Share Tweet A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about how to translate text in C# using Google Translate. Since then, an official AJAX API has been released, which is a much better solution. Reading the comments of …
October 25, 2010 | Posted in C#, Internationalization | Tagged C#, Google, Internationalization
Share Tweet There’s a lot of talk on Twitter and blogs about The Ultimate Developer PC 2.0. The Ultimate Developer PC, was something started three years ago by Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood, when Scott wanted a new machine and …
July 31, 2010 | Posted in Hardware | Tagged Hardware
Share Tweet Almost a year ago, I answered a question on StackOverflow, about if there’s a better way to generate HTML e-mails in C# than using a StringBuilder and just appending strings one by one. I think that any modern …
March 13, 2010 | Posted in C# | Tagged C#, Hidden features of .NET
Share Tweet If there’s one change I hate about IIS 7 and beyond, it is the lack of the very useful IISAPP script that was present on IIS 6 installations. Run it from a command prompt, and you will see …
March 8, 2010 | Posted in IIS7 | Tagged IIS7
Share Tweet I love the new model validation features in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. One thing I don’t like though, is that the ErrorMessageResourceName is loosely typed. The ErrorMessageResourceType, however, is a System.Type which will be strongly typed by assigning its value using …
March 4, 2010 | Posted in C#, Internationalization, Unit testing | Tagged C#, Internationalization, Unit testing
Share Tweet In IIS SSL sites have seemed to be limited to only one site per network interface, since you (from IIS Manager) cannot specify a host header binding on the HTTPS protocol. It turns out, that it is only …
March 4, 2010 | Posted in C#, IIS7 | Tagged C#, IIS7
Share Tweet I love the new IntelliSense dialog in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, that ScottGu has blogged about. But when editing an ASP.NET MVC View Page in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, you end up fighting the IntelliSense. That …
October 21, 2009 | Posted in ASP.NET MVC | Tagged ASP.NET MVC
Share Tweet In some applications, it could be cool to have a feature that enabled the user to quickly get a glimpse of what people are saying on Twitter about the user or their product, service, company etc. For instance, …
March 16, 2009 | Posted in C# | Tagged C#
Share Tweet Whenever you deploy a website to IIS 7 that is not compliant with the IIS 7 integrated pipeline, you will get an error like this one: Not the great error message you get. It actually gives you the …
March 15, 2009 | Posted in IIS7 | Tagged IIS7
Share Tweet Yesterday, I blogged about how you can use Google Translate to translate a string in C#. To make it more useful than just a simple translator, and because I need to translate some Global Resource files for an …
March 13, 2009 | Posted in C#, Internationalization | Tagged C#, Internationalization
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