My little compression helper...improved version

I posted my compression helper class before and realised almost instantly that it suffered from 'legacy lag' - so it'd been changed so much over the months that it was really bad! Anyway, presented below is a modified version of that class (which I've also…

Right...gonna get back to this...and a request for assistance!

As I've been posting a bit recently,I've been having some problems with my DNS (entirely of my own making I should point out). Anyway, so these DNS problems have led me to do a bit of thinking about this here site - conclusion, I've been very lazy about…

Dumb little thing...class which outputs an Excel compatible table from a DataSet

Very simple and based on the one I blogged about previously (well not based on the code but based on the same idea). Anyway, hook this up to a link button, pass in a dataset and it'll provide a downloadable Excel compatible file... public class GetExcel {…

Really nice cross-browser method of doing the 'DefaultButtons' thing - so that when you hit enter, the correct button 'clicks'

This is one of the major UI problems which is essentially caused by ASP.NET's 'one form' rule, as Darrell points out there's a number of solutions out there but none of them really solve the whole problem (i.e., for all browsers), well now there's a great…

Nested repeaters - new article on Codeproject and why you shouldn't do it that way!

Just been reading this article on Codeproject.com...hmm...I have a few issues with how he does things: DataBinder.Eval - I have what is becoming an obsession about this now - there's just NO NEED for this in most cases, it sucks in terms of performance (you…

Yankee Go Home! Latest 'Mars Rover' Image...

I just love this...from Paschal's blog Yankee Go Home!

Brain Shutdown...oh and some semi-useful links...

Well, it's 1am, I have at least 8 hours work ahead of me but my Cerebral Cortex has unfortunately decided to cease functioning. I'm also listening to the .NET Rocks showwhere Chris Sells and Rory Blythinterview Carl Franklin...hmm...Carl si currently going on…

Very nice free bits and pieces from Lumisoft

I was hunting for some POP3 stuff in .NET when I happened across this thing, basically a fully-featured POP3 / IMAP/ SMTP / WebMail client written in C# with Source code for free! It's really nice and basically provides all the bits I need for my POP3 mail toy…

ASP.NET Resource Kit

Kent Sharkey writes that this is currently down again - seems that some people were a bit quick off the mark in posting the download...anyway, keep checking, apparently there's going to be a couple of pages with some more info about it there as well Found out…

Couple of nice articles...

Got these from ASP.NET - yes, I am well aware that everyone who reads this will have seen these there...it's really just to remind me! Anyway, great article on DotnetJunkies about Base Pages - these are just incredibly useful when trying to build a web site…