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December 2005 - Posts

Yes, Santa, There is an East Virginia

True story from Sara Faatz, Wintellect's director of marketing and communications, who recently moved from Virginia to Georgia: I went to UPS today to ship out some packages. As part of UPS’s shipping regulations, they have to look at your drivers Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:59 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Francesco Gets a Facelift

Francesco Balena is at it again: his .NET-to-the-Max Web site is looking really spiffy after a facelift, and Francesco tells me that in the future, most of his writing will be published in his blog rather than in magazines (U.S. magazines, anyway). Meanwhile, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:27 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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XslCompiledTransform Performance

I've been meaning to write some benchmark code to compare the performance of .NET 2.0's new XslCompiledTransform class and 1.1's deprecated XslTransform . I finally got around to it this morning, and the results were a little disappointing. In my tests, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:25 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Spice Up Your Web Pages

Want to add a cool (albeit IE-only) effect to your ASP.NET 2.0 Web pages? If so, add the following statement to the <head> element of the site's master page: <meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(duration=.5)" Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:52 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Comment My Code

I saw a neat T-shirt the other day that said something like this: Comment my code? Why do you think they call it code? I think I'll buy one for every developer I know. Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:12 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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SqlCacheDependency Hell

I just emerged from SqlCacheDependency hell--actually, SQL Server 2005 hell. I thought I'd document the problem (and the solution) so others won't have to waste as much time as I did. First, I've been using SqlCacheDependency with great success since Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:19 PM by jprosise | 12 Comments
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Jerky Heaven

I love beef jerky. It's a great snack when you're hiking, scuba diving, or spending a long day at the flying field. Lately I've been in jerky heaven since a friend taught me how to make my own. It's not only cheaper than the store-bought stuff, it tastes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:46 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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Session State Partitioning

ASP.NET 2.0 is so chock full of new features that it's hardly surprising some of those features are barely documented (or not documented at all). I love sifting through the dirt and uncovering hidden gems that few people know about. One of those hidden Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:50 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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