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Date: 2007-12-18

The Dangers Of The New ASP.NET MVC Framework
I've been following the new ASP.NET MVC framework quite close lately because it looks so cool. Not only does it make your website testable in a much richer way, but it also adds abstraction between your different UI tiers.

Date: 2007-12-07

Website Architecture's Backwards
Any application ever build have an architect designing it. That architect could be a software architect, lead developer or just a regular code monkey and probably all of them at some point or the other.

Date: 2007-11-30

ASP.NET 2.0 - The Expando Attribute
By coincidence I noticed a method I've never seen before on the ClientScript property of the page class in ASP.NET 2.0. It's called something as cryptic as RegisterExpandoAttribute and it's very useful.

Date: 2007-10-19

URL Rewrites & The HtmlForm Action Attribute
A known bug in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0 is that the action attribute of a form doesn't respect URL rewrites. Everyone that uses URL rewrites uses one of several mechanisms to take care of the action attribute bug.

Date: 2007-09-26

Rackspace: Supporting more than just your configuration
Starting with Fanatical Support™, Rackspace is about one thing and one thing only—supporting you. It goes way beyond just your box or configuration. What's outside the box, our people, technical expertise, Zero-Downtime Network™, data centers and guarantees all exist to make your IT life easier. It's what makes us the hosting experts and everyone else just hosting providers.

Date: 2007-09-19

What Do You Want Your Website To Do?
The goal of Ektron CMS400.NET is to provide you with one single application that gives you all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your website.

Date: 2007-09-18

Startups Aren't Thinking About ASP.Net
Higher costs and fewer skilled .Net hackers may be limiting startups to going with the hordes of Linux and C/C++ or Java developers and tools available when setting up shop.

Date: 2007-09-07

Invalid Postback Or Callback Argument
I've hooked a health provider up in my web.config to send me all unhandled exceptions by e-mail. See here how to do that - you just have to put some lines in the web.config.

Date: 2007-08-24

Making Your ASP.NET App Extendable
People have asked me how we build the extension model into BlogEngine.NET. There's nothing to it - really, there isn't.You need one small class and 14 lines of code in the global.asax.

Date: 2007-08-03

Localizing ASP.NET (Which Is Best?)
There are different approaches to localizing an ASP.NET application. You can use a global resource file or local ones. The local resource files only applies to a single page or user control, whereas the global can be used from anywhere.

Date: 2007-07-13

ASP.NET Security: Remove The X-AspNet-Version Header
I've always been a little annoyed by the fact that ASP.NET websites sends the version number as a HTTP header. For an ASP.NET 2.0 application this is added automatically to the headers and you cannot remove it from code.

Date: 2007-06-29

ASP.NET: Don't Use The ThreadPool
I've always been a big fan of using the ThreadPool for asynchronous execution, but in ASP.NET it is not the best approach for multi-threading. I'm not writing about when threading is appropriate and the impact of multi-core or dual core machines when doing threading, but point out that the ThreadPool is not the best choice for ASP.NET applications.

Date: 2007-06-22

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Date: 2007-06-20

BlogEngine.NET 1.0 Officially Released
Some of the most common and dangerous application security vulnerabilities that exist in ASP.NET Web-based applications come not from the C# or VB.NET code that make up its pages and service methods, but instead from the XML code that makes up its Web.config files..

Date: 2007-06-08

BlogEngine.NET 1.0 Officially Released
We released the first version of BlogEngine.NET for anyone to download and use. This is very exciting to me because I've spent many hours during the last couple of months designing and coding in my spare time.

Date: 2007-05-25

Application Security Vulnerabilities In Web.config Files
These days, the biggest threat to an organization's network security comes from its public Web site and the Web-based applications found there. Unlike internal-only network services such as databases-which can be sealed off from the outside via firewalls-a public...

Date: 2007-05-04

ASP.NET - Asynchronous GridView In 5 Steps
A web page with a data bound GridView control can take a long time to load. The page is not rendered until all the controls are, and the GridView cannot render before data has been retrieved from the database.

Date: 2007-04-20

BlogEngine.NET: Events In The File & Image Handlers
In BlogEngine.NET, all files and images that are inserted on a post will be served using an HttpHandler. Actually, they are served by FileHandler and ImageHandler respectively. They are almost identically and they both share the same event model.

Date: 2007-04-06

New Blog Engine Written In ASP.NET 1.1
For more than a year, I've been blogging on the excellent dasBlog engine and it has been good. I really like the fact that it runs on XML instead of a database. However, it is written in ASP.NET 1.1 and is quite cumbersome to extend and that's a problem for...

Date: 2007-03-23

ASP.NET: Count Clicks On External Links
On a small test website I'm building in my spare time, I wanted a way to count the number of clicks to the outgoing links from that site. Imaging hosting banners or other affiliate links where you get paid per click, it would be nice to know how many have clicked on them instead of relying on the advertiser's own statistics.

Date: 2007-03-09

Utilizing the Power of ASP.NET
Ektron CMS400.net lets you do more than just what you need to do on the web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the web...

Date: 2007-03-02

Creating Reusable User Controls In ASP.NET
In almost every web project of any size, you would probably use a lot of user controls to separate the content and UI logic. Many of the user controls are used only at one place in the solution while others are used by various pages and other user controls.

Date: 2007-02-27

ASP.NET: Is It Too Easy?
Some time ago, I wrote a post called "Is ASP.NET too difficult?" and I strongly believe that it is. Yet at the same time it cause problems by making it too easy to do relative advanced programming. It doesn't seem to be a problem.

Date: 2007-02-16

ASP.NET: Make GridView Control Accessible
The GridView is a new web control in ASP.NET 2.0 and is an improvement of the old DataGrid. One of the biggest issues with the DataGrid was the lack of standard compliance and accessibility. This has been fixed in the new GridView along with a lot of other things as well.

Date: 2007-01-26

ASP.NET - Block IP Addresses From Your Site
Recently, one of my readers asked me how to block certain IP addresses from accessing his ASP.NET website. It was a good question that could be answered in multiple correct ways.

Date: 2007-01-12