December 2006 - Posts

17 December 2006
L10N: Will your translators understand your RESEX files.

In few days I have to hire a Danes translator and I wanted it to be easy for her to encode[:) of course!] and be guided properly what to put in. Initially I thought a friendly naming on resource ids is sufficient, but I was wrong. It won't help her because different pages share the same resource strings... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, tektips, how to, L10N, localization, internationalization

15 December 2006
.NET: Coderush addict sharpen by Resharper 2.5

I have been using coderush before in VS2003 but when I shifted to VS2005 I started to love its intelliesense, syntax support and refactoring. I must admit when I won the resharper license, Im hesitant to use it. Shame on me cozIm afraid it might mess up my IDE, slows its performance and override my shortcuts... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, tektips, developer tools, resharper

14 December 2006
.NET: Increase Application Perf with ViewState Persistence Tweaks and Optimizations

I was amazed most of us hate ASP.NET ViewState for its default poor implementation which if not taken into cosideration would kill our applications performance, client resources, and drive shoppers away. Its frutrating... If worst case you haven't heard of ViewState and I assume you are probably new... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, usability and design, tektips, optimization, compression, viewstate, performance tuning

03 December 2006
.NET: In the midst of CSS browser incompatibilities, use conditional comment flags

I hope that one day I will wake up that all web-shoppers are using IE7, firefox and opera... and IE6 will be burned into forgetten in the e-commerce arena. I hate it when simple CSS rules never worked on IE but works fine on Firefox, Opera and Safari where 80% of our consumers uses IE6 and 20% users... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, usability and design, user interface