(Shawn Cicoria) This post is to report some differences when using MVC or IHttpHandlers if you’re attempting to set the Cache-control : max-age or s-maxage value under IIS7.x using the HttpResponse.Cache methods.

(Jeff Levinson) Many teams today use Agile techniques such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), eXtreme Programming or just a heavy use of unit testing to verify functionality. One of the gaps in unit testing is the ability to map unit tests to requirements to get an overall view of the requirements co

(Scott Mitchell) This article shows how to use Google’s URL Shortener API to create shortened URLs.

(Abhijit Jana) If you are debugging a ASP.NET web application which is hosted on IIS, you need to attach the particular worker process in Visual Studio to start debugging.

(Steven Smith) Code analysis is one way you can keep your code clean and your technical debt low. One of the simplest ways to achieve this is to minimize blocks of duplicate code, usually the result of cut-and-paste coding. Atomiq is an inexpensive, simple-to-use tool that detects duplicate blocks o

(Aamir Hasan) This article demonstrates how to apply paging in ASP.NET using jTemplate, jQuery and JSON. When working with a large dataset, it’s not a good idea to show all the records at once as it leads to performance issues in your website if a large number of visitors visit your site. Thus pagin

(Jeffrey Juday) Coupled to the new C# Async Community Technology Preview released during PDC 2010; is a library called Task Parallel Library Dataflow (TDF). TDF is part of a growing list of technologies built on top of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) that are part of Microsoft’s Technical Computing

(Oleg Smirnov) For any serious application working with a database is often necessary to consider a tracking changes system. Each solves this problem in its own way, but honestly I’m surprised how a few modern ORMs can offer us for it. Let’s look at this situation more closer.

When you try to obtain the security descriptor of a generic class from a native image (Ngen.exe) module in a Microsoft .NET Framework environment, you receive a “Fatal Execution Engine Error” error message.

(Ben Nadel) I first learned how to use Regular Expressions (aka RegEx) about 6 or 7 years ago for the purposes of data cleaning. I would take massive Excel files, paste them into Macromedia Homesite, and then use the Find/Replace feature to strip out all the extra spaces, tabs, and commas. It was te