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Telligent’s Graffiti hasn’t quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren’t looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

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It’s kinda fun getting your picture in the local newspaper, isn’t it?

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My last "versus" post seemed to elicit a good number of interesting responses. Today, I'm musing about Singletons vs. Static Classes -- two constructs which appear to accomplish the same task. Or do they?

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For all you BeerHouse fans waiting for ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution, I'm afraid the news hasn't been very good.

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This is something I’ve gone back and forth on for a while now. Having faced this decision once again in my latest project, I figured it was time to solidify my thoughts on it. Here’s my take on the seemingly endless Interface vs. Abstract Base Class debate.

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In case you've been wondering where I've been and why I haven't blogged much lately, I've been putting the finishing touches on my latest e-book, Robust ASP.NET Exception Handling (ISBN 978-0-470-50367-6), which will available from Wrox by the end of this month.

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Given the fractured state of the ALT.NET movement, some are calling for a set of "commandments" that set down once and for all what ALT.NET is all about. Is that really such a good idea?

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Just a quick heads-up for you all, as I assume this may affect many readers of this blog.

It appears Microsoft made a boo-boo with a recent Windows Defender signature file that has made the ASP.NET Development Server stop working for many folks.

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Need to check if a table exists in your SQL Server database before you do something with it? Here's a quick way to do that in both C# and VB.NET.

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Resetting paging in a GridView is way easy. For a ListView, not so much. There's actually no such property as PageIndex with ListView, so we need to dig into the internals of the DataPager to perform this common task.

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