Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - Microsoft .NET Framework

In this post I explain how to overcome the 2 big limitations when you bind data to a DropDownList: binding multiple properties and nested properties

A way to optimize ASP.NET web applications in order to improve search engine's ranking.

My experience with Google's AdSense API.

My review of the NDepend tool.

I have finally updated the DebuggerVisualizer for Visual Studio 2008 RTM version.

Patents can be a source of information some times that can be difficult to find in other places...

DocProject is an excellent tool to generate the documentation of your code. I explain how to configure it and have the documentation generated in 5 minutes.

Some challenges I had to face to be able to keep up with the growing of the business.

An update to my NHibernate Custome Membership and Role Provider with some bug fixes, a CreateUserWizardEx control and autounlocking.

A rant about the policies that Microsoft is applying when fixing bugs in the .NET Framewok and Visual studio.

A free DebuggerVisualizer to display the Linq Expression Trees.

Custom Membership and role providers for ASP.NET that can be used to store the membership and role data in your own tables using NHibernate.

I blog about the inconsistencies in the API for generic methods, the lack of support of the ObjectDataSource for generic methods and the problems surfaced when adding full generics support to my CompatObjectDataSource/ExtendedObjectDataSource components.

I read about the improvements of the Java lenguage in a book about Hibernate and I give my own opinion about Java vs .NET.

I explain how to use Generic Types with the ObjectDataSource and how to solve the problem to reference a type in the dynamically generated App_Code assembly.

Finally the ASP.NET AJAX Library (previouly named Atlas) has been officially released, and it comes with full source code!

This is the last post of the ANTLR tutorial.

A complete example is created and the generated source code is studied in detail.

I continue giving an overview of the main classes of ANTLR.

This post covers Trees, ITreeNodeStreams and TreeParsers.

Another year ends and a new one comes. Life goes as fast as usual and we’re keep on our way. It’s time to think about it… our actions, hopes, wishes, mistakes, etc.

I usually listen to a special song a few minutes after the start of the year. In the last few years I have been choosing "Aerosmith – Full Circle" because it has special connotations for me.

I wish you the best in the coming year.

A global vision about the main classes in ANTLR.

I'm playing with DebuggerVisualizers in order to add support for displaying trees to simplify debugging of complex algorithms based on trees.

Visual Studio.NET 2005 has a really cool feature called debugger visualizers. I provide an introduction to this feature and I talk about a set of debugger visualizers I created for the .NET data structures.

I have been taking a look to some compiler tools and I found ANTLR, that seems to be pretty good and it has a full blown IDE that kick ass, ANTLRWorks!

NDoc was the de facto standard to create documentation for .NET but it has been discontinued.

Finally Microsoft has created the SandCastle project to provide a decent documentation tool for .NET developers.

Being able to dynamically call an arbitrary method on an object or the ability to get/set any arbitrary property by name at run time is very important when it comes to do some generic stuff. In .NET Framework 1.x the only way to do that was using reflection and that means to do it slow.

Fortunately, the .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a new class that let us to quickly call an arbitrary method without the overhead of a reflection call.

A review of this book that is targeted for a Java audience but the main content can be useful to .net developers too.

In this post I talk about the upcoming release of .NET Framework 3.0, some hints about what I'm doing right now, how design time support is going for the ExtendedObjectDataSource package and a nice tip: how to debug design time stuff (the easy way ;)

InDesign exposes its functionality as a COM object so it can be used in Microsoft .NET Framework.

I explain some things that you have to keep in mind when working with InDesign in C#. There's also a sample to remove the carriage returns from the end of the footnotes.