> 80945 2008-05-14T13:08:49Z 2008-05-14T22:28:37Z 6 0 292 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80945.jpg cheetahtech http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/278068.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/bullet_proof_cookies.html Security is a hot topic these days; developers are slowly learning more and more how to make their code more secure and how to learn defensive programming techniques. Years ago defensive secure programming used to be a luxury but not anymore. With the increased threats around us in the computer world, we, as developers, should keep in mind security concepts as we do our coding. One type of applications is web applications and specifically in this article I will be talking about ASP.NET applications. However the ideas and concepts here can be adapted to any web programming language. You always read how cookies play an important role in the security of a web application. .net security web design Wed, 14 May 2008 16:05:37 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80895.html mswatcher 2008-05-14T16:05:37Z Security is a hot topic these days; developers are slowly learning more and more how to make their code more secure and how to learn defensive programming techniques. Years ago defensive secure programming used to be a luxury but not anymore. With the increased threats around us in the computer world, we, as developers, should keep in mind security concepts as we do our coding. One type of applications is web applications and specifically in this article I will be talking about ASP.NET applications. However the ideas and concepts here can be adapted to any web programming language. You always read how cookies play an important role in the security of a web application.]]> 80895 2008-05-14T07:01:37Z 2008-05-14T16:05:37Z 10 0 237 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80895.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/may_14th_how_to_add_a_mousedoubleclick_event_to_a.html I needed to implement a MouseDoubleClick Event on a WPF Grid. I said Ha, easy but as i went on to implement it i realized that the Grid has no MouseDoubleClick Event! So how am I supposed to implement it? .net Wed, 14 May 2008 14:12:34 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80921.html Shaharyr 2008-05-14T14:12:34Z I needed to implement a MouseDoubleClick Event on a WPF Grid. I said Ha, easy but as i went on to implement it i realized that the Grid has no MouseDoubleClick Event! So how am I supposed to implement it?]]> 80921 2008-05-14T10:17:52Z 2008-05-14T14:12:34Z 8 0 38 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80921.jpg Shaharyr http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/278445.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/whats_the_idea_the_reason_we_implemented_ideapipe.html When we first came up with the idea for IdeaPipe (no pun intended), we saw a need to fill a void in the social networking landscape. There are countless sites dedicated to connecting friends, classmates and business associates, sites that provide opinions and commentary around a specific topic and even sites that simply point to other sites, but there were few if any that enabled individuals or groups to share their ideas for the purposes of gathering feedback, collaborating or simply being heard. .net ajax opinion web 2.0 Wed, 14 May 2008 07:46:07 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80862.html zigamorph 2008-05-14T07:46:07Z When we first came up with the idea for IdeaPipe (no pun intended), we saw a need to fill a void in the social networking landscape. There are countless sites dedicated to connecting friends, classmates and business associates, sites that provide opinions and commentary around a specific topic and even sites that simply point to other sites, but there were few if any that enabled individuals or groups to share their ideas for the purposes of gathering feedback, collaborating or simply being heard.]]> 80862 2008-05-14T02:30:54Z 2008-05-14T07:46:07Z 9 0 224 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80862.jpg zigamorph http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/234118.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/building_an_f_powered_indexing_system_part_2.html The second development chunk focuses on creating documents to index, and munging them into a format to hand off to an external library. There are examples of calling a .NET library from F#, mutable values, function composition, and several other spiffy sounding things. .net how-to other languages Wed, 14 May 2008 01:13:22 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80786.html mrkurt 2008-05-14T01:13:22Z The second development chunk focuses on creating documents to index, and munging them into a format to hand off to an external library. There are examples of calling a .NET library from F#, mutable values, function composition, and several other spiffy sounding things.]]> 80786 2008-05-13T15:45:26Z 2008-05-14T01:13:22Z 10 0 88 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80786.jpg mrkurt http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/259248.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/two_linq_to_sql_myths.html Not true – you can start with code and create mappings later. In fact, you can write plain-old CLR object like this: .net database ria Tue, 13 May 2008 23:54:36 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80515.html neharocks 2008-05-13T23:54:36Z Not true – you can start with code and create mappings later. In fact, you can write plain-old CLR object like this:]]> 80515 2008-05-12T09:55:00Z 2008-05-13T23:54:36Z 9 0 236 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80515.jpg neharocks http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283420.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/retrieving_image_metadata_using_c.html A nice tutorial on how to get image metadata using C#. The tutorial includes a easy to follow walk through and a usable class for retrieving image metadata - if you just want the code. .net how-to microsoft Tue, 13 May 2008 19:39:01 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80765.html zwigby 2008-05-13T19:39:01Z A nice tutorial on how to get image metadata using C#. The tutorial includes a easy to follow walk through and a usable class for retrieving image metadata - if you just want the code.]]> 80765 2008-05-13T13:38:29Z 2008-05-13T19:39:01Z 8 0 102 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80765.jpg zwigby http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/227238.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/tame_sql_with_multiline_quotes_in_c_and_php.html Languages that support multiline quotes such as C#, Perl and PHP make it easy for developers to embed SQL code in applications in a readable and maintainable way .net database php Tue, 13 May 2008 17:17:35 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80781.html paul_houle 2008-05-13T17:17:35Z Languages that support multiline quotes such as C#, Perl and PHP make it easy for developers to embed SQL code in applications in a readable and maintainable way]]> 80781 2008-05-13T15:38:54Z 2008-05-13T17:17:35Z 6 0 188 2 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80781.jpg paul_houle http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/281687.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/a_silverlight_beginning_the_verdict.html Designers can use Expression Blend and Design to create their artifacts and the XAML end result can be handed off to developers. Now, most people have heard this type of marketing hype ad-nauseum over the past year. So, here's what sold me: .net ajax microsoft open source Tue, 13 May 2008 06:59:49 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80445.html Anthony Grace 2008-05-13T06:59:49Z Designers can use Expression Blend and Design to create their artifacts and the XAML end result can be handed off to developers. Now, most people have heard this type of marketing hype ad-nauseum over the past year. So, here's what sold me:]]> 80445 2008-05-12T00:55:44Z 2008-05-13T06:59:49Z 11 0 319 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80445.jpg bognit http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/243670.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/reqular_experssion_regex_c_aspnet_vbnet.html Regular Expression is a great way to manipulate strings for example matching, finding, validating Data, Specailly string manipulaion becames handy while we use reqular expression. We can use Regular expression on both Serer and client side. We do use it with asp.net validation controls. .net web design Tue, 13 May 2008 01:22:06 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80447.html mswatcher 2008-05-13T01:22:06Z Regular Expression is a great way to manipulate strings for example matching, finding, validating Data, Specailly string manipulaion becames handy while we use reqular expression. We can use Regular expression on both Serer and client side. We do use it with asp.net validation controls.]]> 80447 2008-05-12T01:55:31Z 2008-05-13T01:22:06Z 12 0 147 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80447.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/json_services_in_aspnet_ajax.html Lately the use of client centric development model in .NET is getting increasingly popular. In contrast to the traditional server model where html tags are rendered in server side and then sent to the browser, the client centric approach consist of the use of asynchronous HTTP requests to retrieve data from server side and then do the html rendering in client side code. .net frameworks web services Mon, 12 May 2008 21:32:22 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80319.html bloid 2008-05-12T21:32:22Z Lately the use of client centric development model in .NET is getting increasingly popular. In contrast to the traditional server model where html tags are rendered in server side and then sent to the browser, the client centric approach consist of the use of asynchronous HTTP requests to retrieve data from server side and then do the html rendering in client side code.]]> 80319 2008-05-10T12:06:32Z 2008-05-12T21:32:22Z 6 0 86 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80319.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/creating_great_thumbnails_in_aspnet.html An alternative to the built in thumbnail generator with better quality and much smaller file sizes. .net Mon, 12 May 2008 15:32:20 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80206.html UnicornNinja 2008-05-12T15:32:20Z An alternative to the built in thumbnail generator with better quality and much smaller file sizes.]]> 80206 2008-05-09T17:55:33Z 2008-05-12T15:32:20Z 8 0 143 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80206.jpg UnicornNinja http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285394.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/aspnet_ajax_best_practices.html While we develop AJAX applications, we often carelessly ignore giving up bad practices, which cause effects which are not so significantly visible when the site is not so large in volume. But, it’s often severe performance issue when it is the case for sites that make heavy use of AJAX technologies such as Pageflakes, NetVibes etc. .net ajax reviews web design Sat, 10 May 2008 07:56:58 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/79932.html mswatcher 2008-05-10T07:56:58Z While we develop AJAX applications, we often carelessly ignore giving up bad practices, which cause effects which are not so significantly visible when the site is not so large in volume. But, it’s often severe performance issue when it is the case for sites that make heavy use of AJAX technologies such as Pageflakes, NetVibes etc.]]> 79932 2008-05-08T11:27:59Z 2008-05-10T07:56:58Z 7 0 198 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/79932.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/using_gridview_to_display_images_from_database.html In ASP.Net 1.x days Datagrid is one of the most common control that is used to display a table of data. With the introduction of ASP.Net 2.0 we have Gridview in the place of Datagrid while the Datagrid control is still supported. With the introduction of Gridview we can prevent some of the standard code we will repeat for edit, update, delete, sort etc .net web design Sat, 10 May 2008 07:56:48 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/79934.html mswatcher 2008-05-10T07:56:48Z In ASP.Net 1.x days Datagrid is one of the most common control that is used to display a table of data. With the introduction of ASP.Net 2.0 we have Gridview in the place of Datagrid while the Datagrid control is still supported. With the introduction of Gridview we can prevent some of the standard code we will repeat for edit, update, delete, sort etc]]> 79934 2008-05-08T11:29:02Z 2008-05-10T07:56:48Z 7 0 130 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/79934.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/securestring_in_net_20.html There are some disadvantages in using string if we want to store some important information’s like password, credit card numbers, bank pins, etc for some manipulations. The following list will help you understand it better. .net frameworks Fri, 09 May 2008 16:25:42 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/79930.html mswatcher 2008-05-09T16:25:42Z There are some disadvantages in using string if we want to store some important information’s like password, credit card numbers, bank pins, etc for some manipulations. The following list will help you understand it better.]]> 79930 2008-05-08T11:24:14Z 2008-05-09T16:25:42Z 7 0 205 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/79930.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/c_dictionary_basics.html Learn how to use the Dictionary collection object in C#. .net microsoft windows Fri, 09 May 2008 12:20:33 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80014.html Zuraka 2008-05-09T12:20:33Z Learn how to use the Dictionary collection object in C#.]]> 80014 2008-05-08T19:46:51Z 2008-05-09T12:20:33Z 6 0 233 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/80x60/80014.jpg Zuraka http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/236862.gif