Over the last few years, SEO has grown into an expertise all its own. Everyone wants their sites to be “SEO friendly”, or optimized for search engines. Until now, creating dynamic sites using ASP.Net web forms that were SEO friendly was a daunting and tedious task. Now, in ASP.Net 4.0 and...

Routing with ASP.Net 4.0 - SEO - real simple →

Over the past few years, really since the .Net framework was introduced, there has been much debate and false statements and beliefs surrounding the various .Net languages. I probably should have classified this as a rant, but I have legitimate concerns about how one language is treated differently than...

VB.Net - We should all B# (be sharp) →

Boxing and Unboxing Are you moving? Need a rental truck? Oh, you’re talking about “Boxing” as in converting value types to reference types. An example of boxing: 'Implicit boxing VB Dim x as Int16 = 5 Dim obj as Object = x //Implicit boxing C# Int16 x = 5; object obj = x; 'Explicit...

Boxing and Unboxing →

Don't break the keyboard! After almost two hours of debugging a contact form built in C# and ASP.Net, something fairly trivial to do, I almost broke another keyboard. I was trying to get the client side validators to work (another trivial process), but nothing I did was working. The validators would...

Using jCarousel Lite With ASP.Net →

Recently, I had the need to parse html documents for special bits of data. Of course, the data resided on multiple sites, all of which had their own structure, classes, etc.. Building regular expressions for the parsing was my first thought, although I knew that using REGEX comes at a cost. After doing...

HTML Parsing - HTML Agility Pack →

Just installed Graffiti CMS, which is a great open source CMS. Graffiti is pretty slick it installs relatively easy and is ultra configurable. Because it's open source, you can extend it, change it, pretty much change anything you want. It's latest version makes use of the .Net 3.5 framework, so adding...

Graffiti CMS →