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Monday, June 30, 2008 9:12 AM

Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance problems

There are several problems with ASP.NET MVC application when deployed on IIS 6.0: Extensionless URLs give 404 unless some URL Rewrite module is used or wildcard mapping is enabled IIS 6.0 built-in compression does not work for dynamic requests. As a result...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:29 AM

Fast, Streaming AJAX proxy - continuously download from cross domain

Due to browser's prohibition on cross domain XMLHTTP call, all AJAX websites must have server side proxy to fetch content from external domain like Flickr or Digg. From client side javascript code, an XMLHTTP call goes to the server side proxy hosted...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:10 PM

Desktop RSS Feed Aggregator client with Outlook Integration

Back in 2005, I built an open source RSS Feed Aggregator Desktop client which has been quite popular since its release. It has 48,672 downloads so far. From the activity I see on sourceforge statistics, it's being used about 20,000 times per day....
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:47 PM

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster....
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:23 PM

My first book - Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

My first book " Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 " from O'Reilly is published and available in the stores. This book explains in detail the architecture design, development, test, deployment, performance and scalability challenges...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:59 PM

Linq to SQL: How to Attach object to a different data context

After upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 RTM, you will have trouble updating Linq to SQL Classes which are read from one data context and then updated into another data context. You will get this exception during update: System.NotSupportedException: An...
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Friday, November 09, 2007 9:01 AM

On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites

AJAX websites are all about loading as many features as possible into the browser without having any postback. If you look at the Start Pages like Pageflakes , it's only one single page that gives you all the features of the whole application with...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:35 AM

Safe COM: Managed Disposable Strongly Typed safe wrapper to late bound COM

There are several problems using COM from .NET: You cannot implement the Dispose pattern by utilizing the " using " block in order to safely dispose COM references. You cannot guaranty COM references are finalized. There's no way to implement...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:26 PM

10 cool web development related articles in 2007

Here's a list of 10 cool ASP.NET, AJAX and web development related articles and blog posts that I have written this year that you might want to take a look: 13 disasters for production website and their solutions Talks about 13 production disasters...
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