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SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit Increased to 10GB!

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:30:52 GMT

So what is so exciting about the SQL Server 2008 R2 Release? Well, along with plenty of BI features and enhancements, there is a tiny cute feature that I am sure all of us will appreciate a lot. The product team has increased the Database Size limit for SQL Server 2008 R2 Express from 4 GB to 10 GB. So if you have got a growing SQL Server Express database that is close to the 4 GB Limit, hurry, upgrade to R2 Express.

No-SQL - MongoDB - From introduction to high level usage in C#

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:45:52 GMT

A good introduction to using MongoDB from C#

SQL Server 2008 R2 Released - Download it or try the Hosted Version

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:15:04 GMT

SQL Server 2008 R2 is officially released. See this post for a number of resources to help you to get started with SQL Server 2008 R2.

[Mono-list] Announcing DbLinq 0.20.1

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:45:00 GMT

An open source implementation of Linq2SQL that runs against most popular databases.

Learning resources for .NET 4.0 new features

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:16:03 GMT

A comprehensive list of articles for .NET 4.0 new features

Why I prefer MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:01:06 GMT

I tought about writing a post about why I prefer the MVC framework instead of the old .NET way, webforms, to build my webapplications. But today when I opened my google reader to check out the new posts, I saw this post by Rob Conery which I think has some very good arguments to why you should atleast try it out.

I Spose I'll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:31:21 GMT

I'm never shy about my opinion - why start now? I've been reading a lot of posts flying about on whether you should learn MVC, Summing up the differences so you can decide when to use it, I even found a post that offers a scorecard approach! I remember reading the latter post thinking to myself "how can you possibly put a number next to Testability? And why it is only 2 more points than "using a RAD designer"? Isn't this missing the entire point?

ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:16:11 GMT

Here's a list of all sample chapters of ASP.NET MVC books available to the community.

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

Optimizing ASP.NET MVC performance

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:46:03 GMT

Slides on how to optimize ASP.NET MVC application to get reasonable performance out of it.

Kobe - In the nuts & bolts and don't really liking it

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:16:02 GMT

There is another ASP.Net MVC sample app, this time it is official, passed the proper review procedure, and is explicitly marketed as "intended to guide you with the planning, architecting, and implementing of Web 2.0 applications and services." I am saying all of that in order to distinguish it from Oxite, which was non of this things. There have been a couple of reviews of Kobe already. Frankly, I don't really care for them, mostly because I think that they dealt too much with nitty gritty details of the app that doesn't really matter much. I don't much care for extra using or the use of System.Int32 vs. int, the naming convention used or even what sort of HTML formatting they used. I mostly care about the code and architecture. So I decided to take a look myself.

Kobe - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:31:02 GMT

Karl Seguin weighs in on the latest MS ASP.NET MVC sample app

Kobe - MS New Web 2.0 Resource Kit in ASP.NET MVC and My thoughts

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:16:02 GMT

If you recently visited the home page of www.asp.net you will find that Microsoft has released a new Resource Kit for developing Web 2.0 Applications. The resource kit contains a sample reference application that is developed in ASP.NET MVC framework. Since both of these are my area of of interest, I downloaded the codes and give a quick walkthrough. Prior getting to the main discussion, I just want to remind you that it is the second reference application (after Oxite) that is named under Microsoft, so you are suppose to get some quality....

Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:31:02 GMT

Continuing in my pseudo-series of posts based on my ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips Presentation at Mix (go watch it!), this post covers a demo I did not show because I ran out of time. It was a demo I held in my back pocket just in case I went too fast and needed one more demo. A common scenario when building web user interfaces is providing a pageable and sortable grid of data. Even better if it uses AJAX to make it more responsive and snazzy. Since ASP.NET MVC includes jQuery, I figured it'd be fun to use a jQuery plugin for this demo, so I chose jQuery Grid.

8 Common Uses of the undocumented Stored Procedure sp_MSforeachtable

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:31:02 GMT

Check out some common uses of the undocumented procedure sp_MSforeachtable of the Master database.

How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:16:02 GMT

Introducing a worksheet from the upcoming book "ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Programming" to help developers make a decision to choose between MVC and Web Forms in ASP.NET.

Native JSON in IE8, Firefox 3.5 plus Json.NET

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:46:04 GMT

This post looks at how to use the new native JSON API in IE8 and Firefox 3.5, and how it can complement Json.NET's server side JSON support by parsing and generating JSON on the browser.

C# 4.0: What's next

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:31:07 GMT

An overview on C# versions and a discussion on latest features in C# 4.0

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

RANK() VS DENSE_RANK() With an Example using SQL Server 2005/2008

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:01:02 GMT

Cool Example to understand these two very useful functions in SQL Server in a simple way!

5 reasons why you should use ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:01:03 GMT

I'll be fair with you readers. I've only toyed with the ASP.NET MVC framework. It looks great as of now but it's the first full blown MVC framework that we have that is backed by Microsoft. However, there is a lot of opposition nowadays that tend to be formulated like this: Why should I use ASP.NET MVC? WebForms works well. Other problems come from the lack of server controls. When a developer look at that and he then wonder why he should have to write HTML and Javascript when before he could have retrieved all that beautiful information with a simple postback.

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:46:02 GMT

In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything.

Putting the "M" Back in MVC

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:46:14 GMT

"Trying to keep up my end of the bargain with respect to MVC and SubSonic :). I did a walkthrough of it and decided that I was talking too much and, in honor of everyone telling me "SubSonic is dead" I thought it fitting to toss in some Rob Zombie."

MVC Storefront is now Kona : Screencast

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:31:19 GMT

MVC Storefront - changes directions to a flexible, pluggable Open Source community application. This screencast is all about that change and what's become of the MVC Storefront.