After giving my Code Generation talk last night, I promised I would post the materials, but I was too tired by the time I got home. And then this morning, I decided to just relink up the materials from the Day of .NET back in May, since it's exactly the… more »

I'm giving my Code Generation and CodeSmith presentation tomorrow night at MADNUG tomorrow night. This is the third time I've done this presentation, so I pretty much have it down now, so if you're in the South Bend, IN area, I'd love for you to come by… more »

This is probably my favorite little trick. It allows you to take a control and render it as a string. Why is this useful? I can think of several spots you could use this. First, now that AJAX is much more prevalent, you could use it in an AJAX call - you… more »

I'm currently doing some enhancements to a client's website to take advantage of a few of the cool new features available in ASP.NET 2.0, such as AJAX, master pages and themes. We'd upgraded the site shortly after we launched it originally (on .NET 1.1),… more »

Here's?a post from Mads Kristensen from back in October about adding variables to CSS stylesheets. He provides a sample of what you can do, and then gives you a couple of different options for using it, depending on whether you have access to modify IIS… more »

If you read this in a feed reader, then you probably haven't noticed any changes, but I just launched a new blog skin tonight. It's not completely mine?- it's based on a simple skin from Andreas Viklund, customized to work with b2evolution. Overall, I'm… more »

Derik Whitaker posts about what he feels are best practices to using Enums in switch statements. He says that if the switch statement is the main path through a method, there should always be a default, and unless you have a specific thing to do in the d… more »