BlogEngine Flaws

objectreference.net — Recently I’ve been having problems as the site has gotten more popular I’ve had comments and even posts disappearing randomly, sometimes re-appearing you might have experienced this yourself either on my site or in your own so after divulging into the code to see what was happening found something I thought was shocking. When you add a comment, or Rating, Approving and Remove Comments this is what BlogEngine DbBlogProvider actually does... read more...

add a comment | category: Open Source | Views: 236

Get Checked Repeater Items Extension Method

objectreference.net — Imagine you have a list of some items and checkboxes next to each item providing the ability for a user to make multiple choices and submit a result in one go. Weather you are implementing a news groups subscription, user survey or online products catalogue - the code behind is the same: we bind some object list to a data control like Repeater, add a checkbox to every item, set checkbox value to item ID. read more...

add a comment | category: C# | Views: 144

SCOPE_IDENTITY() return the id from the database on insert

objectreference.net — As a .NET programmer most of my time is spent coding in C# and I try to avoid writing SQL where possible. Recently I had to write an insert stored procedure and needed to return the ID of the row I was inserting. While writing my usual bad SQL I came across a fascinating function I’ve never used before, SCOPE_IDENTITY(). read more...

7 comments | category: Database | Views: 270

Why can't you have handlers with multiple paths in web.config

objectreference.net — I have created IIS7 asset handler for my application which deals with images and stylesheets by serving them from a CMS database. For some reason the new IIS7 handlers section doesn't allow multiple paths for a handler, so you have to map each path like so... read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 1

Implementing Generic Caching

objectreference.net — I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications – and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem. read more...

6 comments | category: C# | Views: 49

How to Expose Your Collections Safely

dev102.com — We use collections all the time. Many times we have to expose them to users of our classes. How to expose collection safely so no one can change them outside your class? read more...

2 comments | category: C# | Views: 3