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Jan
30
nik

VB.Net to C# conversion

Working with DotNetNuke, I often have the need to convert a piece of DNN code into C# so I can modify/override it in my modules. I use the Snippets feature of Instant C# to do this. It is amazing how accurately the code conversion is done. This is a good...
Oct
18
nik

Cross-browser

Cross-browser support of web applications is generally overrated. Sure, it makes good business sense to make your product appeal to the broadest audience possible. But when it comes to web applications, I disagree. Just today, when I released a public preview of NukeHTML (a HTML editor for DotNetNuke) there was a post on the ASP.Net forums about this issue. The poster was of the opinion that due to IE...
Sep
6
nik

Gmail is over-rated and underwhelming

The only good things I can say about Gmail are that (a) the search is excellent, and (b) it prompted other mail providers to up their disk space. I have been using it off and on for a few months now and find the interface is counter-intuitive. Initially, I chalked that up to lack of familiarity with the U.I., but after playing with it for a while, I have concluded that not only is the interface...
Sep
3
nik

Upload/download large files with ASP.Net

One of the most frequent support questions I encounter pertains to problems uploading or downloading large files using ASP.net. Assuming that these aren’t super-huge files so we do not have to go into details of ASP.net’s inherent inefficiencies in this area, there is usually one reason for the problem — incorrect configuration in the web.config file. In order to support large file...
Sep
1
nik

MSDN Columns on “The Business of Software”

Eric Sink has an excellent series of articles on MSDN called The Business of...
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