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Tip/Trick: Url Rewriting with ASP.NET
People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes...
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Tip/Trick: Integrating ASP.NET Security with Classic ASP and Non-ASP.NET URLs
One of the questions I am often asked is "How can I integrate ASP.NET security with Classic ASP other non-ASP.NET URLs?". Specifically, people want to know if they can integrate ASP.NET's Forms...
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Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates
SSL enables browsers to communicate with a web-server over a secure channel that prevents eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery. You should always use SSL for login pages where users are...
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Tip/Trick: Supporting Full Screen Mode with Silverlight
One of the nice features that Silverlight supports is the ability to go "full screen" and effectively take over the entire screen of a computer (hiding everything else from sight - including the...
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Tip/Trick: Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005
Scenario You have built an ASP.NET Web Application using Visual Studio 2005, and want to enable customers to automatically install and deploy it on servers via an easy setup program. Specifically, you...
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July 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight and IIS7
I've fallen behind on my weekly link-listing series - apologies for the delay. ASP.NET ASP.NET RSSToolkit 2.0 Released: One of the cool projects for ASP.NET 2.0 that was released last year was this...
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Public Hotfix Patch Available for VS 2005 F5 Debugging Performance Issue with...
Over the last year we've seen several people report having performance problems when using F5 to run/debug ASP.NET 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2005. The problem in theses cases typically...
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Tip/Trick: Automating Dev, QA, Staging, and Production Web.Config Settings...
One of the questions I get asked fairly regularly is: "how can I can easily change different configuration settings in my web.config file based on whether my application is in a dev, qa, staging or...
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Tip/Trick: Building a ToJSON() Extension Method using .NET 3.5
Earlier this year I blogged about a new language extensibility feature of C# and VB called "Extension Methods". Extension methods allow developers to add new methods to the public contract of an...
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Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance
People often ask me at conferences for PC hardware recommendations. Specifically - "what type of machine do you recommend I get for doing development with Visual Studio?" and/or "your laptop seems...
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Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls
One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by...
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Tip/Trick: Increase your VS screen real estate by disabling HTML Navigation Bar
Below is a tip/trick I twittered via my Twitter account earlier today. A number of people seemed interested in – so I thought i'd blog it here too. HTML Navigation Bar in VS 2008 By default, when you...
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Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension
Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site. A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will...
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Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio. My friend...
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Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio
This is the twenty-seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post continues on from the Debugging Tips post I did last week, and covers some useful...
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