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How do you know when a page is being rendered as the result of a Server.Transfer, rather than a Response.Redirect or the user browsing directly to a page? Actually it’s quite easy, assuming you’re using the default ASP.NET pipeline. In reality the “thing”
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I had a fun day debugging some ASP.NET plus jQuery this week, and came across something I’ve known is possible for some time, but that I’ve never actually needed to do... and that was to ensure a bit of JavaScript ran once an UpdatePanel had refreshed
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The ADC Team has two SoundBytes scheduled over the coming months. One is a repeat of a popular session by Ryan Simpson, and the other is a new one delivered by Simon Ince. Ryan has also updated his session to include a brief overview of the new features
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I spend quite a lot of time nowadays advising on architecting applications to be scalable, recommending performance testing approaches and processes, and being called in to help an organisation remediate problems with an existing application. It’s one
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Is this a question of taste, or something more serious? [ Warning : this post won’t change your life J ] I found myself writing the following extension method yet again the other day; public static void ForEach<T>( this IEnumerable <T> source,
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The ADC Team has three further SoundBytes scheduled over the coming months. Two are repeats of popular sessions by Chris Barker and Ryan Simpson, and the third is a new session delivered by Simon Ince. Ryan has also updated his session to include a brief
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Whilst at Q-Con a few weeks ago someone asked me about how to map two database tables to one entity in the Entity Framework... something a lot of people want to do at some point or another. At this point I must thank Chris Barker for pinging me some links
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In my previous post I described the basic concept behind my auditing approach using the Entity Framework, and covered some of the problems I encountered. This post focuses on the solution I went with; do feel free to comment if you have any thoughts.
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If you’ve read my last post on Types of Auditing , you should be primed for this one; I’m looking at a way to do Data Operation Auditing in the Entity Framework. That is, I want to track who changes which tables & columns , when , and in what way
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One of the tasks I used to hate when building a new system was adding admin pages to allow simple create/update functionality for lookup data. For example, maintaining a simple list of Products. It takes ages to write, and is very boring – even if you
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If you’ve got some XML data in a SQL Server column, how can you flatten it out and query it or present it as though it was relational data? It turns out this is quite easy... Setup Let’s create a simple table to hold our data; CREATE TABLE XmlSourceTable
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During my day job I come across customers that are struggling to make a system perform to the expectations of their users, and they often see this as a SQL Server problem. This post is designed to demonstrate how much of a difference your approach to
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I spend quite a lot of time with customers adopting Team Foundation Server discussing how they will branch, label, integrate, build and test their software. It’s actually one of my favourite topics, because I see good source control practices as the foundation
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I’m sure I’ve warned you before – I’m a big believer in Software Factories… but I’ve been quiet about this for a while now. That’s because I’ve been waiting for the ‘next big thing’… enter stage left: “Blueprints”! I had the pleasure of attending a talk
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I’ve been thinking for a while about how people tend to build AJAX applications, as there seems to be something a lot of people have forgotten. This post examines how applying a pattern you probably know very well to AJAX could help – and leaves it to
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