Internet Explorer, iframe, and cross-domain cookies
Ran into an interesting problem yesterday where a few months ago we helped a client redesign an ASP.NET web application to fit it into an iframe within their CMS rather than being a standalone site....
View ArticleASP.NET WebForms Best Practices
Over time while using ASP.NET I’ve collected a pretty good handful of best practices that I try to employ on my projects – most of them are things that will simplify the ASP.NET development experience,...
View Article.NET CF and Windows Mobile Usability Best Practices
I’m starting up a short Windows Mobile project again, so I thought it would be a good time to collect some of my best practices for .NET Compact Framework development and post them. I’m going to break...
View Article.NET CF and Windows Mobile Performance Best Practices
The impact of performance is much more readily apparent in .NET Compact Framework applications. The mobile devices commonly have a CPU that is 10 times slower than your desktop CPU, and possibly up to...
View ArticleSearch Engine Optimization 101
One thing that any web developer worth their salt should know is the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). Much of SEO comes down to basic code-level best practices, and it isn’t terribly...
View ArticleExceptions while upgrading SQL Server CE project
I was recently trying to ressurect an older project developed in Windows XP, .NET Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, NHibernate, and SQL Server CE 3.1. I’ve sinced moved to Windows 7 (64-bit) and...
View ArticleGetting started with Lucene.NET
Have you ever built a search using a SQL LIKE statement, only to have your users complain about functionality? A simple SQL-based search doesn’t handle synonyms, misspellings, prefixes, suffixes,...
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Mobile Architecture Best Practices
Best Practices for Mobile Application Design and Development When developing mobile applications, there are a number of key challenges where architecture and design are fundamentally different from...
View ArticlePrinciples of Service Design
As mobility has exploded onto the list of of top IT priorities over the past few years, many IT shops are realizing that one of the first steps in creating mobile apps that make use of data is figuring...
View ArticleMobile Web Services – SOAP/XML vs. REST/JSON
As companies become more interested in exposing web services to get data to mobile apps, the question always comes up – “What format should we use for the services?”. It seems like JSON is the default...
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