(Ben Nadel) In my blog post yesterday on using slice(), substring(), and substr() in Javascript to perform substring extraction, Andy Matthews and I got into a brief discussion about how in many languages, at a core level, strings are nothing more than arrays of characters.
Tag: Development
Grouping and Counting in LINQ to SQL
(Ged Mead) In this earlier blog, I covered the basic steps leading up to creating grouped data and displaying it. Now I want to add totals to those groups.
An Argument for Memory Profiling for Your .NET Applications
(Memphisto) Every application is gauged by the memory footprint it makes, be it a mobile application or a thick application running on your desktop. Believe the statistics or not, people just love applications that are light-weight.
Anatomy of a .NET Assembly – The CLR Loader stub
(Simon Cooper) In Windows XP and above, the OS loader knows natively what to do with .NET executable assemblies, and fires up an instance of the CLR. However, .NET also runs on Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, and 2000. When you run a .NET assembly on the older operating systems, the CLR has to be loaded som
The Complete Guide To Validation In ASP.NET MVC 3 – Part 1
(Paul Hiles) The latest release of ASP.NET MVC (version 3) has a number of new validation features that significantly simplify both the validation code AND the html outputted to the client. This multi-part article will attempt to cover all common validation scenarios and introduce all the new MVC3 v
WPF 4 DataGrid Row Drag and Drop
(Mahesh Sabnis) I recently had a discussion with a colleague about the capabilities of WPF for application development. We had discussions on the various new features in WPF including the capabilities of the WPF DataGrid control. The WPF DataGrid control has lots of features for data representations
ASP.NET: How to display data in individual textboxes
(Ged Mead) This question came up on VBCity recently where someone wanted to use individual textboxes to display bound data. They specifically didn’t want to use one of the complex bound controls like the GridView. So I did a bit of research and couldn’t find much by way of helpful answers for VB d
ASP.NET MVC Editable DataTable with JQuery
(Jovan Popovic) Purpose of this article is to show how you can implement a table with a full set of data management functionalities in ASP.NET MVC using JQuery/AJAX with various plugins.
Data Access Choices For WebMatrix
(Mike Brind) When WebMatrix was originally launched, it spurred a lot of activity from people who do not like seeing raw SQL statements in code files, or who perceived a problem working with dynamic objects. Some of these people threw their hands up in horror and tweeted or blogged their displeasure
Anatomy of a .NET Assembly – The DOS stub
(Simon Cooper) The DOS stub at the top of the file is the first thing you notice when you open a .NET assembly in a hex editor. But what do those bytes mean, and what do they do? As I discussed in a previous post, the first 64 bytes are the DOS header, and the next 64 bytes is the […]
