Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Beta 2 of Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability [http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/workspace.aspx?ID=540F8BD7-BE95-45F7-A477-919D23294553] from the Patterns and Practices book. As?Sam Gentile?blogged about beta 1 [http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2003/12/08/10858.aspx] of this book, it contains a wealth of…

Tabbing in a TextArea/TextBox

Tabbing in a TextArea or a TextBox?has been a distant feature to think of up until now, as Justin Lovell [http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jlovell/]?shares a?simple?JavaScript (IE 5+ only) which makes it possible to insert a tab via the keyboard into a?TextArea or a TextBox.…

Modal WebForms

Brendan Tompkins [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/BsBlog/]?shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/BsBlog/posts/5629.aspx]) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don’t like the idea of?using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in?project?implementations except for…

Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET

I came across dotnetcoders.com [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/] while searching for a UI component on Google. The site hasn’t been updated in months but I did find some nice articles on their site: * Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=…

Mono Live!

mo8il [http://www.mo8il.com/]?seems to be one of the first real & live?ASP.NET application powered by Mono [http://www.go-mono.com/]. [Via Miguel [http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2003/Dec-09.html]]…

ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow and VS.NET Automation Samples

Maybe I’ve mentioned this one before but its worth it!?The creators of ASP.NET are coming to a city near you. This is your chance to receive FREE, in-depth training on Microsoft’s web development platform.?So do go catch the ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow [http://www.asp.…

Craftsmanship

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Craftsmanship.html]?where he?rightly?points-out — “Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it’s design.” Also, Amit Kalani has written some preparation books for the MCAD…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis [http://www.softwaretestengineer.com/] has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing [http://www.robdavispe.com/free2/]. [via Siva Rama Krishna [http://geekswithblogs.net/srkprasad/]] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid [http://www.infragistics.…