Web applications commonly move the pages and content around the servers. This results to accumulation of old links in search engines. Traditionally this was handled in ASP.NET using the Response.Redirect method to forward the request to the new URL. However Redirect method issues an HTTP 302 found (temporary redirect) response. Redirect method results in extra round trip when user accessing the...
Auto Start Web Applications in ASP.NET 4.0
Some web applications require large amount of initialization processing time before serving the first request. In some cases web applications may also need to load the large amount of data in first request. In earlier versions we used write the custom code in Application_Load method in Global.asax file to handle above scenarios...
ASP.NET 4.0 Extensible Output Caching
A number of Exciting ASP.NET features are coming in the .NET Framework version 4.0. These features are included in Visual Studio 2010 release. This post explains about one of those features core services in ASP.NET 4.0...
ASP.NET Error Handling
This article explains about adding error handling capabilities to the ASP.NET Web application. It also explores the possible ways to handle and log the errors that occur in the application...
Documenting C# code with XML Comments
This article explains an easy and effective way of documenting your C# code. XML comments are the solution for generating a clean documentation for your code. Visual Studio environment allows you to generate a documentation file for your project. It helps your teammates and other people who using your code. This post will explain how to use XML comments in code and how to generate XML help...
GAC in .NET Framework
The Global Assembly Cache known as the GAC is to enable sharing of assemblies across several managed applications installed on a machine. All managed developers can install assemblies to the GAC and share them across applications. When to Use the GAC When should an assembly be installed in the GAC as opposed to assembly in application base? If you have any assembly that must be shared across...
Assembly binding in .NET Framework
The CLR is responsible for locating and binding the assemblies in the code. In Order to work assembly binding efficiently you need to follow some best practices. Assembly Naming Always use fully specified assembly names. An assembly name is a name given to unique identity. Two assemblies representing the same identity can have the same name with different versions. Assemblies are mostly...
.NET Access Control Service
My previous article explained the basics of building windows azure services. Let’s start looking at the .NET Access Control Service. .NET Access Control Service allows you to use the authentication and authorization services from external sources that are maintained by security experts. Security experts control the authentication and issue the token to the application. Application just uses...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET FW 4.0 Beta 1 Released!
Yesterday Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 and .NET FW 4.0 Beta 1 was released and you can download it from here. Download Beta 1.
More about Highlights in VS 2010 Beta1 can found in Jason Blog.
Enhancements in ASP.NET and discussions on latest version here
Feedback, Questions related to VS 2010 can be found here
Next posts I am going to discuss more on the highlights in VS 2010
Building Windows Azure Services
Introduction
Microsoft introduced cloud platform officially known as Azure Services Platform.It makes easy for .NET Developers to move their applications to the cloud using same tools and API’s they’re already familiar with. It provides highly-scalable execution environment for running .NET Applications and storing data in Microsoft data centers throughout the world.