January 2008 - Posts

Security Code Review – Use Visual Studio Bookmarks To Capture Security Findings

How to streamline the process of capturing security flaws during security code review? How to save time and avoid switching between the tools? How to stay focused? In this post I will show my simple technique to capture security flaws using Bookmarks Read More...

Posted 24 January 08 01:38 by alikl | 3 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Security, Tools, Code Inspection, Practices

Performance Code Review Tool – Practices Checker

Care about performance? Do you write your code with performance in mind? Want little help to spot performance bottlenecks automatically? Practices Checker to the rescue. The goal of the tool is “Help you perform a manual code inspection by analyzing Read More...

Posted 21 January 08 09:37 by alikl | 8 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Development Phase, Performance

Design For Operations [DFO] – Problems And Solution Frame

patterns & practices team maintains Design for Operations [DFO] project on codeplex . The goal of the project focuses on: “Developing tools and guidance to help enable the development of highly manageable applications on the Windows platform.” Read More...

Posted 20 January 08 05:02 by alikl | 2 Comments   
Filed under Practices, Planning Phase, Operations

Profiling JavaScript With Ajax View Tool: Spot Poor Performance Client Script In No Time

Ever wondered why your application unreasonably slow? You have it all - most powerful hardware, your database is tuned, SQL queries are optimized, network is barely utilized, and .Net code is super efficient. So why on earth response time is so slow? Read More...

Posted 17 January 08 04:19 by alikl | 3 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Performance, AJAX

Chain Of Responsibility Design Pattern – Focus On Security, Performance, And Operations

The pattern is also called Intercepting Filter, Pipeline, AOP, and may be few more… I am confused by the name for this design pattern. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius No matter how they call Read More...

Posted 14 January 08 03:50 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under Security, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase

Create Your Own Guidance Explorer Items Inside Outlook 2007

Want to create your own nuggets of wisdom? Want it to look and feel like patterns&practices nuggets of wisdom look and feel? Want to reuse it, mix and match with existing ones? It is easy and fast with Outlook 2007. I will show how I extend my knowledge Read More...

Posted 10 January 08 04:52 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under Tools, Practices

How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server – Revised

This is a follow up post to Basic Sample - How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server ASP.NET 2.0 offers much easier built-in mechanism to save ViewState on the server in Session using SessionPageStatePersister . Thanks to Russ who pointed me to this Read More...

Posted 08 January 08 08:13 by alikl | 2 Comments   
Filed under Development Phase, Implementation, Performance

Customize Guidance Explorer Inside Outlook 2007 – Find Tech Gold Nuggets Instantly

Customize Guidance Explorer Inside Outlook 2007 – Find Tech Gold Nuggets Instantly In previous post I showed how to configure Outlook 2007 to consume patterns&practices Guidance Explorer online store via RSS . Guidance Explorer online store Read More...

Posted 07 January 08 11:51 by alikl | 2 Comments   

Consume patterns&practices Guidance Explorer Via RSS Using Outlook 2007

patterns&practices recently released new version of Guidance Explorer [GE]. One of the most important addition was enabling RSS on the online GE store. What does that mean? It means you can consume distilled security, performance, and Visual Studio Read More...

Posted 03 January 08 09:43 by alikl | 6 Comments   
Filed under Tools, Practices

Basic Sample - How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server

During recent few engagements with my customers I've noticed  VIewState is extensively [unintentionally] used. ViewState is on by default. The result is heavy weight Html that round trips on the network. This causes slow response time and high network Read More...

Posted 02 January 08 10:38 by alikl | 10 Comments   
Filed under Implementation, Performance

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