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Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:46:04 GMT

In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow you to exercise some control how the Garbage Collector operates. Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications.

Dependency Injection Example - Constructor Injection and Service Orien

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:00:01 GMT

An attempt to understand DI by implementing a testable custom dependency injection framework.

MVP vs MVC

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:46:02 GMT

With all the noise around MVC.NET this days, question what is the difference between MVC and MVP is asked quite frequentlly. Check out this blog post for some answers on that question

Rob Conery » ASP.NET MVC: PagedList<T>

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:16:02 GMT

In some of his demos, ScottGu used a method that we didn't include in the MVCToolkit called "PagedList<T>", which basically pages a Linq query. I'm hoping to include this in the next drop of the Toolkit, but until then, I have the code for you :). Just drop this into a code file on your site, the Extension method will be picked up by any class "using" System.Web.Mvc.

Get a free copy Visual Studio 2008 Pro - REALLY!

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:46:03 GMT

Its not very straightforward and not everyone may be able to get it, but MS is going to give full Visual Studio 2008 Pro licenses to those who attend any of the events that it is organizing. Its that simple.

SubSonic - Stored Procedure Tutorial

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:46:05 GMT

Subsonic makes working with stored procedures and your database simple. Today we'll discuss the basics in getting SubSonic to allow you to very easily interface with stored procedures and your data store.

SubSonic LoadFromPost Method

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:01:02 GMT

A time saving tip for SubSonic.

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

Keeping Pulse on Your Site With ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:46:03 GMT

One of the best, yet often overlooked, features of ASP.NET 2.0 is health monitoring. When it is absolutely essential to be notified of any problems with your web application, and this is where health monitoring comes in handy.

.NET 2.0 Data Structures

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:31:02 GMT

The .NET 2.0 framework includes many data structures that go unnoticed by many developers. Additionally, there are very powerful data structures that are not part of the base class library, but are very efficient when used in the right situation. This is a great article that (re)demonstrates a very important topic that many of us have forgotten since college.

Unit Test Web Code Without A Web Server Using HttpSimulator

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:16:01 GMT

Haacked introduces a new HttpSimulator class that he put together to help you unit test your asp.net code. Fluent interface, access to session and application variables, a working MapPath... wow!