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ASP.NET DevConnection Samples

The Samples that I ran/demo'd in Orlando for the April 2008 DevConnections can be downloaded from the following zip file. http://www.ScottCate.com/Ajax2008.zip  ...

Scott Cate Ajax Demo Code

If you've seen me present in a user group or VSLive or any other event, and the topic was on Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax extenstions, chances are you're looking for this code link :) http://www.scottc...

We finally made Channel 9

PDC this year was a lot of fun. The weekend prior to PDC, we were able to have some fun sailing in the Pacific Ocean. While on deck, my friend Lorin Thwaits, whips out a video camera, and convinced me...

The Famous Laptop Stands

Will ship wtihin 1 business day. Buy through PayPal :: 19.99 This is a copy of a regular running ebay Auction. The price is the same, but this page is always available. Mouse Over Images to ...

Loking for the new ConfigurationManager

I was just spinning up a little console applicaiton, as a utility, and I'm pulling an encrypted connection string from the app.config file. Using 1.1 code that I'm used to, I used.... System.Configura...

Securing Trace.axd - Remote & Local

In the Arizona .NET User Group (http://www.AZDNUG.com) that I run we were talking about tracing and all the awesome features and abilities it has and we ran into a problem. You may know that if tracin...

Looking for System.Web.Ui.Design

I just inherited a project where one of the class files was "using System.Web.UI.Design;" My project did not compile of course, because I didn't have the assembly referenced. I had System.Web alread...

Announcement: 2005 MVP Award

Thank you to Microsoft for awarding my community efforts with another MVP award. My first MVP award came one year ago in January 2004. The award is given for community work done the year before. I'll ...

November 2004 -- AZGroups.com Tips/Tricks

For my user group ( www.AZGroups.com ) ( November 2004 Session ) I will be showing ASP.NET tips and tricks. The Parentheses give hints to the files in the project that contain the code ...

Retrieving File and Request Path Information

It seems to be a very common practice to check the URL and File paths. Many, Many scenarios require this information, and it seems that a lot of native classes are commonly overlooked. To bring awaren...

Web.Config + string.format() Trick

One of the most common questions about the web.config file is... Is it secure Well it's as secure as you make it. Anyone with access to the file system, probably has access to the web.config file. So ...

Find and parse hyperlinks in string

<a[\s]href=["'](<url>[^"]+[.\s]*)["']>(<name>[^<]+[.\s]*)</a> Isn't she a beauty This is my first ever regular expression, that I actually come up with on my own. I did h...

HttpModule that acts as a SSL Switcher

If you're working with SSL and ASP.NET, you know it's a challenge to be able to know when to switch back and forth between HTTP and HTTPS calls. I've thrown together a little HttpModule that inpects r...

Steve Smith's Awesome Caching Pattern

My friend Steve Smith who wrote this article has solved a major problem for me. With his permission I'm duplicating some of his code here. About one in 50,000 page views, I was getting an "Objec...

Scott Watermasysk's HTML Friendly Code Viewer

If you've ever wondered how the color coded C Sharp Code files get displayed in my web pages. Scott Watermasysk's ShowCode.aspx page gives you the ability to paste in a code snippet. The page on post ...

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

My good friend Michael Palermo today showed me the best keyboard shortcut ever. In fact, this is to a feature I didn't even know existed. When in a code window for Visual Studio, you can go full scree...

HttpContext.Cache Viewer (With DataSet Support)

Aw, the HttpContext.Cache. Most of the items I place in the Cache are named with GUID's so it's not very helpful to loop through and print out the Cache Item Name. I've built this handy ASPX page that...

New Photo Album Application

I just treated myself to a new digital camera. I've been wanting this camera since I saw it over a year ago. A friend of mine took my picture with this credit card sized camera, and I was in love with...

[WINDOWS KEY] - More then just the start menu

The [WINDOWS KEY] usually found on your keyboard on either side of the space bar, or possibly on the outside of the [ALT] keys by pace-bar. If you don't have a [WINDOWS KEY] then this articl...

Microsoft says thanks with an MVP Award for 2004

Wew huuuu .... is that how you spell excitement Microsoft has handed me it's most distinguished award for my contributions to the ASP.net and .Net communities with an MVP award. This is most likely be...

Take a second and slow down to see what and who's around you.

About once every five years something happens in my life that just stops me dead in my tracks. Something so strong, it just makes me realize that the small stuff really doesn't matter. Some of the big...

Undocumented SQL 2003 Encryption Routines

My good friend Brady Gaster, once again, comes through with the best tip of today. A SQL guru he works with tipped him to this and he shared with me (just so proper credit gets served). Really pretty ...

ASPInsiders

I currently hold a board member position with www.ASPInsiders.com. I would like to address several commonly asked question, and give my opinion/answer to them, and what better place, then in my weblog...

Another Great Use of Reflection

I found this on Brady Gaster post, and it is a great article on reflection by Nick Harrison. Basically he creates a couple of attributes to mark up your code for change requests, and requirements trac...

MSDN Specific to ASP.NET

MSDN on Microsoft.com has a great recourse dedicated to ASP.NET. They also have an RSS feed that spits out the most recently updated articles. This is a great way for me to stay up to date with ASP.NE...

www.ASP.net

Microsoft has a dedicated website to ASP.NET development. It's full of articles and support issues. Probably the most helpful support area is asp.net/Forums where literally thousands of people are ava...

Reflection Data Access Layer

Reflection is an interesting topic. Code describing itself Code looking at and examining other code Well that pretty much describes what reflection is. First of I have to give thanks to my good friend...

Cycle through the Clipboard Ring

When you copy a block of text in Visual Studio (CTRL+C), you may not know that the text is placed on a "Clipboard Ring". So when you copy another text block, the first text block isn't removed, it's...

E-mail Support Groups - ASPAdvice.asp

ASPAdvice.com is a community site that runs e-mail lists dedicated to supporting ASP.NET. Each of these lists have members subscribed from around the world, and are full of helpful advice. Subscribing...

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