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ASP.NET Sucks and It DOES Matter

This is partially in response to this somewhat infamous article by Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html In this Jeff mentions that although PHP as a language and platform sucks, it doesn’t matter. Its low barrier to entry has allowed PHP to become the defacto standard for...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-03-2008
WatiN SelectList Name

WatiN does not currently expose the name property of a select list. However, there is still a way to get at it if you have the element that represents it with a reference to Microsoft.mshtml: foreach ( Element element in ie.Elements) { string name = (((mshtml. HTMLSelectElementClass ) (element.HTMLElement...

Posted to RogerGuess (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
WatiN TextField and ASP.NET AJAX MaskedEdit Controls

If you have tried to user WatiN tests to set the value of text boxes/fields, you likely have run into a few things. First, this... ie.TextField("ID").Value = "some text"; is much faster than this... ie.TextField("ID").TypeText("some text"); Next, if you are using...

Posted to RogerGuess (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008
SilverTwitter: A Service Enabled Silverlight App

I am finally uploading that sample app I used for my FWDNUG talk this past Tuesday. Check it out on SilverlightAddict.com email it! reddit! del.icio.us digg it!

Posted to RogerGuess (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-29-2008
Warn3d By CrueLSaw

Today I got a very interesting request from my boss. There was one of our sites that had suddenly been defaced with the following text: "Warn3d By CrueLSaw" After some research by one of our Senior Developers (Thanks Pete) he found that this CrueLSaw guy was very busy hacking into and defacing...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-10-2008
Should your production build be different than your development build?

Kyle Bailey invited some criticism in his article, so I'm going to deliver it. You can read the original article HERE , but to sum up: "The basic idea Donald described was thus: Just because you build your application one way in Visual Studio during development, doesn't mean you need to...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-11-2008
Lessons Learned From the WAM Charity Event

I just got back from the WAM charity event that i mentioned in an earlier post. I want to again thank everyone on my team for all their hard work. It was also amazing to see what the other teams had built in such a short timeframe, sometimes with only one or two developers. I learned a lot about development...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-21-2008
Missing Query String Parameters and What To Do About Them

When you're writing code in an asp.net page (or any other type of page) you often come across situations where you need to know what to do should the user tamper with the query string parameters. I won't go into security issues here like sql injection attack or how you shouldn't pass credit...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-06-2007
Introducing: SilverlightAddict.com

SilverlightAddict.com was launched today. The goal is to become a rich content driven sitcky website for all things Silverlight. email it! reddit! del.icio.us digg it!

Posted to RogerGuess (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2007
Graphics.FromImage(bitmap), but not from all PixelFormats

I am playing in the System.Drawing.Imaging namespace, and had an issue trying to draw over the top of bitmaps I had pulled from the web via HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream. This Code: Graphics graph = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap ); Returned this error: A Graphics object cannot be created from an image...

Posted to RogerGuess (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-01-2007

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