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Soon, highways users may have more than makeup-applying, cell-phone-blabbing, minivan-driving soccer moms to contend with.

Continue reading "Attention Drivers - Google May Kill You"

In case you haven't noticed, accessibility is a big deal on the 'net these days. More and more, designers and developers are realizing that facilitating access to the web by everyone regardless of disability is an effort worth undertaking, and that, as Martha would say, is a good thing.

Continue reading "How to Write a Good Accessibility Statement"

Mnemonic devices are fun, aren't they? They're especially userful for remembering steps that are performed in a certain order -- like how to start a motorcycle, or how ASP.NET serves web pages.

Continue reading "SILVER-U - A Neat Way to Remember the ASP.NET Page Life Cycle"

Sometimes, for debugging purposes, it's important to determine the T-SQL that's being issued to the database when a LINQ to SQL query executes. Probably the easiest way to do this is to fire up SQL Server Profiler. That's fine, as long as you're using a full or Developer edition of SQL Server. Unfortunately, however, SQL Server Profiler is not available to SQL Express Edition users.

Continue reading "Quick and Dirty LINQ to SQL Debugging in ASP.NET"

It seems there is a lot of confusion amongst .NET developers about whether or not to dispose the DataContext in LINQ to SQL. That being the case, I'll throw in my two cents, and in the process hopefully not confuse the issue even more.

Continue reading "About Disposing the DataContext"

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a couple of upcoming books from Wrox Publishing's Problem - Design - Solution series:

• ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution, based on the ADO.NET Entity Framework (which I will be tech-editing)
• ASP.NET MVC Problem - Design - Solution, based on the ASP.NET Model-View-Controller pattern

Both of these editions represent an evolution of Marco Bellinaso's original TheBeerHouse application. As I mentioned, the presentation layer will be getting a big facelift from previous editions, setting aside the old table-based layout in favor of a more modern, Web 2.0-style layout utilizing CSS.

Continue reading "A Sneak Peek at TheBeerHouse MVC"

It's now coming up on two years since the release of Microsoft's ASP.NET CSS Friendly Control Adapters. Remember them?

Well, 1.0 is still the "official" production release, but at some point Microsoft handed over the keys and the whole shebang was moved to CodePlex, where it seems a lot of good ideas go to die.

Continue reading "CSS Friendly Control Adapters -- Dead?"

As I'm sure many are aware, the long-awaited sequel to ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution -- interestingly enough entitled ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution -- has already been announced by Wrox Publishing.

Continue reading "ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution Coming Soon"

My eBook (or what the publisher cleverly dubs a "Wrox Blox") on retooling TheBeerHouse Starter Kit for LINQ to SQL on the .NET Framework 3.5 has finally been published, and is entitled LINQifying TheBeerHouse: An N-Tier LINQ Web Application with ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution  (ISBN: 978-0-470-41569-6).

Continue reading ""Linqifying TheBeerHouse" Published by Wrox"

After years of valiant resistance, I've finally gone and done the blog thing. And here you are.

Continue reading "Okay, so I finally caved."