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Pranay Rana10/17/11
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Increase LINQ query perfromance by compling it

Each time when we fire any Linq to SQL or to any other data-source using Entity Framework query run-time convert query to expression tree and than into t-SQL statement. So if the query get fired number of time in application it get converted in the...

Sasha Goldshtein10/14/11
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Open Kernel Crash Dumps in Visual Studio 11

A dream is coming true. A dream where all the debugging you’ll ever do on your developer box is going to be in a single tool – Visual Studio. In a later post, I will discuss device driver development in Visual Studio 11, which is another dream come...

Gunnar Peipman10/13/11
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ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to display data

ASP.NET Forms 4.5 Preview introduces us model binding for web forms. Web developers who are familiar with ASP.NET MVC already know what model binding is and how powerful it is. Model binding means framework ability to construct objects of known types...

Gunnar Peipman10/13/11
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ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to update data

My last posting about ASP.NET 4.5 introduced how to use strongly typed controls to display data. Using strongly typed presentation layer templates is not the only thing that model binding is good for. From ASP.NET MVC we know how convenient it is when...

Jalpesh Vadgama10/09/11
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ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Mobile Template

Microsoft has released the much awaited ASP.NET MVC 4.0 developer preview and there are lots of features bundled with it. One of the greatest features is the ability to build mobile websites. So let’s create a simple application and let’s see how it...

Hajan Selmani10/03/11
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Squish your CSS and JS files in your ASP.NET web apps

SquishIt is a nice library that helps you nicely minify your CSS and JavaScript files with very small effort. The tool works perfectly fine in both ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC and is available to get & install using NuGet package manager. Open...

Pranay Rana10/03/11
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Log your LINQ query

Most of the beginner developer who are using LINQ to SQL as there back-end to talk with the database (i.e to perform the database CRUD operation), don't have idea what the query get fire to database out of LINQ query. Lastly I asked to log the...

Martin Hinshelwood10/03/11
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Allow user to change the region for Windows Live ID billing

Recently I was burned rather heavily be Microsoft Billing due to their inability to change the region (country) of an account. Yes, you heard me right, there is NO way to change your billing region and the ONLY solution Microsoft can offer is to create...

Hajan Selmani09/26/11
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Simple, fast and useful MiniProfiler for ASP.NET MVC

MiniProfiler is very lightweight, simple, fast and useful profiler for ASP.NET websites including ASP.NET MVC. It is designed to help you find possible performance issues and have very nice and clear view over each operation that happens in your web...

Amilia Crux09/26/11
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Common Language Runtime (CLR) Integration Programming in .NET

When Microsoft introduced common language runtime (CLR) integration support with SQL Server an new window was opened for .NET application developers and SQL server users. They can write stored procedures, triggers, user-defined types, user defined...

Stephen Forte09/20/11
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Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express

Yesterday I blogged about using my Windows 8 tablet as my main machine for work and device for play. Today I will share my experience in using the device for building a Metro app. The first application that I ever wrote was 19 years ago for the...

David Kelley09/20/11
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Windows 8 and what it means for Silverlight and the coming Slate Wars

What does Windows 8 mean to the Silverlight world? To be honest the past year has been kind of a let down with some certain ms employee's saying this that or the other thing that really effectively killed most Silverlight work and its made me somewhat...

Sasha Goldshtein09/18/11
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Improvements in the CLR Core in .NET Framework 4.5

Alongside all the exciting advents in Windows 8 and Metro apps, the .NET CLR is marching on. The next version of the CLR will feature several “internals” improvements, mostly in the performance area. Read on to learn about changes to the garbage...

Dennis Doomen09/18/11
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So what does Windows 8 mean for .NET developers?

Unfortunately, the Microsoft Build conference conflicted with our company's 5-year anniversary and the associated sailing trip in Greece. Fortunately, the blogosphere and twitter-space provided plenty of opportunities for trying to grasp what the...

Gunnar Peipman09/18/11
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ASP.NET MVC 4: New mobile web application template

ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview introduces also new template for mobile web applications. These templates are special because they are using jQuery Mobile – special jQuery library for building mobile user interfaces. In this posting I will show you how...

Greg Duncan09/15/11
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"What's New in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview" (and Yield is coming to VB.Net!)

"This documentation is for preview only, and is subject to change in later releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.] This topic contains information about key features and improvements in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer...

Jalpesh Vadgama09/13/11
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BigInteger in C# 4.0

In C# 4.0 Microsoft has added so many features and I love all most all the features. In today’s post we are going to discuss BigInteger Class. During programming some complex systems often we need a very big numbers. For example if we use some of...

Jalpesh Vadgama09/08/11
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Jquery and ASP.NET- Set and Get Value of Server control

Yesterday one of my reader asked me one question that How can I set or get values from Jquery of server side element for example. So I decided to write blog post for this. This blog post is for all this people who are learning Jquery and don’t know...

Jalpesh Vadgama09/05/11
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ReCaptcha in ASP.NET MVC3

As a web developer we know what is captcha is. It’s way to confirm users as they are human.Following is captcha definition per WikiPedia. A CAPTCHA ( /ˈkæptʃə/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the...

Ayende Rahien08/30/11
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Debugging Security Exceptions

One of the horrible things about SecurityException is just how little information you are given. For example, let us take a look at: Yes, that is informative. The real problem is that most security analysis is done at the method level, which means that...

Sasha Goldshtein08/24/11
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Code Smells and Other Problems

Here are some Bad ThingsTM I’ve come across during the last few days and felt like sharing with you to let out some steam. These aren’t Coding Horrors per se, but perhaps there is something for all of us to learn here. Bad Naming I tweeted...

Jalpesh Vadgama08/21/11
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Setting default value for @Html.EditorFor in ASP.NET MVC

Yesterday one of my friend asked me to set default value for @HTML.EditorFor. So I decided to write this blog post. In this blog post I am going to Explain How we create Default values for model Entities. So Let’s start this via taking a simple...

Jalpesh Vadgama08/21/11
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Creating Basic RSS Reader in ASP.NET MVC 3

In this post I am going to explain you how we can create a basic RSS Reader with the help of Linq-To-Xml and ASP.NET MVC3 Razor. Those who are writing or reading Blogs already knows what is RSS Reader. But those who does not know What is RSS. Below is...

Kunal Chowdhury08/12/11
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How can you detect Browser Information in Silverlight?

Sometime we need to detect the browser information of the user's computer where our Silverlight application is running. We can do this using the JavaScript but sometime it is useful to detect it from our Silverlight application. So, how to do it? Let us...