Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Beta 2 of Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability from the Patterns and Practices book. As?Sam Gentile?blogged about beta 1 of this book, it contains a wealth of information for all .NET developers, but most particularly Architects. A must read! [Quick Tip] Scott Hanselman shares some JavaScript code…

Tabbing in a TextArea/TextBox

Tabbing in a TextArea or a TextBox?has been a distant feature to think of up until now, as Justin Lovell?shares a?simple?JavaScript (IE 5+ only) which makes it possible to insert a tab via the keyboard into a?TextArea or a TextBox. Here’s the article…

Modal WebForms

Brendan Tompkins?shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don’t like the idea of?using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in?project?implementations except for some basic validation routines, but Brendan’s concept reminded me of…

Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET

I came across dotnetcoders.com while searching for a UI component on Google. The site hasn’t been updated in months but I did find some nice articles on their site: Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET Demystifying Regular Expressions MCAD/MCSD.NET Certification Guide Guide to UML Diagrams…

Mono Live!

mo8il?seems to be one of the first real & live?ASP.NET application powered by Mono. [Via Miguel]…

Craftsmanship

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship?where he?rightly?points-out — “Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it’s design.” Also, Amit Kalani has written some preparation books for the MCAD and MCSD…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing. [via Siva Rama Krishna] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid. UltraGrid for Avalon is a functional grid control that supports hierarchical data, column sizing, multi-column sorting…