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Sun, Feb 21 2010 18:23

Fast Streaming Ajax Proxy with GET PUT POST DELETE

I have enhanced my streaming Ajax Proxy with POST, PUT and DELETE features. Previously it supported only GET. Now it supports all 4 popular methods for complete REST support. Using this proxy, you can call REST API on external domain directly from your...
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Fri, Sep 25 2009 15:46

7 tips for for loading Javascript rich Web 2.0-like sites significantly faster

Introduction When you create rich Ajax application, you use external JavaScript frameworks and you have your own homemade code that drives your application. The problem with well known JavaScript framework is, they offer rich set of features which are...
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Mon, May 25 2009 12:44

ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test

Visual Studio 2008 comes with rich Web Testing support, but it’s not rich enough to test highly dynamic AJAX websites where the page content is generated dynamically from database and the same page output changes very frequently based on some external...
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Wed, Apr 8 2009 19:16

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity

Dropthings – my open source Web 2.0 Ajax Portal has gone through a technology overhauling. Previously it was built using ASP.NET AJAX, a little bit of Workflow Foundation and Linq to SQL. Now Dropthings boasts full jQuery front-end combined with ASP.NET...
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Fri, Mar 13 2009 14:23

Optimize ASP.NET Membership Stored Procedures for greater speed and scalability

Last year at Pageflakes , when we were getting millions of hits per day, we were having query timeout due to lock timeout and Transaction Deadlock errors. These locks were produced from aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership tables. Since both of these tables...
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Wed, Dec 10 2008 8:39

99.99% available ASP.NET and SQL Server SaaS Production Architecture

You have a hot ASP.NET+SQL Server product, growing at thousand users per day and you have hit the limit of your own garage hosting capability. Now that you have enough VC money in your pocket, you are planning to go out and host on some real hosting facility...
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Mon, Oct 6 2008 7:59

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and...
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Sat, Oct 4 2008 11:05

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6.0

Every time I create an IIS website, I do some steps, which I consider as best practice for creating any IIS website for better performance, maintainability, and scalability. Here' re the things I do: Create a separate application pool for each web...
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Sat, Oct 4 2008 9:06

Create ASP.NET MVC Controllers under Namespace and specific URL

When you have a lot of controllers, you need to organize them under Namespaces. Also, it is better to put controllers under subfolders in order to organize them properly and have some meaningful URL for them like /Admin/User where Admin is the subfolder...
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Fri, Oct 3 2008 17:05

Create REST API using ASP.NET MVC that speaks both Json and plain Xml

ASP.NET MVC Controllers can directly return objects and collections, without rendering a view, which makes it quite appealing for creating REST like API. The nice extensionless Url provided by MVC makes it handy to build REST services, which means you...
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Thu, Aug 28 2008 19:43

HTTP handler to combine multiple files, cache and deliver compressed output for faster page load

It's a good practice to use many small Javascript and CSS files instead of one large Javascript/CSS file for better code maintainability, but bad in terms of website performance. Although you should write your Javascript code in small files and break...
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Fri, Aug 1 2008 19:15

Loading static content in ASP.NET pages from different domain for faster parallel download

Generally we put static content (images, css, js) of our website inside the same web project. Thus they get downloaded from the same domain like www.dropthings.com . There are three problems in this approach: They occupy connections on the same domain...
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Mon, Jul 14 2008 13:10

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved

Last week I released a new version of Dropthings , my open source AJAX portal, that shows many fancy Web 2.0 features and showcases extensive use of ASP.NET 3.5, Workflow Foundation, C# 3.0 new language features, custom ASP.NET AJAX extenders, many performance...
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Mon, Jun 30 2008 9:12

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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Mon, Jun 9 2008 7:08

ensure - Ensure relevant Javascript and HTML are loaded before using them

ensure allows you to load Javascript, HTML and CSS on-demand, whenever they are needed. It saves you from writing a gigantic Javascript framework up front so that you can ensure all functions are available whenever they are needed. It also saves you from...
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Sat, May 24 2008 20:31

UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript...
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Sat, May 10 2008 1:31

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch

A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes...
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Mon, Apr 14 2008 8:29

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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Mon, Apr 7 2008 14:17

Reduce website download time by heavily compressing PNG and JPEG

PNG and JPEG are two most popular formats for web graphics. JPEG is used for photographs, screenshots and backgrounds where PNG is used for all other graphics need including cliparts, buttons, headers, footers, borders and so on. As a result, these two...
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Sun, Apr 6 2008 15:49

Fast page loading by moving ASP.NET AJAX scripts after visible content

ASP.NET ScriptManager control has a property LoadScriptsBeforeUI , when set to false , should load all AJAX framework scripts after the content of the page. But it does not effectively push down all scripts after the content. Some framework scripts, extender...
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