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• Working with the web model

  Lots of comments from my recent post on ASP.NET WebForms being officially unmaintainable noted that: AJAX works with the ClientID property I don't care about HTML One thing to remember about web applications is that web applications are nothing more... Posted May 21 2008, 08:46 PM by bogardj with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET

• ASP.NET: officially unmaintainable

  Recent forays back into "classic" ASP.NET (i.e. not MVC) have me completely convinced that ASP.NET is inherently unmaintainable. Not partially convinced, not on the fence, but completely convinced that the presentation layer of ASP.NET cannot... Posted May 18 2008, 10:13 PM by bogardj with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, MonoRail

• WatiN and INamingContainer adventures

  I decided to add a simple WatiN acceptance test today to validate our login page. When a user enters invalid credentials, the page should show an error message. To test this, I need to set the text of the username and password, and click the Login button... Posted Jan 23 2008, 03:16 PM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Testing

• Advanced CI: integrating web applications

  So you've already got an automated build with unit tests and deployment packaging. But if you have a Web Application project as part of your solution, there is still the potential for some compilation errors to get past your builds. So if your builds... Posted Jan 16 2008, 05:35 PM by bogardj with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Continuous Integration

• Abusing using statements

  I've always thought that the using statement was one of the most useful features included in C#. It's easy to use: public string GetFileTextForParsing( string path) { string contents = null ; using ( StreamReader reader = File .OpenText(path)... Posted Jan 15 2008, 11:04 PM by bogardj with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: C#, ASP.NET, MVC

• Application Root is your friend

  It still surprises me how many ASP.NET developers I run into don't know about the different ways to construct path references in ASP.NET. Let's say we want to include an image in our website. This image is hosted on our website, in an "img"... Posted Jan 03 2008, 01:17 PM by bogardj with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET

• Record and playback state in ASP.NET

  Most ASP.NET applications hold various state objects in Session, Application, or other stateful mediums. For regression testing and defect reproducing purposes, often I want to capture the exact state of these objects and replay them back at a later time... Posted Nov 02 2007, 03:01 PM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Testing

• Compiler warnings from generated code

  This post was originally published here . Although I believe strongly in treating warnings as errors , on rare occasions I get compiler warnings from generated code. Examples of generated code include the designer code files for Windows and Web forms... Posted Oct 05 2007, 10:02 AM by bogardj with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET

• ASP.NET 2.0 Page Lifecycle Poster

  This post was originally published here . I found this cool poster that details the ASP.NET 2.0 page lifecycle, and it includes the Page , Control , and Adapter events. As complex as the lifecycle is becoming, this one's definitely going on the wall... Posted Jun 05 2007, 01:36 PM by bogardj with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET