Willem Odendaal is looking for feedback on the best book for learning to create server controls. Personally, I've used books one (Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components) and three (Professional ASP.NET Server Controls). Three is… more »

We are using log4net for logging on our current project. I've never used it before, so I had a learning curve to figure out how to use it. It's a very good logging service, and now, after using it for a while, I found this. It's a good introduction artic… more »

This is a little old, but Fabrice modified Fritz Onion's HttpModule for URL rewriting to use regular expressions. Then, in Fabrice's comments, someone mentioned the idea of writing the config settings to an XML file, which can be generated from a d… more »

It looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't use the design time support of Visual Studio. I've been burned too many times by the designer changing my code. And I'm still getting burned by it because some of my team members use it, and it screws up my… more »

Every now and then, I have a need to remove a server control from a page. Before, I either set it to be invisible, but that sometimes has side effects. So then I would remove it, but that also had it's downsides. So that's why it was nice to see Jeffrey… more »

Chris Hynes has posted SlickUpload, a tool to do uploads in ASP.NET. I haven't tried it yet, but I may find a use for it sooner or later. It even looks like someone towards the bottom of the comments has created a pop-up progress bar too. You can email h… more »

We had an issue where a control posted back, and we wanted to scroll back down to where the user was. It wasn't working quite the way we had hoped. So it's a good thing that we came across this, a server control that accomplishes what we wanted to do. An… more »

Rob Howard has a good article published in the January 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine on High-Performance ASP.NET web applications. It has good reasoning and solid examples of how to do each of the 10 items he highlights. Then, he dispells some common perfo… more »

Brian Goldfarb has a good explanation of a couple of the changes to ASP.NET 2.0, namely, "magic directory" name changes, and the compilation model. It looks like the bin directory survives! The cool thing is that both of these changes are directly relate… more »

Scott Guthrie has another post on the progress of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer, and this one is exciting. No insights into their processes this time, but instead, he announced that the team hit ZBB - Zero Bug Bounce. Here's the highlight: 1142 f… more »