A great link to keep handy is this MSDN section about Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers. This central link will expose you to many .NET guidelines such as: Naming, Class Member, Type Usuage, Array, and much more.

A great link to keep handy is this MSDN section about Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers. This central link will expose you to many .NET guidelines such as: Naming, Class Member, Type Usuage, Array, and much more.

The next release of ASP.NET, codenamed ASP.NET "Whidbey" will have built in support for user name/password credential storage.  Until then, I will continue to use Mlogin. Mlogin is a login user control that I built with C#/ASP.NET on 1.1 of the .NET Framework.  It's a fairly straightforward, easy to use control that will...

The next release of ASP.NET, codenamed ASP.NET "Whidbey" will have built in support for user name/password credential storage.  Until then, I will continue to use Mlogin. Mlogin is a login user control that I built with C#/ASP.NET on 1.1 of the .NET Framework.  It's a fairly straightforward, easy to use control that will...

You can download the new version of Firefox (0.9) here. The following is a quick rundown of what's new in Firefox 0.9 (One Tree Hill): New Default Theme Comprehensive Data Migration Extension/Theme Manager Smaller Download Online Help System Lots of Bug Fixes The new theme is a welcomed addition, which gives FF a polished look.  On...

You can download the new version of Firefox (0.9) here. The following is a quick rundown of what's new in Firefox 0.9 (One Tree Hill): New Default Theme Comprehensive Data Migration Extension/Theme Manager Smaller Download Online Help System Lots of Bug Fixes The new theme is a welcomed addition, which gives FF a polished look.  On...

ASP.NET Security: 8 Ways to Avoid Attack touches on some of the important steps to securing your .NET driven website. Cross-site Scripting SQL Injection Validate your User Inputs Use Hashing to Store your Passwords Encrypt Sensitive Data Store Secure Information in the Registry Housekeeping before Deploying - Disable trace, , etc Use Sessions,...

The good people at 4 Guys From Rolla have provided a very interesting article on a program for .NET developers called FxCop. FxCop is a program that will help enforce rules on your code, based on the "Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines".  According to 4 Guys, FxCop reads the meta-data of an assembly, instead of trying to...

The good people at 4 Guys From Rolla have provided a very interesting article on a program for .NET developers called FxCop. FxCop is a program that will help enforce rules on your code, based on the "Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines".  According to 4 Guys, FxCop reads the meta-data of an assembly, instead of trying to...

I had a discussion about Method Overloading today, and it seems that the definition and examples available are sometimes lacking, which leads to some confusion.   It seems that every example on the internet, and inside .NET books that I've come across, always show examples of Method Overloading with different parameters, but never...

I had a discussion about Method Overloading today, and it seems that the definition and examples available are sometimes lacking, which leads to some confusion.   It seems that every example on the internet, and inside .NET books that I've come across, always show examples of Method Overloading with different parameters, but never...

Programmers generally don't make good designers; case in point - my site.  Although I'd prefer to just worry about my code, I can't, and I won't.  I personally find web design very challenging, and for the last few months I've been learning a lot about creating a tableless design. This is probably my 50th new design, but I...

Programmers generally don't make good designers; case in point - my site.  Although I'd prefer to just worry about my code, I can't, and I won't.  I personally find web design very challenging, and for the last few months I've been learning a lot about creating a tableless design. This is probably my 50th new design, but I...

I was reading an interesting debate on Google Groups today titled, C# is too nitpicky? The main discussion was about the design difference of VB.NET's Shared, and C#'s static members.  Shared and static are the same - they both belong to a type itself rather than to a specific object.  Knowing that, let's take a look at the...

I was reading an interesting debate on Google Groups today titled, C# is too nitpicky? The main discussion was about the design difference of VB.NET's Shared, and C#'s static members.  Shared and static are the same - they both belong to a type itself rather than to a specific object.  Knowing that, let's take a look at the...