There's an older post from Erik Porter about how he formats labels in ASP.NET. It's a pretty smart trick - he suggests that you use string placeholders for?labels, such as: <asp:Literal id="MyLiteral" runat="server">Name: {0} {1}</asp:Literal&g… more »

Last night, I posted about how we did user control interaction on my last project, prompted by Erik's post. Well, today, I found the magazine at work and read through the article. Guess what? I was right on in what I was doing - although, the article re… more »

I've been working on this for a while, but I was prodded to finish it after seeing Erik's post about the same subject. With my last project, one of the things we did early on was come up with a large set of reusable controls that could easily be used acr… more »

Nope. I haven't gone religious on you (yet)! But Brian posted today about the launch of Zondervan Bible Search, which is a very cool application that I had a small part in. It's a pretty simple yet elegant site at first: It's cool because of the tec… more »

Scott Guthrie has a series of greats post about Web Projects in VS 2005, including a lot of details about how much better it is than VS 2003 offers. I'd expand more on it, but Scott does an awesome job by himself, so just go read them for yourself. These… more »

Apparently I'm not the only one who's hearing the buzz around the new web projects in Visual Studio 2005. Scott Guthrie is too. And he's on vacation in Mexico! Anyway, he has a great post explaining a few things. Both of the issues I listed earlier (refe… more »

This is why I usually don't start posting until I'm caught up on my blog reading. I just posted tonight about one of the problems with the new project-less web projects in VS.NET 2005?- you can't easily manage updates to binary references (or, for that m… more »

I've been reading Design Patterns recently, so I'm in the pattern mode of thought. Which is why this post from Thomas Williams was so interesting. It's a link to a website that has a list of a bunch of design patterns - for web pages! Given that I do mo… more »

There's been a lot of talk about ASP.NET 2.0's model of project-less web sites (including from Jeffrey Palermo on the latest DotNetRocks show), and whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. The consensus seems to be that it's bad. I'm still not sure. I… more »

Jeff Cranford has an interesting post about how you can share data among server controls. It's interesting because it works at design-time too. If you've ever built a custom server control, you'll appreciate the difficulties that design-time support caus… more »