Articles by AspDotNetDev (Articles: 4, Tip/Tricks: 23)

Learn how to embed JavaScript into a DLL, manage dependencies, and avoid page bloat.

Umbrazure streamlines development and hosting ASP.NET websites atop Umbraco 6 on Azure.

SlimList is a C# implemention of IList that uses less memory than List.

StringBuilderPlus facilitates prefixing and suffixing strings and StringBuilderPluses in an efficient manner.

This can be automated and streamlined with generics. First, create a SessionVariable class:public class SessionVariable{ private string VariableName { get; set; } private System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState Session { get; set; } public T Value { get ...

Rather than use multiple subqueries to extract TOP 1 data, this shows you how to use a single TOP 1 JOIN.

I agree that in the above example, the use of var is a bit excessive. However, for very long types (such as a dictionary with the key and value both being lists of some nested classes... see below code example), this might actually improve readability (seeing so many details may overwhelm you). Assu

If you are the type that likes to debug production code, you can use SQL Profiler to find queries generated by your LINQ statements. This is a technique I recently used because it was so simple and did not require me to recompile anything.Note that StefanHam already posted this alternate...

This version works regardless of parameters:public void AnyMethod(int parameter){ MethodInvoker wrapper = new MethodInvoker(delegate() { // Do your thing here! }); if (this.InvokeRequired) this.Invoke(wrapper); else wrapper();}Note also...

If you place your ASP.Net embedded code blocks after the controls they reference, you may not get the output you expected.

There are many ways to insert a newline in the output of an XSLT, but this is probably the easiest.

Lambdas can be composed of multiple lines of code.

I prefer this technique (uses less memory and may be faster, but requires slightly more code):public bool IsPalindrome(string str, StringComparison comparisonType){ bool valid = true; int halfway = str.Length / 2; int lastIndex = str.Length - 1; for (int i = 0; i <...

Using TinyMCE is fairly simple, but attempting to access the value entered by the user in ASP.NET 4.0 presents with some problems.

I like the original solution, especially when compared to this (which I am posting just to show that there are other solutions):-- Initialize table.CREATE TABLE #BigStrings( StringID bigint IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, StringValue text NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT PK_BigStrings PRIMARY KEY...

Here is a slightly shorter version of your first conversion:object someValue = 1;int result = someValue as int? ?? -1;

VB.NET Version (C# Version)Thanks to cechode for inspiring this tip/trick. Suppose you have the following functions:Function Step1() As Boolean Return TrueEnd FunctionFunction Step2(ByVal val1 As Integer, ByVal val2 As Integer) As Boolean Return val1 = val2End...

This demonstrates how you can call a C# method in a Windows Forms application from JavaScript that is hosted in a webpage inside a WebBrowser control on your form.

Thanks to this page, I found an even shorter alternative. First, you can add an entity in your DOCTYPE section:"> ]>You can then use this where you like in the document:&newline;That will get rendered...

A JavaScript function to replace string placeholders with values

There is a fourth function.RegisterClientScriptResource(): Adds a reference to a JavaScript file that has been embedded into an assembly (DLL). Read more about that here: Managing Your JavaScript Library in ASP.NET.

The Silverlight WebBrowser won't navigate to some URL's, but this can be worked around.

Call a series of functions until the return value meets a condition without a chained-if or short-circuiting.

You can't use an if statement in a bound code block, but you can still use conditions in your markup based on bound data.

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An article posted yesterday goes into detail explaining the various techniques one can use to pass an array to an "IN" clause: "Techniques for In-Clause And SQL Server"

View multiple browser windows in the Visual Studio IDE to consolidate your workflow.

I too have come across this problem. My favorite alternative is to use a USB drive. That isn't the same as sending it through Outlook, but it gets the job done (for those who are allowed to bring USB drives to work).