I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

Now if that title isn't a mouthful, I don't know what is. Anyways, this is something mostly for my benefit because I conveniently forget about this little trick and then have to go rooting through my code to remember and I'd rather have Google index it for me. =) So I have this nifty little...

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

A common question I get from ASP .NET developers is how to quickly and easily set up forms authentication where the passwords in the database are not stored in plain text. It actually shocks me how many systems I've gone into on the database end and seen passwords for every account in the application...

So, I've recently finished Beta 1 of the local install of Easy Assets .NET and I started passing it to some of the beta testers (thanks to those companies that graciously accepted to test it). So far a few people have been into my code and I've received many compliments on how clean and nice the database...

Since I'm diving heads first into refactoring Easy Assets .NET I figured I'd post some messages on what exactly I'm doing, my thought processes behind it, and how I think the application and especially the users will benefit. Note that I highlight the users. I believe that the amount of work it takes...

I have recently been tasked with creating a 1,000 ft overview of Object Oriented concepts in the VB .NET world for a development staff whose experience is mostly in old school ASP and VB 6.0 Much credit to The Book of Visual Studio .NET , ISBN 1-886411-69-7 from No Starch Press written by Robert B. Dunaway...

Mike Lorengo and I are having a fantastic dialogue about complex objects and handling the display of their information in grids. I do recommend you read his post before continuing here. Don't mind me... I'll wait... Ok now that you're back I'd like to explain a little deeper on my preference for domain...

Anyone who is new to the world of ASP .NET, or new to the concepts of inheritence in general probably is missing out on a great way to organize their ASP .NET application. When you first create a webform and switch to code view you are faced with the following statement (c#): public class YourPage :...

Excellent article, courtesy of MSDN Magazine. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01/ASPNETPerformance/