Exposing Public Properties From Your ASP.NET Pages Considered Harmful?

Betrand Le Roy made a post called “Why you shouldn’t expose public properties from your pages”. For the 99% of the scenarios I agree with him since it would obviously prevent your control from being reused ubiquitously, but there is at least one scenario where I see this as acceptable: when creating a shell environment scenario like […]

ParseChildren(true, “Content”) Fails When Child is a Form Element?

I’ve looked around and haven’t seen this described anywhere. It’s a tough bug to come up with a succint search query for though, so maybe I just missed someone else reporting it. In any case here are the details in case anyone else ever runs into this. Basically, if you create a UserControl, decorate it’s code-behind […]

Mimeo Ranked #186 of Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies

I don’t blog about my company very often, but I’m pretty pshyced about this. We made Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies List and we’re up there at #186! We’ve had some really amazing growth this year that seems to be snowballing more and more. I’m proud to see this company go from the nothing it […]

String: The XML World’s Equivalent of void*

So I jumped into a discussion on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.webservices where the author asked the best way to send DataSets over web services. One of the initial responses was basically (to paraphrase) “…just pass it as strings and use GetXml, ReadXml to dehydrate/rehydrate the DataSet…”. The author of said post has, IMHO, been trying to tap dance […]