Chris May

I was trying to find out what I needed to do to extend my custom server controls to work with the built in ASP.NET validators.

Turns out it is as simple as adding [ValidationPropertyAttribute("­Text")] to your class definition for the custom control. That's easy!

I could have sworn that this was in here already, but I guess not.

This project is supposed to help with the stupid VS.Net formatting of HTML, if you can call it that.

Amazon will list your items next to their and only charge a super low fee, something like 0.25 + 2.5%. This sounds too good for people who were using paypal before.

This was the stupid error I was getting through my VPN.

This application on the Baird & Warner site is really cool.

From a technical perspective it is pretty slick too, it creates a map with lots of hot spots that you can click on to get info from the client side.

I was just skipping over a good PP white paper from MS called Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services. It had a few interesting parts that I am going to go back and read more. It also referenced an article called Designing Data Tier Components and Passing Data Through Tiers. Worth reading.

Here is a graphical and non-graphical way of calculating odds of winning a hand.

The second link also allows you to include "dead cards" in the calculation, pretty cool.

Testing ASP.NET Applications with NUnitASP and NUnit is an article on The Server Side.NET" that talks about implementing testing w/ ASP.NET and NUnitASP and NUnit.

This Javascript editor looks pretty cool. It looks like it basically does the same stuff that VS does for server side code (e.g intellisense, debugging etc).

NCover is a tool that you can use to get information back about your application, and specifically information about the actions against individual lines of code.

This article does a pretty good job in describing how to implement the creation of dynamic text in an image in asp.net.

I was working on something similar for my CAPTCHA control, but I can tweak it with some help from this article to do other stuff.

So, even though when I use intellisense to declare a FQ type it has "Walshgroup" with a capital "W", when I declare a namespace in another assembly, I have to use lower case "w" because the main application has the lower case "w" in its default namespace declaration.

Totally totally totally dumb. I would have never figured it except for this article.

I have been getting this stupid error every now and then, this page goes over the issue.

This page basically goes through a bunch of steps and checklists for things you should do if you want to make sure you have optimal performance on your SQL Server database.

I often list thing on here that I don't have time to read, but am hoping to actually get back to at some point. This is one that I really need to go over. Microsoft's Patterns and Practices group produces lots of great stuff, which mostly fit into 1 of 3 groups: Patterns, Guides, or Code Blocks.

Patters are basically design patterns, not only for software development, but for other stuff like database design.

Guides are basically white papers on various topics.

Code Blocks are great components that you can use in your applications. I have only been using the Data Access blocks, but w/ the release of the Enterprise Library, there is a compelling reason to work more with them.

I was looking all over the place trying to find how to do a Nabla symbol in HTML: ∇. Finally found it and the other stuff I needed at: this site

These two forum postings cover some interesting stuff: getting the current UserID and how to check user role.

I have been doing a bunch of work getting modules to show multiple controls, or views in a single DNN module, w/o forcing it to enter "Edit" mode.

So far, I think the solution I have come across is working, but just in case something goes horribly wrong, this guy has put together a nice article on how he does multiple views.

Dealing with the scroll position can be an issue as well, which is covered in this blog post, pretty good idea.