Forgive me for sounding my own trumpet, so to speak… but this is a significant milestone for me! Developer Fusion has reached over 500,000 unique users* in the last 30 days, which is great news, and the first time it’s broken this (albeit artificial) barrier. Next target: 750,000! Many thanks to everyone who helps out or participates in the community. … Read more “Developer Fusion reaches 1/2 Million Unique Users/month”
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Developer Events in January
Just thought I’d post some information about upcoming developer events in January dotted around the UK! If you haven’t been to one before, why not give it a go?
- Ian Griffiths on C# 3.0Thursday, 12 January 2006, 18:30 – 21:00 in London, UK (London .NET User Group)
With the covers barely off on C# 2.0 we are planning on kicking
ASP.NET 2.0 gives us a Page.Title property, which we can set in code, or in the Page directive. Great! Unfortunately, I had a requirement so that whilst I’d be setting a portion of the title from the page, the rest would be pre-defined (ideally within the master page that I use). Obviously you can’t fiddle the stuff in the server-side … Read more “Why is the HtmlHead class sealed?”
I've now got some enhanced UK developer event listings up on Developer Fusion – check it out at UK Developer Events. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Made a nice use of the Google Maps API to do this… (sorry Microsoft, but the MapPoint service is way out of my price league!). Next on the cards will be setting up … Read more “Enhanced UK Developer Event Listings”
I’m not sure I should really admit to not knowing this… but today was the first time I’d realised that the “class” attribute for elements within a HTML document can accept more than one class name. doh.
Update: Here’s a simple example. With the following in your style sheet…
.align-c { text-align: center; }.font-b { font-weight: bold; }
You can … Read more “Multiple CSS Classes”
Hmm. Talk about over-engineering. I don’t think we really need generics at all, provided we’re happy with a cast outside the method instead of inside it.
public delegate object MethodExecution();public static object GetCachedMethod(string key, DateTime absoluteExpiration, MethodExecution method){ if (HttpContext.Current.Cache[key] == null) HttpContext.Current.Cache.Insert(key, method(), null, absoluteExpiration, Cache.NoSlidingExpiration);
return HttpContext.Current.Cache[key]; }...return (DataSet)GetCachedMethod(key, DateTime.Now.AddDays(1), delegate() { return SomeMethodThatReturnsADataSet(myParam); });… Read more “Caching Method Results in ASP.NET 2.0 using Delegates”
Today I found myself coding a fairly familiar pattern – checking whether there was an entry in the ASP.NET cache with a particular key, if not, executing a method and adding the result to the cache, and either way, returning the result.
I wondered whether there was a “nice” way to do this using generics and anonymous delegates. This is … Read more “Caching Method Results in ASP.NET 2.0 using Generics & Delegates”
Discovered something new today – normally I’d just use the TRUNCATE TABLE command in order to reset an identity column in a table within SQL Server. However, SQL Server doesn’t let you do this if you’ve got foreign key constraints pointing at the table; so instead, I deleted all the rows using a standard DELETE statement, and then reset the … Read more “Re-setting Identity Column in SQL Server”
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AJAX in ASP.NET
For those of you who missed my presentation on AJAX in ASP.NET at DDD II… or just want to see me mess up in my first demo again, you can now download a video of it from here. Enjoy! :-,,)
Well, the second DDD day has come and gone – and I think I can safely say from everyone I’ve talked to, it was a great success. My thanks go out to all of you for making it such a great event. If you were there, and haven’t yet given feedback on the event, do it now at http://www.developerday.co.uk/ddd/feedback2.asp to … Read more “DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper II – Summary”
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Atlas Preview Website Live
It looks like the Atlas preview site is now live at http://atlas.asp.net/ … time to start getting my AJAX slides updated!
Sarah Blow is also organising a “Geek Dinner” so that people can get together after DDD to socialise for a bit – great idea! Check out http://www.thehughpage.com/DeveloperDayGeekDinner. (This will also be co-ordinated with whatever Microsoft is planning to do after the event)