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  • Visual Designer : A Developer’s BFF

    Developers are often cast into a group and stereotyped as "visual design challenged”.  The fact is, a true Visual Designer picks colors and creates designs for applications that make my attempts look like grade school arts and crafts project...
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  • MVC vs. WebForms, A Clear Loser Emerging

    Working with WebControls and WebForms for the past 8 years has taught me a lot about web development.  The one thing that I learned above everything is that the onus is on the developer to write good code.  Now that may not sound like something...
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  • ASP.NET 4.0 & Why it Matters

    I hear a lot of overused and overloaded terms these days like “leaky abstraction” when talking about WebForms.  As people repeat these items like robot drones, I wonder if they truly understand what it means, and more importantly how it affects a...
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  • Surveys, Polls, Voting, and why they usually stink

    I’ve never been a big fan of surveys or polls.  Not because I don’t like them, but because I always disagree with their validity and the conclusions that are drawn from the results.  Lets take a look at a couple of examples.  Readers Choice...
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  • NetAdvantage ASP.NET Controls – The Next Generation

    It’s a time of change here at Infragistics.  We’re way past the half way point on our “Aikido” (Now officially just AJAX) framework, and with the 9.1 release many of the remaining classic Infragistics controls are being re-born as Web 2.0 loving...
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  • ViewState 101

    One of the most common complaints I hear about the Infragistics tools is “there’s so much ViewState, it’s bloated!”.  One of the most common questions I hear is not surprisingly, “How do I reduce the ViewState?”.  Before I jump into the answer...
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  • Best Practices on Best Practices?

    So the other day I was helping out a coworker on a project and was taken aback by the complexity of the project.  I was expecting a hacky WinForms app with a single form and one monolithic method.  Instead, I saw an organized solution with 6...
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  • Do you jQuery?

    There has been a steadily growing buzz over jQuery, and many development teams have already introduced it as a standard library in their Ajax applications. The buzz just got much much louder, when Microsoft announced that jQuery will now be included and...
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  • Debugging Linq To Sql

    I've decided that the LinqDataSource is my favorite datasource to use these days, because it allows me to consume my LinqToSql classes. My fondness of Linq to Sql also leads towards frustration when I try to figure out what's going on behind the...
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  • LinqDataSource Woes

    So here I am, all ready to test out the blazing performance of the new WebDataGrid. I set up my million row table, and bind the grid to it... the page loads blazingly fast. Believe it or not, this has more to do with setting up your table indexes properly...
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