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CS2 - a personal source code search engine

As I blogged some time ago I have been developing a source code search engine called CS2 . I completed it lately and, although it's not as feature-rich as others - say, Koders Pro Edition - it works pretty fine and suites the needs of whomever needs...

Posted 13 September 2007 08:16 PM by simoneb | 8 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, C#, IoC

New SQLite provider for ELMAH

I bet you know what ELMAH is, don't you? ELMAH stands for Error Logging Modules and Handlers, and its main and only purpose is to log exceptions occurring in ASP.NET web applications, within which it integrates with just a couple of entries in the...

Posted 06 September 2007 03:05 AM by simoneb | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, C#, Tools

ASP.NET Internals - the second article is available for reading

The second article of my series about ASP.NET Internals is up. Before reading I reccomend giving a look at the first one however. It took me a while to write it since I had to fiddle into the ASP.NET infrastructure with several profilers to get to understand...

Posted 16 June 2007 06:38 AM by simoneb | with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET

ASP.NET Internals - follow my article series

A few days ago I wrote about the chance of writing technical articles for DotNetSlackers. My article has been published today and it's the first of a series of 3 or 4 about the ASP.NET infrastructure. In this article I talked about IIS and the process...

Posted 02 May 2007 01:39 PM by simoneb | with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET

ASP.NET Singleton-per-Page pattern

A while ago I blogged about a pattern useful to ensure that just a single instance of a class was created and used during a unique request-response pair. That seemed to make sense, since using the HttpContext.Items property prevents a single pipeline...

Posted 17 April 2007 04:18 AM by simoneb | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET

Using an HttpModule to detect page refresh

While reading through the excellent ASP.NET book written by Dino Esposito I've come across a solution to detect page refreshes using an HttpModule. When I read it I couldn't understand a line of the code and it seemed to me that it couldn't...

Posted 07 January 2007 04:21 AM by simoneb | 22 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET

Cascading autocomplete made easy

Over the last few days the API of the ScriptAculoUs.Net AutocompleteTextBox control has changed pretty much, since I've switched from a custom implementation based on reflection to the ASP.NET built-in callback mechanism. I chose to do the switch...

Posted 28 August 2006 05:20 AM by simoneb | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

The ASP.NET Singleton-per-Request pattern

Lately I needed to have an instance of a class to be unique for a certain amount of time, that is, one instance only of that class should exist for that time interval in my app domain. In these cases what comes to my mind is the Singleton Design Pattern...

Posted 21 August 2006 09:58 AM by simoneb | 9 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, C#

ImageReflection with the Atlas Control Toolkit

A few days ago I blogged about an ASP.NET control I wrote to apply a neat effect to the images of a web form. In the meanwhile I found another implementation of the same effect which is much lighter in the means of both kBytes and cpu work and does exactly...

Posted 16 August 2006 09:01 PM by simoneb | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, Tools

LiteBox meets Flickr: LiteBoxFlickrAlbum

Yesterday I got a link on my news aggregator pointing to a new article by Sam Judson on Coding4Fun , which talks about a .NET version of the API for the Flickr services . A nice idea immediately came to my mind, why not extending the LiteBoxAlbum control...

Posted 10 August 2006 04:17 AM by simoneb | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools

ScriptAculoUs.Net on Sourceforge Project Hosting

All my projects are grouped under one main repository located on Sourceforge , together with my main project, BusyBoxDotNet . The source code can be accessed via Subversion. Here are the links: Project homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/busybox...

Posted 05 August 2006 09:55 PM by simoneb | 29 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, BusyBoxDotNet, AJAX, Tools, Web Design

LiteBoxAlbum: Autogenerate LightBox-like photo albums

UPDATE 10/08/06: A couple new features, read the bottom of the post for details. Yesterday I posted about how I created a couple ASP.NET web controls to make it easy to generate a photo gallery using the LiteBox library. Ok now I have to make a confession...

Posted 04 August 2006 06:28 PM by simoneb | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

LightBox with ASP.NET

If you don't know what LightBoxes are check out the list at blinklist . Among them two implementantions caught my attention, the original LightBox JS 2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar and the lighter LiteBox by Tyler Mulligan. The final result is exactly the same...

Posted 04 August 2006 09:06 AM by simoneb | 61 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

SweetTitles - fading tooltips (and my extender)

Dustin Diaz , among other cool things, has written a nice Javascript library called SweetTitles to convert hyperlink's Title attribute (Tooltip property in ASP.NET HyperLink web controls) - those yellow popups appearing when you hover the mouse over them...

Posted 31 July 2006 06:12 AM by simoneb | 20 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

Reflection for images... not *that* Reflection!

First just relax, I'm not talking about *that* Reflection , instead about reflecting images. Yes I said that. Thomas Fuchs, the inventor of script.aculo.us , whom you may have guessed I like pretty much, has an exciting post on his blog where he shows...

Posted 30 July 2006 06:38 AM by simoneb | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Tools, Web Design

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