Archives
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Out And About
Well, it looks like the dog days of summer are over, and the community is once again hopping with activity. September and October are going to be busy months for me! In less than a 30 day period I'll be speaking at 2 code camps and REMIX! I'm pretty excited about the opportunities, and hopefully I'll get to meet some of you at these events. Here's a quick list of what and where - you can also look at the Infragistics community calendar to see what other events Infragistics will be involved with.
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High Performance DataBinding for ASP.NET - A True Story
These days, just about every ASP.NET application has a grid of some sort in it, which is tied to a back end database through some databinding mechanism. In many cases this is either a DataSet, SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, or in some cases a custom business object layer. Further pushing the envelope, grids are no longer used to display 50 or 100 records, but thousands to hundreds of thousands have become commonplace. AJAX can be used to boost performance by enabling paging, while not horribly disrupting the user experience. In this case, getting the data from you DBMS to your application becomes the bottleneck.
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First Crack at LINQ and Visual Studio 2008 (Codename Orcas)
I started working with VS2008 pretty regularly about a month ago. One of the first things I wanted to try out was LINQ. I had been to assorted sessions at PDC, TechEd, MIX, and some other shows where they covered LINQ, and I was pretty impressed. In the past, figuring out how to use a new VS feature was almost like a treasure hunt. You could pick up clues here and there, but putting it all together was challenging. I'm not sure if it's due to Scott Gu's blogs, or the intuitive nature of LINQ (or both), but I was pleasantly surprised that I could do it!
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About Me
Some of you may already know me, or know of me from my long history with Infragistics. If you've never heard of Infragistics, they're a UI Tools company that deals mainly in the Microsoft spaces including ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, and now Silverlight.