All Articles in Category .NET
Leveraging Model Driven Development
Achieving efficiency in the software development process is one of the key motivators every team should strive for. Efficiency can be measured in a variety of ways. The most obvious measurements are cost, project timeline, and the feature set that can be implemented given the first two. In a sense, it boils down to the [...]
Read More >Creating Browser Screenshots on the Server Side
In the light of the plethora of gloomy headlines in the past few weeks I have started taking screenshots of some of the major web sites online, maybe just to have an archive of how the world ended one day :-)
I started thinking there’s got to be a way to automate this. Indeed, there are [...]
Windows 2008 Server Musings
I am currently coordinating an effort building a reference architecture with Microsoft Sharepoint 2007, diving into a rich content model and service-enabling the front-end with the overall goal to use it as a “real” web content management. Our goal was to stick with the Microsoft toolstack (simply because we have free access to all products [...]
Read More >.NET 3.5 and LINQ
I had a little spare time last week and finally dug into .NET 3.5, mostly extension methods, lamda expressions, and LINQ. Pronounced LINK, it is the embedded query language in .NET 3.5. I am not going to outline what it does or how it works, there’s plenty of that on the internet, but [...]
Read More >Encrypting web.config
It’s usually a good practice to encrypt database connection strings and other sensitive configuration entries for a web application. .NET 2.0+ gives you a built-in mechanism to do this.
The instructions out there on MSDN are nice, but there doesn’t seem to be a page that outlines all the things you actually have to do [...]
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