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• Stop IIS AppDomain Restarts When a Folder is Deleted

  9 May 2009 - 4:21 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Stop IIS AppDomain Restarts When a Folder is Deleted.

  Technical Article - I show you how to prevent IIS web server, and the ASP.NET worker process, from restarting your websites AppDomain whenever a folder is deleted (either programmatically or manually) in your web sites folder hierarchy.

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  • ASP.NET
  • IIS

• And So It Begins (part 2)

  7 May 2009 - 11:55 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 4 Images for And So It Begins (part 2). 3 Comments for And So It Begins (part 2).

  Personal Blog - Finally, my ASP.NET MVC blog is live.

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  • Personal

• ASP.NET MVC and Clean SEO Friendly URLs

  18 March 2009 - 1:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 7 Comments for ASP.NET MVC and Clean SEO Friendly URLs.

  Technical Article - I show you how to generate SEO friendly URLs in ASP.NET MVC using the actual title/name of the record or item (product/blog name etc.) instead of the ID. That way we can have nice looking URLs that look like /products/123/apple-ipod-nano-4gb instead of /products/detail/123. The trouble is by default, ASP.NET MVC Html helpers don’t always encode the URL properly. Also how do we deal with updating the title, and old broken links?

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • SEO

• IE Browser Detection for CSS (Using Conditional Comments)

  12 March 2009 - 1:00 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for IE Browser Detection for CSS (Using Conditional Comments).

  Technical Article - A simple, reliable way to perform browser detection for Internet Explorer browsers, in order to serve certain CSS or JavaScript files (or even HTML mark-up) to specific versions of IE, while ignoring other browsers. If you have to serve a certain style sheet file to a specific version of IE to steer your way around CSS browser rendering bugs, then this may come in handy.

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  • CSS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript

• Misc Updates: Twitter and ASP.NET MVC

  7 March 2009 - 11:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Misc Updates: Twitter and ASP.NET MVC.

  Personal Blog - Some miscellaneous updates. You can now find me on Twitter. I’m also learning ASP.NET MVC (Model, View, Controller) and in the process of converting this blog over to MVC.

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Personal
  • Twitter

• Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics

  28 February 2009 - 11:40 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Image for Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics. 0 Comments for Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics.

  Technical Article - Use this handy JavaScript to add Silverlight Tracking to Google Analytics, and see what percentage of your users have Silverlight installed, including which versions.

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  • Google Analytics
  • JavaScript
  • Silverlight

• Photo Mosaic Generator - Fun Adventures With Silverlight

  30 January 2009 - 2:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 2 Images for Photo Mosaic Generator - Fun Adventures With Silverlight. 1 Comment for Photo Mosaic Generator - Fun Adventures With Silverlight.

  Personal Blog - I've been learning Silverlight and have decided to write a Photo Mosaic Generator with it. Check out some of the cool Mosaics I've made already.

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  • Personal
  • Silverlight

• Dynamic/Conditional Order By Clause in SQL Server/T-SQL

  25 January 2009 - 5:42 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Dynamic/Conditional Order By Clause in SQL Server/T-SQL.

  Technical Article - This article shows you how to achieve a conditional Order By clause in your SQL Server Stored Procedures, without having to resort to inline SQL in your applications, or Dynamic SQL (yuck!) in your Stored Procedures.

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  • Code Quality
  • SQL Server
  • Stored Procedures

• GZip compress your website's HTML/CSS/Script in code

  15 May 2008 - 2:23 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 3 Comments for GZip compress your website's HTML/CSS/Script in code.

  Cool C# Snippets - Dynamically GZIP compress the HTML response of your website in code, without having to configure IIS directly. Make massive savings on your websites bandwidth.

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  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • Optimisation
  • Performance

• Using Namespace Aliases

  11 October 2007 - 1:43 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Comment for Using Namespace Aliases.

  Cool C# Snippets - Ever get tired of prefixing class names with the fully qualified namespace to avoid class name and namespace conflicts (eg. System.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.User). Well there’s a way around it using Namespace Aliases.

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  • .NET
  • C#

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