June 2005 - Onion Blog

  • Riddle-me this RowCommand

    I've been working on a project recently that involves using the new GridView in ASP.NET 2.0 a fair amount. In general, I'm quite pleased with this new grid implementation - it feels more intuitive, more extensible, and lighter weight than the monstrosity...
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  • The elegance of anonymous delegates

    Among other things, the new anonymous delegates feature of .NET 2.0 provide a really nice way of plugging arbitrary code into an outer shell that you want to reuse. I first saw this technique when Keith used it in a project we were working on to create...
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  • Value of async tasks

    I've posted a couple of entries on the new Async page and async task features of ASP.NET 2.0. One question that has been coming to mind lately is whether async tasks add any benefit for parallelizing asynchronous web service invocations? Here's what I...
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  • TechEd 2005

    As Keith mentioned , we're having a great time at TechEd this week. We've met lots of folks coming by our booth, been to many great sessions, and had a great many face-to-face meetings with other .NET experts and influencers. I had overflow seating at...
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