I continue to learn more and more about developing websites with additional features. I’ve chosen ASP.NET as my preferred language for building web applications for most of my larger corporate clients. A component I use frequently with this dynamic sites are Session Items in ASP.NET.

As I build more sites I start using more and more Session.Item(”ItemName”) identifiers in my code to pass parameters from page to page and data control to data control. There comes a point where you start not remembering exactly how you named something or even what Session Items you’ve stored in the first place.
I’d think it …read more

I’ve been using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition and previous versions for quite some time now. I’ve been very pleased with the functionality and the fact that I can accomplish what I can with a free piece of software like this is even more impressive to me.

I can’t remember what made me visit the Visual Web Developer Express website again, but I found out there was an update to the program available. As you can see from the image on the left, I was plainly invited to download the application with the new Service Pack 1 that fixed …read more

The b5 Tech Channel is having a little them post series and I thought of something that might be pretty interesting to share with everyone and we’ll get some responses back in the comments as well.
What’s in your Start Menu?
You’ve got the ability to pin a program you use frequently to your Start Menu so it’s readily available as soon as you need it right? The question is, what did you pin up there? Are you the type of person that keeps it simple and sparse, or do you load everything up there?
As you can see from my screen …read more