(Adeel Javed) Web applications are getting more and more complex day by day. With complexity, arise issues like difficulty in development, maintenance and scalability of the application. So in order to develop complex applications we have to keep these problems in mind. Software Engineer’s have been
Tag: Development
Caching Part II (Output Caching)
(Abey George) Output caching can be used when the content of your page is fairly static. It provides the capability to cache response generated from dynamic pages for the purpose of increasing the application performance. In order for a page to be cached using output caching it must have an expirati
Themes and Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 – A Perfect Combination
(Steven Swafford) Themes are simply templates that allow you to define the look of your web forms and controls and they may be utilized in your web application to provide a consistent user interface. A skin is a template that contains a set of properties used to standardize the various attributes o
.NET Tip: Searching System Event Logs for Valuable Info
(Eric Smith) One of the more tedious tasks a system administrator has to do is review the system event logs using the Event Viewer. These logs can provide valuable information, but manually finding the worthwhile details in them can be difficult. Luckily, .NET provides some easy, automated ways to r
Rethinking IT Measurement to Find the Source of Performance Problems in Distributed Applications
(Mazda Marvasti) Thinking about IT measurement must change whenever the focus is finding the source of a problem in an IT Service built on a distributed IT infrastructure. It’s important to make the shift, because preventing a negative impact on business of difficult-to-diagnose performance and avai
Creating Context-Sensitive Help on a Web Page
(Scott Mitchell) When building report screens for a web application, there are often certain snippets of the report whose meaning may not be crystal clear to all users. Reports may be chalk full of acronyms or abbreviations that be like a second language to the report’s primary users, but gobbledygo
Exploring .NET’s Isolated Storage
(Peter Aitken) No, isolated storage does not mean renting a Pod and putting it out in the woods somewhere! Rather it is the .Net framework’s answer to a question that has long vexed developers: where to keep application configuration information.
Applying a watermark to a Textbox in a Web Application
(Deobrat Singh) You may have seen some web sites displaying watermarks in text boxes. As soon as you click on a text box, the watermark disappears and you can start entering text. In this article, I will explain a small JavaScript trick that you can use to do the same in your web application. I have
Return resources to the system to improve .NET performance
(Tony Patton) The promise of .NET’s garbage collection feature meant no more worrying about object cleanup since .NET handles everything behind the scenes automatically. But I continually face database connections gone bad as developers fail to clean up after themselves. I’ll explore this problem in
Application Domains in .NET
(Joydip Kanjilal) An Application Domain is a light-weight process. It is a logical and physical unit of isolation built around every .NET application by the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and contains its own set of code, data and configuration settings. Multiple application domains can exist simul