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Software Engineering with Microsoft .net

Setting Up .net 3.5 SP1 URL Routing In IIS 5.1/6.0 Without Wildcard Mapping

February 16, 2009 by Bob Barth
How to make .net 3.5 SP1's new URL routing functionality work with IIS 5.1/6.0 without resorting to wildcard mapping.   [ more... ]   (8 comments)

10 Rules For Creating Decent Specifications Documents

December 19, 2008 by Bob Barth
Ten quick rules for creating specifications that will be usable on your projects.   [ more... ]   (6 comments)

More Technology Is Not Necessarily The Answer

June 9, 2008 by Bob Barth
A discussion of code reuse.   [ more... ]   (5 comments)

Call Business Object Methods From Client JavaScript

June 7, 2008 by Bob Barth
How to call methods on your business objects without using a pass-through webservice or PagetMethodAttribute'd static methods on an aspx page.   [ more... ]   (8 comments)

Implementing OptGroup In A DropDownList Control

June 6, 2008 by Bob Barth
How to implement the optgroup tag in a .net DropDownList control.   [ more... ]   (67 comments)

Displaying Hierarchies In A DropDownList Control

May 22, 2008 by Bob Barth
Shows how to derive from a DropDownList control to create a drop-down list that can render HTML character entities inside it's option elements.   [ more... ]   (14 comments)

Query a Single Field for Multiple Values in a Stored Procedure

April 30, 2008 by Bob Barth
Query a single field for multiple values in a stored procedure.   [ more... ]   (8 comments)

Dynamic Sort Parameters in MS SQL Server 2005

April 29, 2008 by Bob Barth
How to use a parameter to dynamically sort results in MS SQL Server 2005.   [ more... ]   (63 comments)