I had found out about SSW's Code Auditor product through one of those ubiquitous Top 10 .NET Developer Tool lists recently, and as I'm at the start of a new project, felt that I should run it through an auditor to nip common code errors in the bud as early as possible. This tool retails for about $305US, and can embed itself right into ...

Version 2.0.4 of Excentrics World Server Controls has just been released targeting just two annoyance bugs that were introduced with v2.0.3. The control set has also been compiled against Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta 2 to ensure continued full compatibility - however it'll still function just fine with Beta 1. The bugs that were fixed were: ...

Many web sites suffer from others directly linking to their image, video and other content. This practice is called often called leeching, hot-linking, or inline-linking and causes wasted bandwidth and increased server load to the victim web site. Last weekend, I wrote a little ASP.NET module that prevents hot linking. It can be used on IIS5 ...

For post #3 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let’s look at one of the biggest trouble areas that bite ISAPI developers - managing memory. Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/01/iis7-modules-vs-iis6-isapi-memory-management.aspx .

I'm happy to announce that Excentrics World Server Controls has hit version 2.0.3. This version focuses primarily on Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta 1 support enabling developers to utilize the Excentrics World Server Controls through a compatibility layer. The full change-list is as follows: Full compatibility with Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta ...

I feel like I got off on the wrong foot in my blog coverage of IIS extensibility … I started spending a lot of time talking about building IIS7 server modules with the native API, but did not mention anything about the new .NET extensibility. First things first – IIS7, for the first time in the history of the server, provides first ...

If you need to build yourself a membership provider in DotNetNuke, to perhaps link up to an external membership store, check out this article from one of my Co-workers . http://www.engagesoftware.net/Blog/tabid/297/EntryID/41/Default.aspx

"There are no good programmers under the age of thirty - they've just not experienced enough of life as a programmer." I'm twenty three years old (twenty four in March) and I've recently become self employed after six years of full time employment. Prior to full time employment I didn't attend University and my time at ...

Groove and Visual Studio are two excellent tools from Microsoft. Our visendo development team built a tool based on both products to share code in a brand new way. Sharing code snippets helps to improve productivity and quality. Visual Studio have a one way snippet system where you can insert during development in the IDE code snippets. Some Web ...

The day has finally come! After many hours migrating (and well, re-writing) my website, I’m happy to announce the official RTM release of Excentrics World Server Controls v2.0! There are still a few known issues logged on my forums that didn’t make the cut, however this official release marks an important part since 2004. With this ...

The day has finally come! After many hours migrating (and well, re-writing) my website, I’m happy to announce the official RTM release of Excentrics World Server Controls v2.0! There are still a few known issues logged on my forums that didn’t make the cut, however this official release marks an important part since 2004. With this ...

I wanted to focus on one of the primary benefits of Open Source as I see it: the talent an Open Source model draws to the application. But before I do, let me swap out a term here to avoid going down Definition Drive again. I’m going to use Rob Howard’s “Shared Source” description for Community Server’s source licensing and availability model ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/28/2006 If you've ever received the following error while trying to upload a DotNetNuke module here's a quick fix. ExceptionSystem.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a closed file. at System.IO.__Error.FileNotOpen() at System.IO.FileStream.Seek(Int64 ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/28/2006 If you've ever received the following error while trying to upload a DotNetNuke module here's a quick fix. ExceptionSystem.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a closed file. at System.IO.__Error.FileNotOpen() at System.IO.FileStream.Seek(Int64 ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/27/2006 This is a quick tip as I was out of town for a while and haven't had a chance to catch back up yet. Did you know with DotNetNuke 4.3 you can now edit content in place on your website? What's that you say? You didn't know this? Well that's right, you ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/27/2006 This is a quick tip as I was out of town for a while and haven't had a chance to catch back up yet. Did you know with DotNetNuke 4.3 you can now edit content in place on your website? What's that you say? You didn't know this? Well that's right, you ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/26/2006 During your development you may run across a time when you need to clear out the search tables for DotNetNuke's searching engine. Here's the SQL to do so. delete SearchItemWordPosition where SearchItemWordId in (select SearchItemWordId from ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/26/2006 During your development you may run across a time when you need to clear out the search tables for DotNetNuke's searching engine. Here's the SQL to do so. delete SearchItemWordPosition where SearchItemWordId in (select SearchItemWordId from ...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/23/2006 Have you ever needed to send mail from one of your DotNetNuke modules? Here's the DotNetNuke method for sending off a message. public static System.String SendMail ( System.String MailFrom , System.String MailTo , System.String Cc , System.String Bcc ...

Time to vent. I’ve been trying to hire a couple of senior developers on a team that is primarily building a web based framework (i.e. software for developers). I have some minimal expectations for a senior developer that I don’t think are all that outrageous. For instance if you claim to be a web developer you must understand the basics of HTTP . ...