Have Your File Operations Participate in Transactions Today

chinhdo.com — By implementing IEnlistmentNotification, you can have your file operations (copy, delete, write, etc.) participate in transactions without requiring Transactional NTFS (TxF), which only works on Vista and Windows Server 2008. Working code included. read more...

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Try/Catch Blocks Can Hurt Performance Significantly

chinhdo.com — Over at Programmers Heaven.com, there’s an interesting article on the potential performance impact of try/catch blocks. The article concluded that the average cost of a try/catch block is essentially nothing (sorry there’s no author information on the post), and that .NET/C# programmers should not think twice about using try/catch blocks. The author is right that a try/catch block has essentially zero cost. However, like most coding performance issues, exceptions and try/catch blocks do not have performance implications until they occur in some type of loop. read more...

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Dual Monitors for Developers

published 7 months, 18 days ago, submitted by rplant 7 months, 20 days ago

blog.jrpsoftware.com — Let's face it, a multiple monitor setup is the only way to go for a software developer, or any other computer professional these days. If you are still using only a single monitor, you are not working at your full potential. read more...

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How to check email works with no SMTP

dotnettipoftheday.org — Testing code that sends email has always been a pain. You had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly... read more...

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My Silverlight 1.1 Hello World Application

chinhdo.com — Imagine being able to author rich internet applications in your .NET language of choice, without having to mess with Javascript, cross-browser compatibility issues, or ActionScript. That’s the promise of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1. In this article, I will document my attempt at creating a Silverlight 1.1 “Hello World” application. My Hello World application is a little bit more fancy than the typical one… this one involves some animation, and drawing a few shapes from code. read more...

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What's Ailing ASP.NET Web Forms

west-wind.com — Rick Strahl summarises the disadvantages of the current ASP.NET WebForms model, and how the new ASP.NET MVC framework might address some of these issues. read more...

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Bulk Operations Using Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET)

dotnetslackers.com — n a typical multi-tier application, one of the biggest performance bottlenecks is the overhead of making round-trips to the database. Minimizing these round-trips is often the first area you should look at during performance tuning. Fortunately, the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) makes it fairly easy to do this by providing several built-in methods to write and read data in bulk. read more...

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Workflow Communication

ajdotnet.wordpress.com — If you are new to WF you’ll have to master two or three things to talk to a workflow: The service pattern, a silly interface pattern, and some threading issues. ... read more...

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