Dealing with Null values (nothing in VB.NET) is a common problem for programmers of any stripe. Null dates stored in the database seem to be a common issue deve

Recently I was able to publish my first two eBooks via WROX BLOX, httpModules and httpHandlers. Each of these books gave me an opportunity to share some valuabl

So I thought I would just do it, use the Entity Framework, I mean how bad can it be? Well, pretty easy to be honest. Granted I just bound a collection to a Grid

I have posted before about IIS Status codes, realize that is not exactly a correct name for them, it should be Http Status Codes. I wanted to point you to a val

So I stirred up a hornet's nest on a debate I honest did not know was so heated out there, and that being Stored Procedures vs Ad-Hoc queries. I must admit I ha

One of the most commonly missed features of setting up a web server is configuring compression. All modern Browsers support both GZip and Deflate compression fo

WROX released my custom httpHandler eBook, Leveraging httpHandlers to Stream Custom Content in ASP.NET,  late last week. It is the second part of two WROX BLOX

Last week I was talking some folks at TechEd and it seemed customized settings of Visual Studio came up in a few conversations. As a frequent speaker I am start

I was perusing the ASP.NET forums tonight and saw an entry where the person was asking on help on getting the number of days in a month in .NET. While the asker

So I found this really neat new site this morning written in ASP.NET, CallerComplaints.com. The site allows you to look up complaints about a phone number and r

I am honestly not sure how I created this error, but I know this I did not find much out there on how to solve the issue. I think part of the reason this occurr

WROX, one of the .NET community's best friends over the years, has started a new line of eBooks called WROX BLOX. I like the idea of publishing in an eBook form

You may get this the first time you try to execute an ASP.NET site on a Windows XP installation of IIS 5.1 The error will point you to a Microsoft Knowledge Bas

Developing applications that work across the Internet requires knowledge of protocols. To actually debug any communications or protocol errors you need to be aw

I get this question all the time and if you happen to attend one of my presentations on using each you should know by the end of the presentation. I also see th

This was a question that was raised in my Front-End Performance presentation yesterday and I honestly did not know. So I came home last night and did a quick te

First, wow, I never ever dreamed pushing that publish button on something I wrote in about 20 minutes would get so much play! Thanks for all who shared their op

I have long had a love affair with the Data Access Application Block, DAAB since it was first release way back in the old days. Since then it has become part of

At least in my history of programming I have always concatenated paths as I build them in my code. A good example of this is deciding where to store uploaded ph

I hate several things about programming in the .NET stack, well not really that they affect me now. But it is really some of the ways we teach new .NET programm

I have found it really interesting to learn the background of some of the great programmers in the world and for those in the mid 30s, like me, many seem to hav