Tim Hoolihan

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  • Asp.Net MVC Gotchas

    I’ve been working on a project with the Asp.Net MVC framework lately, and thought I’d write up some lessons learned. I’m using Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 as a guide. The first chapter is available online for free as a pdf. One: Be absolutely certain you are avoiding web forms web controls. I took the master […]

  • New Role

    I’ve been promoted at work to what is currently being called “Manager of Development Methodology and Process”. It’s a great feeling, because I had been doing a lot of extra work in the department and this makes it more official. Also, rather than trying to push new technologies and initiatives, I have an easier time […]

  • Integrating Internet Services on Your Site (Or Mini-Cloud Web Sites)

    Something I’ve been increasingly fascinated with over the last year is the reuse of free internet services that I have. On my site, I have widgets that feed the last 4 posts from this wordpress blog, and my twitter feed. I also have an ajax live bing search box that will return results from my […]

  • ASP.Net Comments

    Here’s a strange one I’ve never run into. I was recently helping a developer figure out why some controls were not binding and showing on the page. I noticed they were using html style comments in their page around some controls instead of .net style comments. This was the problem. Server side code still runs, […]

  • IEnumerable and Linq

    I was helping someone on StackOverFlow.com and ran into an interesting issue. The post is here. I explained the issue in my response, but I’ll try to sum up. Newer collection types implement IEnumerable(Of T) as opposed to the original IEnumerable interface. For example, System.Generic.List(Of T) implements IEnumerable(Of T), so the following is valid without […]