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How NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:46:03 GMT

About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I wanted to improve the read times because our new Facebook Application was being launched and I anticipated an increase in our traffic to the server, which is used to host IdeaPipe and the Facebook Application component. I quickly realized how now to optimize LINQ statements though.

No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production

.Net 3.5 Changes as Seen from NDepends...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Really interesting breakdown of the new 3.5 sp release.

How to easily enhance your existing tables with simple CSS

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A detailed example of how to use CSS to style an HTML table. The example is specifically focused on styling a table generated on the client-side via AJAX, but is applicable to any HTML table.

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Once you register, you will be forwarded an Email with your login credentials to our product download portal. With this information in hand, you will be able to download and install all the controls and tools listed above free of charge. The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royalty free (see the EULA that accompanies the products for more information). Note that the installation you download will include evaluation versions of our entire product line. You can install these trials if you wish during the setup process. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 are fully supported.

Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:16:15 GMT

Part one of many in migrating your C# skills over to Ruby

Know Every HTML Tag There Is

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:16:09 GMT

The question is do you know all the HTML tags? Do you know exactly how they work and what each tag does? And the most important of all, how each tag acts in each browser?

Creating full-blown WPF applications within minutes using Vidyano

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:31:03 GMT

Vidyano is a new product that allows you to literally create WPF applications, optionally running on top of Windows Workflow, within minutes. The July 2008 CTP, as well as a quickstart tutorial, just became available as public downloads. The screencast is a quick overview on some of Vidyano's initial features, it also shows you how to apply a workflow state machine as an engine behind a pagecontroller. More info and tutorials will become available in the upcoming days/weeks.

Evolution of C# delegate syntax from .NET 1.x to 3.5

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Evolution of C# delegate syntax from C# 1 - C# 3.

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A new release of Dropthings, open source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX portal. Features many performance and scalability techniques and a new design. Showcases: - 10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets. - Fast ASP.NET page rendering by deferred script loading. - Load large amount of Javascripts in batch and thus load AJAX sites a lot faster. - Fast Streaming AJAX proxy that solves double downloading problems and continuously streams content from external domain. - Making best use of cache for high performance website. - On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites.

Getting Started with TDD

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Getting started with Test Driven Development can be challenging. In this blog post, Steve offers some advice on how to get started either for a brand new project or one that already in maintenance mode.

StringWriter vs StringBuilder

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:50:20 GMT

Some toughs on using StringWriter versus using StringBuilder.

Extension Methods + Attributes = A Whole New World!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:31:02 GMT

A post about combining attributes and extension methods in order to extend current code.

A jQuery Client Status Bar

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Status bars are very useful in client applications to display well status information and having a reusable and easily callable and configured status component to display messages is extremely handy. Here's an implementation that uses jQuery plus a bit of CSS to make short work of displaying status content.

IQueryable to DataTable

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:43:32 GMT

Simple code to extend IQueryable to include a ToDataTable method.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

Useful Debugging tools from CodePlex

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:14:00 GMT

Some useful tools you can find on CodePlex.

10 Tips to improve your LINQ TO SQL Application Performance

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Sidar gives performance tips on developing linq 2 sql

Umbraco rocks and this is why

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:32:19 GMT

I had a little trouble getting ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX working in Umbraco. The incredible community makes it the best CMS out there.

MVC: Membership Starter Kit Updated

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to include OpenID, MVC components, password recovery, and basic client-side validation.

Google AdSense Advertising - eeech...

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Rick Strahl has a great post questioning how much fraud Google actually lets through with AdSense.

Minimal code to expose your objects over HTTP

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:33:21 GMT

If you are tired of reduntant pass through coding in your web service, then you might find this alternative method interesting. This post describes a remote invocation method that allows your business objects or data objects to be invoked through a custom HTTP call by simply decorating them with a custom attribute.

SQL Ejaculation

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:48:38 GMT

Defining an anti-pattern that involves using a SQL Stored Procedure to create HTML content.

ASP.Net MVC Source Code Available... our first test?

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:28:14 GMT

With the source code to ASP.Net MVC being made available to us... are being tested? Is this a pattern that is going to be repeated? Are we as .Net developers being given the chance to influence our own future? Only we can decide...

13 Tips to Comment Your Code

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Following are 13 tips on how to comment your source code so that it is easier to understand and maintain over time.