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I Spose I'll Just Say It: Still Waiting For a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:31:13 GMT

Why you shouldn't learn MVC Earlier today Rob Connery posted about why he thinks You Should Learn MVC. Rob is a great guy and we always have lively discussions whenever we meet at conferences. I was in the middle of writing a long comment on his blog when I decided it might be better as it's own post.

Vote for Gaia Ajax: asp.netPRO Readers' Choice 2009

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:21:15 GMT

Gaia Ajax - the ASP.NET toolbox for building Ajax applications without JavaScript - is nominated to this years aspnetPRO Readers' Choice.

Resizing images without loss of quality

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:31:45 GMT

ASP.NET provides us with System.Drawing namespace where we can find classes we can use to manipulate with images. There are many people out there who mistakenly think that Image.GetThumbnailImage is best choice for image resizing. You can easily create crappy images if you follow the code examples in previously pointed article. In this post I will show you how to resize images without negative side effects.

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

Optimize ASP.NET Membership Stored Procedures for greater speed and sc

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET Membership stored proc are not fine tuned for high load. So, under heavy load - the major tables like aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership produces lock contention and transaction deadlocks. Learn how to solve this.

Posting data to a REST service using C#

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:31:07 GMT

A short overview on how you can post data to a REST based service using C#.

6 SEO Tips For ASP.NET URL's

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:31:55 GMT

If you are building a new ASP.NET application, SEO has become a big factor in how you plan the structure / code of the site. But quite an important part of the site which are often overlooked are the URL's, and a lot of people do the basics which I'll show below but there are a few common things people tend to miss or never thought could be a problem...

C# Design Patterns - The Facade Pattern

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:16:10 GMT

In our city dog registration application lets assume there are a few things that need to be done when a new dog is registered. First the new dog and it's owners must be entered into the system. Next the registration fee must be processed. Finally, we want the system to send the owners the welcome email. This is a very simple example but this action requires 3 separate systems to do something in order to complete this one task of registering a new dog.

.NET - Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:31:02 GMT

I am a big advocate on less is more, and when it comes to writing code to monitor an ASP.NET application, less code is definitely more. As a developer, once you have finished developing your application and it's deployed into production, you'll need to monitor it and have it notify you when something goes wrong. There are several ways to do this, from utilising the global.asax file to writing custom classes. But a little known feature in ASP.NET is health monitoring. This gives you the ability to monitor the health of an ASP.NET application. This article won't delve into the specifics of creating your own custom health monitoring class, but it will focus on what is available to ASP.NET developers out of the box.

Using SQL Service Broker in NET applications

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Javi discusses the pitfalls you might encounter while trying to use SQL Service Broker from a .NET application

99.99% available ASP.NET and SQL Server SaaS Production Architecture

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:46:58 GMT

Best practices for designing production architecture for a highly available ASP.NET website running on SQL Server. Guarantees 99.99% availability for Level 3 SaaS.

Using System.Web.Abstractions in Your WebForms Apps

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:31:14 GMT

Check out how to use the System.Web.Abstractions assembly in your ASP.NET WebForms applications!

Stupid NUnit Tricks #3 Foiled!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:16:12 GMT

Revelation of a CLR bug.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

Facade design pattern using C#

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:40:50 GMT

Quick start: How to impliment facade pattern in Csharp..

Dependency Inversion for Dummies: Constructor Injection

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:18:44 GMT

An introduction to dependency inversion.

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.

Windows comming soon to Amazon EC2

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:01:15 GMT

This is big news! Amazon are to enable Windows Support on EC2. this will allow users to kick of Windows images for running SQL Servers, IIS instances and anything else (even HPC stuff) in the cloud! SWEET!

Singleton WCF Proxy

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:45:55 GMT

Javi shows how to implement WCF singleton proxies with Castle taking into account faulted state scenarios.

REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Exposing documentation for REST based services in WCF

Gaia Ajax Widgets 2008 Q1 Release

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:12:09 GMT

Gaia releases their Q1 release, with more goodies and bug fixes. New website as well.

Different methods for creating partial page updates

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:46:02 GMT

This article compares MS Ajax and the Gaia Web Widgets Framework. Specifically it compares the UpdatePanel and Gaia Web Controls for acheiving partial page updates.

Using Gaia with jQuery

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:13:18 GMT

As mentioned in the previous article "Random Rotating Images with Gaia", The Gaia Ajax Widgets Framework uses the well known and very widely used Prototype.js library. As such certain compatibility issues can arise when using Gaia with jQuery.

Random Rotating Images with Gaia

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:09:49 GMT

The aim of this article is to show easy it is to create random, rotating images using the Gaia Ajax Widgets Framework. Gaia provides a suite of Ajax-enabled server controls that makes creating Ajax applications extremely easy.