This blog running on BlogEngine.NET (and the its parent/main site) is now running on IIS 7 Integrated Mode and would like to share a little of my experience.

There were two major issues with I migrated these blog to IIS 7 More...

If you don't code generate your DAL or use OR/M or anything that would make you worry less about DataAccess like LINQtoSQL, Entity Framework, NHibernate, Castle ActiveRecord then you should definitely give SubSonic a shot.

On the side I'm currently working on a C# version of Extended Club Starter Kit Version 3 Beta 1 for one club that I was part of in college (and probably a few others) and one thing to note is that the project has opted to use SubSonic. It's an open source project developed by Rob Connery and a few other popular developers in the .NET. It simplifies generation of Data Access code and some utility functions common to development. And don't forget about the cool Scaffolding support. As I've heard this is one of the popular features of the Rails framework where pages are generated on the fly to serve as you're admin tool for add/edit operations against your database table. They could be considered your admin pages or at least help during development. Bottom line is, all these features will save your time (which is what SubSonic aims for). More...

I was going thru some pages for my current project today when I ran into the said error "Sys.ArgumentException: Value must not be null for Controls and Behaviors". It was the first time I've encountered it and since it was working the last time I browsed it I didn't have a clue what was causing it so had to dig around. More...

I would not even pretend to be all knowing here but I couldn't stop myself from sharing this chain of interesting links which should remind all of us of the dangers of abusing UpdatePanels thinking that using it in any way will make our old non asynchronous pages work like magic. More...

You might encounter a case where updating an ASP (classic/3.0) cookie from ASP.NET code (or vice versa) doesn't work. That is despite updating the cookie value, the old value still remains. More...

I ran into this behavior (which I think is weird) where a button no longer posts back to ther server after I click on a the Firefox's back button. More...

Just a quick note. I was working on some Web User Control and needed to persist information across postbacks and thought of using ViewState. But while I was working on it, I realized that I was using the same key for saving another information in the parent Page's (the Page containing the user control) ViewState.

I did a little verification and it turns out that despite having the same key being used for saving different values to ViewState, having it assigned inside the Web User Conrol and inside the Page results to two different ViewState items.More...