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 to do it so I could practice for TechEd.  Since this is a new talk for me (though ...

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 covered will be advanced caching techniques and asynchronous programming ...

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx Edit: ScottGu has also a post about the SP: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx There are lots of stuff in that SP... Summary Web -ASP.NET Data ...

I see a lot on forums and newsgroups that Session variables are constantly recommended to pass state between ASP.NET pages. Yes, it is simple mechanism, reliable with out-of-process modes and really nice to customize with the providers. Session is very familiar for developers working with various web technologies (not just Microsoft ones), and one ...

Hey Carl How are things going my friend? All is well here. Hey listen, I just began working to set up a VineType site for a client with my Pro license. Their hosting is with www.godaddy.com I have everything in place, but I cannot get the ASP.NET application to open. I get a generic runtime error message of "Server Error in '/' ...

I've replied a lot to these questions lately.  I'm not going to go to very deep with this, Scott Hanselman has excellent post covering this, see that: How to set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than 2.0 http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToSetAnIISApplicationOrAppPoolToUseASPNET35RatherThan20.aspx Simple way ...

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 two talks (and overcompensating a bit on my last one, which ended a few minutes ...

I promised to spread the word. :-) Phil and his peers have a developer event, DDD Ireland, in Ireland on 3rd of May. And here's the "official poster" :-) Developer Event? Ah go on, go on, go on. Check it out at www.DDDIreland.com

Hier mal in Stichworten ein paar Grundsätze die man beim Entwicklen beachten sollte, wenn Laufzeit-Performance eine Rolle spielt:C# Performance Optimierungen: Lieber wenig große wie viel kleine Assemblys„sealed“-Klassen wann immer möglich bei geerbten Typen mit vielen virtuellen Funktionen. Die virtuellen aufrufe werden ...

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 on most every page on a site (or, much much worse, every advertisement in a large ...