Example Lexical Analysis of Obama's State of the Union Speech using LINQ
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:44:10 GMT

How to analyze text with word frequency lexical analysis: Obama State of the Union Speech read more

By Peter Bromberg

ASP.NET MVC Using S#arp Architecture with Templify to speed up solution development
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:40:46 GMT

How to build a new ASP.NET MVC Solution Infrastructure with Templify and S#arp Architecture to speed up development read more

By Peter Bromberg

Enter our drawing for a chance to win a Free License of the Component One WinForms Suite including all the reporting components and applications.
Wed, 02 May 2012 06:49:26 GMT

Review of the Component One WinForms Controls Suite which includes 65 controls including a total r eports solution read more

By Peter Bromberg

Synopsis of the Microsoft MVP Summit 2012
Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:37:33 GMT

Major features from the Microsoft MVP Summit 2012 in Redmond read more

By Peter Bromberg

ASP.NET testing the MicroCache, ASP.NET Cache, and non-cached page delivery for performance
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:54:20 GMT

ASP.NET caching can be used for as little as a 1/2 second expiration to achieve siginificant performance increases under load. We test with the ASP.NET Cache, a Micro-Cache, and non cached pages with various expiration times to get performance metrics. read more

By Peter Bromberg

Integrating BrowserId Authentication with ASP.NET MVC 3.0 and Membership provider
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:59:33 GMT

BrowserId is a new distributed authentication system that is much easier to use than OpenId. Here we show how to integrate BrowserId within an ASP.NET MVC 3.0 application, using the Razor View Engine. read more

By Peter Bromberg

Create a custom DomainContext class with Silverlight RIA Services using Dapper-Dot-Net Micro ORM
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:01:30 GMT

How to create a custom DomainContext class that works with DomainDataSource, Silverlight RIA Services, and ASP.NET using the Dapper micro-ORM read more

By Peter Bromberg

SQL Server FILESTREAM type - how to enable and use it
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:48:41 GMT

How to enable your SQL Server database for the FILESTREAM type, create databases, tables, and work with stream queries read more

By Peter Bromberg

Use HTML5 localStorage to create a simple Notes Application
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:48:56 GMT

HTML5 localStorage methods and techniques - create a client-side Notes application read more

By Peter Bromberg

How to run eloqueraDb in Desktop Mode in an ASP.NET Application with a Gridview
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:10:23 GMT

EloqueraDb is a very fast object database that lets you work with POCO .NET objects directly. We show how to run the database in Desktop Mode in an ASP.NET Web Application read more

By Peter Bromberg

Drawing on the HTML5 canvas element - how to plot colored points and animated fractals
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:49:04 GMT

Hopalong fractals in the browser with HTML5 and the canvas element read more

By Peter Bromberg

Create an ASP.NET Image Control to display auto-generated QR Code images in memory
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:11:44 GMT

How to generate QR codes in your ASP.NET Web application and display them on the fly from memory read more

By Peter Bromberg

ASP.NET - How to Emit and Consume JSON with ASMX Web Services, including jQuery Table example
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:09 GMT

Many developers are not aware that it is easy to emit JSON from an ASMX Webservice. We describe the techinque and provide a Yahoo Finance stock quotes sample that displays quotes in a table via jQuery. read more

By Peter Bromberg

ASP.NET - how to use YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) to select keywords from a block of text or a URL
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:05:28 GMT

Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides developers with a unified way to query a broad range of sources with a single API endpoint using an easy-to-learn SQL like query language read more

By Peter Bromberg

How to keep your Windows PC Infection Free, and what to do if it gets infected
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:07:53 GMT

Windows catches viruses and even rootkits. Learn how to keep your PC infection free and fix nasty viruses read more

By Peter Bromberg

Several useful C# List extension methods - ToDatatable, ToCsv
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:30:18 GMT

Create C# Extension methods to convert List to Datatable or To CSV string read more

By Peter Bromberg

SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor enables developers to create custom statistics, partitions, indexes and indexed views
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:14:40 GMT

Most .NET developers do not have the expertise to create the best possible indexes and statistics for a database. The SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor wizard is easy to learn to use and will enhance the performance of your database for production use. read more

By Peter Bromberg

Use HtmlAgilityPack to collect Google Realtime Search Results and display in ASP.NET Page
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:22:13 GMT

Google has some search operators than many people are not aware of. If you suffix a google search url with one of these, you can restrict results to those that got indexed as little as one minute ago. Here we use HtmlAgilityPack to collect Google Realtime Search Results and display in ASP.NET Page read more

By Peter Bromberg

Win a free Subscription to New Relic -- a real-time performance dashboard that you install on your web server machine. The engine captures a large amount of information in real time - information that
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:02:06 GMT

Win a Free Subscription to New Relic. It allows you to tune page performance based on proven metric, tune and improve database transactions, and improve the availability and user-satisfaction of your sites. New Relic is a real-time performance dashboard that you install on your web server machine. The engine captures a large amount of information in real time - information that is not provided by other application monitoring and statistics tools. read more

By Peter Bromberg

How to use optional parameters to keep method signatures backward compatible
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:38:46 GMT

From C# 4.0, methods, constructors, and indexers can declare optional parameters. A parameter is optional if it specifies a default value. Here we show how to preserve backward compatibilty. read more

By Peter Bromberg

ASP.NET Eight ways to transfer data between pages
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:01:01 GMT

This article is really quite the "back to basics" ASP.NET tutorial. But you would be surprised how many ASP.NET developers aren't aware of all the different ways that data can be transferred from one ASP.NET page to another. We'll illustrate eight different ways that data can be sent from one page to another. Complete source code download provided. read more

By Peter Bromberg

Test Results using v2 of the SilverlightSerializer
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:41:01 GMT

SilverlightSerializer is a fast binary serializer that works in both .NET and Silverlight, allowing you to move your objects between the two instances or store and retrieve them locally in either. It is highly performant and produces small byte arrays which are suitable for further compression. We put it through the paces. read more

By Peter Bromberg

A Helper class for Dapper-Dot-Net, the micro ORM
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:34:24 GMT

Dapper is the micro-ORM developed by Sam Saffron and Marc Gravell. I use it in production code wherever possible, mostly because of its raw speed, and secondly because of it's ease of use. I understand that they use it as a kind of "drop-in" replacement to Linq to SQL at Stackoverflow. Here we provide a useful Helper class to work with Dapper. read more

By Peter Bromberg

How to export GridView data to Excel in ASP.NET
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:53:36 GMT

Exporting GridView Data to Excel Sheet is a common task for most Applications. This article details how to perform this action read more

By Vickey F

Complete Google+ .NET Client Library
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:29 GMT

A Complete implementation of the Google+ API in .NET. Contains all current methods in the API. read more

By Peter Bromberg

LINQ: We test performance over large collections and find performance bottlenecks
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:57:53 GMT

LINQ is "very cool" and brings much-needed elegance and utility to querying collections and other objects. However, there are some real bottlenecks that developers should be aware of when using LINQ. Querying or using the Where clause over a large collection has serious performance issues compared to a standard foreach loop read more

By Peter Bromberg