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Archives / 2005 / February
  • MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback Property - I love it.

    With all the new features in .Net V2, its easy to miss things. You get busy looking at some of the more 'meaty' aspects, that you miss the small things. I have been enjoying and playing with lots of new ASP.Net V2 features such as the security controls, web parts. client callbacks etc.. that I never took the time to appreciate the ease and simplicity of a property in the System.Web.UI.Page object called 'MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback'. Sure, there is probably many of you out there who have already enjoyed the ease and simplicity of this boolean property, but its things like this that I really enjoy seeing.

  • WSE2 and the weird "WSE453" Error

    In our current project, we use web services extensively, and have built up all our external web service system communication using WSE2 and WS-Policy. Recently, on one individuals machine, they experienced the following error:

  • ASP.NET Performance

    I have been absolutely swamped lately with work, and in particular determining and rectifying performance issues with a major ASP.NEt application we are developing. Measuring, tuning, rectifying and reporting are all part of my current tasks. We are using only out of the box tools to do so, in particular, the CLR Profiler for memory profiling and Microsofts Application Centre Test for generating load. During this task, I have learned a couple of things. What is one of the most useful features of the .Net framework, but also one potentially one of the most dangerous?