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It's perfectly possible to generate a PDF from scratch, using a library such as iTextSharp, a port of a free Java PDF library. However, it can be hard work defining all the code you need to generate the layout you're after, and impossible for someone to tweak the layout without going back to the developer.
One alternative, using the same … Read more “Dynamically Generating PDFs in .NET”
Search engine optimisation is pretty much part and parcel of creating websites these days. Getting the basics right don’t require a large amount of work, but can make all the difference. Many of these also improve the general usability and accessibility of your site too – so you get three major benefits rolled into one.
The points below are just … Read more “Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Checklist”
Developer Fusion has gone global! I've expanded the listings on Developer Fusion to include information about user groups, events and job vacancies from all over the world, rather than just in the UK. When visiting, the site will automatically display content most relevant to you (from your country!), and I'm going to be working hard to increase our coverage of … Read more “Promote your User Group,Events and Job Vacancies (for free)!”
I'm back in the UK now, after a 6 month jaunt around the world (photos, for anyone who is interested!).
Now that I'm back, I'm going to start looking for someone to help me keep on top of the article and code submissions for Developer Fusion, so that I can hopefully focus on getting some new community features up and … Read more “Developer Fusion Community Editor”
I had a thank you email from Pete LePage on the Web Development Tools team the other day – letting me know that I was one of the top ten valid bug finders (as in, bugs that were actually fixed) for the VS 2005 product cycle… It’s always nice to know that we can all make a difference to the … Read more “Bug fixes, and a week today….”
If you’re involved in a User Group (in *any* country), I’d encourage you to submit information about your group to Developer Fusion at http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/members/submit.aspx – you will then be listed within our directory of resources; like these .NET User groups that we’re already listing. I really want to try and give everyone as much publicity as possible!
You can even … Read more “Do you run or attend a User Group?”
Forgive me for sounding my own trumpet, so to speak… but this is a significant milestone for me! Developer Fusion has reached over 500,000 unique users* in the last 30 days, which is great news, and the first time it’s broken this (albeit artificial) barrier. Next target: 750,000! Many thanks to everyone who helps out or participates in the community. … Read more “Developer Fusion reaches 1/2 Million Unique Users/month”
Just thought I’d post some information about upcoming developer events in January dotted around the UK! If you haven’t been to one before, why not give it a go?
With the covers barely off on C# 2.0 we are planning on kicking
ASP.NET 2.0 gives us a Page.Title property, which we can set in code, or in the Page directive. Great! Unfortunately, I had a requirement so that whilst I’d be setting a portion of the title from the page, the rest would be pre-defined (ideally within the master page that I use). Obviously you can’t fiddle the stuff in the server-side … Read more “Why is the HtmlHead class sealed?”
I've now got some enhanced UK developer event listings up on Developer Fusion – check it out at UK Developer Events. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Made a nice use of the Google Maps API to do this… (sorry Microsoft, but the MapPoint service is way out of my price league!). Next on the cards will be setting up … Read more “Enhanced UK Developer Event Listings”
I’m not sure I should really admit to not knowing this… but today was the first time I’d realised that the “class” attribute for elements within a HTML document can accept more than one class name. doh.
Update: Here’s a simple example. With the following in your style sheet…
.align-c { text-align: center; }.font-b { font-weight: bold; }
You can … Read more “Multiple CSS Classes”
Hmm. Talk about over-engineering. I don’t think we really need generics at all, provided we’re happy with a cast outside the method instead of inside it.
public delegate object MethodExecution();public static object GetCachedMethod(string key, DateTime absoluteExpiration, MethodExecution method){ if (HttpContext.Current.Cache[key] == null) HttpContext.Current.Cache.Insert(key, method(), null, absoluteExpiration, Cache.NoSlidingExpiration);
return HttpContext.Current.Cache[key]; }…return (DataSet)GetCachedMethod(key, DateTime.Now.AddDays(1), delegate() { return SomeMethodThatReturnsADataSet(myParam); });… Read more “Caching Method Results in ASP.NET 2.0 using Delegates”