ASP.NET Perf and Optimization lessons from Jeff McWherter
At VTdotNET's last meeting, we were happy to have Jeff McWherter share with us his hard-earned lessons about improving performance in asp.net apps. Jeff spends a lot of time dealing with this in his...
View ArticleASP.NET 3.5 Extensions enables Page View history with AJAX
One of the drawbacks with the partial postbacks in AJAX is that you can't go forward or back in your web browser to different states of the page created by the partial postbacks. Nor can you create a...
View ArticlePlanning ahead for web site growth
I seem to frequently point people to the technical story of MySpace as they went through the painful evolution that eventually led them to have a serious ASP.NET website to manage what is one of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Web Development Tools Team Blog
I am, like to-oh-tally suscribed to the WebDevTools blog, dude! Here's why[A New DevLife post]
View ArticleMIX08 Sneak Preview: The MVC tools
Remember how I recommended subscribing to the WebDevTools blog only a few weeks ago? (grin) Well, it continues to pay off!Vishal Joshi has written a blog post about the tools for building MVC that will...
View ArticleMVC with Visual Basic video series
Bill Burrows has created a series of videos on MVC and is now working on a new series based on Scott Guthrie's MVC tutorial posts (which are all in C#) but using VB instead. I was surprised to find a...
View ArticleThank you Tomas - bug fix moving ascx files from asp.net 1.1 to asp.net 2.0
I wasted most of my afternoon trying to fix a bizarre error that appeared after I finally moved thedatafarm.com (the main applicaiton) from 1.1 to 2.0. There was a compiler error telling me that my...
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ASP.NET 4.0 Dynamic Data and Many to Many Entity Framework Entities
Even though I’m a much bigger fan of distributed apps than using UI bound data binding, it’s still important for me to know how these various tools work – especially since I need to write about them in...
View ArticleMSDN Guidance on ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms and its Impact on my EF + ASP.NET Work
Last year at the fall 2008 DevConnections conference, I was very happy to hear Scott Guthrie providing a clear message about web forms vs. MVC in ASP.NET 4.0.Now, I am seeing something that is new for...
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How I see Web API
Using OData in apps is so easy thanks to the RESTful API that lets us use HTTP directly & JSON results. But OData works directly against a data model with a limited set of operations and...
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