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ASP.NET applications should never run with <compilation debug=''true''> in production.  It can have drastic performance implications (of the negative kind).  Obviously, in a perfect world, developers would always remember to verify this setting whenever they upload changes to production, but unfortunately many organizations utilize ...

Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit.  This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.  As always you can run through the live demos of the controls here.  This release ...

Today I need to set up a new database for a new web site I'm working on.  Last week, I saw Rick's post about the ''mousercise'' that defines the typical table set up in SQL Server 2000 and 2005's table designer.  I have to admit that I completely relate to his feelings, and what made his post better still was that in addition to raising ...

As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal.  Google has long been known for their creative variations of their logo in response to various holidays throughout the year.  This year, at least one ...

ASPAlliance SimpleCMS plugin is now available on CodePlex.  You can use CodePlex to submit your feature requests and such now, which will help guide future releases of the plugin.  Also, if you're interested in contributing to the project, let us know.  You'll find SimpleCms here now.

I'm in Vegas a few days early (before DevConnections) to attend DevExpress's TechSummit2007, where they've invited a bunch of MVPs, authors, speakers, etc. to come and learn more about their controls and tools.  Yesterday we saw some of what they're working toward in the WPF space, with some charts and grids that are not quite ...

 CyScape recently announced the latest version of their browser capabilities control, BrowserHawk 11.  While I haven't had a chance to review this new product yet, it touts some new features that at least appear to be pretty compelling.  I use BrowserHawk and CountryHawk for LakeQuincy's advertising solution, AdSignia, to ...

ASP.NET has some great support for Resources (for localization and internationalization, mainly), but unfortunately by default they're limited to the same project because they're generated with the internal keyword.  I wanted to be able to share common strings for things like Exception messages, format strings, and default messages between ...

One of my developers is doing some work on our Cruise Control setup and found this gem that I'd somehow missed: CCNetConfig.  A slick little GUI for editing your ccnet.config file (screenshots).  Seems to work well enough for most of the common settings - I haven't used it enough myself yet to really fully review or evaluate it, but the ...