Brock Allen
Brock Allen is an instructor for DevelopMentor where he teaches .NET and ASP.NET. He also manages the ASP.NET curriculum at DevelopMentor by doing research and course development. When not teaching, Brock is an independent consultant doing mentoring, architecture and development work.
Latest articles
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Dynamic thumbnail images from ASP.NET
by Brock AllenThis sample code is an IHttpHandler implementation that reads a JPG from the filesystem and dynamically generates a thumbnail sized version of the image and emits that to the response stream. What I like about this approach is that you don't need to create a file on the filesystem for the thumbnail as it's all done in memory.
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Cross page postbacks in ASP.NET 2.0
by Brock AllenASP.NET 2.0 introduces the ability to have an ASPX page postback to a different ASPX page with cross page postbacks. This was done all the time in ASP but wasn’t supported in ASP.NET 1.x. Here we show you how to use this new feature.