Last week, I blogged about code performance analysis in visual studio 2008. since that topic provoked lots of comments (thank you Bart for associating "hotpaths" with "hotpants"), thought about doing another post on code quality in .NET. This post will be the first of two on Data Driven Testi... Read more »
Visual Studio developer, did you know you have a great performance analysis (profiling) tool at your fingertips? In Visual Studio 2008 this profiling tool has been placed in a separate menu item to increase visibility and usage. Allow me to show what this tool can do for you in this walktrough. An application wit... Read more »
You may have noticed Microsoft released their Search Server 2008 a few weeks ago. Search Server delivers search capabilities to your organization quickly and easily. The PHP world currently does not have a full-featured solution like Search Server, but there's a building block which could be used to create something... Read more »
A while ago, I was contacted by the people of Packt Publishing asking me to review two of their latest books, ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (by Joydip Kanjilal) and LINQ Quickly (by N. Satheesh Kumar). Since both books stated something about LINQ on the back-cover, and me wanting to read more on tha... Read more »
It seems like amount of posts on ASP.NET's Session State keeps growing. Here's the list: ASP.NET Session State Partitioning ASP.NET load balancing and ASP.NET state server (aspnet_state) Yesterday's post on Session State Partitioning used a round-robin method for partitioning session state over different state ser... Read more »
After my previous blog post on ASP.NET Session State, someone asked me if I knew anything about ASP.NET Session State Partitioning. Since this is a little known feature of ASP.NET, here's a little background and a short how-to. When scaling out an ASP.NET application's session state to a dedicated session server (SQ... Read more »
Perhaps you have already heard of C# 3.5's "LINQ" component. LINQ, or Language Integrated Query, is a component inside the .NET framework which enables you to perform queries on a variety of data sources like arrays, XML, SQL server, ... These queries are defined using a syntax which is very similar to SQL. There is... Read more »
Since an image (or even an example) tells more than any text will ever do, here's what I've created in the past few evening hours: Live examples: Test document 1 (examples offline) Test document 2 (examples offline) Test document 3 (with image) (examples offline) Want the source code? Download... Read more »
Some posts ago, I started playing with the ASP.NET MVC framework. In an example I'm creating, I'm trying to add Forms-based security. "Classic" ASP.NET offers a nice and easy way to set security on different pages in a web application, trough Web.config. In the example I'm building, I wante... Read more »
A few posts ago, I mentioned that I am currently giving a classroom training on ASP.NET. People attending are currently working on a project I gave them, and today one of them came up to me with a strange problem... Here's the situation: in VS 2008, a web page was created containing 2 controls: a DataList an... Read more »