Bundling and Minifying Inline Css and Js

Introduction: Application performance is the very important factor for an application success. Yahoo's Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site is a great resource for increasing your application performance. Out of these practices, 'Putting Stylesheets at the Top','Putting Scripts at the Bottom' and 'Minifying(external and inline) JavaScript...

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JavaScript Exactly Equal

I’ve been doing more JavaScript lately than I have in the past and am starting to take a closer look at semantics. In particular, the strange looking exactly equal operator with the three equal signs, ===. Someone who’s been working a career of C, C++, Java, and C# might not be familiar with exactly equalbecause equality in these languages is already strongly typed. The point is that JavaScript is not strongly typed, so the development experience...

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Nullable struct

There are many times in .NET where we have an instance of a value type that we need to treat as optional.  That is, we may want to consider its value as being supplied or missing. The System.Nullable<T> structure in the .NET Framework can be used to represent these situations in a consistent and meaningful way. Why Do We Use Nullable<T>? With instances of reference types, you can easily denote an optional item by simply...

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DIVIDING WEB.CONFIG INTO MULTIPLE FILES IN ASP.NET

When you are having different people working on one project remotely you will get some problem with web.config, as everybody was having different version of web.config. So at that time once you check in your web.config with your latest changes the other people have to get latest that web.config and made some specific changes as per their local environment. Most of people who have worked things from remotely has faced that problem. I think most common...

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Read XML Files using LINQ to XML and Extension Methods

In previous blog posts I have discussed how to use XML files to store data in your applications. I showed you how to read those XML files from your project and get XML from a WCF service. One of the problems with reading XML files is when elements or attributes are missing. If you try to read that missing data, then a null value is returned. This can cause a problem if you are trying to load that data into an object and a null is read. This blog...

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