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There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup a performance test rig using Visual Studio, how to record, manage and analyse performance metrics, and what you can change to make your apps fly. Anyways, the sample chapter is located here . ( http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/performance/understanding-performance-profiling-targets/ ) Hope you like it. Read More...

The first meeting of the Sydney Architecture User Group is going to be held on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, form 6.00pm to 8.00pm, at the Grace Hotel , 77 York st, Sydney. ( Link to map ) It will be housed in one of the very nice function rooms they have. Food and drink will be provided. Omar Besiso and myself will be hosting the event, with all funding and sponsorship graciously provided by our company Datacom . We intend on having a proper site to provide RSS feeds, email subscription and the like, but until we get better organised, we have a facebook page at : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173036810551 or you can contact myself directly on paul.glavich AT datacom.com.au or you can contact Omar on omar.besiso AT datacom.com.au Note...

My ASP.NET v4 New Features overview presentation that I delivered at Sydney Deep .Net User Group ( http://sdnug.org ) is available for download here ( http://sdnug.org/presentations/200910.zip ). Note: If the above link returns a 404 error, please try here instead. It covers almost every single new feature that will be covered in ASP.NET v4 in the next release With some demo’s showing off the permanent redirect feature, a bunch of templating demo’s, new client ID functionality and the new chart control. Hope you enjoy it. Read More...

MSDN Magazine (née Microsoft Systems Journal) was born October 1986. Here is a photo of the first issue - Read More...

Few weeks ago I posted in my Hebrew blog a post about using Data Transfer Objects to work with LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework (that currently both of them doesn’t support working with POCO). One of the comments I got was that using DTO’s takes twice the time than not using them. That’s because you have to write DTO class for each entity and you also have to write  method in the DTO class that return the DAL object (the object created by the ORM and mapped to a table in the DB) from the DTO and vice-versa. Although I don’t think it’s too much work, and i think that the advantages are significant enough to make the effort worth, I wrote during my job a small code generator that create DTO’s for each entity in the LINQ to SQL DataClasses...

While there’s no question that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript form the foundation of modern web development, achieving fluency hasn’t been easy for everyone. In particular, the transition from stateful development with pixel-precise layout – such as VB6 offered – has proven to be especially difficult. HTTP’s stateless nature and HTML’s relatively imprecise layout present a [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. Is Silverlight the new WebForms? Read More...

Today I've read a very good post about the need for ESB usage. When you need to use it, how you use it and if it's the right way to use it. To see it please visit: http://alexmreis.com/?p=117 I hope that you guys enjoy it! Read More...

Check out all of the details on Scott Hanselman’s blog   Windows 7 includes .NET 3.5SP1 Visual Studio 2008 works great on Windows 7 You can write a single app for XP, Vista and Windows 7 You can code to Windows 7 features today using the .NET Framework PowerShell is built-into Windows 7 There's an extensive Windows 7 UX Guide There are Free Book Chapters for Upcoming Windows 7 Books Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers There's a new "Windows on Channel 9" Site Boot to VHD Saves You...( read more ) Read More...

  As part of the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2010, see what's new in Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. (Formerly Microsoft Office Groove) See video here… Read More...

I would *love* to join a new and exciting software development team that has a single-minded focus on delivering high-quality software products to great customers. Perhaps that team is working in your company! Please have a look at my resume (http://weblogs.asp.net/jtobler/articles/48839.aspx) to find out if my skills match your customers' needs! If interested, contact me by email so I can get to work with you as quickly as possible! I currently live in San Diego, CA, but would consider relocating to Las Vegas, NV, or the Miami Ft. Lauderdale area, FL, to join the right company with the right challenge! Read More...