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Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5)

peterkellner.net, July 3, 2008

Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this an easy process. This post shows and...T...

C# In Depth by Jon Skeet Book Review

peterkellner.net, July 3, 2008

Jon Skeet published a great book titled C# In Depth by Manning Publishers. I strongly recommend getting this bookThis site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner ...

Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable

peterkellner.net, June 29, 2008

This post shows how to use a cool tool to making a RSS Feed Discoverable on a web page. It involves creating an entry in the header tag of the page.This site is a resource for asp.net web programming...

Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads

peterkellner.net, June 29, 2008

Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled ""Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications"".This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techni...

Design Patterns - a deep dive 1

The Code Project Latest Articles, June 28, 2008

A colleague of mine asked me a question few days back: "If an application is created using the correct design patterns, does it ensure that the application would be bug/performance issues free?"...

Eight Key Practices for ASP.NET Deployment

DevX: .NET Feed, June 27, 2008

Discover some best practices for deploying ASP.NET applications as well as a few useful procedures that you can follow to improve your application's performance....

Server Farms and MOSS Configuration

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, June 27, 2008

A server farm is a group or cluster of interconnected computers (servers) created to provide processing capabilities beyond the capabilities of a single computer server.The primary configurations of a...

SQLAuthority News - White Paper: SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, June 19, 2008

Microsoft SQL Server has steadily gained ground on other database systems and now surpasses the competition in terms of performance, scalability, security, developer productivity, business intelligenc...

Just another day in the perf lab

Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, June 18, 2008

Even though I've been doing general architecture work on Visual Studio for nearly a year now, my friends in DDPERF are still plugging away on performance problems and finding some interesting results....

Review of the SharePoint Scalability White Paper

Eli Robillards World of Blog., June 18, 2008

A SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper was recently released "to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that ...

vOptimizer reduces VMs to smallest size

Darrell Nortons Blog [MVP], June 17, 2008

Just found this cool little program, vOptimizer. It compresses virtual machines to their smallest size with one click. vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduc...

vOptimizer reduces VMs to smallest size

Darrell Nortons Blog [MVP], June 17, 2008

Just found this cool little program, vOptimizer. It compresses virtual machines to their smallest size with one click. vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduc...

Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team, June 17, 2008

In yesterdays blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA.  In todays blog, well work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels.  (...

Theming Optimizations

the telerik blogs, June 9, 2008

Ever since the first release of RadControls for Winforms, we have tried to deliver WPF-like visual effects outside of the WPF platform. This has allowed our customers to deliver dazzling effects lever...

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Talk

Steven Smith, June 6, 2008

I gave my Tech Ed presentation, ASP.NET Black Belt Performance Techniques, yesterday afternoon.  The talk was well-attended, with about 300 in the audience.  I gave the talk last month in Cl...

Parallel Extensions to .NET June 2008 CTP

Federal Developer Weblog, June 3, 2008

Free performance lunch is over. During the past few decades we witnessed continuous growth of single core processor performance powered, for the most part, by increases in processor clock speed and im...

Identify Blocked SQL Processes Quickly

FTPOnline .NET Channel, June 1, 2008

Improve application performance by creating a utility that tells you which processes are being blocked....

Unit testing vs. Integration Testing : The Restaurant Analogy

ISerializable, May 31, 2008

Here's an analogy I came up with to explain the difference between unit tests and integration tests. Imagine going to a restaurant with a bunch of your friends. there are some couples there as well a...

I'm back online - Another blog to follow

the telerik blogs, May 30, 2008

Hello all! It has been quite a while since I last posted on the official Telerik Blogs. The reasons and excuses range from technical problems to unbelievable busyness, but I won't bore you with them h...

Tough Questions about unit testing - Your comments required

ISerializable, May 18, 2008

As part of My Book I have a chapter on the challenges of integrating unit testing practices into an organization. One of the sections deals with "Tough questions and answers". In short, what are the...

Front-End Performance and Philly Code Camp

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, May 17, 2008

This morning I had the pleasure of doing my Front-End Performance presentation based on the great Steve Souders book, High Performance Web Sites . Again I cannot emphasize enough how I think every web...

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques

Steven Smith, May 14, 2008

Last night I presented at the Cleveland .NET SIG on Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques, which is a talk I'll be giving in a few weeks at Tech:Ed Developers in Orlando.  I was asked a coup...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and Performance

The ASPx Blog, May 13, 2008

Last Friday, Microsoft released a beta of the upcoming Visual Studio Service Pack 1. Check out Scott Guthrie's post for a list of improvements and features included in the service pack. You can al...

Looking over the developers' shoulders. -ANTS Performance Profiler 4

Simple Talk, May 12, 2008

You can get your hands on a very early, very rough version of ANTS Performance Profiler 4. Its not a beta, its not beta quality, it really is a just a development build. So if youre feeling brave you ...

Net Performance Cribsheet

Simple Talk, May 11, 2008

Robyn and Phil tackle the topic of how to make .NET applications perform well. As usual, they try to take a terse, practical approach to the mysteries of JIT, CLR and GC. After giving many performance...

NUnitForms GenericControlTester

<Rolog>, May 1, 2008

In a Windows forms test project using NUnitForms, I was trying to test some DevExpress controls, so I came up with the GenericControlTester for this. It can test any control as long as it inherits Sys...

Unit Testing Denial Pattern #1: Pretending the test is no longer valid

ISerializable, April 30, 2008

Today was both a good day for e and a bad day for me. Good day because I managed to get a full suite of tests that were somehow failing to work again after a refactoring that got out of hand. Bad - be...

Pros and Cons and of using an Auto Mocking container in your tests

ISerializable, April 25, 2008

In regards to my post about injecting mocks and stubs using a container in your tests, Dave asks in the comments: Why would you want to do this in the first place? Here are the things I can think abo...

Locating the active item in the solution explorer

eXtensible mind, April 23, 2008

Say you are working with a code file. At some point, you ""Go To Definition"" of another type, and now you have its code file opened. Or maybe you just run the solution to debug a weird issue that...

SharePoint limits

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, April 20, 2008

Most of the limits in SharePoint are soft limits. In other words, you may exceed the limits, but in most cases you will see significant performance degradation. Some of the ...

Locating the active item in the solution explorer

eXtensible mind, April 18, 2008

Say you are working with a code file. At some point, you ""Go To Definition"" of another type, and now you have its code file opened. Or maybe you just run the solution to debug a weird issue that...

Creating a AutoMockingContainer with Microsoft Unity - Pretty darn simple.

ISerializable, April 14, 2008

Just created a little Auto Mocking Container built on Microsoft Unity. It was very very simple. here's a test that uses it. We tell the container to RegisterMockSingleton becuase we will want whoever...

Smart String Concatenation

Technology and Programming - Speednets Lottery Post Blog, April 4, 2008

Whether on a individual computer or a server attached to the Internet someplace, people are always looking for better performance of their software. The first thought that comes to mind is often addi...

Data Warehousing Resources

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, April 1, 2008

I've had a few requests lately for resources I've used related to data warehouse design and performance tips for SSAS and SSRS for SQL Server 2005.  I thought if a few people are interest...

Reduce Code and Server Roundtrips

FTPOnline .NET Channel, April 1, 2008

Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance....

What's Wrong With This Code (#19)

K. Scott Allen, March 31, 2008

Leroy was shocked when the source code appeared. It was familiar yet strange, like an old lover's kiss. The code was five years old an artifact of Leroy's first project. Leroy slowly scrolled through...

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Find Index Fragmentation Details - Slow Index Performance

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, March 27, 2008

Just a day ago, while using one index I was not able to get the desired performance from the table where it was applied. I just looked for its fragmentation and found it was heavily fragmented. After ...

Using Explicit Casting to Display Data

DevX: .NET Feed, March 24, 2008

Explicit casting offers better performance while avoiding the cost of reflection....

Hotfix available for VB performance issue in VS2008 (DJ Park)

The Visual Basic Team, March 23, 2008

I wanted to let you know about a hotfix we recently released that may help solve some performance issues you may have run into using Visual Studio 2008.    Details The hotfix is a 3.98...

Skinning survey

the telerik blogs, March 19, 2008

With design and User Experience fast gathering momentum as the leading factors behind the success or failure of IT projects, we're continuing efforts here at telerik to make sure the RadControls suite...

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Analysis Services Query Performance Top 10 Best Practices

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, March 18, 2008

Analysis Services Query Performance Top 10 Best PracticesOptimize cube and measure group designDefine effective aggregationsUse partitionsWrite efficient MDXUse the query engine cache efficientlyEnsur...

CPUSS: Using the SJF Expert Rule

Granville Barnett, March 12, 2008

The SJF Expert Rule strategy is designed to elevate the priority of large processes based on a precondition defined by the user, that basically says if the current % of processes in the ready queue is...

On Beyond Unit Testing

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, March 10, 2008

Quetzal Bradley is a software development engineer (SDE) on my team with *tons* of experience in all manner of infrastructure stuff including the requirements of real-world software testing from the t...

MIX08 Keynote Announcements

The Moth, March 5, 2008

If you missed the keynote (live in Vegas or online), Tim Sneath was updating his blog live for it so you can read an outline here.- You already know about ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 form my previous blog p...

Active Purchase - DotNetNuke Module Review

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke, March 4, 2008

This is an independent review of the Active Purchase module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money. Active Modules says: ...

Active Purchase - DotNetNuke Module Review

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke, March 4, 2008

This is an independent review of the Active Purchase module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money. Active Modules says: ...

Load and display page contents asynchronously with full postback support

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 28, 2008

An AJAX UpdatePanel with less communication overhead and better performance...

SQL SERVER - SELECT 1 vs SELECT * - An Interesting Observation

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, February 26, 2008

Many times I have seen issue of SELECT 1 vs SELECT * discussed in terms of performance or readability while checking for existence of rows in table. I ran quick 4 tests about this observed that I am g...

TcpTransports Buffer Management in WCF

kennyw.com, February 18, 2008

I’ve gotten some questions recently about how our net.tcp transport functions at the memory allocation level. While at its core this is simply an “implementation detail”, this information can be very ...

ADO.NET Connection Pooling at a Glance

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 18, 2008

Connection pooling can increase the performance of any application by using active connections of the pool for consecutive requests, rather than creating a new connection each time.And at the same tim...

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