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Tuning Click-Once deployment performance with VRTA and PowerShell

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:07:25 GMT

Some of our client applications get distributed using the Click-Once paradigm. One day we noticed that the time between the initial click on the download link in the browser and the complete initialization of the Click-Once desktop client application took much longer than a user would tolerate. We decided to debug the deployment of the application and fix the problem. We chose the Microsoft Netmon 3.2 and the VRTA (Visual Round Trip Analyzer) for the initial analysis.

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:01:02 GMT

In this screencast Rob Conery and Brad Wilson talk about continuous integration with TeamCity, Unit Testing with xUnit and TDD in general. "This screencast went from a simple idea - talking to Brad Wilson about better Unit Testing - to some pretty broad topics such as source control, unit testing, and continuous integration. I seriously could have written a whole book based on the stuff flying through my mind. I reigned it in a bit and decided to focus on two things that I don't think get enough press: writing a good Unit Test coupled with Continuous Integration."

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

WorkGrabber.com - Sweet ASP.NET MVC 1.0 + jQuery Application

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:24 GMT

Mike Bosch shows us his latest creation using ASP.Net MVC: WorkGrabber.com is a social marketplace for local contractors and customers to interact and get projects done.

Where Are The Developer Machines?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:31:04 GMT

Steve Smith posts about PCs for software developers, and how computer companies aren't targeting this section of the market. If a computer manufacturer made development machines, how should these computers be configured?

Creating your own site's search Engine

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:46:03 GMT

Setting up you search page for your web application is as easy as having a DB table where you retrieve data from by a simple query. I will illustrate the steps of setting up the configurations needed in this post, and will write another one for detailed stuff in custom search page.

DotNetNuke 5.0.1 Community Edition Released

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:18:41 GMT

DotNetNuke 5.0.1 CE released today.

Getting Started: Scripting Incuity EMI models with PowerShell

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:24:28 GMT

The Incuity EMI (Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence) software lets you connect to various plant historians, real time plant data servers and conventional relational database servers and access the underlying information through an unified entity model. The heart of the model is a powerful and elegant meta-repository. The setup of the data sources and the creation of the entity model can be automated by using an easy to use client .NET API. This article describes how to get started with this API and demonstrates the creation of a connector to the plant historian server from Wonderware using PowerShell.

PDB != Product Deployable Bits

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:01:04 GMT

Something else I see all too often at work is the existance of the PDB file on a production web server. PDB files are automatically created from Visual Studio through the .NET compilers, so why don't they belong on the production server?

Fun With Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:31:02 GMT

Recently I found myself in a situation where I wanted to format a string using a named format string, rather than a positional one. Ignore for the moment the issue on whether this is a good idea or not, just trust me that I'll be responsible with it.

Consuming ASP.NET Web Service in Silverlight

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:03:01 GMT

This article describes how to consume ASP.NET web service in Silverlight in easy to follow steps.

Why Windows 7 Will Save Microsoft

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:16:02 GMT

I was doing some thinking over the past few weeks and I came to a realization. Windows 7, with all of it's improvements in performance, new features, and more streamlined development process, will actually save Microsoft and redeem them from the whole Vista crash. So I decided to write up WHY Windows 7 will tromp every previous Windows version and why we should pay close attention to it.

When PowerShell hash table magic backfires

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:37:57 GMT

We just made it through the holidays and I finally found time to write about the most annoying thing in PowerShell: Hash table semi-automatic, which can easily result in some subtle bugs. And all of that, just because the hash tables don't behave as I would expect. I assumed hash tables to be implicitly sorted by the keys using the Sort-Object cmdlet and to always stay hash tables and not get converted into arrays of Dictionary Entries or even a single Dictionary entry when piped into a Where-Object cmdlet. To workaround these strange defects you need to apply some unnatural constructs and roll your own select statements. It just doesn't feel fair to make your children call GetEnumerator() before they try to find today's window on their Advents Calendar.

NAnt HowTo #3: How To Run NUnit tests

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:40:37 GMT

This article describes how to run NUnit tests from your NAnt build file.

Integrating reCAPTCHA with Castle MonoRail

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:46:10 GMT

A short tutorial showing how to add a captcha image to a form by integrating the reCAPTCHA service with a Castle MonoRail application. As part of this tutorial, see how to create your own custom parameter binder.

How to Target Multiple .NET Frameworks?

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:17:00 GMT

Tips and tricks on targeting multiple .NET frameworks (i.e.: Silverlight 2.0 and .NET 3.5) with a single codebase.

TheBeerHouse MVC Beta Now on CodePlex

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:01:14 GMT

Tired of bitching about Oxite? Here's a new MVC sample application to sink your teeth into -- an MVC version of the famous TheBeerHouse Starter Kit.

Saving DotNetKicks

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Keyvan wrote something about our popular social bookmarking site, DotNetKicks and talked about some spamming problems on DNK and discussed about saving DNK from this situation. A must read post for all DotNetKicks lovers!

How to handle .NET ReaderWriter locks efficiently?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:35:30 GMT

Writing code for the concurrent execution requires, among over things, proper data access synchronization (locking) to avoid any problems. One of the most useful primitives to do that is the Slim version of ReaderWriterLock that has been introduced in .NET 3.5

Migrating from ASP.NET 1.0/SQL Server 2000 to ASP.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:27:04 GMT

The article provides details of various steps followed by author in upgrading ASP.Net 1.1 application to ASP.Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005

Walkthrough: Displaying Data from Oracle database in a Windows applica

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:08:12 GMT

This article is intended to illustrate one of the most common business scenarios such as displaying data from Oracle database on a form in a Windows application using DataSet objects and .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle.

Fluent NHibernate - Integration Tests

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:37:06 GMT

Article presents how to use Fluent NHibernate to write integration tests to check mappings correctness with in-memory database.

Dear PowerShell Santa...

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:13:43 GMT

PowerShell has a great potential, but it needs professional tool support in order for it to mature. The current solutions are far too amateur. Here is my list of PowerShell improvements for Santa Claus

Extending the Visual-Studio Context-Menu

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:16:06 GMT

We can add features to the Visual-Studio context menu, without installing addins. Here is an example showing how to add "Explore" and "Execute" commands to any item in the Solution Explorer.