Thursday, June 10, 2010

20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications

20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications

20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 11:30 AM PDT

I'm about 30 minutes from walking on stage to present my last session here at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans and I wanted to share this presentation early, just in case the session room fills up and folks can't make it in or for those of you who weren't able to make it.  If you're Read More......(read more)

Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 11:14 AM PDT

On Tuesday, I presented my IE9: A Lap Around for Developers session here at TechEd and it went really well, it was a lot of fun, and the "slide" deck that I presented worked well!  As it turns out, Joab Jackson, a reporter for the IDG News Service was in the audience and wrote a Read More......(read more)

Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT

In this episode, Kenny Young of the Expression Blend team demonstrates how to make some compelling interactions using Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight 4 . He demonstrates some great examples using the FluidMoveBehavior, FluidLayout, LayoutStates, Transition...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 07:35 AM PDT

In this tip I will be showing you how to send an email via Silverlight. Obviously sending email directly from the Silverlight client is not possible. However, as with most things, you can leverage a Silverlight-enabled WCF server to do the dirty work...( read more )...(read more)

New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:21 AM PDT

We've posted a few new videos in the Tailspin Spyworks tutorial serials. Many more in the works ! http://www.asp.net/web-forms/fundamentals http://www.asp.net/aspnet-4/videos http://www.asp.net/aspnet-4/videos/tailspin-spyworks-display-the-product-list http://www.asp.net/aspnet-4/videos/tailspin-spyworks-display-per-product-details Read More......(read more)

New Desktop

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:53 PM PDT

Seems many of us changing primary PC those days… Following Sasha's announcement about new desktop , I want to present my new desktop too – the old machine is also about 3 years old. Ironically, a day after assembling and installing the new system, old...( read more )...(read more)

Taking Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications Beyond the Browser (TechEd WEB313)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 12:06 AM PDT

It's been quite a week here in New Orleans for TechEd North America.  I'm especially glad to see Silverlight fans showing up in force, asking questions at our booth and attending breakout sessions.  On Wednesday, I had the distinct pleasure...( read more )...(read more)

Checking For Empty Enumerations

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 12:33 AM PDT

While spelunking in some code recently I saw a method that looked something like this: public void Foo<T>(IEnumerable<T> items) { if (items == null || items.Count() == 0) { // Warn about emptiness } } This method accepts a generic enumeration and then proceeds to check if the enumeration is null or empty. Do you see the potential problem with this code? I'll give you a hint, it's this line: items.Count() == 0 What's the problem? Well that line right there has the potential to be vastly inefficient. If the caller of the Foo method passes in an enumeration that doesn't implement ICollection<T> ( for example, an IQueryable as a result from an Entity Framework or Linq to SQL query ) then the Count method has to iterate over the...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:29 PM PDT

Last month I blogged about the Extension Manager that is built-into VS 2010 – as well as about a cool VS 2010 PowerCommands extension that provides some extra features for Visual Studio.  The Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager provides an easy way for developers to quickly find and install extensions and plugins that enhance the built-in functionality to VS 2010. New VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Release Earlier this week Jason Zander announced the availability of a new VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools release that includes a bunch of great new VS 2010 extensions that provide a bunch of cool new functionality for you to take advantage of.  You can download and install the release for free here .  Some of the code editor improvements...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2010 -- #878

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 09:30 PM PDT

In this Issue: Andrea Boschin , Emiel Jongerius , Anton Polimenov , Andrew Veresov , SilverLaw , RoboBlob , Brandon Watson , and Charlie Kindel . From SilverlightCream.com : Implementing network protocol easily with a generic SocketClient Andrea Boschin...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Tip of the Day #29 – Configuring Service Reference to Back to LocalHost

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:53 PM PDT

If your application leverages a Silverlight-enabled WCF service you may at times want to toggle the address to be pointing from the WCF service published and running on your server back to localhost in case you want to make modifications that you want...( read more )...(read more)

Jesse Liberty at the Montreal User Group, take 3

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:06 PM PDT

This is our last attempt to get Jesse Liberty at the Montreal User Group (and there won't be any take 4 as this is the very last meeting of the season), so we cross fingers that everything will be fine this time! RunAtServer Consulting is the proud sponsor...( read more )...(read more)
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