If you are using .NET Framework 3.5 ADO.NET Entity Framework inside a Web Service the solution proposed at MSDN in How to Apply changes to a Detached object may not be the best solution. How to: Apply Changes Made to a Detached Object (Entity Framework...

Keeping track of your infrastructure’s health can easily become a big challenge. More and more applications mean more machines, different requirements and a lot more places to look for when your users call you complaining that something is wrong. One...

Yesterday I ran into an issue where the users were complaining about the application being very slow in a specific page. If you read the title you will probably think “here is another post around how viewstate can cause all sort of problems in my application...

Every once in a while, you get these annoying application crashes for which you do not seem to find the reason. For these end-user applications, we may think of 3 distinct kinds of crashes from a timing perspective: o An exit crash - aside from a dialog...

Many articles and many people that implement large applications on Sharepoint 2007 sometimes have a frustrating feeling about the product as the solution grows. Surprised? I am not …. In fact I consider this is a normal situation in software implementations...

As a developer a big pain was (after reading this it will be no more J ) troubleshooting JavaScript errors. Internet Explorer has never been a big friend in helping me looking at these issues … this is, until Internet Explorer 8. When the first beta came...

Do you remember Silverlight 1.0 Page Turn Sample ? I Do. It was probably the first Silverlight application I saw and I was delighted with it. Then Silverlight 1.1 came up, followed by 2.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2 (soon we'll have RTM) , Beta 2 and now 2.0...

Recently, I had the chance to participate in a performance review of a Line of Business application which dynamically creates portable document files (PDF, in short) which are then sent to the web user over the wire. The process of PDF creation has several...