Contents tagged with Tips
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You design databases, but do you know about Normal Forms?
Some things need to be repeated from time to time, again and again: "The data in a record depends on The Key to the record, The Whole Key, and Nothing But The Key, so help me Codd."
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Let ASP.NET know you have a powerful web browser like Firefox or Opera
By default ASP.NET 1.x downgrades its reponses to lower-level HTML with web browsers other than Internet Explorer 5+.
The result is that browsers like Mozilla, Firefox, Opera or Safari get a different HTML than IE 6, while they could handle it. As a developer this is a nightmare because when you develop a page with IE, and then test it with Firefox, it looks all broken and you start cursing the Mozilla team and the consortiums in charge of the standards. You end up having to do the work twice, once for IE, once for the other browsers. -
Versioning, probing and binding in .NET
It's written in a clear style, and provides practical and valuable information with code snippets on the following subjects : assemblies, metadata, fusion / fuslogvw, versioning (including versioning without a strong name), rebinding/redirection, shared assemblies, publisher policies, dynamic loading, etc.
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Re-throwing exceptions with variants of throw
At least a clear explaination of the difference between "throw;" and "throw ex;". Thanks Oleg.
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Copy Constructors vs ICloneable
Shawn A. Van Ness presents various approaches for cloning objects, problems with ICloneable, and of course solutions. The discussion mainly revolves around copy constructors vs the ICloneable interface.
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Firefox and Mozilla search plug-ins for Google Desktop Search
Now that Google Desktop Search is out (still beta), it's already time to improve the user experience ;-)
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View exception information while debugging in Visual Studio
I had met that one once, but I had forgotten it existed... Really useful! But somewhat a hidden treasure.
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How to turn off/disable the .NET JIT Debugging Dialog
A day may come when you want to turn off the Debug dialog that appears when a .NET program has an unhandled exception.
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Need an ASP.NET hoster? - webhost4life review
Update: Given changes at webhost4life (new owner, new support, new control panel, new hosting environments) at the beginning of 2010, the review below is outdated. I now recommend Arvixe and OrcsWeb.
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Reporting spam
How do you report spam? I use SpamCop, and you, what is your preferred response to spam?