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Debugging a power outage

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:30:14 GMT

A story about debugging an ASP.NET application after a server farm crashes and starts performing poorly and uncovering the unlikely culprit.

A SQL Table Manhunt

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:09:43 GMT

A simple tidbit of SQL code to help you track down tables/files that are having I/O related performance issues.

Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

ShortGuid - A shorter and url friendly GUID class in C#

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:46:08 GMT

Extending Mads Kristensens "shorter and URL friendly GUID"

For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

A quest to move away from the 50 year old style of "for loops" and embrace newer ways of getting the same job done.

A Sorted Affair: History of the C# Sort

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

I often have the joy of dealing with other people's code that was originally written in C# 1.0 and am continually amazed by how much better the language has become in a few short years. This example represents the evolution of sorting a simple list in C#. From 50+ lines of code, down to one. Wow, what a change!

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

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...

ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Route builder Released

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

This is a simple HTTPModule that allows you to place your routing rules in web.config were they belong.

An Upcoming Asynchronous Facebook Library

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:33:09 GMT

This article introduces a new library called fbasync designed for building scalable Facebook applications in ASP.NET. It goes into basic usage of the library and explains the advantages of using an asynchronous architecture.

ASP.NET MVC Design Philosophy

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

A great post from Eilon about the philosophy and approach to MVC in ASP.NET...

MVC Membership Basics

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:46:03 GMT

Getting Register, Login, and Logout working in the recently released ASP.Net MVC framework. Downloadable code samples included.

A Use for Extension Methods

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Recently over on the alt.net list there has been alot (read: way too much) talk about extension methods. The running consensus seems to be that extension methods are great for extending someone else's API but have no place in code that you control.

Technology doesn't matter!

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:46:02 GMT

Solving problems does. Often geeks get caught up with upgrading to the latest stuff only because it is the latest stuff. Often this can be a flawed approach but we tend to ignore that because of the pleasure we gain from new technology.

SQL Server 2008 will have IntelliSense

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:31:02 GMT

Hurray!

Linq to Sql Surprise Performance Hit

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:01:02 GMT

JD outlines a classic case of making assumptions while performance tuning. It turns out there are cases where Linq To SQL can take longer to compile a query than the round trip to SQL.

10 Tips for a happy upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 RTM

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:46:03 GMT

Jon Galloway puts together a nice summary for updating Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 to Visual Studio 2008 RTM. This can save you a couple of headaches if you read it before upgrading!

Asyncify Your Code

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:19:43 GMT

Asyncify your code. Everybody's doing it. (Chicks|Dudes)'ll dig it. It'll make you cool. An opinion on .NET asynchronous patterns, a sample application exposing its own asynchronous API, and why you should be writing asynchronous code.