What Others Are Saying About Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# And VB

Published 15 years ago

It's been more than six months since my latest book, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# And VB, has been released, so it's a good time to look back a little, see how the book has been received and what people think about it.

Passed My MCPD Web Exams Today

Published 15 years ago

Today I passed the exam 70-528, part of the MCPD training.

Caching Best Practices

Published 15 years ago

Shortly after my ASP.NET 3.5 book was released in March 2008, I received feedback from Steven Smith who had reviewed the book. He pointed out that the code I am using to retrieve cached objects has a flaw. Fortunately, the problem is only likely to occur in high traffic sites, and is pretty easy to fix.

Blogo.NET: A Real World Implementation of my N-Layer Architecture

Published 15 years ago

Ferdy Christant (also from the Netherlands) recently developed Blogo.NET, a blogging application built with .NET 3.5 and based on the architecture from my article series on N-Layer design.

Sometimes the Error Message Says It All...

Published 16 years ago

Sometime ago I was working on a Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2008. The web site I was working on couldn't run against the built-in web development server, so I ran the application against IIS 7 on my Windows Vista machine (IMO, that's probably the best reason to upgrade to Windows Vista if you are a web developer: multiple web sites in IIS 7).

Life was good until I started debugging...

Uploaded MyGeneration Templates for C# Code for my N-Layer Design Articles

Published 16 years ago

I just uploaded a ZIP file with four MyGeneration templates to generate C# and SQL code that matches the model in my articles about N-Layer design.

My Books Have Finally Arrived!

Published 16 years ago

After almost a year of hard work, today was the day: my new ASP.NET book arrived.

www.planetwrox.com Now Live!!

Published 16 years ago

The demo web site that is used in my new book - www.planetwrox.com - is now available on-line.

Grrrr, I Hate automatic Spam Detection Systems

Published 16 years ago

I just spent some time answering a question I received from someone called Bill who found an old thread on the p2p.wrox.com forum. 10 seconds after I sent my reply, I received the following automatic reply.

Talking About My Generation

Published 16 years ago

Ever since I posted my article series about N-Layer design, people asked me if I use any code generators to create the basic framework for the classes used in my model. The usual answer was: yes, I do, but I use a home grown code generator for it, making it impossible to share it with others. Fortunately, that has changed....