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02 juni 2009
Developer Days 2009
Last week Microsoft The Netherlands held another great edition of the Developer Days. With a fantastic line-up of speakers and a smooth organization I guess everyone must have enjoyed it. I know I had a good time and hope you did as well. Thanks to those of you who attended any of my sessions. I have... Read More...
20 oktober 2008
Some notes on routing in classic ASP.NET web applications
Routing in .NET 3.5 SP1 differs from regular request handling in many ways. Here's a quick outline how routing works: Routes define some URL matching pattern and are configured/held in an ordered list accessible through RouteTable.Routes Incoming requests pass through the UrlRoutingModule that will... Read More...
30 augustus 2008
Golden Oldie: Dynamically generated thumbnails article
Related to my previous post on dynamic images , a long way back I wrote a two-part article for the now deceased (paid) website ASPToday . It was about a HttpHandler implementation that would generate a thumbnail image from an existing image. The handler was accompanied by a server control that would... Read More...
29 augustus 2008
Trivia fact: ASP.NET dynamic images retro
You can find a nice release of the ASP.NET team for dynamically generated images for web applications on the Codeplex website. Others have already blogged about this, such as Scott Hanselman and David Hayden , so I'm not going to repeat that. I do want to add some information to this though. It's... Read More...
01 juli 2008
Health monitoring action filter for ASP.NET MVC
The ASP.NET MVC Framework lets Controller actions perform the actual logic for the coordination of work between the (domain) model and the views of the web application. The actions themselves can be filtered if you want to. There are a couple of sample implementations out there that show you how you... Read More...
22 maart 2008
Combining AJAX and WCF 2.0
The WCF "Orcas" release (the WCF from .NET Framework 3.5 aka WCF 2.0) makes it so much easier to use your WCF service in conjunction with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as 'Atlas'). Before Orcas you would build a AJAX enabled (web) service by adding the [ScriptService] attribute to the service... Read More...
10 maart 2008
IT-Boxing event in Sofia: the Bulgarian adventure
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in the IT-Boxing event that took place last thursday, March 6th in Sofia, Bulgaria. The IT-Boxing event is a one-night competition, organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD), in which a couple of teams battle to be the best... Read More...
20 september 2007
Software Developer Conference 2007
Past Monday and Tuesday the annual Software Developer Conference (SDC, before 2004 known as the Conference to the Max) was held in Papendal, Arnhem again. Loads of great national and international speakers where there to educate and entertain the 450 participants. The vibe was good and I think everybody... Read More...
26 juli 2007
Getting started with ADAM and ASP.NET 2.0
This blog entry is meant to describe how you can get Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM for short) up and running in combination with ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Role Management. If you are not familiar with ADAM, I suggest you read this introduction to ADAM: " Madam, I'm Adam " Installing a ADAM... Read More...
17 februari 2007
Hosting the LoginService in .NET 3.5
The January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" has .NET FX 3.5 version 3.5.11209. One of the assemblies is System.Web.Extensions and hosts some great new additions to the ASP.NET stack. It has new classes in the namespace System.Web.Security, two of which are LoginService and RolesService. In... Read More...
12 februari 2007
More on redirecting Diagnostics trace to ASP.NET
In my last post on ASP.NET tracing I showed you how you can redirect trace information from System.Diagnostics.Trace.Write* methods to the ASP.NET in-page trace block. I have some extra information on this topic. First of all, like any other listener you can apply a filter to the WebPageTraceListener... Read More...
11 februari 2007
Viewing diagnostics trace info in an ASP.NET Website
Last thursday and friday I gave a course on ASP.NET 2.0 services at KPN in Groningen. I was covering the tracing capabilities of ASP.NET (available since 1.0, BTW) and showing some of the new enhancements in 2.0. To my surprise I found that combining the tracing of ASP.NET and that of the System.Diagnostics... Read More...
18 januari 2007
Reflector fun with System.Web assembly
Earlier this week I gave an Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 for Class-A . The course takes a deep dive into the various services of ASP.NET 2.0. During the preparation for this course I took Reflector for a spin and checked the internals of System.Web.dll. I can really recommend doing so, if you want to find out... Read More...
31 december 2006
Prepping for exam 70-551
Apparently the boyscout motto is to "always be prepared". This certainly holds true for Microsoft Certificied Professional (MCP) exams. Last week I took the exam 70–551: UPGRADE: MCAD Skills to MCPD: Web Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework . Here is how you can be prepared. Know this: The... Read More...
30 december 2006
The need for Trusted Root Certificate Authorities
A web server will send the public key of its server certificate to set up a SSL connection with the client. The client checks whether the certificate is still a valid in this point in time the name of the server matches the one in the certificate the certificate has been issued by an authority it trusts... Read More...
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