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Sydney Architecture User Group – Next Meeting: Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:46 PM

The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) ) Here... Read More...

by Glav | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, Web 2.0, WPF, WCF, Community News, Architecture, Windows, Mobile, Silverlight, SQL

Visual Studio 2008 - Install Problems and Solutions
Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:19 PM

Ok, maybe this has already been blogged about in various places, but I am going to list my steps that were required for me to get Visual Studio 2008 to install properly under Vista. My previous situation was: Had Installed VS2008 Release Candidate I tried the following when I went to install VS2008 RTM: Uninstalled VS2008 RC Install of RTM failed. Uninstalled... Read More...

by Glav | 55 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Vista, Visual Studio, General, Windows

Readify Developer Network gets launched
Monday, August 06, 2007 7:25 PM

I have been sick and out of action lately, and one of the things that has transpired during this period is the launch of the Readify Developer Network - RDN . Greg Low does a great job of explaining it in detail in his post , but here is a quick snippet of what its all about. Its basically a series of webcast like high quality presentations delivered by readify... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, readify, Community News, Architecture, Windows

ASP.NET Podcasts
Friday, July 20, 2007 2:57 PM

After going on holidays, feeling relaxed and generally not doing much tech related stuff, I have fallen behind in a number of things. One was my inbox, something like 1400+ messages I have had to wade through, and they keep coming. However, the other is the podcasts. Wally has been producing some podcasts and I have been out of the loop, and being the slacker... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, podcast, Architecture, Windows, SQL, SQL Server

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Book is out!
Friday, July 13, 2007 1:12 PM

The past year or so I have been working with a number of excellent co-authors on another book called Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX and as you can imagine, is solely devoted to the topic of the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions . Well its out and you can go and grab yourself a copy . You probably want at least 2, perhaps 3 or 4. If you can tear yourself away... Read More...

by Glav | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, Web 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, Extender Controls, Control Toolkit, Windows, AJAX Control toolkit

WCF Client Channel Pool - Improved Client Performance
Monday, May 07, 2007 12:22 AM

Not long ago, I posted about WCF client performance and some work I have been doing around improving that with a "Channel Pool" type implementation. Well its finally ready for some public consumption. You can grab the code here . ( http://www.theglavs.com/DownloadItem.aspx?FileID=55 ) You can grab the download from here. Its very "apha" at this point and my testing... Read More...

by Glav | 14 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, WCF, Community News, Architecture, Windows, WSE, Performance

WCF Client Performance
Saturday, April 21, 2007 6:22 PM

One of the easiest performance traps when using WCF services is constant creation of new client proxies when accessing those services. In WSE land, this was common place: MyProxy prox = new MyProxy(); prox.CallServiceMethod(); For example, you might have a class with some instance methods, and in each method, instantiate a proxy, call the service method, life... Read More...

by Glav | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, WCF, Architecture, Windows, WSE, Performance

CodeCampOz Presentations
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:52 PM

Well CodeCampOz 2007 is beginning this weekend. It should be a great event with a host of good speakers. If you have the opportunity, and are somewhere in Australia, I encourage you to get to Charles Sturt Uni in Wagga Wagga, NSW for some good technical discussions. I'll be co-presenting 2 topics, the first one on ASP.NET AJAX Real World Experiences with Damien... Read More...

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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Controls, Web 2.0, readify, WCF, General, ASP.NET AJAX, Control Toolkit, Windows