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WPF performance profiling tools

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:46:10 GMT

The WPF Performance Suite is a set of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the runtime behavior of your WPF application.

Improve Web Application Performance

Mon, 05 May 2008 04:16:03 GMT

A good post with tips to improve the performance of your web app.

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 4

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:36:52 GMT

In the fourth part of this series, Keyvan talks about the unit testing concepts related to the MVC pattern and how Microsoft has adapted these concepts for its ASP.NET MVC framework. He shows these principles and the process that should be followed to unit test an ASP.NET MVC application.

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Got more than 2GB of RAM in your machine? Get around the 2GB memory limit by making Visual Studio large address aware.

Simple Subverison Repository Setup with VisualSVN Server

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:31:09 GMT

Most developers don't have to setup their own Subversion repository, but when you do....there is a simple way from the creator of VisualSVN. They have a free product called VisualSVN Server with will aid you in setting up and configuring your Subversion repositories.

7 free online editors for your asp.net site (part 2)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

This is second part of a two-part article about free online editors for you Asp.Net(Web) projects

State Machines In Windows Workflow

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Excellent introduction into the usefulness of state machines in WF.

A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by adding some features which we all want built into Visual Studio. PowerCommands provides the following...

Build your own Silverlight Deepzoom application

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:36:46 GMT

Build your own Silverlight Deepzoom application and host it with Silverlight Streaming.

Explore Silverlight project hierarchy with Silverlight Spy 2

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:31:17 GMT

Silverlight Spy will automatically pick up any Silverlight application embedded in the page and display it in the XAML Explorer

A Great XPath Query Tool

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Visual XPath is a free graphical XPath query tool which have many great features, some of those features are: Load an XML file and see it in a form of tree

RestLess - A Simple REST Framework Part 2 : ndepth.net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

An updated to Jayme's RestLess framework with some general improvements (better URLs) and some new properties.

Move ASP.Net ViewState to SQL Server

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

ViewState is a great feature, but it can get really bloated with data, especially if you have loads of controls on a page, repeaters etc. You could think about setting enable viewstate to false, but you'll need it for posting pages back. This tutorial moves the viewstate to a SQL database, by implementing a simple class that all your pages will inherit from.

Keyboard Shortcuts on Steroids With a Cute Little App

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:01:11 GMT

A great little App that will make assigning keyboeard shortcuts easy

Tag property without inheritance

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:46:04 GMT

The article show how to add support for Tag property without using inheritance

Enum TryParse Extension Method

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:25:39 GMT

TryParse method is very helpful if you need to convert string representation of a value to a value itself. TryParse is better than Parse method because it doesn't throw any exceptions and just returns a Boolean value to indicate weather the parsing was successful. Surprisingly there is no TryParse method available to use for Enum and this is where extension method can be extremely useful.

Don't Use Double.Nan

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Comparison of a double with double.Nan (Not a Number) will always return false. If we want to check whether a specific double is...

How to use Aggregate functions with LINQ to SQL

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

LINQ to SQL maps the relational database into an object model, and when the program runs the queries in the object model are translated into SQL. SQL contains Aggregate functions like SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX and more. Lets see how this functionality can be implemented using LINQ

How to share configuration files between projects

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:31:03 GMT

Sharing configuration files between multiple projects in Visual Studio is a simple task, but it is not intuitive in how it is done. In fact, until recently I did not know how to do it via the IDE, I would always hand edit the .sln file to enable this feature (sad I know). Today I thought I would throw up a simple set of screen shots to show everyone how easy it really is.

ASP.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit alternative authentication

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC implementation of an OpenID consumer and Windows Live ID Web Authentication in the ASP.NET MVC Membership Starter Kit.

app_offline.htm

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:29:27 GMT

Good practice for taking your application offline.

Open source Project:DotNet Zip Library

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:46:31 GMT

The Microsoft .NET Framework {v2.0 v3.0 v3.5} includes base class libraries supporting compression within streams - both the Deflate and Gzip formats are supported. But the System.IO.Compression namespace provides streaming compression only - useful for communicating between cooperating parties but not directly useful for creating compressed archives, like .zip files.

Must Have Tool for ASP.NET Developer

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

NetFXHarmonics DevServer is a web server hosting environment built on .NET 3.5 using WPF, WCF, and LINQ technologies that allows multiple instances of VS-like web servers to run in parallel

Scott Guthrie's April 11th Links

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:01:10 GMT

Some links from Scott Guthrie about ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, and Silverlight.

6 free online editors for your asp.net project

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:16:04 GMT

A list of web editors that can be easily embedded in your asp.net projects