ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence

efvote.wufoo.com — Over the past year, Microsoft and the Entity Framework team have received a tremendous amount of feedback from experts in entity-based applications and software architectures on the .NET platform. While Microsoft’s announcement of its intention to provide framework support for entity architectures was received with enthusiasm, the Entity Framework itself has consistently proved to be cause for significant concern. read more...

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Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

published 6 months, 24 days ago, submitted by HoolieMan 6 months, 26 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler. read more...

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See how simple is to create a great user interface for you app

wpf-graphics.com — See how simple is to create a great user interface for your WPF or Silverlight application. You can simply use almost any vector drawing application (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape, Visio, Autocad, Excel, Word, etc.) and then with the ViewerSvg or Paste2Xaml convert the drawing into XAML. Or even simpler, you can use one of the thousands vector images that are already available on the internet - see links. There are also samples that demonstrates the power of vector images and how simple is to create a great effects with them. read more...

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10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

published 10 months, 3 days ago, submitted by superghost 10 months, 4 days ago

codeproject.com — ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request... read more...

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Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?

published 1 year, 3 months ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 1 year, 3 months ago

sashasydoruk.com — "Sure there are Community Server, MySpace, DotNetKicks and DasBlog; there are all very fine products, but compare them to LAMP, Rails and Java lineup: Digg, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Flickr, Backpack and the Company, Delicious, all the Google Apps, Mint, Meebo, Twitter, Zillow and of course Infinite Cat Project. If you checkout the new startups on TechCrunch, it seems like every new startup is something Linux based and is not ASP.NET." read more...

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Free refactoring tool for ASP.Net and Visual Studio - Must See!

published 1 year, 3 months ago, submitted by cycnus 1 year, 4 months ago

community.devexpress.com — Developer Express released a free version of their refactoring tools for ASP.Net. There are also links to a funny screencast and to an article with many screenshots in the blog entry. read more...

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C# Syntactic Macros

aboutcode.net — Code generation in Visual Studio that transforms C# in more C#! Currently there is just a macro to generate a basic class implementation from an interface. But the architecture will allow for a host of code transformations. read more...

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The Least You Need to Know about C# 3.0 (Beta 2 Edition)

blogs.msdn.com — A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#. LINQ is indeed an empowering technology. However, even without LINQ, C# 3.0 would be a compelling upgrade. Now that Beta2 is publicly available, here’s my personal list of the most useful features in the next release. read more...

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