Contents tagged with .NET Development
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How to determine object responsibility?
Right now I'm working on a project that requires its own custom registration/authentication system and it got me thinking about object responsiblity and OO design.
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Firefox Support for WebParts & Atlas
I just have to point to this, because of the "cool" factor. Some really awesome stuff being developed, and I'm really glad to see it supporting Firefox since it's been my main browser for about 2 years now.
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Annoyance in Windows Forms 2.0 - ContextMenuStrip Controls
When you add a MenuStrip control to your form - the Windows Forms Designer automatically sets it as the menu for the MainMenuStrip property of your form. However, when you add a ContextMenuStrip control to your form, it does not set it as the context menu in the ContextMenuStrip property automatically. You have to go set it manually yourself. I wonder what the reason is for this - anybody know?
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Get a descriptive size string for your uploads
In an ASP.NET page, when you've used a System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile control in your page - sometimes you want to get the size of the file uploaded. The HttpPostedFile class has a ContentLength property - but the value attainable by using the .ToString() method leaves something to be desired. So, here is a simple little method I wrote to get you a more descriptive string from the ContentLength value - I thought I'd share it here for anyone that wants to do something similar.
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How-To-Select a Charting Component for .NET
My first How-To-Select Guide on Charting components for .NET has finally made it's way onto the web!
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What is your RSS strategy and how is it designed?
As I've been working on my DevCampus.com website, one of the things I am taking very seriously and spending time thinking about and researching is my RSS strategy (or "xml feeds" in general, I'd like to at least offer ATOM and maybe another format to please everyone).
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Amazon.com Web Services
Since I'm an author and I like to write about technical stuff, I'd really like to be able to use Amazon.com's web services to display books on my DevCampus.com website that relate to the topic(s) covered in an article or whatever text is on the page. Sorta like the way Google AdSense works, but for books. For example, on an article page that covers XML Web Services, I'd like to see the top 4 or 5 search results for XML Web Services (w/ a cover shot image, associate link, price (maybe), isbn, star rating (maybe), etc.) in a simple ASP.NET user/server control package. From what I've looked at so far, it seems like Amazon.com Web Services are up to the task. And it's free to register as a web services developer - nice.
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Data Modeling and Enums
How should enums be modeled in your database? Static Lookup Table? Or should they be left out of the data model and contained only in the object model? Specifically, I'm thinking about an enum that is represented in the UI layer by something like a combo or list box.
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Visual Studio 2005 Guide now online!
There had been a lull for a while in getting new guides published to the internet over at Xtras HowToSelectGuides.com website. Just the other day though, Mike S published the Visual Studio 2005 Guide, written by Mike Gunderloy.
What I'm even more jazzed about is that the first guide that I wrote on .NET Charting components, is next in line to be published. When it gets published, it will be here.
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Installing the aspnetdb on SqlExpress
I've been cruising around the ASP.NET 2.0 beta forums and the web w/ Google at my side, but this one is just kicking my butt so far.