I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

Now if that title isn't a mouthful, I don't know what is. Anyways, this is something mostly for my benefit because I conveniently forget about this little trick and then have to go rooting through my code to remember and I'd rather have Google index it for me. =) So I have this nifty little...

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

There has always been a mini religious war between programmers about code layout/style and when to optimize. My personal take on this has been put more weight on readability and maintainability over highly condensed, optimized code. Here's a few thoughts on this subject: Don't optimize first In almost...

Mike Lorengo has an interesting post about binding gridviews in ASP .NET 2.0 to “complex” objects. I have already posted a short reply to his blog and wish to elaborate upon it here. To start with, let me say that I am a huge fan of using objects inherited from CollectionBase over datasets...

Anyone who is new to the world of ASP .NET, or new to the concepts of inheritence in general probably is missing out on a great way to organize their ASP .NET application. When you first create a webform and switch to code view you are faced with the following statement (c#): public class YourPage :...