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Optimizing Use of ASP.NET Cache Functionality

December 18, 2008

ASP.NET's intrinsic cache functionality has long been one of my favorite aspects of ASP.NET. With a little bit of planning and organization, you can use it to create highly scalable applications with robust fidelity.

Monitoring Your Connectivity

December 8, 2008

This article walks through the network/WAN monitoring application that I wrote and illustrates several useful .NET Framework classes—some of which can be useful when writing an application that depends on remote access to the LAN or WAN. It also illustrates several “alerting” techniques to draw attention to the fact that something is wrong.

T-SQL Upgrades in SQL Server 2008

December 4, 2008

I've been working on a series of videos touting some of the new features and benefits of SQL Server 2008. I've spent a lot of time working with SQL Server 2008 and reading through Books Online (BOL) to catch the biggest changes. But there are a bunch of smaller changes and improvements that frequently get overlooked, so I thought I’d cover a few of them that have really made my life easier over the past few months.

Developing Web 2.0 Websites that Engage Your Community

November 20, 2008

Web 2.0 is being used to label a new approach that addresses business failures associated with traditional web applications. This flavor of Web 2.0 espouses business approaches more in line with those of viral marketing and customer evangelization advocates.

Decreasing Coupling in ASP.NET 4.0 Web Applications

November 5, 2008

In the upcoming ASP.NET 4.0, instead of the current behavior where naming containers successively concatenate identifiers into the names of your rendered object IDs, we'll now be able to have some control over how those IDs should be rendered on the server.

Tips for the .NET Developer

Genome V4.0 released: LINQ-integrated O/RM for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

Genome V4.0 has been released to provide a proven and matured LINQ-integrated O/RM solution for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Since the...

Log4net Dashboard version 2.4 released

Log4Net Dashboard is a log viewer that can read log events from a variety of targets, including: Microsoft SQL Server Oracle SQL Server XML Files...

Announcing SmartInspect 3.0 logging tool

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our advanced .NET logging, Java logging and Delphi logging tool SmartInspect 3.0. SmartInspect...

Developer Community Forums

Genome V4.0 released: LINQ-integrated O/RM for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

Genome V4.0 has been released to provide a proven and matured LINQ-integrated O/RM solution for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Since the...

Log4net Dashboard version 2.4 released

Log4Net Dashboard is a log viewer that can read log events from a variety of targets, including: Microsoft SQL Server Oracle SQL Server XML Files...

Unable to see the Query Analyzer in installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition

Hi, I am trying to install the SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition in my System which is already having .NET software installed. I am unable to see the Query...

Developer Blogs

Microsoft Makes BizTalk 2009 Beta and RFID Announcements

Microsoft announced yesterday that the first public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is available for download. The announcement was made at the Gartner...

Podcasts From SQL PASS: Parallel Computing and other Industry Trends

In this podcast from the November SQL PASS Conference in Seattle, David DeWitt discusses how his career in database research led to becoming...

Developer News from Dev Connections 2008

Developers don't come to the Dev Connections conference for big announcements about major new products from Microsoft. They come for intense hands-on sessions...

Meet the Mentors

Michael K. Campbell

Michael K. Campbell

Michael K. Campbell is the president of OverAchiever Productions, a consultancy dedicated to technical evangelism, mentoring, and quality solutions. Michael specializes in SQL Server, ASP.NET, IIS, .NET and related technologies. He's been a professional developer, Web master, and a production DBA for several well-known companies. Michael is the principal writer on the bi-weekly Windevpro Update newsletter. He's an ASPInsider, and has written articles for a variety of magazines and Web sites including SQL Server Magazine and ASPAlliance.com. He is active on the SQLAdvice.com newsgroups.

Shelia Molnar

Sheila Molnar edits the WinDevPro.com site and the WinDevPro UPDATE newsletter. She's executive editor for development, with a focus on SQL Server Magazine and WinDevPro.com. Formerly she managed developer and IT pro content teams at Microsoft.

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