Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Regular Expression Language Elements

Regular Expression Language Elements

Regular Expression Language Elements

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:30 PM PDT

This topic has been revised extensively to serve as a quick reference for you to learn how to define regular expressions.

ASP.NET Case Study: Hang when loading assemblies

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 06:03 AM PDT

The other day I came across an issue where an ASP.NET site stopped responding and didn't start serving requests again until the W3WP.exe process was restarted. We grabbed some memory dumps with debug diag before restarting the process to see what was going on. Debugging the dumps: I opened the dump in windbg, and loaded up sos (.loadby sos mscorwks). As with all hang dumps I usually check what the threads are doing (~* kb) and I found that one thread (10) was initiating a garbage collection. 0:010> kb ChildEBP RetAddr  Args to Child              01cceeb4 7c827d0b 77e61d1e 00000280 00000000 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet 01cceeb8 77e61d1e 00000280 00000000 01cceefc ntdll!NtWaitForSingleObject...(read more)

Programming for Absolute Beginners

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:03 AM PDT

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I...( read more )...(read more)

Programming for Absolute Beginners

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:03 AM PDT

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I tweeted it, figured it was a throw-away tweet and it was "re-tweeted" several dozen times. Apparently there's a hunger for Beginner content out there! Who knew? ;) It's at http://www.msdn.com/beginner   and here's some of the cool stuff. Tell your 12 year old and your great-aunt, Dear Reader. There may be a programmer inside one of them. There's several tracks to go down, first the obvious Web Track and Windows Track , but also Aspiring Pro and Kid's Corner...(read more)

Programming for Absolute Beginners

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:03 AM PDT

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I Read More......(read more)

Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:13 PM PDT

Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET Applications You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ZIP file directly from here . We hope you will find them useful. - Mikhail Arkhipov Read More......(read more)

I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 12:37 AM PDT

Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are...( read more )...(read more)

Doloto: Download Time Optimizer for AJAX Applications

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Doloto is a performance optimization tool for AJAX applications. It works by rewriting an application to load its JavaScript code on demand, thereby reducing startup time and making the application more responsive.

PDC09 Technical Leaders Sessions: Meet the Big Brains

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:53 PM PDT

For the first time ever, participate in a perfect storm of brilliance, insight, experience, and vision as we bring together Microsoft's Technical Fellows for the Technical Leaders series. Register today.

Get the Resources You Need to Tackle the Recession Head-on

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:53 PM PDT

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