Articles Tagged 'sql'
Func has been in .NET for a while, but with the arrival of LINQ it’s moved into the limelight as main performer that makes Lambda expressions work. Func is basically a generic delegate that makes it extremely easy to create all sorts of custom del...
ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great. The attendees were very engaged and the venue was quite nice. Simon Guest gave the keynote and did a very nice job of bring together SketchFlow , .NET RIA Services and Sql Azure . I had the opportunity...
Scott on Writing
10/1/2009
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to delete all records from a table except for the 1,000 most recently added records. Specifically, I was working on a site that used Error Logging Modules And Handlers (ELMAH) , a free, open source er...
Scott on Writing
10/1/2009
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to delete all records from a table except for the 1,000 most recently added records. Specifically, I was working on a site that used Error Logging Modules And Handlers (ELMAH) , a free, open source er...
Caching is a performance mechanism where you store an expensive-to-create value for future consumption. For example, you may cache dropdown values to spare yourself expensive database hits. Caching is one of those buzzwords that everyone knows you...
I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others. It enab...
SQL timeouts can be very annoying, especially for internal development tools where performance isn't critical. A lot of developers will try fixing this by modifying the connection string by appending "Connect Timeout=300". Normally this is easy be...
ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which enables a separation of concerns similar to that of the MVC pattern that is popular on for stateless web apps today (for example: ASP.NET MVC). John Go...
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Charlie Calvert
8/31/2009
Welcome to the fifty-fifth release of Community Convergence. The big news this week is the release of an updated version of CodeRush Xpress , version 9.2. This upgrade to the popular set of free enhancements to the VS IDE has important performance...