Mike Swanson's got the news that all of the sessions from the 72 hour conversation known as Mix '06 is online, and will be for at least 6 months. Time to get the downloaders going. When will Microsoft get on board and start distributing this stuff via t… more »

Earlier this year, I spent a lot of quality time with Reflector digging into the XmlSiteMapProvider to figure out how I could make it work with the URL rewriting we were implementing. I eventually found it, and determined what method I had to override to… more »

Dave Donaldson prodded me this morning to get off my butt and post an update to my previous multi-sorting comparer, and I'm going to do that now. Man, Dave, get off my back! Ok. He didn't prod. He asked if I'd updated it to support Generics, which I had.… more »

I've been developing web applications since '99 (long time, huh?), but this is the first time I've seen anything about standards for accessibility on web pages. But apparently there are some. You use the Control key in conjunction with the defined access… more »

One of my clients just got word that they will be moving where they host their servers, and the new environment is much stricter than the old one. The public website will be in an outer DMZ and only able to communicate with an inner DMZ. The database ser… more »

I've harped on Visual Studio 2005's website projects quite a bit lately, and I'm going to move to the web application model now that it's been officially released. But, I did want to talk about one last issue I've seen, because it's a doozy. Some backgro… more »

I've been looking at a few different design patterns, and one of the popular ones among TDD evangelists is Inversion of Control, or Dependency Injection. Both sound complicated. Or did, until I saw this from James Shore. Bottom line from James (literally… more »

Mike Swanson is reporting that about 50 sessions from Mix06 will be available online for free - for everyone. Microsoft did the same thing for PDC '05, so I was hoping this was going to happen. Expect to see it in three to four weeks. I spoke with Brian,… more »

We're going through an existing application with an eye on performance. One of the first things we noticed was viewstate. We had quite a few pages that were pretty heavy, so we started looking at what we could do about it. The obvious choice was to reduc… more »

I've been slowly reading a book on Design Patterns, but I've recently started looking at dofactory.com, mainly because it has it's samples written in C#. It's odd how a description can seem so vague, but seeing code crystalizes the concept. Well, that's… more »