Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Beta 2 of Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability [http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/workspace.aspx?ID=540F8BD7-BE95-45F7-A477-919D23294553] from the Patterns and Practices book. As?Sam Gentile?blogged about beta 1 [http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2003/12/08/10858.aspx] of this book, it contains a wealth of…

J2EE verses .NET

The Middleware Company [http://www.middleware-company.com/], a training/consulting company, conducted an experiment comparing J2EE and .NET performance. This whitepaper details those results. Free download – J2EE verses .NET performance comparison [http://www.middleware-company.com/j2eedotnetbench/report.shtml].…

Tabbing in a TextArea/TextBox

Tabbing in a TextArea or a TextBox?has been a distant feature to think of up until now, as Justin Lovell [http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jlovell/]?shares a?simple?JavaScript (IE 5+ only) which makes it possible to insert a tab via the keyboard into a?TextArea or a TextBox.…

WinFX 247

I didn’t knew up until today that Matthew Reynolds [http://weblogs.asp.net/mreynolds/] (dotnet247.com [http://www.dotnet247.com]) has already launched WinFX247 [http://www.winfx247.com]?(beta). The new site?holds WinFX (that will?be .NET’s big brother?when Longhorn comes out [http://www.theregister.co.…

Modal WebForms

Brendan Tompkins [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/BsBlog/]?shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/BsBlog/posts/5629.aspx]) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don’t like the idea of?using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in?project?implementations except for…

Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET

I came across dotnetcoders.com [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/] while searching for a UI component on Google. The site hasn’t been updated in months but I did find some nice articles on their site: * Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=…

DotNetSIG December Session (21st Dec)

The Delhi .NET?Developers Group [http://groups.msn.com/dotnetsig] presents interactive sessions on Assemblies and .NET Remoting, on 21st December 2003. Assemblies : Inside preview of a .NET Assembly — We will be discussing the purpose of an assembly as well as related concepts such as metadata, modules, and the broad…

XP SP2, and Smallest Executables

Microsoft tech writers explain in this downloadable document [http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/9/879a7b46-5ddb-4a82-b64d-64e791b3c9ae/WinXPSP2_Documentation.doc] (539 kb) some of the biggest changes on tap Windows XP Service Pack 2 — the first beta of which is due for unveiling any day now. [via Neowin [http://www.…