October 2008 - Posts

IntelliSense for jQuery
As for reported here , we now have an official IntelliSense documentation file that will allow you to get rich intellisense for jQuery from inside of Visual Studio. When you go to download jQuery, you will see a Documentation link.  Or you can download Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 11:28 by Tom | 4 Comments   
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Strange callstacks
How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and you see something that just doesn’t quite look right.  Chances are the problem is that you don’t have correct symbols. For example, if you see something Read More...
Posted 29 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Web Site Stops Responding for 15-25 seconds
There are a number of reasons that a web site could have a delay (hang) that could cause problems.  I am going to talk about a common one that we see which is the CRL. What we have seen in the past is the Crypto API’s are trying to update the Certificate Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Creating an Auto-complete textbox
It seems that auto-complete is very popular these days with different sites.  So I wanted to show you how you can create your own Auto-complete textbox on your web sites.  There are two ways that this can be accomplished depending on what you Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Linq – Do we need another way to access databases?
This was the question that was burning on my mind when I first heard about Linq.  I was skeptical and didn’t think it was something that we needed.  But after having started to use this new language, I have quickly become a believer. Linq stands Read More...
Posted 20 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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New place to find some great web information from Microsoft
There is a new site that has a lot of really cool information from Microsoft in the web space.  Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/web/default.aspx This was talked about by Joe here . There you can get to things like blogs and other great content Read More...
Posted 17 October 08 10:34 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Who are you most looking forward to listening to at the PDC
There are a lot of great speakers and a lot of great topics this year at the PDC.  Who are you looking forward to hearing from the most? Of course there are some great keynote speakers like Scott Gutherie but for the sessions , here are my favorites: Read More...
Posted 16 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Videos are coming – suggested topics?
So I have started to create some videos showing various things that you can do.  Are there specific things that everyone would like to see?  I’d like to build a list of the things you want and then I can start knocking them out.  I’m figuring Read More...
Posted 13 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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XPerf: A CPU Sampler
Seema just had a great about using XPerf to troubleshoot CPU issues when using Silverlight.  This can also be used in the same way to troubleshoot ASP.NET or IIS. What can XPerf tell you?  Seema answers that question, it can find out: Is my Read More...
Posted 10 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Getting SOS to work, a historical view
When you try to debug a managed application using Windbg and SOS, there have been issues over the years that have come up with trying to get the extension to work properly. The major stumbling block has been to get it to load the proper files for it to Read More...
Posted 09 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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ASP.NET Tip: Understanding the caching of data in SOS
The sos that comes with the debugger, in the clr10 directory, has a lot of additional features and speed improvements for .NET 1.x troubleshooting. One of the main ways it does this is by caching the data that is gathered from !DumpHeap -stat. This is Read More...
Posted 08 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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ASP.NET and Codeplex
Just wondering how many people are using the projects up on Codeplex and what you guys think.  There are a lot of different ones from Microsoft up there, especially the ASP.NET team.  Such as: AJAX Control Toolkit ASP.NET ASP.NET Alerts Are Read More...
Posted 07 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 5 Comments   
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Tips for Reporting Services
We tend to get an issue in the ASP.NET support group from time to time that is around Reporting Services.  These are generally issues around the process taking up large amounts of memory or slow performance or similar things.  Generally the Read More...
Posted 06 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server
There are 3 different ways you can store session in an ASP.NET application: InProc (default mode) State Server SQL Server InProc means we store the data in the same process (in memory) on the web server, in the worker process.  This has some distinct Read More...
Posted 03 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Tail calling in .NET
Thought I would give a little details on one type of optimization that it is possible to see and explain what it is and how it affects things so that if you come across it, you will understand what is happening. So there is this concept of tail calling Read More...
Posted 02 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services
If you are looking for Free Software and Online Services then this post will point you in the right direction.   If you are looking for general information about Microsoft products and software I recommend visiting the main site Microsoft.com Read More...
Posted 01 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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