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Monday, June 30, 2008 10:43 AM

DevConnections Session Feedback

Last week I just got back my summaries of attendee feedback for my three talks at DevConnections in Orlando in April (yes, they're not quite as efficient as TechEd ). I blogged about them and posted the slides and demos 2 months ago, but I'm finding it
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:58 AM

Speaking in Toledo Tonight

I'll be presenting at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group this evening at 6pm. The talk will be a slightly modified version of my Black Belt ASP.NET Performance talk that I gave earlier this month at Tech Ed in Orlando. According to their web site, the
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Friday, June 06, 2008 10:03 AM

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Talk

I gave my Tech Ed presentation, ASP.NET Black Belt Performance Techniques, yesterday afternoon. The talk was well-attended, with about 300 372in the audience. I gave the talk last month in Cleveland and it was very well-received. I promised attendees
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:40 AM

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques

Last night I presented at the Cleveland .NET SIG on Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques, which is a talk I'll be giving in a few weeks at Tech:Ed Developers in Orlando . I was asked a couple of weeks ago if I could give a talk in May and I decided
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Monday, May 12, 2008 9:48 PM

Speaking in Cleveland May 13th

I'll be speaking at the Cleveland .NET SIG tomorrow night. The topic is Black Belt Performance Tips for ASP.NET, which will be a dry run for a session by that same name I'll be giving next month at Tech:Ed Developers in Orlando . Some of the primary areas
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Monday, April 28, 2008 12:24 PM

DevConnections Spring Slides and Demos

Last week I gave three presentations at the DevConnections spring show in Orlando. I received a lot of great feedback from attendees which I definitely appreciate, especially since I was feeling a little bit bad about having run out of time in my first
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:38 PM

ASP.NET AJAX Download Performance Improvement Request

I'm a big fan of ASP.NET AJAX in general, but one concern I have and something that has forced me to use other technologies is the size of the library. It's about 85kb when compressed and unfortunately that is quite large if you're trying to include it
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:26 PM

Extract Control for ASP.NET in Visual Studio

I've been posting about some feature requests for ASP.NET/ Visual Studio , so here's one more in that thread. One nice feature of Blend is the ability to select a chunk of XAML and choose to "Extract User Control". The result works very nicely, creating
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Monday, March 31, 2008 11:15 AM

LINQ and the new DevExpress Grid

Mehul has a couple of screencasts up on his blog that demonstrate how to use their new LINQ datasource to do optimized paging/updating of their ASPxGridView control . At just over 2 minutes, the screencast does a very good job of showing how easy it is
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Friday, March 21, 2008 11:49 AM

MVC Source Code Available

The ASP.NET MVC library's source code has been made available on CodePlex , ScottGu announced today . The project itself is still very much a work in progress, but with this you should be able to get a much better idea of how everything is laid out and
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:24 PM

Three Requests for ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010

I have three things that have been on my wish list for ASP.NET and/or Visual Studio that I'm curious to know what others think. I've mentioned some of these before on my blog or elsewhere - they're not exactly earth shattering and I'm not saying that
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:20 PM

Software Design Best Practices Debate

I've been following the discussion on Phil Haack's blog surrounding how best to introduce polymorphic objects into the MVC framework as part of the framework's interface for developers to work with. In .NET, there are basically two ways one can build
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:07 PM

AJAX Control Toolkit Update Released

Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit . This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:22 PM

Scott Guthrie Promoted to Corporate Vice President

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a number of promotions, among them Scott Guthrie , who is now Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division ( executive profile - promotion press release ). Many of you know Scott from his extremely popular blog
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:05 PM

Finding Untitled Page Titles

Sadly, Microsoft decided that with the addition of the Title attribute on the @Page directive, it would make sense to include it by default with some text that one would absolutely never want to use as the title, "Untitled Page". They could
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