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PostgreSQL for the .NET Developer
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Shawn Wildermuth
Last updated: Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2026 - Jan/Feb
Shawn Wildermuth encourages .NET developers to explore PostgreSQL as a powerful, cost-effective alternative to SQL Server. He explains how PostgreSQL’s open-source nature and advanced features make it suitable for various projects, especially those with budget constraints. Shawn provides practical guidance on setting up PostgreSQL using Docker, highlights key differences from SQL Server, and demonstrates seamless integration with Entity Framework.
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Sending Email with SendGrid
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Matthew Hess
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2025 Jul/Aug
Matthew explores the advantages of using SendGrid for sending bulk emails, specifically in C# programming. He highlights the limitations of traditional methods, like SMTPClient and Mailkit, when dealing with a high volume of messages. Hess demonstrates the setup and utilization of SendGrid's REST API, focusing on its C# utility classes and personalizations feature, enabling efficient customization of emails for individual recipients. Additionally, he delves into template creation and management, showcasing SendGrid’s tools for crafting professional-quality email templates. Hess underscores SendGrid’s functionality in simplifying bulk email processes while avoiding issues related to SPAM filters and message limits.
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Aspirational .NET: What Is .NET Aspire?
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2024 - March/April
Shawn describes the Aspire framework as something the ASP.NET Core team created to simplify the set-up of multiple smaller projects (microservices or not) with related components that you might be using (e.g., data stores, containers, queues, message buses, etc.). Shawn explores the concept of cloud native and explains how .NET Aspire simplifies the setup of distributed applications by providing tooling and a dashboard for monitoring and orchestration. Aspire is impressive so far.
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Developing Real-Time Web Applications with Server-Sent Events in ASP.NET 7 Core
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Joydip Kanjilal
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - September/October
Joydip shows you how to build real-time web applications with Server-Sent Events (SSE) in ASP.NET Core, including the core concepts of SSE, the features, benefits, and downsides of SSE, and how to implement real-time updates, etc.
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Distributed Caching in ASP.NET Core 6 Using Redis in Azure
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - May/June
Whether you realize it or not, you’ve been benefiting from caching for years. Joydip tells you how and why to use caching to your best advantage.
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Using Ajax and REST APIs in.NET 5
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Paul Sheriff
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April
In this article, create a .NET 5 Web server to service Web API calls coming from any Ajax front-end. You also learn to create an MVC Web application and a Node server to serve up Web pages from which you make Ajax calls to the .NET 5 Web server.
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Building Multi-Tenant Applications Using ASP.NET 5
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - January/February
This overview of multi-tenant architecture describes the challenges and solutions to using them. Ultimately, multi-tenant gets cheaper over time. Follow along to implement a multi-tenant application in ASP.NET 5
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What’s New in ASP.NET Core 3.0
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
Get ready for an exciting list (and examples) as Shawn explores the new tools in ASP.NET Core 3.0.
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Using JetBrains Rider to Develop ASP.NET Core Applications on Docker
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Maarten Balliauw
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - May/June
Maarten explores containers, especially in regard to an ASP.NET Core application, and uses JetBrains Rider as an IDE to build and debug apps in a Docker container.
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Marking up the Web with ASP.NET Core and Markdown
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Rick Strahl
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - November/December
You’re probably already using Markdown for HTML text entry and formatting your README.md files. But Markdown is good for so much more—Rick shows you parsing, stable content in a website, embedding converted HTML into a Razor output, and more.
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Eliminate HTML Tables for Better Mobile Web Apps
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - March/April
At this point, you’re clear that your app has to work on all platforms, especially on smartphones. Paul gets tables to adjust their sizes based on which platform is being used to view it.
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Ready for Prime Time: .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 Have Arrived
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - March/April
Rick explores the new features in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core and shows you that the wait was worth it.
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What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.1
By:
Daniel Roth
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - March/April
Daniel takes you on a tour of the new features in the new release of ASP.NET. He thinks you’ll find it exciting, especially regarding its SignalR capabilities.
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Getting Down to Business Building an ASP.NET Core API Service
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - January/February
Building an API-based app doesn’t have to be daunting. Rick shows you how to use Angular 2.0 to build a small app that breaks out business logic, uses a repository class to consolidate data access code, and deals with complex relationships and data updates.
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Getting to the ASP.NET Core
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - September/October
New releases ASP.NET Core and .NET Core have come up with some interesting high-level architecture that you’ll want to read about. You’ll definitely want to play with these tools after Rick shows you some cool new tricks.
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Integrating ASP.NET MVC and Angular JS
By:
Miguel Castro
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - May/June
Miguel looks at organizing styles and integrating technologies to make one spiffy new kind of app with multi-SPA layers, and you don’t have to throw away your Microsoft experience to do it.
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CRUD in HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery Using the Web API
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - January/February
In this second installment of his new series on working within HTML and the Web API, Paul looks at the four standard HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. By creating a product information page with mock data, you’ll get a good idea of the power of these tools.
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Telerik Kendo UI Outside the Box
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Bilal Haidar
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - November/December
Bilal takes us on a tour of Telerik’s Kendo UI and its great number of widgets that facilitate your Web or mobile app development process. There’s no need for multiple libraries anymore!
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A First Look at ASP.NET vNext
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - January/February
In this article, Rick plays with the beta version of ASP.NET vNext. You’ll get to see what’s (probably) coming so you can start making plans.
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ASP.NET vNext: The Next Generation
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - January/February
ASP.NET has been Microsoft’s hallmark product for more than a dozen years. In vNext, it’s getting more readily adaptable to the way users—especially mobile users—interact with their data, and Rick shows us how to take advantage of these radical changes.
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What ASP.NET 5 Means to a Technical Manager
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - January/February
Dino explores the new ASP.NET features and takes a close look at the ways it might benefit you to upgrade (or not).
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Use HTML 5 and jQuery in WebForms
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - November/December
Web Forms aren’t going anywhere. Paul shows us how to use HTML 5 and jQuery to keep ASP.NET Web Forms working smoothly.
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Creating an Action CheckBox with Web Forms, Bootstrap, and jQuery
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - September/October
Building mobile apps is a wave you need to catch! Paul shows you that you won’t be left behind just because you use Web Forms.
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10 Good Practices for ASP.NET MVC Apps
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - May/June
Dino talks about the best possible layout for your project in MVC 5, and gives some great tips for helping you keep it all organized and effi cient.
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Planning Web Solutions Today: Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and OWIN. Oh My!
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - November/December
Be aware that this is not going to be a classic how-to article that delves more or less deeply into some technical issue or feature. It is, instead, an article that aims at providing an overview of the options you have at present for architecting Web solutions.
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What’s New in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
By:
Jim Duffy
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2012 - November/December
Microsoft has added an abundance of new features and functionality to ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. This article provides an overview of many of those new features and enhancements ranging from improved editors for HTML, CSS and JavaScript all the way through to publishing your work to the web.
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The Times they are A-changin!
By:
Rod Paddock
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2012 - May/June
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Creating Wijmo: The New JavaScript Library in Town
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Bannon, Chris
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - May/June
Wijmo contains over 30 widgets built on jQuery and jQuery UI that can help you build a better Web.
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SharePoint Applied: The MasterPage Story in SharePoint 2010
By:
Sahil Malik
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - May/June
MasterPages are SO much better in SharePoint 2010 that only in rare cases should you should make a page that isn’t based on one. Sahil explains why.
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Leveraging Razor Templates Outside of ASP.NET: They’re Not Just for HTML Anymore!
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Chadwick, Jess
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
The Razor syntax is much more than just a clean way to write ASP.NET MVC Views and WebMatrix web pages. In fact, with a working knowledge of the Razor API, you can leverage Razor templates in any application. The Razor API exposes a powerful library for parsing, compiling, and executing templates created using the Razor syntax.
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The 12-Step Recovery Program from a SharePoint Error
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Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - January/February
Hello, my name is Sahil, and I am a worsening SharePointoholic. SharePoint is built on ASP.NET 2.0 - pretty much like human beings are made up of carbon and water. There is a lot in SharePoint that isn’t in ASP.NET. Not only is SharePoint a complex ASP.NET 2.0 application, it also has numerous concepts for things such as profiles, role providers, authorization etc., that are different from ASP.NET.
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Highlights of ASP.NET MVC 3
By:
Jeffrey Palermo (Clear Measure)
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - November/December
As developers are just getting used to ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has already planned and released a preview of the next version of ASP.NET. What started out as “just another option” for ASP.NET developers has become the programming style of choice for developers writing .NET applications for the web.
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ASP.NET MVC and the ADO.NET Entity Framework
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Morgridge, Dane
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - September/October
Both ASP.NET MVC and the ADO.NET Entity Framework are both very popular topics right now in the developer community.Having spoken at various user group meeting and code camps it is very obvious to me what topics a lot of developers are interested in. I see that sessions about ASP.NET MVC or the Entity Framework are always packed with developers eager for more information. The focus of this article is the Entity Framework, but in the context of an ASP.NET MVC application. As such, I am assuming at least basic understanding of ASP.NET MVC but little-to-none with Entity Framework.
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Exploring the Bing API Using WCF
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Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - May/June
The TV commercials took me and many others by surprise. A stream-of-conscienceless-style ad that had our brains struggling to catch up with the next topic that the next person blurted out. Funny enough, the bouncing from topic to topic by the actors in the commercial seem to be a familiar metaphor to anyone that has traversed search results at one time or another. And at the end, a familiar logo appears: Microsoft, followed by a not-so-familiar one: Bing.
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New Features in WCF 4 that Will Instantly Make You More Productive
By:
Rick Garibay
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - May/June
WCF 4 is all about productivity.
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ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine
By:
Donn Felker
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - March/April
Getting friendly with HTML in ASP.NET MVC just got a whole lot easier.In this article, I’ll delve into the Spark View Engine, an alternate view engine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Spark’s main goal is to allow HTML to dominate the flow of view development while allowing code to fit in seamlessly.
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Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib
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Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - March/April
Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called MvcContrib came to life.MvcContrib has enjoyed tens of thousands of downloads since it started in December of 2007. In this article, I will explain MvcContrib; it’s major components, how to use it, and how to get involved in its continued development.
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Ask the Doc Detective
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Doc Detective
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
In "Ask the Doc Detective," Doc Detective addresses common developer questions about navigating and utilizing Microsoft Visual Studio documentation and features. He clarifies new technologies like ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint Business Data Connectivity, and improvements in WPF data binding, while offering practical guidance on customizing Visual Studio’s Start page. Throughout, Doc emphasizes the enhanced tools and resources available in Visual Studio 2010, aiming to simplify developers’ workflows and improve their ability to find and apply relevant information effectively.
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My Top Three Favorite Things About SharePoint 2010
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Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
Aside from the obvious summary here, Sahil goes into details about why you should also be happy about these three SharePoint 2010 features. In his words, these features give a SharePoint architect so much more flexibility in implementing and delivering SharePoint projects that they will invariably prove to be extremely valuable.SharePoint 2007 has been a very successful product for many reasons. Perhaps it is the good applicability of .NET to SharePoint. Maybe it is the fact that SharePoint gives you so much beyond plain vanilla ASP.NET, that it gets both techies and business users excited.Having been available for about three years now, there has been time for developers to discover a few rough edges to the product as well.
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A Guided Tour of What to Look for in ASP.NET 4.0
By:
Appel, Rachel
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - November/December
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ASP.NET 4 Unleashed - Chapter 1 -Overview of the ASP.NET Framework
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
This excerpt is from the book, ‘ASP.NET 4 Unleashed, authored by Stephen Walther, Kevin Hoffman, Nate Dudek, Published Oct 14, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. ISBN 0672335522, Copyright 2011. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn= 0672331128.
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly - Chapter 3 - Designing Mobile-Friendly Websites
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly </i>by Lyle Luppes is a concise guide to creating a website aimed at mobile but also serving desktops-from just one code base. Luppes extols the virtues of .NET’s ASP.NET MVC framework, offering it up as the perfect solution for cross-platform website development. The following excerpt from his book discusses design. This book is part the <i>Succinctly </i>series and can be downloaded for free from Syncfusion’s Technology Portal.
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Chapter 1: RESTful Systems - Back to the Future
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
Developers are rapidly discovering the power of REST to simplify the development of even the most sophisticated Web services—and today's .NET platform is packed with tools for effective REST development. Now, for the first time, there's a complete, practical guide to building REST-based services with .NET development technologies.
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Getting Started with ASP.NET 4 - Chapter 1
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
This excerpt is from the book, ‘Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit, authored by Scott Mitchell, Published Jul 30, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Sams Teach Yourself-Hours series. ISBN 0-672-33305-8, Copyright 2011. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672333058.
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Hour 1 - Getting Started with ASP.NET 4
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
Scott Mitchell introduces you to ASP.NET, shows you how to install Visual Web Developer, along with the .NET Framework and SQL Server 2008, and helps you create your first ASP.NET page.
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Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC - CHAPTER 1- ASP.NET MVC Controllers
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol</i>
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Red Gate: Why is Your ASP.NET Application Running Slow?
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
Sponsored article from Red Gate. Diagnose and speed up your apps!
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Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Chapter 3 - Caching
Last updated: Saturday, February 23, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
Caching is an important cornerstone of high-performance web sites. You can use it to accomplish the following: Reduce round-trips: Content cached at the client or in proxies can eliminate web server round-trips. Content cached at the web server can eliminate database round-trips. Move content closer to clients: The farther away from clients content is located, the longer it takes to retrieve. Avoid time-consuming processes of regenerating reusable content: For content that takes a lot of time or resources to generate, system performance and scalability are improved if you can generate content once and then reuse it many times. Optimize state management: Caching state information at the client is more scalable than storing it in a central location (within certain bounds, as discussed later).
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What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part One: Core Engine Features
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Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: The Web View
Microsoft released the .NET Runtime 4.0 and with it comes a brand spanking new version of ASP.NET - version 4.0 - which provides an incremental set of improvements to an already powerful platform. .NET 4.0 is a full release of the .NET Framework, unlike version 3.5, which was merely a set of library updates on top of the .NET Framework version 2.0. Because of this full framework revision, there has been a welcome bit of consolidation of assemblies and configuration settings. The full runtime version change to 4.0 also means that you have to explicitly pick version 4.0 of the runtime when you create a new Application Pool in IIS, unlike .NET 3.5, which actually requires version 2.0 of the runtime.
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What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements
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Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: The Web View
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Where does ASP.NET Web API Fit?
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Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: The Web View
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