Mike Christensen: Web Dev Guy

Web Application development on the ASP.NET Framework

Castle ActiveRecord

Lately, I’ve been playing around with Castle ActiveRecord tolearn about this particular...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/18/2008

Lowes

I don't really know why I bother buying anything from Lowes anymore. They don't actually install...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/24/2007

Housing prices

When I moved to the Seattle area over eight years ago, I knew I wanted to make this place my home....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2006

JScript Functions

My favorite IE tip/trick of the day has to do with function pointers and anonymous functions. In...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/28/2006

Great ASP.NET site

Here’s a great site for developers that aggregates a bunch of other ASP.NET blogs, making it easy to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/28/2006

IE Tips and Tricks - Part 1

It has occurred to me that I haven’t written much about client-side development and all that fun web...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/28/2006

Question of the day...

Here’s a hypothetical situation; you’re sucked into a worm hole and transported back to the year...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/26/2006

Case-sensitivity with IE getAttribute

I ran across an interesting behavior in IE the other day. Some of my script code was misbehaving,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/23/2006

More about type descriptors

The other day, one of my readers posed a question regarding my recent post “Data Binding to Custom...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/30/2006

The Paradox of ViewState Events

I thought I’d write a quick blog about a somewhat “Chicken and Egg” style paradox with viewstate...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/18/2006

Data Binding to Custom Objects

I’m back! I apologize for my lack of recent blogging, but this post should help make up for that....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/18/2006

My thoughts on Monad, the new Windows command line shell

Today I decided to install Monad, the new command shell for Windows and I gotta say - this thing is...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/28/2006

Templates - Part 2

In my last article, we talked about writing custom web controls that could render UI based on a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/26/2006

Templates - Part 1

ASP.NET is, to perhaps oversimplify things, a template parser at heart. An HTTP Handler (anything...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/10/2006

Too many tiers? Writing efficient multi-tier web applications.

A while ago, we were all convinced that dividing our applications up into multiple tiers was the way...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/06/2006

My initial thoughts on "Indigo" (Windows Communication Foundation)

Recently, I took an extensive in-depth course on Indigo, Microsoft’s new platform for allowing...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/03/2006

Building your own data bound controls...

In any Web Application, you have data bound controls. The job of a data bound control is to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/01/2006