Dominic Pettifer - Latest Blogshttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/rss/blogs.xmlLatest Blogs from the website of Dominic Pettifer. Web designer/developer, software engineer, ASP.NET, C#, Java, Ajax, SQL Server and more...GZip compress your website's HTML/CSS/Script in codeDynamically GZIP compress the HTML response of your website in code, without having to configure IIS directly. Make massive savings on your websites bandwidth - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=17Thursday 15th May 2008 - 2:23pmsironfoot@msn.comUsing Namespace AliasesEver 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. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=16Thursday 11th October 2007 - 1:43pmsironfoot@msn.comJavaScript/CSS and Custom ControlsThis guide will show you how to implement JavaScript code in your custom ASP.NET server controls, and implement them in such a way to decouple your custom control from the web application implementation. We’ll also look at CSS for your custom controls. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=15Monday 18th December 2006 - 1:00pmsironfoot@msn.comGet a<HEAD> with ASP.NET 2.0New in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to add runat="server" to the pages <head> tag. This lets you programmatically modify the head element and other elements inside it such as, Title, adding JavaScript code and style attributes, plus many more. Here I show how this is done. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=12Monday 11th December 2006 - 11:43pmsironfoot@msn.comAjax Chat Rooms Almost ReadyI'm just putting the finishing touches to my Ajax powered chat room application (see Chat Rooms link in the About section, bottom left). Still a few bugs left to deal with, but you can use it, well sort of. Though it's amazing how the XmlHttpRequest object can be harnessed to build such an application. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=11Friday 1st December 2006 - 3:08pmsironfoot@msn.comMeasuring Page Execution Times for ASP.NET PagesSomeone asked me about the page execution time shown at the bottom of this (and every) page. So I thought I would post an article on how to incorporate a page execution timer in your own ASP.NET pages. It’s fairly simple but requires an understanding of the ASP.NET page life cycle. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=10Monday 27th November 2006 - 7:57pmsironfoot@msn.comOutput Parameters AND Recordsets From a Stored ProcedureJust had a frustrating past few hours with Stored Procedures in SQL Server 2005 and ASP.NET. I was trying to return both output parameters and a recordset from the same stored procedure and the caller (a .NET data access class) wasn’t having any of it! I found a solution so thought I better post it here to help others, and in case I forget. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=8Friday 24th November 2006 - 10:32pmsironfoot@msn.comIt’s Bond, But Not as You Know itI went to see the new James Bond film yesterday, Casino Royale. It’s certainly a big departure from the traditional Bond formula. I’ve heard this film was based on a book whereas the last four or so were written for film. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=7Thursday 23rd November 2006 - 12:35pmsironfoot@msn.comAnd So It BeginsWelcome to my new blogging website. I built this site because I thought it was about time I started my own blog. I always have something I want to rant or rave about but no platform on which to say it, well not counting forums and message boards on the internet. But now I have this blog, and, well, everyone seems to have a blog these days, and I started to feel a bit left out. - by Dominic Pettiferhttp://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/displayBlog.aspx?id=5Wednesday 22nd November 2006 - 1:06amsironfoot@msn.com