http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx Integrating Prototype and ASP.Net to create the next generation of web applications Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:10:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SQL Server: you can use the command: DBCC SHOWCONTIG (@TABLENAME) to display paging  statistics about a table (MSDN article) C#: Use ConfigurationManager.GetSection() to read any section of your web.config or app.config (from my StackOverflow question) You can use only ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/11/random-findings/ Taking the web by surprise (didn't they have a partnership with Mozilla?), Google has made another step towards a better web (or towards world domination, some may argue :) ) by releasing its browser, Google Chrome, yesterday. Based on the WebKit rendering engine (the one powering Konqueror ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/09/google-chrome/ If you use Script.aculo.us or some other library written on top of Prototype, you probably have already encountered the Class object. Every time you call a new Effect.Appear() or a new Draggable() you are, in fact, instantiating a Prototype class. Just like software developers abandoned procedural languages like C ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/08/creating-classes-with-prototype/ Scott Hanselman has released RockScroll, a Visual Studio addin created by Microsoft employee Rocky Downs that can be really useful when working with large, ugly code files. In his own words: The basic (as in "only") idea is that RockScroll extends the scrollbar in Visual Studio to show a syntax ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/05/rockscroll/ If you're creating an aspx page that serves javascript, be sure to choose the application/x-javascript content encoding instead of the usual text/javascript. I found out today that text/javascript will work fine in any browser, except for Internet Explorer. Changing it to application/x-javascript does the trick, however. In case ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/04/serving-javascript-with-aspnet/ These are my recommended tools for any web developer approaching ASP.Net and generally any kind of HTML/CSS/Javascript coding. They're ideal even if you are on a tight budget, since they all are free or open source. Firefox Some love it, some hate it. But this browser is probably the ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/03/tools/ Since I chose ASP.Net as my server side environment, the easiest choice for the AJAX stuff would have been Microsoft's ASP.Net Ajax extensions. It's a quite good, well documented library that many other developers have chosen. Plus, it's completely integrated into Visual Studio. Why then, did I choose otherwise? While ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/03/why-prototype/ For years we have been telling our customers that some things could not be done on the web. The web was simply not responsive enough to be used as a platform for everyday applications. Then, with the rise of the XMLHttpRequest object, everything changed. It is now possible to create ... http://www.gljakal.com/protoaspx/2008/02/welcome-to-protoaspx/