Read this excellent guide on increasing the total memory Visual Studio can use, even in 32bit windows

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Here is a code snippet that will COMPLETELY disable ViewState and ControlState.

Please note, if you want to disable viewstate, you can set “EnableViewState” to false for the page, however you will still see “VIEWSTATE” in the page. The reason for that is because the hidden ViewState HTML field also contains “Control State”, which is [...]

I think this is a classic post that everyone should read:

The Most Useful .NET Utility Classes Developers Tend To Reinvent Rather Than Reuse

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If you read Creating SqlParameters Best Practices you will find the fun you have if you have null values:

SqlParameter[] sqlParams = new SqlParameter[] { new SqlParameter("@Required", required), questionCode == null ? new SqlParameter("@Code", DBNull.Value) : new SqlParameter("@Code", questionCode) };

Here is a nice helper function to deal with nulls without having to manually [...]

Here is a list of new features in ASP.NET 4.0.

Very interesting. Auto start feature, new ways to choose where data is cached, built in option for compression session (via gzip), and more!

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Wow, sweet. Use .NET 3.5 features in .NET 2.0.

A quick overview how to do it.
1. Edit your .CSPROJ file and manually add another reference to System.Core
Add a True

This will make the compiler copy it to the BIN folder.

Thats it. You can now use .NET 3.5 features

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When using SQL Server Management Studio you might want to copy data from one DB to another (using just a SELECT and INSERT statement)

It’s so easy you won’t believe it

sp_addlinkedserver @server='192.168.123.456', @provider='SQLNCLI',    @srvproduct='',@provstr='User Id=sa; Password=are-you-crazy-to-use-sa' insert into [192.168.123.456].MYDB.dbo.tblRecords select * from MYDB.dbo.tblRecords

and when you are done

sp_dropserver [192.168.123.456]

References:
sp_addlinkedserver [...]

hnc.cgi is a spam script. Its also known as dm.cgi.

If you have this script running, chances are your server has been exploited.

Here is the actual dm.cgi script if you want to see it.

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Before and After

If you manually want to simulate a postback, Here is how you would stick together a string manually calling __doPostBack in .NET 1.1
In this case its making a link in a particular linkbutton control inside a datagrid.

__doPostBack in .NET 1.0

string link = "<a href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('dataGridCart$_ctl" + i + "$linkButton','');\""; [...]

This is quite an astonishing use of Google Trends.  Google realized that when people get sick they (obviously) search for flu related keywords and they managed to find a correlation to actual published flu infection statistics.  Quite amazing and this is definately a unique and interesting application of technology.

How we track flu trends [...]