Tweet NetBash (drop in command line for asp.net web applications) was first released late last year with little to no response from the community. No big deal – I built it to scratch my own itch so it was at least going to be useful to me. Then, like clockwork I go on holidays for [...]
Tweet One thing that always annoys me when working on a web app is having to write those inevitable pages full of admin functions some of which are just a single button. When hacking up one such page I had a thought – a plug in library providing a command line for your web app [...]
Tweet When creating the amazing, incredible and life changing app for managing money you borrow and lend Metrowe I was pretty annoyed to discover that in the Mango SDK there are choosers for selecting emails: EmailAddressChooserTask and phone numbers: PhoneNumberChooserTask but not just plain selecting a contact. The problem with the other choosers is the [...]
Tweet A while back I wrote Fluent Email, a little .NET wrapper for sending emails with System.Net.Mail using a fluent interface. After relentless requests (there was at least 2) to publish the library on NuGet.org I eventually caved in. You can add Fluent Email to your project using Nuget’s built in library package manager or [...]
Tweet One of the big features of my Windows Phone 7 Google Analytics Client – Phonealytics is the nice (I think) looking graphs. After briefly considering porting an existing Silverlight solution to wp7 I stumbled upon Quick Charts by amCharts. Quick Charts is a lightweight and more importantly free chart control for Windows phone 7. [...]
Tweet Ah extension methods… where would we be without them? Writing slightly more code to perform common functions that’s where! I am fairly sure everyone has their own set of string extensions so I though I’d share what I currently have then you guys can shoot it down and direct me to / yell at [...]
A C# Extension method to split a string into chunks of a given size.
An Open Source Fluent Email class for .Net. Uses System.Net.Mail to send emails either synchronously or asynchronously.
A simple email class that uses the SMTP configuration information in the web.config or app.config of the application to send emails.
A C# class to automatically test the performance of methods. The class calls multiple iterations of the method timed with the stopwatch class and returns average performance.