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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...

OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Interested in adding OpenID to your .NET website?

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

The Stopwatch Class

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Stop using DateTime to time long sections of code. The 2.0 framework introduced the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class to do the dirty work for you.

A better way to create a dynamic SQL stored procedure

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:43:03 GMT

This one has been plaguing me for years: What is the best way to create a dynamic stored procedure that allows null inputs to filter results? Today, while working on another request to come up with a dynamic stored procedure for a specific report a client wants, I had an epiphany. If I use isnull() in conjunction to with the actual value, I can get the desired results, no matter what input(s) are null -if any or all.

Seamless inline text editing with ASP.NET AJAX

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:01:02 GMT

This is a technique that I really like. It's excellently suited to intranet sites and administrative interfaces, where your users are typically familiar enough with the application to know which text they can click to edit. It's actually very easy to implement, with a small amount of JavaScript. Update: This functionality is also available as an ASP.NET server control.

SubSonic: Version 2.1 (Pakala) Preview: The New Query Tool

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:01:05 GMT

Eric and I have been working just about non-stop on our bug list as well as some very cool innovations that he and I have cooked up over the last six months. We've had to wait a bit for the dust to settle in the .NET world (not to mention our personal lives), but I think the wait has been worth it. Over the holidays I was able to create the querying API I've been thinking on for the last year, and it has come together nicely. I'd like to show you what I've come up with, and ask for your comments and help before we release it with version 2.1 of SubSonic.

How to check email works with no SMTP

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Testing code that sends email has always been a pain. You had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly...

Large file uploads in ASP.NET

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:01:14 GMT

A review of some of the challenges and solutions to uploading large files in ASP.NET.

Completely free PDF .NET library written in C#

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Want to add PDF support to your .NET project. Try this. Open Source library to create/edit PDF files. With unrestricted license to change, sell, sublicense.

Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Project

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Handy guide from Scott Guthrie on how to open and maintain older ASP.NET & AJAX Projects (ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX 1.0).

Force HTTPS on all requests, HttpModule

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:22:01 GMT

Sometimes we have websites that are strictly HTTPS. No files whatsoever are served up through HTTP. We want our users to only access the HTTPS portion of our website but we dont want them to remember "https://" blah blah blah. Honestly, who really wants to type all of that anyway? No one.

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

Spider's Web: Spawning threads in .NET (Part 1 of 5), The Basics

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

First part of a five part post on threading in .NET

The Gospel of the GUID - And Why It Matters!

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:16:03 GMT

There is only one commandment in the Gospel of the GUID: Thou shalt always use a GUID to uniquely identify a row in a table.

ASP.NET AJAX templating technique

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:31:02 GMT

Scott shows off a really cool way of using AJAX with custom web controls to make complex AJAX UI easier - without using UpdatePanels

My new little friend, Enum<T>

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Some description of a help class for working with Enumerations.

Using SingleTagSectionHandler Instead Of appSettings

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:31:02 GMT

As an alternative to appSettings you can use SingleTagSectionHandler to store settings in a web.config file. Learn how.

Community Server: Create custom image button control from CSLinkButton

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:12:09 GMT

Describes how to create a custom composite control within Community Server that can be used to replace the ResourceLinkButton used in the WeblogPostCommentForm to display an image button.

Ping using XML-RPC in ASP.NET

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Many blogs have the ability to ping different ping-services, such as Ping-o-Matic, Feedburner and Technorati, whenever some content is created or updated. But it is not only blogs who can benefit from pinging these services. Almost all websites that is updated regularly can use this technique.

Get baseUrl from Request object, not web.config

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Better programming by getting the baseUrl programmatically rather than depend on a web.config key.

IE7 Vista Flash Player Fix

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:06:50 GMT

After installing Vista I found that IE7 would not show Flash content. This article explains how to fix it.

VS 2005 on Vista; Error "Unable to start debugging on the web server"

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:58:10 GMT

How to solve.

How to get ASP.NET 2.0 Button WebControl to render as type="button"

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:31:02 GMT

The default .NET Button WebControl renders as an input type="submit" control. This quick article describes how to get it to render as an input type="button" and the difference between the two.

.NET 2.0 FormsAuthentication Remember Me Challenge

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:31:02 GMT

A few weeks ago, I posted a solution I came up with a way to utilize a remember me checkbox in .NET 2.0 that, when selected, pre-populated just the username in the username textbox during subsequent visits. The problem I found was that signing out of FormsAuthentication wiped out any and all cookies I had set during or prior to logging a user in. So, the simple act of looking at the cookie to see if the user wanted to be remembered became quite an ordeal. My solution was to set/get the cookie using JavaScript. There are some skeptics out there though. So, for them, I've created a very simple website solution that tries to set and get the remember me cookie as explained above. The challenge is to modify the solution so that it DOES work.