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I have hosted my site on a shared hosting server and have to live with the reality of limited database/web space, recently my database space was shooting up and I was really worried about it.
My posting (blogs) are not too long to reach a whopping...
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DataList control is a template driven data control which allows us to display a list of data in a customizable format. Simply speaking we will define how the data is to be displayed and assign a data source, the control in turn uses the data source and...
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System.Net.Mail provides us with a very intuitive object model to construct and send an email message.
These days almost all the web and windows email clients gives us more control over the email content we wish to view (a.k.a HTML view, plain...
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India was an Information Technology super power, wait a minute did I say was and not is.....
Yes you read it right, and the politicians are adamant to prove it.
According to NDTV there is unconfirmed reports that Department Of Telecom has issued...
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To be short and sweet, a good website should remember my preferrences. So that the next time I visit , I get a personalized welcome.
So how do we achieve this without using the out of the box solution provided by ASP.Net 2.0?
Create couple of tables...
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Scott Mitchell has put together an awesome tutorial on building and using 3-tiered date architecture with ASP.Net 2.0
It's available here
The flow of the tutorial is excellent, you can also download the tutorials in pdf format....
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At first it might look irrelevant and you might ask "What has .Net Profile to do with my optical business?", just sit back, relax and read on as it will be evident that it is relevant.
Around 5 years back while I was pursuing my graduation...
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In my last post , I walked through a simple example of an ActionResult that you can use to transmit a file to the user’s browser along with a download prompt. The MVC framework will include several useful action results for common tasks. However, we might not cover all results you might want to return. In this post, I walk through a simple result that will cover all remaining cases. With the DelegatingResult , you simply pass it a delegate. This provides ultimate control. Let’s see it in action.... [ read more] |
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The April CodePlex source drop of ASP.NET MVC introduces the concept of returning an ActionResult instance from action methods. ScottGu wrote about this change on his blog . In this post, I’ll walk through building a custom action result for downloading files. As you’ll see, they are extremely easy to build. Let’s start at the end and see what the end-user behavior of this new result will be. Here's a page that contains a link to an action method named Download . This action method returns t... [ read more] |
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I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-sixth ( half a year! ) in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." Sometimes when I read code, I kick myself (mentally) and say "Man, I should have thought of that!" Then I realize I'm not nearly as good a programmer as I think I am, and t... [ read more] |
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The folks at Internet.com are running this cool content. ENTER BY THE 15th !! Description: The RIA Run challenge is designed for you to showcase your knowledge of Silverlight 2 to the world— and potentially win prizes for it. By taking advantage of such Silverlight 2 features as layout manager support, two-way data-binding support, control template and skinning support, core form controls and built-in layout management controls, you can show the world what you can do with the most advanced... [ read more] |
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What does it mean to be a man today? How can men consciously express their masculinity without becoming cold or closed-hearted on the one hand… or wimpy and emasculated on the other? What’s the most loving way for a conscious man to express himself?
Here are 10 ways to live more consciously as a man:
1. Make [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Be a Man", url: "http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-be-a-man/" });
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When debugging, some of you may have noticed that looking at a managed callstack looks a little different then a native one. One of the big differences is that you don't see the parameters that are passed to the function. So what can we...(read more)
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Today I came across a really good article for bloggers, Scott Hanselmans post on " Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking " I realize that most of you are not bloggers, and also that I am breaking rule #7 and #8 on the list here:) 7. Don't post throwaways I try to have a minimum length to a post. If you don't think about your blog post, likely no one else will either. If I want to save a link, rather than posting "I want to save this link, so I'm blo... [ read more] |
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I very frequently get emails like the one I got this morning: "Tess, It sounds like the hotfix for kb946644 may resolve a problem we've been having for some time in .Net 2.0. How, exactly, can we get this hotfix? Can you provide it?" This particular hotfix was one i blogged about here, regarding a deadlock with the GC when using XmlSchemaSet.Add... but the answer will be the same for any hotfix. Many new hotfixes in the Visual Studio or .net framework area are available for public ... [ read more] |
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We got some really good answers to this quiz. I am going to give my answer but it isn’t the only possible way to resolve this. The easiest way is to use my previous post found at ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag to track down where a performance...(read more)
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Mindmapping tools can be great for flushing out design ideas. Here is a cool FREE Mind Mapping tool built with .NET 3.0 http://cayra.net/ Read More......(read more)
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Daily Standup Transcription 06 May 2008 1300 Zulu Time In 00:02:34.66
"… so, yesterday I continued the refactorafication of some classes. The job isn't easy, but I'm going to work hard and continue the collaborativity with my programming partner. Together, we will eliminate the evil of legacy code operating inside the code base.
I know it's been slow going, but we did misundestimerate the threat of static ... static … statictistical dependencies in the code.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to ... [ read more] |
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I’ve written a lot about the mindset behind becoming a lightworker (or darkworker), but what do lightworkers actually do? What does the business of lightworking look like?
First, it’s important to understand that the ultimate goal of a lightworker is basically the expansion and elevation of consciousness. Darkworkers have essentially the same primary aim, but lightworkers [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lightworking", url: "http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/lightworking/" })... [ read more] |
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For this quiz. Let’s say that you run a web server and your customers complain that the site is running slow. What do you do to troubleshoot it? As a follow-up, if you figure out that one page is the problem, what do you do to look into what...(read more)
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Add this awesome FAQ by Dave Wanta to your bookmarks. All about Sending email in .NET 2.0 If you're still a .NET 1.x user, see here http://www.systemwebmail.com/ Read More......(read more)
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If I were to pick out ten keywords for my blog I would pick, in no particular order, ASP.net, windbg, sos, debugging, .net exceptions, memory leaks, performance issues, OutOfMemory exceptions, garbage collection, troubleshooting. Those are the things that I think, but I might be wrong, that people who visit my blog are most interested in. As with most other technical blogs (I think), about half of the traffic to my blog comes from people searching on various search engines, but what really surpr... [ read more] |
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