My interests include .NET, Sci-Fi, trashy TV and Whisky...(surprisingly I'm single - go figure! :-)). Anyway, thought I'd give all non Scots (yes, Scots...Scotch is a whisky...not a nationality) a recommendation on what Scotches are worth checking out... The…
The following is via Roy Osherove's blog.. Interesting research aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The…
I currently use a batch job with analog for the stats for this site, but it isn't perfect (I like to see a list of visitors in chronological order for instance, which analog doesn't provide...). Brian Desmond has published a handy little article on the set up…
Why doesn't the .NET implementation of Web Services support GZIP compression? I've found a couple of articlesdescribing how to implement it, but I'll have to do a bit of digging (my Reference.cs doesn't have the mentioned methods...). I'd have thought that Web…
To cut a long story short, even though I've used .NET since the first beta (in 1999), I never got around to using Winforms - no, really! I have developed winforms apps in VB6 and swing apps in Java, just never got round to writing a C# Winforms app... To cut a…
I did not know this was possible or so easy! Just found out you can extend XSLT (so you can use bits of code in there) from C# have a look here and here for the lowdown... This would have saved me so much time...why haven't I read about this before? Maybe I…
AspToday has a really good article on grouping validators in ASP.NET - client as well as server side (which I hadn't seen in a code sample before). Anyway, you need a subscription to view it (sorry, but it is worth it!) here's the article.
Very simple, but Dan Bright points out that: No to all? Ever get one of those messagebox prompts with the options: Yes, Yes To All, No, Cancel? Where is No To All? I will tell you! Hold the shift button when you click no and it will apply that to all following…
I really should be asleep (it's 1:30am - I need sleep!). Anyway, whilst my self-imposed insomnia is still in control, I foung this interesting little article on "10 Rock-Solid UI Tips" at the Infragistics site. Some pretty useful little tidbits there, althougn…
Also from the land of UserAgents, just discovered this, shows a map of the world with constantly updating blog entries...quite mesmeric actually!