Month: November 2011

  • Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application with SQL CE 4 & Entity Framework without installation

    Update – 12/15/2011 As of Visual Studio 2010 SP1, there’s an easier way to do everything below. In the Solution Explorer, right click the project and select ‘Add Deployable Dependencies…’, select the dependencies you want to include, and click OK. This will generate the folderĀ _bin_deployableAssemblies with the proper DLLs. Now when you build your solution, […]

  • Login/Register page design

    I recently went to the Getty Villa website to get some tickets and came across their login/registration screen. Sadly, their page looks like the type of examples used in hyperbole-filled academic books on how NOT to design the login page. The notes defined here can be applied to most any user interface design. Consistency of […]