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Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:46:02 GMT

First article of a 4 parts series about IoC and DI with Castle Windsor Container. This first part is an introduction to the core concepts and a simple example of how to start thinking in terms of IoC.

Great introduction to Lambda expressions

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:01:01 GMT

Lambda expressions: When combined with the built-in standard query extension methods provided in the System.Linq namespace in "Orcas", they provide a really rich way to query and interact with any type of data while preserving full compile-time checking and intellisense.

Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.masterpage_master' to type 'ASP.mas

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:35:51 GMT

If you ever come across this error you can you can usually resolve it pretty quickly, but most likely it will crop up again. The InvalidCastException, "Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.type' to 'ASP.Type'" is an extremely random occurring error. There seem to be some common ways to correct this error, but none are reasonable for many situations.

Awesome ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit Released

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:29:00 GMT

It provides support for both consuming and exposing RSS from ASP.NET 2.0 applications with full source code. Some of the features: - RSS Data-binding Control Support - Strongly Typed RSS API Support - RSS Publishing Support - Personalized RSS Feed Integration with ASP.NET Authentication System - Automatic Caching of RSS Feed

AJAX: New Atlas Build Available for ASP.NET 2.0

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:20:42 GMT

This is a pretty big release of Atlas that has a number of new and improved goodies: - Support for Progress Indicators - Support for True Post-backs - Automatic and Conditionally Updating UpdatePanels

Tips to optimize design-time build performance for Web Sites in Visual

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:01:16 GMT

Great tips on improving the build performance for solutions having a web site. This saved our team a lot of time during the daily code - debug cycle.

ASP.NET Memory Leak Case Study: Sessions Sessions Sessions.

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:21:00 GMT

A very detailled post about asp.net session usage and how to debug memory leaks using windbg (available from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx)

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Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:41:00 GMT

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Efficient proxy creation using DynamicProxy from Castle Project

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:44:41 GMT

The author describe a way to generate dynamic proxies at runtime for a data access layer, and how to speed up the creation process in case lots of proxies must be instanciated.

Transactions made easy with .NET 2.0

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:31:00 GMT

One of the more significant improvement in .NET 2.0 is in the area of transactions. Now with a single line it becomes extremely easy to support transactional code blocks using the concept of "ambient" transaction thanks to TransactionScope in the System.Transactions namespace.