ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET, Azure, SharePoint, IoT
Recently I readed a book titled as ProBlogger: Secrets Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income. Authors of this book are Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett – the veterans of commercial blogging business. Darren is also owner of the famous ProBlogger site and b5media.
Read moreData in SharePoint is different than in our usual object-oriented applications. If we want to deal with data in SharePoint we have to understand how data is organized there. This is one of the key points to successful SharePoint projects.
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data is one of those technologies I have been keeping eye on. With .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is fully available. Let’s see how it works and how we can use it.
Read moreAnother great book to read is Implementation Patterns from famous Kent Beck. I found this book to be good addition
Read moreWhat is the difference between GridView and Repeater? This is one of the most common questions that beginners ask when they are trying to get familiar with data bound controls. Both of these controls have their own using context and I try to explain when one should use GridView and when it is okay to use Repeater.
Read moreI was asked through this blog how to become a good developers. I think this is the question that many beginners want to ask. For every question there are throusands of answers. Okay, there are many answers like these but these ones are mine. :)
Read moreBuilding up a good business library is art. Because every bad decision made early will eat project’s time later. Bad decisions will also waste many time of developers who have to use this library in their work. One of the most common mistakes made is mixing DAL functionality to business objects. At first it may seems like a good idea – why not have a smart objects? – but as project goes this solution causes more and more problems. And, be warned, each next problem is worst than previous.
Read moreDuring one of my current projects I wrote some useful extension methods for DateTime class. I had to write custom
Read moreI will continue my little serie about anti-patterns of decisions and activities that may screw up projects and make developers (and why not also others) life hell. Now let’s look at silver bullet anti-pattern. It is about using unknown tools and technologies in the place where one shouldn’t never do that.
Read moreI am sure you have all read this book and this book needs no further introduction – Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans! I readed this book couple of months ago and now I am trying to apply good ideas I got from this book. Instead of writing usual introduction I tell you a little bit about my experiences when applying ideas represented in this book.
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Keyword var is cool thing we can use to make our code more readable for other programmers and why not – reviewers. But var can also be used to make our code difficult to understand. In this case, lte’s say, we are overusing var. So, var is like wine – if one takes glass of it then everything is okay in the morning, but if somebody takes it couple of bottles then the morning will be awful. Or let’s say – too much var will kill you?
Read moreI discovered once myself automatically writing some redirects on ASP.NET pages and I started thinking about API behind these redirects and code readability. Here is what I came out with.
Read moreCode Complete 2 is very good and must-be book by Steve McConnell for all developers. The book covers many aspcets of coding and gives very good advices about how to organize and write your code, how to comment and document it and how to write code without ruining yourself.
Read moreI had to write one data import/export utility that moved data from one database to another. Once I was finished the first round of coding I found one thing that needed refactoring – the import/export process wasn’t generalized. It was part of importer/exporter utility main class (it was console application). After some refactoring I got some common things to use in other tasks like this.
Read moreDon’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug is the definitive guide to user friendly web pages. This book doesn’t tell you about how to make HTML pages or how to design them. This book tells you what to keep in mind when dealing with web pages and how to make your web pages user friendly.
Read moreIn my previous GridView entry titled as GridView and Invalid CurrentPageIndex Value Exception I made an example about how to corrigate paged GridView page index before grid is bound to data. Let’s to id now .Net Framework 3.5 way.
Read moreSEO is popular topic nowadays and as ASP.NET is growing its popularity also as platform for public systems. Therefore SEO is going to be more important topic also for ASP.NET developers. The world of SEO is always in rapid change – can you imagine that last year Google published 450 updates to it’s search engine algorithms? Although the field is changing fast there are some key points that has been fundamental and unchanged this far. Let’s see what is the minimum you should do and how you can make your sites more SEO friendly on ASP.NET.
Read moreThere are many developers who have faced the page index problems using GridView. Specially, if GridView supports deleting. Also one may face page index going out of range when there are multiple users managing same data. Here is my little advice about how to avoid page index problems when using GridView.
Read more.Net 2.0 provided us with new feature called partial classes. Using partial classes we can use multiple files to keep the code of same class. Yes – we can put some methods to one file and the others to another file. Although partial classes may be extremely useful they can be also used to ruin system’s technical design if developers don’t know what happens behind the compiler.
Read moreBuilding Object Applications That Work by Scott Ambler is great book for every developer who is working with object-oriented systems. This book is recommended reading also for system architects, designers and managers to get better understanding of object-oriented world.
Read moreThis is the first entry of my books sections in this blog. The first book I want to introduce is Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. This book is extremely useful when there is need to fix systems with legacy code base.
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