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Benchmarking the CLR vrs the JVM

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:42:48 GMT

I've found that there are lots of flame wars regarding JVM/CLR performance, but very little solid data, so I thought I'd try running a benchmark of my own.

Announcing GFilter Open Beta

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:42:17 GMT

GFilter has been a small project that I began this week, and I am now opening up for beta. Please drop any bug reports as a comment here. The concept behind GFilter is simple. GFilter allows you to create a personal blacklist of sites that you do not want to show up when you search the internet. This means no more Experts Exchange when you are trying to find a handy regular expression etc...

Order of keys in Dictionary

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:21:04 GMT

The article looks at the order of keys returned by a call to Dictionary.Keys and describes why we cannot make design decisions relying on that.

Domain Objects and Data Readers

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:08:37 GMT

How to defensively code your object population methods so they can handle varying columns in a passed Data Reader.

How to find local Data Sources on your server

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:48:42 GMT

Part of the difficulty of installing custom database driven sites onto remote servers is the unpredictability of the server configuration. I am trying to ease that pain by automating as much as possible the initial configuration.

MVC: ViewData vs TempData

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:46:02 GMT

How do I pass data to a view when using RedirectToAction? TempData. Find out more about how TempData works and how it is different than ViewData.

ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Route builder Released

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

This is a simple HTTPModule that allows you to place your routing rules in web.config were they belong.

How To: Validation Using ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Validation using ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC makes it impossible to dynamically build RouteTables?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:26:27 GMT

If you cannot construct an anonymous class during runtime, then there is no way to dynamically build route tables with the MVC framework as it is currently designed.

Fixing the Visual Studio 2008 "InitializingToolbox" bug.

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:20:46 GMT

Opening a ASPX file would stall my system, spike my CPU/Ram usage and sit there frozen, with the message "Initializing Toolbox" in the status bar.

Setting up a SQLEXPRESS Database for use with ASP.NET

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:57:52 GMT

How to get solve authentication and permissions issues when using SQLExpress and ASP.NET

The hidden ORM Tax and why profiling is a good thing.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:14:15 GMT

I use a profiler to examine how efficient an ActiveRecord implementation really is, and in turn, find out how inefficient my code really is.

Extend your application by creating a Plugin System

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:31:05 GMT

A quick overview of a simple plug-in architecture to allow for future extensibility.

Microsoft and Innovation

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:46:02 GMT

Here, in no particular order, are just a few thing that the "evil empire" came up with first.

SQL Server 2005 Fail-over Cluster Upgrade Post Mortem

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:00:46 GMT

An article that discusses potential 'gotcha's when upgrading a SQL Server 2000 fali-over cluster to SQL Server 2005 with workarounds.

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

SQL Server Best Practices -links in TechNet

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:16:04 GMT

Get the real-world guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance to take your SQL Server implementation to the next level. These SQL Server best practices draw on the extensive experience and expertise from respected developers and engineers at Microsoft, who walk you through the specifics on solving particularly difficult issues.

Visual Studio 2008 Resources

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:44:52 GMT

By now it is no secret that Visual Studio 2008 will RTM before the end of November. Soma mentioned this at TechEd Europe and I couldn't be more excited! Make sure you are getting ready with for the new version by checking out our webcasts and other training materials that are available. Here is a list of places to help you get prepared:

LINQ: How to do joins between a relational database and xml data

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:32:42 GMT

At my Houston MSDN Event (http://www.msdnevents.com) I had a student ask me if it was possible to do a Join between different data sources using LINQ. Specifically, he asked about joining XML data with SQL data. So I thought "What the hell, let's give it a shot." It turns out you CAN do joins between different data sources with no problems that I can see. Here is my example of how to join SQL and XML data using LINQ.

Simple Serialization and Deserialization in C#

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:39:36 GMT

This post shows how to convert any .NET object to stream of bytes that can be saved on a disk, sent by a protocol via internet etc.

How to create a custom RSS Syndicator

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:52:21 GMT

Code snippets and explanation of how RSS was added to CodeBlog.

Forget about writing Atom or RSS XML handling code ever again

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:41:53 GMT

A *very* welcome addition to .NET 3.5, which just went RTM for MSDN subscribers and trial for the rest before general availability early next year: System.ServiceModel.Syndication.

Community Matters

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:58:31 GMT

It is difficult to blog on ASP.NET. Many of the times that I submitted a blog post to the popular social networks (Digg, Reddit, Dzone etc) it gets buried by open source advocates, yet they don't even bother to click through to read it. The internet is definitly skewed in a unfairly biased anti Microsoft light

Keep Presentation and Logic Seperate

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:15:24 GMT

Databind properly without filling your presentation pages with inline code.

Free Copy of Visual Studio 2008 Pro

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:15:38 GMT

Get a free copy of VS2008 Pro in Boise, Idaho