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Considerations when designing your multimedia elements

Published on December 19, 2010 By RobK410

There are several considerations when choosing what multimedia technologies to use while designing your website. In general, one must consider the end user of the web site and their method of visiting the website in order to determine what type of multimedia technologies should be used within the site. For instance, one would not use [...]

Why XHTML?

Published on November 22, 2010 By RobK410

The web community has for some time been moving toward the adoption of XHTML for several reasons. One reason has been a need to move away from presentation as priority with new focus on data structure. Since the inception of HTML 1.0 in 1993, there’s been a constant battle by browser developers to render hyper-text [...]

C# Best Coding Practices

Published on August 14, 2008 By RobK410

Below is the bulk of the content from a standard procedure I recently wrote for my open source project .Mail Server Suite. Often when you have a group of people working on a single project, it makes sense to have an expectation of consistent code design from each developer. A standard procedure document is just [...]

Retrieving Column Descriptions from MS SQL

Published on September 20, 2007 By RobK410

Building a schema report of one’s database is a requirement for version control in any businesses CM system. Often developers will use the Description extended property of MS SQL server to detail the purpose of a column. When it’s time to write their schema report they usually wind up having to retype or copy and [...]

Seeing more of your code through Shift-Alt-Enter

Published on September 18, 2007 By RobK410

I just saw a nifty menu item referenced on the c# FAQ blog. I really wasn’t ever aware of it either. Never really looked for it, but have had a need for it since forever. It’s Shift-Alt-Enter, and it will hide just about everything in the visual studio environment except a menu and your code, [...]