I'm in the midst of wrapping up a multi-year long project to replace the advertising engine used to host sponsored ads on a few dozen .NET web sites.  This system traces its "lineage" back to an old ASP application written in 2001 (it served its first 207 impressions on 31 March 2001), and has since been upgraded to ASP.NET ...

Frans Bouma, creator of LLBLGen, MVP, and all around very smart guy, wrote yesterday about the ‘myth’ that caching inside an Object-Relational (O/R) mapper makes queries run faster or makes the O/R mapper more efficient.  I think he’s missing a few key usage scenarios (and, what’s more, I think he generally has a ...

Some of you may know that I'm pretty interested in caching as a means to improving performance.  I also try to tell everybody that will listen that the default method of accessing the ASP.NET cache, as taught in most online tutorials and courses, is wrong.  I blogged about the proper caching pattern a while ago, and it's helped others ...

The built-in Cache object in ASP.NET does not support a Clear() method.  This method would be useful if you ever just wanted to invalidate all cache entries and start fresh.  In a utility object I'm working on, tentatively called SuperCache, I've implemented a Clear method using the following code:   /// ...