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Heavy controller actions? The Message Bus Pattern to the rescue!

Tue, 18 May 2010 12:26:21 GMT

I recently derailed (badly) while working on a simple requirement for RageFeed: new user registration. I found myself adding a lot of code to facilitate the registration workflow, but I realized I had a bigger problem when I stopped and looked at the tremendous number of test cases for my controller. I had drifted so slowly into a bad design. Fortunately, all was not lost. A design pattern from the distributed computing domain came to save the day.

Very very simple, But very very efficient Asp.net Tracking module

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:47:59 GMT

Even you do not use or analyze your application usage or user patterns for know you may need them in the feature. Even today you will be very surprised when you see tracking results. For example; Do you know how often google bots comes to your site? Which user use which feature or pages? We must track and analyze our applications and users . At least we need to collect them now. I will present very very simple solution. You only need add binary to your bin folder and add 2 lines to web.config. If you need too track application specific information just put them in the httpContext that's all.

WinDbg + SOS Cheat Sheet

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:05:46 GMT

A WinDbg + SOS cheat sheet that will print nicely on a sheet of A4 paper.

ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:00:56 GMT

ASP.NET pages that use AJAX components make usually many requests to server per one page to load all required JavaScript and CSS files. Connections, like all other real time resources, are most expensive to create and keep. If we can somehow decrease the number of requests per page load then we need less server resources for same amount of users

Development Tip: How to use Host Header with Development Server

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:44:00 GMT

If you are using "Asp.Net Development Server" One of the big problem of developing multiple web site at the same time is Development Server does not recognize and support Host Header. So you have to use different port for each web site. Problem with this solution is if you have hard coded links or templates pointing website you have to tweak code for testing and development. Here is the solution; Use Fiddler