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SQL Server 2005/2008 Diagnostics Queries and Configuration Checklist

Sat, 23 May 2009 13:46:14 GMT

Very useful queries by SQL Server MVP, Glenn Berry ..A must have

Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:46:26 GMT

Holy cow! Another *DD - man I really must have an IV with that Alt.NET Punch just coursing like a train in my veins! I ask for your patience with this one - cause I think BDD is a really good tool to know - whether you use it or not - knowing the workings of it will allow you to have some intelligent conversation the next time you're in Austin :).

String Functions in SQL Server Part 1

Fri, 15 May 2009 08:34:37 GMT

In this article I would like to give you an overview on various string functions that are available in SQL Server and are widley used at work. In this IT world 50% of the databases consist of CHAR, NCHAR, VARCHAR, and NVARCHAR as data types to store the values. When you are joining the tables based on the string family columns then you need to use string functions in order to return right output from your queries or modify t he out put to make it more meaningful.

ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing

Fri, 15 May 2009 02:31:02 GMT

One of the propagated "great features" for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url's of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let's walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing.

Pass Querystrings into Dynamically Loaded Usercontrol

Wed, 13 May 2009 18:53:33 GMT

usefull article on hw to pass Querystrings into Dynamically Loaded Usercontrol

Creating a Tabbed Wizard Interface in ASP.NET using jQuery Tabs

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:06:06 GMT

jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET including Wizard interface and remembering tabs on postback - Must See

Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery

Sat, 16 May 2009 22:01:19 GMT

jQUery at its best -- Smooth cascading effect with the ASP.NET Panels and jQuery

Delete Random Records From a Table Using SQL Server 2005/2008

Sun, 03 May 2009 01:39:04 GMT

Cool query showing how to delete random records based on a category/condition. Very helpful in bulk log data scenario.

Identifying and Replacing Duplicate Items across rows using SQL Server

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:19:35 GMT

A useful query to teplace Duplicate Data Based in a table based on a condition

Creating a Cool UI effect on ASP.NET Panels using jQuery

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:01:14 GMT

see how to create a Cool UI effect on the ASP.NET Panels using jQuery

Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:18:39 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to use Master Pages and LINQ to automatically set the control that receives focus when a page loads.

Learning how to harness the power of NUnit RowTest

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:31:04 GMT

Taking a look at how you can utilize the power of RowTests within NUnit. By learning how to use RowTests you can reduce the amount of duplicate test code which exists when doing data driven tests.

Should We Solve Institutional Problems In Our Code?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:46:02 GMT

Is it okay for us to solve deficiencies in our development teams with code?

How I Learned to Love Dependency Injection: The Code Samples

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:01:16 GMT

Code samples from a presentation on Dependency Injection at Central Ohio Day of .NET

ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:16:11 GMT

Here's a list of all sample chapters of ASP.NET MVC books available to the community.

C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:46:02 GMT

I often see arguments about use of regions in C# code. And this is one of the most annoying things I see on the Internet in my opinion when it pertains to code structure. Whoever says regions are not to be used, I'd love to see your code and know what standards you have established as a team with your code base. I bet you it's a mess and the reason you don't like regions is because the developers on your team has abused use of them and that there is no logical pattern or team standard established.

Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:16:02 GMT

As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing software and then save it. The pain is even more when I need to use two Buttons for a screenshot (Fn + PrintScreen) in my Laptop ;-). So I thought I will develop my own screenshot capturing tool which will allow me to take screenshots as well as save it in just two clicks. In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to develop your own tool using .NET. Let's get started.

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

Project Kobe community feedback

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:31:02 GMT

A project that we recently worked on in my team is Kobe , a Web 2.0 service development resource kit. The goal of the resource kit was to provide a collection of resources in the form of presentations, white papers, and a working sample application to enable business and technology decision makers to develop a good foundational understanding of Web 2.0 services, a conceptual architecture of a Web 2.0 service, challenges to think through when embarking on a new Web 2.0 service development project, and Microsoft platform implementation assets that are available and can be applied to materialize Web 2.0 services.

Kobe - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Karl Seguin weighs in on the latest MS ASP.NET MVC sample app

Just say No! to C# Regions

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

You need a language construct so that your IDE can help you hide your big messy code block from you (because it's just so hideous, you don't even want to look at it anymore)?

Adaptive Rendering in ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC comes with different action results for various purpose, but some times, you will find those are not adequate for your scenario, lets consider the following screenshot: When user navigates to a different tab or change the sort order or moves to a different page number, it will load the content as an ajax call, but if the user has JavaScript turned off, it will redirect to a regular url. One solution would be to create separate sets of controller actions that will return either the complete view (in case JavaScript is turned off) or the partial view and use the jQuery load to show the content. But the problem of this approach is that we will be duplicating the same logic for both the actions, moreover we will be returning the unnecessary html tags rather than pure json object that is sufficient for rendering the view. A better solution would be adaptive rendering. If you are not familiar with adaptive rendering then let me clarify it a bit, it is a process where the server responds differently depending upon the browser capability. So it has a broader scope(e.g. mobile devices, text only browsers etc) comparing to our above JavaScript on/off scenario. But for the time being let us only focus on the above, so instead of creating pure html/ajax only version we would like to take the advantage of the browser capability and for this we will create a new action result, the beauty of the new action result is, the controller remains completely unaware of what kind of request it is serving. Lets take a look of the controller action that is serving both:

New Web Optimization tool available

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

Tired of not understanding what TIDY does to your web pages? Try out Aggiorno, now in its silverlight version!

Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:46:02 GMT

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch!

Software Startup Lessons (Part 6) - Looking back at one failure

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:16:02 GMT

After a few months, we've decided to kill a project and call it a failure. Read more about the project's postmortem note in this article.