Julia Lerman provides a link to Mike Gunderloy's newest book - Developer To Designer. I'm reading through Coder To Developer right now (slowly, as usual), and it's a great book with a great list of tools in it. The website is a good resource too, as it h… more »

Stuart Celarier sat down for lunch with Rory Blythe (two blogs definitely worth reading - Rory's is rather strange, but very entertaining), and they talked about web services. As if you needed one more angle to go at the whole objects vs. datasets argume… more »

We are currently using forms authentication in my current project. The Tourney Pool Manager also uses forms authentication. Both go against a database to determine if the user is authenticated. It took me quite a while to figure it out on my own. T… more »

Again, I'm finding this much later than I should have, but Frans Bouma has an article talking about different methods to develop your software. Not Agile versus waterfall, but actual architecture, like managers versus a domain model. It's a good di… more »

One of the bloggers over at WWWCoder has a post about making the title of an ASP.NET web form dynamic. Basically, you make the title tag run at the server, then declare it as an HtmlGenericControl. Then you can set the InnerText on it, and it works. Whi… more »

Willem Odendaal is looking for feedback on the best book for learning to create server controls. Personally, I've used books one (Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components) and three (Professional ASP.NET Server Controls). Three is… more »

We are using log4net for logging on our current project. I've never used it before, so I had a learning curve to figure out how to use it. It's a very good logging service, and now, after using it for a while, I found this. It's a good introduction artic… more »

If you haven't checked out the do factory website, you should. It's a great resource for design patterns, and includes sample code written in C#. more »

This is a little old, but Fabrice modified Fritz Onion's HttpModule for URL rewriting to use regular expressions. Then, in Fabrice's comments, someone mentioned the idea of writing the config settings to an XML file, which can be generated from a d… more »

It looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't use the design time support of Visual Studio. I've been burned too many times by the designer changing my code. And I'm still getting burned by it because some of my team members use it, and it screws up my… more »