IIS7 and Twitter – a love story

blogs.iis.net — It is a while that I wrote something as crazy as this one is. This is basically a windows service running in your web server which would tweet often about the heart beat of the web server and posts its status messages. For example, v1.0 of this application will tweet the below (you can configure the time interval on the config file): -Total number of requests executing per application pool -Each Application pool Private bytes, and Virtual bytes memory usage -Server’s available Physical memory, and Virtual memory -Momentary Ping to a configured URL (example – http://localhost) (it will tweet only if it fails – for the moment I’m just checking if the HttpWebResponse.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK. If time permits, I’ll try to add more granular control for the error codes) -If a request takes more than specified time limit to get served read more...

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ASP.NET MVC - Think Before You Bind

published 19 hours, 32 minutes ago, submitted by justin_etheredge 20 hours, 59 minutes ago

codethinked.com — ASP.NET MVC is a powerful and simple framework, but there are a few things that ASP.NET developers will need to pay careful attention to when moving to MVC. This post discusses the automatic binding abilities in ASP.NET MVC and why you need to think before you bind. read more...

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PhotoSuru released!!!

dotnet.org.za — PhotoSure, a photo-viewing application created by the WPF team is finally released! This is a excellent example of how rich client applications should look!!! read more...

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A GUI for Amazon SimpleDb - SimpleDb Manager

submitted by eibrahim 1 day, 7 hours ago

emadibrahim.com — A simple and effective UI for managing Amazon SimpleDb databases. read more...

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SimpleDB tools for Visual Studio

mindscape.co.nz — A new add-in which integrates Amazon SimpleDB into Server Explorer and enables you to view and edit SimpleDB data within Visual Studio is up. It also integrates with the LightSpeed ORM framework and designer. read more...

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A Challenge to the VB.Net Community at Large on OSS

published 17 hours, 18 minutes ago, submitted by AlexCuse 1 day, 8 hours ago

codebetter.com — Title pretty much says it... read more...

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Super Simple Ajax with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC

beginnermediate.com — The simplest way to do ajax with asp.net mvc using your more "standard" way of doing ajax with jQuery. read more...

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Pex - Software Cracker?

published 1 day, 6 hours ago, submitted by birdchest 1 day, 17 hours ago

monstersgotmy.net — I started thinking more about what Pex does, it generates tests for your code. It also generates meaningful values for your methods to get the most code coverage. So could Pex be used to generate a password for software, or find holes in lincese key generators? read more...

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