Jon Galloway

San Diego, CA

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/

Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, specializing in ASP.NET MVC.

I don't use this site anymore because the moderators close or delete far too many of the useful questions.

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favicon.png vs favicon.ico - why should I use PNG instead of ICO?

favicon png ico asked Aug 27, 2009 at 22:39

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How do I delete multiple rows in Entity Framework (without foreach)

entity-framework asked Mar 25, 2010 at 22:24

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48 votes

How do I convert a .NET console application to a Winforms or WPF application

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42 votes

Should I use the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern in Silverlight projects?

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40 votes

What's your checklist for when everything blows up?

disaster-recovery asked Apr 30, 2009 at 8:07

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How to set up a CSS switcher

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23 votes

What's the best way to go from a Photoshop mockup to semantic HTML and CSS?

html css asked Aug 21, 2008 at 8:32

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21 votes

What are the most likely causes of Javascript errors in IE8?

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18 votes

How should I securely wipe data from a hard drive?

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16 votes

Javascript shim to redefine "const" as "var" for Internet Explorer

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Replace multiple characters in string in one line of code in VB.NET

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