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Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

Silverlight Multi File Uploader

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:31:12 GMT

Free multi-file uploader for your website, made with Silverlight. It allows you to upload multiple files at the same time. The files are uploaded to a WCF webservice where they can be processed. A nice feature is that you can see the upload progress of all your files. The control also has some handy configuration options, you can set the number of simultaneous uploads, the maximum file size etc.

Matt Berseth: Dynamic Data Demos Now Available

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:16:05 GMT

Matt now has his dynamic data demos up since discountasp.net is supporting ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. Go take a look. They are pretty cool.

SQL - Step By Step Installation of SQL Server 2008

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Step by step installation of Microsoft SQL server 2008.

Simulate a Windows Service Using ASP.NET to Run Scheduled Jobs

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Back in 2005 Omar Al Zabir (Co-founder and CTO of PageFlakes) posted an article on the CodeProject web site Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs that many of you have probably seen. If you liked the idea at the time but didn't do anything with it, you may want to take another look now. In the comments, dselkirk provided an alternative that really cleans things up that Erichero then improved upon slightly and converted to C#.

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Creating Full Text Catalog and Full Text Search

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:16:06 GMT

This is the first ever and complete example for SQL Server 2008 - Full Text Catalog and Full Text Search. Make sure to book mark for future reference.

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 - Create the Perfect App

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:46:03 GMT

n this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC Forums application from start to finish. The goal is to discover and promote best-practices for building applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this first entry, I discuss the overall goals for the forums application. I discuss the importance of avoiding code smells and how software design principles and patterns can help you write code that is resilient to future change. I also justify my choice to use test-driven development while building the Forums application.

Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) using ASP.NET MVC's AntiForg

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Steve Sanderson covers an attack that is not as well known as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks called Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and some helpers in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 that can help mitigate the risk.

Json.NET 3.0 Released

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

The latest version of Json.NET brings lots of new features including Silverlight support.

Fast Serialization

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:01:03 GMT

We use ALOT of serialization in the current system I work with. Serializing/deserializing 100,000,000 objects in a day is pretty common. For a long time we knew that the binary formatter was fat and slow but never rationalized writing something custom as we were always fast enough. Unfortunately our data throughput has raised 400% in the last year (when you start with gigs and gigs of messages this is a huge gain) and our little three or four year old dual xeon 2.2 has turned into the little engine that could during peaks lately so we finally bit the big one and threw something together quickly.

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Configure Database Mail - Send Email From SQL Data

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:46:02 GMT

First and Complete article of SQL Server 2008 Database Mail configuration. From start to end - Complete article. Bookmark it!

Exploring System.Web.Routing

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:31:11 GMT

An overview of the new System.Web.Routing namespace that was included in .net 3.5 SP1.

The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.

Log4PostSharp - logging with AOP

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:31:03 GMT

How to inject log4net logging code using PostSharp and Log4PostSharp. Shows you how to add logging to an application with a minimum of effort!

Create PDF with C#

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Create PDF with C# on the fly

25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:46:02 GMT

A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides, .NET blogs and how tos about improving .NET performance.

LINQ & Lambda, Part 4: Lucene.Net

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:46:10 GMT

This post demonstrates how to easily build a Lucene.Net search index from your LINQ to SQL data context and search for items within it using the LINQ to Lucene library.

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.

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.

"Velocity" project - memcached by Microsoft?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:31:07 GMT

Is the Velocity project by Microsoft simply a me-too framework or are they creating real value for developers on the Windows platform?

LINQ To SQL and the Web.Config ConnectionString Value

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:16:02 GMT

This saved me a lot of time. Great post.

CruiseControl.Net Tutorial - Part 1

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

The first part of a tutorial about setting up and configuring CruiseControl.NET.

Using jQuery to directly call ASP.NET AJAX page methods

Thu, 29 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

An example of how to use jQuery to call an ASP.NET AJAX page method, without using a ScriptManager.