Contents tagged with Tips and Tricks
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CSS Control Adapter Toolkit Update
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Tip/Trick: Creating Re-Usable Project and Item Templates with VS 2005
Typically when you work on projects you have a standard approach that you like to use to structure and organize your code (folder layout, default namespaces included, assembly references included by default, standard CSS stylesheets included, etc). This is often the first thing developers setup and do when they first start a new project.
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ASP.NET 2.0 Tips/Tricks TechEd Talk Posted
Many thanks to everyone in New Zealand who attended my "ASP.NET 2.0: Tips and Tricks" talk this morning.
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Tip/Trick: Creating Sub-Web Projects using the VS 2005 Web Application Project Option
One scenario that many large development teams often ask me about is whether it is possible to split up/partition an ASP.NET web application into multiple projects within Visual Studio. The goal with doing this is typically to improve the modularity of large sites and/or to improve the IDE compile-time performance for large projects.
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Tip/Trick: Show Detailed ASP.NET Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers)
Problem: You are developing/maintaining an ASP.NET web-site, and would like the ability to conditionally show/hide runtime error messages depending on who the user visiting the site is.
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My ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas "Highlights Page"
Several people have sent me email lately asking for a suggested short-list of my best/favorite past blog posts to read (I’ve done 200 posts over the last 12 months and apparently it takes too long to read them all <g>).
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ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas
This page lists some of the more popular “ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas” posts I’ve done. My goal is to add new posts to the series regularly going forward – so bookmark this page for updates, or subscribe to my blog via this RSS feed.
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Common Gotcha: Slow VS 2005 Web Site Build Performance Because of “Dueling Assembly References”
September Update: For more details on how to optimize web project build performance in VS 2005, please review this blog post I did here.
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Rules to Better Software Development
I found this great guide to .NET best practices the other day from SSW discussing recommended coding standards. It provides a categorized list of best practices to follow when doing software (and specifically .NET) development. You can read the .NET best practices guide here. Very useful stuff.
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Recipe: Implementing Role Based Security with ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server
You are building an Intranet expense report application for your organization, and want to enable role-based authentication and authorization capabilities within it. Specifically, you want to create logical roles called “approvers”, “auditors”, and “administrators” for the application, and grant/deny end-users access to functionality within the application based on whether they are in these roles.