By default, Visual Studio uses Internet Explorer for debugging. If you’re looking for a way to change that, perhaps to harness the power of developer tools in Firefox or other browsers (or perhaps just because you don’t like IE), it’s pretty easy to do. Right-click your start-up project in Studio and click Browse With… Click [...]
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Database Performance Tuning, Part 1 – Keys and Data Types
2 Mar , 2010
Database performance tuning is a pretty strong interest of mine, and I’ve been lucky enough to get to work on some really cool database-intensive projects in my time at Atlantic BT. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m still not an expert on the topic and probably won’t be for some time. But having [...]
Updating a .NET Page in Real-Time Using jQuery and AJAX
29 Oct , 2009
Here’s a problem I bet you’ve run into before. You have a long-running function on one of your .NET pages and you want to provide real-time feedback to the user while they’re waiting on the function to complete (by function, I mean a method or a set of methods in the code-behind). So you put [...]
Dynamic Body ID and Class properties on ASP.NET Master Pages
16 Oct , 2009
Master pages are a great feature of ASP.NET. However, they do have some drawbacks, one being they do not easily offer the flexibility of dynamic body ids and classes that our design team here needs. Luckily a solution exists, and best of all it isn’t all that difficult to implement. The solution is built around [...]
.NET Online Payment Gateways: A Factory Pattern Model
26 Aug , 2009
One thing that any good development company should do is strive to create reusable code. Thinking back to projects I’ve worked on in my first year here, it occurred to me that quite a few of them have involved some form of online payment processing. However, each client has used a different payment processor that [...]