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The cloud is nice and useful, but there is one feature which is vitally important to most applications in my opinion. The storage which is used in Azure pretty much will need to be used by every application. One of the reasons for this is because there
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A while back, I was asked a question by one of the junior developers here at Lake Quincy Media. I had him working on a little feature on an ASP.NET site which could be easily handled using Session. "Where is session stored, on the server or the client?"
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Continuing on my previous post about separation of code responsibilities where I was mostly just discussing one aspect of a book I appreciate, I now want to comment on the concept of separation of concerns. While thinking about this idea I realized that
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One book I would highly recommend reading is Working Effectively with Legacy Code . I should write a review of this book at some point, but for now I just want to mention one great thing about it. Reading the book is very valuable, but it is an excellent
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I think it is a great idea to always be reading code. You may learn more than you intend to sometimes. Read an article to learn one trick and you may learn a completely different one. Earlier today I was reading some code written by Steve Smith . He wrote
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One of the most ViewState heavy controls is the DropDownList. It stores in ViewState the Text and Value for every ListItem in the DropDownList. This means large Lists can get really nasty when ViewState comes into play. They also include all of these
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As I've said previously , I am working with developers who are just beginning to learn the tools of the trade . They have a long way to go working with plenty of applications. All people always have more they can learn, so I'll pass along a useful reference
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While writing some code earlier today I needed to return from within a using statement. Doing these sorts of things always makes me appreciate the using statement and how wonderful it really is, so I decided to write about it here. As many of you know
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Earlier today I posted about a Recursive Find Control Extension Method . I was informed recently by Steve Smith that I should check out the generic find control method which Aaron Robson has on his blog . He has some pretty nice methods there, so I just
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So one of the most useful methods for ASP.NET development that never seems to be included in ASP.NET is a recursive find control method. This problem results from the standard FindControl method on controls only searching within that control. It only
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So I have been ignoring these messages I've been receiving for a while about Silverlight. Now I might not have ignored it, but it said my version of Silverlight expired. Ok so big deal. You might say, "Why not just go get a new version?" Well it says
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There are plenty of reasons why I like the Python language. Yes, I know it is an interpreted language and it is very dynamic. While looking at some JavaScript mere moments ago, I saw someone pass back two values from a function. This is one thing that
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One question that seems to come up often in the asp.net forums is from people who are trying to access controls within controls using templates. LoginViews and CreateUserWizard controls are two commonly used templated controls. These templated controls
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I recently wrote some SQL which would do some work for a single day, but I wanted my code to be able to run once for each day in a date range. Luckily for me, I read Gregg Stark's SQL Blog . He recently posted about how to Iterate Over a List of Dates
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Outside of SQL it would be quite easy to number the rows returned from query, but to do so inside of the SQL is a bit more difficult. I recently wanted to be able to number the rows returned from a query in a stored procedure. I am using SQL Server 2000,
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