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Asp.Net vs php : Speed Comparison

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Why is the myth that php is faster than Asp.Net so prevalent? Asp.Net is faster than php, here are the facts. So many times I have heard php pushers claim that php is so much faster than Asp.Net and that Asp.Net is clunky and slow. The most annoying part is that everything I have read (that is not factless opinion), and I mean everything, says that this is wrong; but for some reason, this myth is widely accepted. It has become a religious argument that ignores the facts...

LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:15:00 GMT

What's fixed and breaking changes for LINQ to SQL in .NET 4.0

SubMain acquires GhostDoc

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:45:03 GMT

An agreement between SubMain and Roland Weigelt, author of GhostDoc, will place future development of GhostDoc in the hands of SubMain. GhostDoc ( http://submain.com/ghostdoc ) is the popular XML Comments and documentation helper tool which SubMain will continue to maintain as a free product.

The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only - to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity...

Cheap way of speeding up Visual Studio I/O

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:01:02 GMT

Visual Studio loves file I/O. It really, really does, and it cares very little about caching and the like. What this means is that, when you open a solution file, it always reads it from disk. Which means that the speed of operation when generating lots of files (e.g., via T4 transformations) is typically atrocious. The fact that file I/O in VS does not appear to be multithreaded is another hindrance. In short, it's a mess.

Windows Azure - Breaking It Down

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:46:22 GMT

Despite the title of this post, there will be no rapping or dancing of any sort going on here. Only talk of Windows Azure, which is quite possibly the most confusing product rollout that Microsoft has attempted since Vista...

C# Trivia - What? No Overflow?

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:46:14 GMT

You may be thinking to yourself, "C# doesn't do overflow checking?" And the answer to your question is "not by default" when you are using non-constant expressions. Here's how to turn integer overflow checking on in C#.

Visual Studio Debugging Feature - Tracepoints

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:31:04 GMT

A tracepoint is simply a breakpoint that will emit a debug trace statement when it is reached. It can emit things like the current function name, stack trace, or the contents of a variable. What's really cool is that you don't have to actually stop execution. This allows you to quickly add debugging statements without the need to check out your code or remember to take the Debug.WriteLine statements out afterwards.

Microsoft Releases Free CMS-Blog System

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:46:26 GMT

Read about the new, free CMS/Blog system released by Microsoft called "Oxite". It is built using the new ASP.NET MVC framework and is highly extensible, touting such features as Microformats and source control integration.

Pimp My Debugger - DebuggerDisplay Attribute

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:46:10 GMT

The other day I was reading some friends code, and I saw that he used a DebuggerDisplay attribute. It allows you to create a custom view of your objects in the Visual studio debugger. This attribute is very straight forward, but very powerful in the amount of time it can save you when debugging your application. I'll show you a cookie cutter example, but you can use your imagination as to how to use this particular attribute.

Please open my aspx fast!

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:47:24 GMT

If you only work on aspx pages in source view (as I do), here's a way to speed up opening them for the first time.

4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behi

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:16:11 GMT

In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects. The C# team just published a downloadable hotfix that addresses the issues.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 - default and named parameters

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:16:03 GMT

New feature in C# 4.0 number 2, default and named parameters! Look at what they are, and how they are used in C# 4.0.

Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Working with other colleagues, I found these C# syntaxes are still not well-known and used

Serialize an Exception to XML

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:55:59 GMT

Have you ever wanted to represent an Exception as XML data? If you've tried, you know that XmlSerializer won't do it. It can still be done, however, without much work, and without having to implement some tricky workaround.

The asp:ListView control (Product Listing Page with with Clean CSS UI)

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:37:30 GMT

ListView with CSS and LINQ