Experts exchange solutions

These are the best solutions provided by the experts in the www.experts-exchange.com for the last week.

Remember that if you want to see the solution you must register in the site first.

.NET

• Title : Very basic question on WinCVS setup...what is a repository?

ASP.NET

• Title : Very Slow Page Loads After Inactivity
• Title : Can I upload files to a server using ASP.NET programming, if so, is ASP.NET the best way to do this?
• Title : UpdatePanel is not a known element
• Title : Criteria selection: drop downs VS. radio buttons
• Title : How Build "One Moment Please" functionality
• Title : Unlocking the record of a table from asp.net 2.0

VB.NET

• Title : How to popup windows like MSN?
• Title : Need a solution for creating a report in vb.net, other then using Crystal Reports
• Title : Request.Form("whatever").Count equivalent in VB.Net ?

C#

• Title : Unlocking the record of a table from asp.net 2.0
• Title : Locating csc.exe from within my C# code (building/compiling classes at RunTime)

.NET Compact

• Title : Any way to disable/hide pocket calendar?

Some good links July 30

Moving Projects/Solutions between Orcas and Visual Studio 2005 - http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/122975.aspx

Nothin but .NET - Tips and Tricks - Day 3 - http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2007/07/26/nothin-but-net-tips-and-tricks-day-3.aspx

How to Use Web.Config in ASP.NET and ASP - http://vgbsoft.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-use-webconfig-in-aspnet-and-asp.html

A Generic State Machine and Attempt to Generic Component - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GenericStateMachine.asp

AWUI - a simple web user interface library with AJAX support - http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/awui.asp

Using AJAX to populate a drop-down list in ASP.NET - http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/PopulatingDropDownLists.asp

Email templates - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/mailtemplates.asp

Sorting collection of custom types generically - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/sorting_custom_types.asp

Nice VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/28/nice-vs-2008-code-editing-improvements.aspx

Dynamic Message Display (ASP.NET) - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Dynamic_Message_Display.asp

Diffrence between Oracle and sql server 2000 - http://www.dotnetspider.com/kb/Article3289.aspx

VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 Released

Applications & Links

I'll try to update these lists with very cool applications and links to .net related applications and may be in future articles.

.Net applications
- C# and VB.NET Line Count Utility
- Spec# for Visual Studio 2005
- ToDoList 5.3 Beta Release (A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.)

VS Addin
- Exec inline Addin for Visual Studio 2005

External links lists
- http://spietrek.blogspot.com/2007/07/links-7232007.html
- http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2006UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight and IIS7
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio and .NET
- ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF and .NET
- http://spietrek.blogspot.com/search?q=Links

Interview questions

Long time ago Scott Hanselman post a blog's articles about ASP.NET Interview Questions and more generic questions about .net.
Today I have read another blog's post of Rodney Vinyard that gives more questions about interview about .Net framework - check it out.

New : Giving and taking an Interview (A brief article on interviewing both as an interviewer and interviewee)
New : IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions Interview questions for .NET (Update 13/08/2007)

.NET Tips & Tricks by Michael Nemtsev

Today I've been reading about new features in .NET Framework, how the things can become better from a developer point of view and discovered an article written by Michael Nemtsev, Microsoft MVP that is collect a really huge list of facts and tips about .NET Framework - general issues, thrading, web applications, etc. Also this list become much more valued with the attached links with more information about each tip.

You must read and try to learn it as much as you can.

Count .NET projects lines

When developing an application using either C#, Visual Basic or C++ in .NET projects we discard to think about what is the amount of the code that we produce, what of the code is commented, etc.
However it is very usefull to have information how many lines of code are written in a file or in a project. Also how many lines of comments are included and so on.
This kind of information will not change anything in your project but should you direct you if the things are going well and can quickly answer you some simple questions - Is there any comments in this file/project? What is the total amount of code lines produced from the beginning of the project? What is the correlation between the autogenerated code and your 'true' code.

I've found a very nice utility that counts the number of lines in a C#, VB or C++ .NET solutions or projects related with the above questions.

Check this out.

How I am becoming a better developer, part 1 of infinity

Today I've read some very useful blog post that show me a Justice Gray's post about what and how a professional can be more than professional. Read this post! It's worth!! Also there are links to very cool and usefull books.

Create an ASP.NET ProgressBar

I was facing a lot of questions like "How to see the progress of uploading large files on my web site?" or "Can I integrate an upload progress in my web pages?" and etc. I have found a very good article for creating such progress bar on CodeProject but today reading the help.net blog finds out that it can be much easier to do that stuff. Check this article and make your life happier.

New (24/7/07): Here is another progress bar using ajax: AJAX file upload