Chris May

It looks like I have fallen victim to an asp.net no-no.

I have always used a label in my forms when I want to have some text that is updated by the code behind.  Turns out that I should probably be using literals.

Even more, I didn't even realize that the label object allows you to specify a text element that will gain focus when the label is clicked.  Nice.

This site looks really interesting.  They seem to have loads of video content, interviews and examples.

The one that got me looking at the site was their video on MVC/MVP pattern.

http://polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/mv-patterns/

I will be checking this out.

Rhino Mocks seems to be one of the most preferred mock frameworks out there.

Phil Haack, CodeBetter and Markitup have article showing how to test events on interfaces (x2) and objects in Rhino Mocks respectively.

They even have some videos up showing some Rhino Mocks stuff.

Haack also has a nice example of using MVP and Rhino Mocks to test some asp.net pages.

Here is an article by Haacked showing how one can create a test friendly httpcontext.

I modified his example some and started using it in some tests; works very nice!

Here is another implementation based on Haack's example that is supposed to also work with session.

I almost NEVER use session if I can avoid it, but still this could come in handy.

Here is a nice article on Null Object Refactoring, a process where you create a null representation of an object for use when you want to treat the object as null, rather than passing around a truely null object.

This is one of Fowlers refactoring suggestions from his book: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code and on his site: http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/introduceNullObject.html

There is virtually no information on the internet about how to use these tests.

This is one of the vew pages that actually shows a working example.

This discussion group seems to be mostly dealing with standard unit tests, and winform unit testing.

ScottGu has an article on using LINQ to SQL which is basically going to work like an ORM product shipping in the next version of .net / visual studio called Orca.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/05/19/using-linq-to-sql-part-1.aspx

This is good news for those of us who were kinda pissed that Team Foundation Server didn't come with this type of interface to begin with:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/03/26/microsoft-acquires-teamplain.aspx

Here is a nice article on creating a test (bogus) SSL certificate for your local develoment machine.

ScottGu has a nice article on how to do something similar with IIS7, which is going to be the webserver on Vista machines.

Here is an interesting article on codeproject about creating "drill through" reports.

Here are some pages that I have been reading on the subject.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/mscompression.asp

http://bistrica.usask.ca/madmuc/Grads/Adnan/cmpt898/Project.pdf

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/MhtBuilder.asp

There internet is filled with places to do reverse phone lookups (who called me 5 minutes ago).

But, most of them now ask you to pay for the name of the person or business.

I happened to find one that didn't:

http://www.whitepages.com/10001/reverse_phone

I found this list of the top secondary market ticket resellers:

http://www.ticketnews.com/view/TopSecondarySellers

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 11:12am — TicketScoop

Here an article I was reading about some of the new (and from the looks of it... very useful) features of WCF.

One-Way calls, callbacks, and events.

I have been getting a few errors when trying to use the asp.net ajax framework.

The one error message is:

Error: Sys.ArgumentTypeException: Object of type 'Sys_Application' cannot be converted to type 'Sys._Application'/

Parameter name: instance

This is caused by having SmartNavigation turned on for the page. 

The other error I was getting was this Sys.ArgumentOutOfRangeException.  Value must be an integer.  Parameter name: X.  Actual value was NaN.

This error is caused by using a "yes" or "no" for "frameborder" for a frame.

Yes and No are valid entries but the framework is expecting a "1" or a "0".

This service is down right now, but it looks like it might be very useful!

I have been fighting with this lately, but here is something I haven't tried... rewriting the interface that is giving me problems.

Not sure if this will work, but I will give it a try.

More in the souce...

I think I saw this ABCUpload .Net tool being used by microsoft on one of their internal support sites for uploading large files.

I don't think it actually gets around the httprequest length and executiontimeout problems, but it does provide you a window showing your progress, which is nice.

Here are some nice step by step directions for getting HTTP Compression setup in IIS6.

They also link to a nice site that will do a compression test for you on the public side.

I was trying to test stuff that wasn't public, so I figured out how to test this with Fiddler.

Once you start a trace with fiddler, if you select a session, they will check a box next to the type of compression None/GZIP/Deflate, which was used.