Avoiding the "Works on My Machine" Syndrome

Published 14 years ago

A long time ago I worked on a web application for a large Dutch newspaper that provided access to all pictures that had ever been published in the paper, or were taken by photographers employed by the publishing agency. In total, there were around 250,000 pictures in the database used by the web application. One of the areas I worked on was the "picture list" that had features such as displaying, searching, filtering and paging of pictures. Things seemed to work fine on my machine, even with the large amount of pictures in the database. Until one day I worked from home.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 3 - SEO URLS and Rating Charts

Published 14 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

Yesterday I uploaded a new version of my web site to mvc.spaanjaars.com. Besides a number of small changes in terms of layout and design, I added two main features.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 2

Published 14 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

Just updated mvc.spaanjaars.com with a new version.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 1

Published 14 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

I have finally decided to rebuild this web site - imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2.

Creating Custom Page Templates with Unique Code Behind Classes in Visual Web Developer Express or Visual Studio

Published 15 years ago

Visual Studio (2005 and later) has a nice feature to create your own templates that appear in the Add New Item dialog of a web site. This feature enables you to create new files, such as a Web Form, to your liking and then export it as a template so you can base new items on it.

Handling Disabled Links in ASP.NET 4

Published 15 years ago

In my (quite possibly very short) series on "things I discovered today in ASP.NET 4", today I am discussing disabling links in ASP.NET 4.

Look Ma: No Code - Using Sorted Styles in ASP.NET 4

Published 15 years ago

The cool thing about working with beta technology such as Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 is that you discover something new every day. Today I found the Sorted Styles that enable you to define the looks of sorted columns and headers in an ASP.NET GridView control.

Comparing Collections of Type BusinessCollectionBase

Published 15 years ago

A while ago (actually a long while ago but I didn't have the time to post this earlier), I was approached by Amanda Myer with a question about comparing and sorting BusinessBase objects in collections that inherit BusinessCollectionBase, discussed in my article series on N-Layer design in .NET 3.5.

Fixing Issues with HTML Help Workshop

Published 15 years ago

I am working on an application that ships with documentation in the form of a Windows Compiled Help file. To build the help file I use Sandcastle and the excellent Sandcastle Help File Builder. Building the help file is part of a continuous integration plan so the help file is always up to date.

Using the ASP.NET Login Controls with Mail Servers that Require SSL

Published 15 years ago

Some of the Login controls that ship with ASP.NET, such as CreateUserWizard, ChangePassword and PasswordRecovery enable you to send e-mail to your users without writing a lot of code. You just drag and drop a control, assign a mail body template and you're pretty much done. However, as soon as your mail server requires you to use SSL (as, for example, GMail does), things become a little trickier. In this short article I'll show the code and configuration needed to send mail to servers that require SSL.