Peter Shaw

If there’s one question I see time and time again in the various .NET forums that I frequent, it is “How do I pass data from one page to the next?” in my web application. Those of you who are .NET veterans will likely be going ‘Groan, not another page/data passing post’, but I’m going […]

Cookies are everywhere these days.  So much so that here in the European area of the globe, new laws have now been passed requiring web sites to ask visitors if they want to allow them to be used. Why though, have we gotten to the point where a law is needed to ask for permission […]

How many of you out there are using .NET MVC to produce web applications today? Quite a lot of hands there I see, and just as I suspected. This probably means that a lot of you will be using the built in Razor View engine, and will most likely be creating your views in a […]

Sometimes it’s the simple things we need to re-visit. Things like the humble little ‘string.format’ call that’s been with .NET right since the day it was first conceived. It’s also one of the least used things in the entire .NET library, where instead of something so simple, I consistently see people squabbling over which is […]

Let me welcome you all to a new start to the .NET Nuts & Bolts column here on Codeguru.  You might already know me from the Linked-In .NET (Lidnug) developer group.  I’m Peter Shaw or “Shawty” as most people call me. I’ve been involved in IT for over 30 years and have seen the rise […]