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Massive memory leak in ASP.NET? Turn stuff off you don't need!

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:31:16 GMT

Are you the kind that leaves lights on in your house when nobody's in the room? Yes, I know it's your energy bill. But, what if the bill were cutting into the ever increasing cost of your Internet bill? Wouldn't you turn the light off? ASP.NET gives you lots of layers of functionality, but not every site is going to need each.

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 now available

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:04:19 GMT

Microsoft has now released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010 to MSDN subscribers, with the public release due on March 10th. Along with a number of fixes, service Pack also includes the Team Foundation Server Project Server Integration Feature Pack, and the Visual Studio 2010 Load Test Feature Pack.

SQL Server: The Magical OVER clause

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:13:19 GMT

When comes to query writing, I think, I am so lazy ;) and always prefer less code. Recently I found OVER clause so helpful to write my code in more effect and more magical way.

.NET Reflector is Becoming a Paid-For Product

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:29:30 GMT

Red Gate announced a few days ago that .NET Reflector will become a commercial product from the end of February 2011.

An open letter to the .NET community

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:23:30 GMT

RedGate will start charging for their previously free version of Reflector.

What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:29:33 GMT

Maybe in Visual Studio 2012 with XBox Live integration?

IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live,

Wed, 12 May 2010 19:30:52 GMT

If you take a quick detour over to StackOverflow, you'll realize very, very quickly that, when it comes to wholly and full-heartedly screwing up your Linq to SQL statements, the screw-up almost always involves a misunderstanding of the purpose and...

So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:54:00 GMT

Just because you send an email doesn't mean it will arrive. post about how to make sure your email should get though all the firewalls and spam filters...

Ten Cool Visual Studio 2010 Features

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

The 10 most useful new features in Visual Studio 2010.

A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

An inside look at how SelectMany works, along with visuals to help you more easily understand it.

Composition versus Inheritance

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Discusses the benefit of Composition versus Inheritance. Touches on IoC Containers and how they can help you achieve more granular bits of code that make your applications more flexible and easier to maintain.

Painless Caching, Memoization for .NET

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:00:02 GMT

When searching for .NET discussions of I-don't-even-remember, I somehow came across Dustin Campbell's blog post about automatic memoization with C#. I instantly remembered first reading about this topic in Higher Order Perl, which at the time introduced me to this handy technique using the delegate pattern. After looking over Dustin's code, I liked the simplicity of wrapping any delegate with a single method call. This makes for an academic discussion, but I thought this could be much more practical if we abstracted the concept a bit more.

System.Reactive or the .NET Reactive Extensions (Rx) - Concepts and Fi

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:49:31 GMT

Consider how you handle a simple MouseMove operation in .NET using an event handler. Let us take a step back, and examine this a bit closer - The mouse cursor location's value is changing over a period of time, and an event notifies you about that. You may see the data we receive from these events as pieces of data that you (the target) receive from a source over a period of time - a sequence. Also, you may instantly notice that the same is happening when you iterate over a collection, probably using a for loop. In that case too, you are receiving values from a source over a period of time. Or, in both cases, the target is receiving the pieces of data from a source over a period of time through some signal....

Async without the pain

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:36:25 GMT

Simple solution for generic asynchronous operations. "Why can't we wrap this using functional programming?"

Why are thread safe collections so hard?

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:31:03 GMT

"Writing a collection which is mutable, thread safe and usable is an extremely difficult process. At least that's what you've likely been told all through your schooling. But then you get out on the web and see a multitude of thread safe lists, maps and queues. If it's so hard, why are there so many examples?"

You're Doing It Wrong

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:31:07 GMT

Templating tends to break down because it forces you to treat code and markup as two different and fundamentally incompatible things. We spend all our time awkwardly switching between markup-land and code-land using escape sequences. They're always fighting each other -- and us.

Microsoft Certification Exam - Discount Code - Free Second Chance

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:46:08 GMT

Please note down this important code or share with your colleagues who are keen to take Microsoft Certification Exam. This unique code is only available through Microsoft MVP's and only published here to help community and no other intention. Share and Book mark this post. Complete your community responsibility.

ToolMan DHTML Library: Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:17:04 GMT

A collection of Direct Manipulation examples that work in modern browsers. Each example is a proof of concept. I'm answering the technical question "Can I do this?" as opposed to the interaction design question "Should I do this?". Most of the JavaScript has been bundled into a reusable package called the ToolMan DHTML Library

Is F# faster than C#

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:16:11 GMT

I had a bet with a co-worker that C# would out perform F# for a simple counting exercise. This turned out to be quite a surprise for many reasons. In this blog post I will try to explain why.

Implementing a red black tree in C#

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:08 GMT

This article talks about how to implement a red-black tree in C#. The implementation is generic, and it also implements IEnumerable<T>.

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:31:20 GMT

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.

An excellent Introduction to Microsoft F# by Luca Bolognese (PDC 2008)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:20:32 GMT

Learn about Microsoft's new language, F#, a typed functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework. F# combines functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, tools, and object model of .NET. Understand how F# asynchronous workflows help tame the complexity of parallel and asynchronous I/O programming and how to use F# in conjunction with tools such as Parallel Extensions for .NET

Visual Studio Fail -- How not to debug .NET exception handling

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:38:00 GMT

...no matter what try/catch I put in my user code, I couldn't catch this exception with the debugger. Visual Studio would halt execution every time with "Exception unhandled by user code"...

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.

C# Structs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

What are the benefit of structs in C#? When can they improve performance and memory use? See examples and benchmarks as well as screens from CLRProfiler and the Visual Studio debugger. Is this is the best struct article in the world? Maybe!