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VSTS for Database Professionals on my current project
Monday, May 28, 2007 11:24 PM

On a current project I was interested in using VSTS for Database professionals to see if it could add any value with database management. Traditionally its been a very manual process as Visual Studio has not had any real support for it. I also knew that Nick Weinholt is due to present at SDNUG on the topic of all things data related, one of which is VSTS for... Read More...

by Glav | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, Architecture, SQL, SQL Server

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 | 8 comment(s)

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

WCF Proxy Performance vs WSE V3
Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:51 PM

Recently, I had been asked to examine a situation where WSE V3 service calls were substantially quicker than the equivalent WCF version. The reason in this instance was the fact that the WCF proxy was being created for each and every service call made (which was also the case with WSE V3). WCF proxies are far more heavyweight and incur significant penalty if... Read More...

by Glav | 15 comment(s)

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

MVC/MVP - Overused Patterns?
Sunday, February 04, 2007 10:57 PM

I did an engagement recently where a client wanted to create a windows forms application from an existing legacy application. The existing legacy app was important but relatively simple in terms of architecture. A previous consultant went in and recommended the use of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern, with the possible use of the CAB (Composite UI Application... Read More...

by Glav | 9 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, Winforms, WCF, MVP, MVC, Architecture