Susan Warren does a comparison of web sites vs. web applications. I thought it was a good comparison, and actually thought it was biased towards web sites at first, and fairly balanced by the end.?But the first commenter takes her to task for favoring we… more »

Scott Watermasysk comes up with another great tips article?- this time about caching. All of the tips are great, but there are a couple that stand out. First, he talks about VaryByCustom, allowing you to basically set a custom key for your cache (so you… more »

I've been working with dynamically adding controls and server controls for three or four years now, but I've never really thought about how the page life cycle works for controls that are dynamically added - even though that's pretty much how my custom c… more »

Scott Watermasysk has a few great tips for ASP.NET?that have already come in handy for me. I especially like the last two - 301 redirects and fully qualified URLs. I've used them both in the past couple of days. Oh - and the repeater tip? I wish I would… more »

Mike Swanson's got the news that all of the sessions from the 72 hour conversation known as Mix '06 is online, and will be for at least 6 months. Time to get the downloaders going. When will Microsoft get on board and start distributing this stuff via t… more »

Earlier this year, I spent a lot of quality time with Reflector digging into the XmlSiteMapProvider to figure out how I could make it work with the URL rewriting we were implementing. I eventually found it, and determined what method I had to override to… more »

I've been developing web applications since '99 (long time, huh?), but this is the first time I've seen anything about standards for accessibility on web pages. But apparently there are some. You use the Control key in conjunction with the defined access… more »

I've harped on Visual Studio 2005's website projects quite a bit lately, and I'm going to move to the web application model now that it's been officially released. But, I did want to talk about one last issue I've seen, because it's a doozy. Some backgro… more »

I've talked about the issue with Visual Studio 2005 and how team development is an issue in my mind. The main issue to me has to do with deleting or moving files. If you're not sure how to reproduce it, the steps were included in a recent email a client… more »

We made a decision on a project I've been on for over?a year now to upgrade to ASP.NET 2.0. This is my first major upgrade project, and to be honest, it was fairly smooth. Now that we're on .NET 2.0, we have?a few issues, but we'll get to that. First, t… more »