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Tired of bitching about Oxite? Here's a new MVC sample application to sink your teeth into -- an MVC version of the famous TheBeerHouse Starter Kit.

Continue reading "TheBeerHouse MVC Beta Now on CodePlex"

Anonymous identification is an wonderful feature for allowing ASP.NET applications to store personalized information for unauthenticated users; but if you aren't careful, you'll eventually end up with thousands (or even millions!) of unused records clogging your database, hogging resources, and slowing your app to a crawl. Here's a handy way to keep that runaway database under control when using anonymous identification.

Continue reading "Managing Anonymous Users For Better Site Performance"

Microsoft doesn't make garage door remotes. Aren't you glad?

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This warning ("The project location is not trusted") may crop up in Visual Studio when attempting to add an existing project to a solution. Normally, this happens when the project is on a UNC path. But what if the project isn't on a UNC path or in a mapped network folder, and you're still getting this error? Here's the most likely cause, and how to fix it.

Continue reading "The Project Location Is Not Trusted (When It Really Is)"

Implementing a master/detail editing-inserting-deleting interface using the ListView is not much different than doing it with a GridView. Here's a quick tutorial that shows how it's done.

Continue reading "Master / Detail Editing With a ListView and DetailsView"

Perhaps you've seen complex solutions for moving ASP.NET-generated hidden fields (__EVENTVALIDATION, __EVENTTARGET, __EVENTARGUMENT, etc...) to the bottom of the form. Forget it. Here's the easy way to do it -- in a single line of code.

Continue reading "Moving ASP.NET Hidden Fields to the Bottom - The EASY Way"

Hi, my name is Lee. I'm a .NET developer. And I love my iPhone. Apparently, that means there's something very, very wrong with me.

Continue reading "I'm a .NET Developer, and Yes, I Love My iPhone."

If you're using Master Pages in ASP.NET and trying to resolve or references in the page head, you may have run into this this show-stopper. If so, here's why it's happening, and here's an easy way to fix it.

Continue reading "The Controls Collection Cannot Be Modified Because the Control Contains Code Blocks"

On some of the ASP.NET sites I maintain, every once in a while I get the following error showing up in my logs...

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For over a decade, the technorati have been heralding the death of print, and the publishers laughed. Now, with the lagging economy and sagging ad sales, PC Magazine is the latest iconic brand to shut down the presses. And nobody's laughing any more.

Continue reading "PC Mag Bytes the Dust"