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Kill Your Users Table

It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do. Consider...Reddit's database was stolen a little over a year...

0 replies - 172 views - 07/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

ASP.NET - ViewState - Client Side State Management

The ASP.NET ViewState is a client side state management technique which enables web pages to persist their state during postbacks. In the life cycle of a page,...

0 replies - 321 views - 07/03/08 by gilf in News

26 Not To Be Missed .NET Articles - June 2008 - .NET Zone

This month we have even more then in May in fact, we have almost tripple, we cover topics such as Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps with Microsoft Robotics...

2 replies - 654 views - 07/02/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

ASP.NET Client Side State Management

There are two types of state management - server side and client side. In this post I'm going to introduce the client side state management and explain when to...

0 replies - 261 views - 06/30/08 by gilf in News

ASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List

I've been collecting book recommendations on software design principles and patterns, test-driven development, and agile development. I wanted to share my...

1 replies - 319 views - 06/30/08 by Stephen.Walther in News

jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

So, I finally got a chance to sit down and finish up the jQuery for Asp.net Mvc preview 3. If you haven’t already read Scott’s post about preview 3,  you...

1 replies - 829 views - 06/27/08 by alley in News

.NET Synchronised Dictionary

In .NET 2.0 and above the SyncRoot was removed from the Dictionary and Hastable classes which meant you can't create thread-safe versions of these anymore....

0 replies - 448 views - 06/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in Tips and Tricks

.NET LINQ to MSI - Part 1 - Interop

Without any physical data access layer, there's no way to build abstractions on top of it. So, in this part of this series we'll take a look at some very...

0 replies - 253 views - 06/24/08 by bdesmet in News

.NET WeakReference: GC knows the Best

When I first read about weak references in .NET more than 5 years ago, my first thought was to use it for Caching. The concept was already present in Java...

0 replies - 217 views - 06/23/08 by raasiel in News

Beta 1 of the AgDataGrid Suite for Silverlight 2

As the release of Silverlight draws near, DevExpress has invested the engineering resources needed to deliver a feature-rich grid control for Silverlight. Not...

0 replies - 182 views - 06/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

ASP.NET MVC Rocks the iPhone

With much fanfare Apple announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. I downloaded it and someday plan to play around with it, though with the SDK already...

0 replies - 502 views - 06/19/08 by Aaron Lerch in News

ASP.NET - Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

Consider a simple web application that requires user input in some fields, lets say some search box. Suppose a user types the following string in...

0 replies - 1689 views - 06/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Another Use for C# Using

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive.  It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what...

0 replies - 2212 views - 06/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Linq to SQL with Windows Communication Foundation in a Multi Tiered Environment - Part 2

In the first part of this article, I tried to define a Users & Favorites scenario and the things to keep in mind about Linq to SQL. In this post I’ll...

0 replies - 337 views - 06/16/08 by sidarok in News

Single WCF Generic Endpoint for One-Way and Request-Reply Call Forwarding

Implementing a WCF forwarding router consists of providing an endpoint with a generic contract which accepts untyped messages.  These messages can then be...

0 replies - 268 views - 06/11/08 by sashag in News