Glavs Blog
The dotDude of .Net
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CacheAdapter–Now a Nuget package
Note: Link to Wiki is here
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Diskeeper–a short review
I have been lucky enough to be ASP.NET MVP for a number of years now. One of the perks of that is you get access to free licences of software such as Diskeeper. This piece of software keeps your disks running as smooth as they possibly can.
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Entity Framework and the PreApplicationStartMethod attribute
Recently, while implementing an EntityFramework data model into a new application, I thought I’d add some caching functionality early, to establish a framework going forward. I added the DBML (generated from a database), and added in my funky caching layer (which will be distributed as a Nuget package soon) that allows caching to be configurable switching between in memory, ASP.NET cache and AppFabric caching.
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Mix11–Day 2 Sessions
I blogged here about my Mix11 bootcamp sessions, and here about my Mix11 day 1 keynote and sessions. To continue the theme, here are some thoughts and opinions around Day 2.
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Mix 11–Bootcamp Day
I have been lucky enough to get to the Mix11 event this year (many thanks to my awesome company Saasu) and have been attending the bootcamps here at Mix.
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Sydney Architecture User Group - It has come to an end
Unfortunately, the Sydney Architecture User Group that Omar Besiso and myself run in Sydney, is closing its doors.
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My Mix11 Proposal
I only submitted one session for consideration to present at Mix this year. Unfortunately it was not shortlisted and is consequently not open to voting currently on the site.
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ScriptHelper–For MVC and WebForms projects
This issue might seem minor but I always forget the names (exact naming) or number of script files I need to get some features working in MVC or Webforms. In addition, in my applications that require a specific client side feature, I might need a series of dependent scripts to make it work. Failing to include all of them often gives ambiguous errors or the functionality or feature just doesn't work.
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Caching Architecture–Testability, Dependency Injection and Multiple Providers
Note: Link to Wiki is here
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ASP.NET MVC 3 and Custom Extensions
When playing with the latest ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 bits, some people have mentioned their dislike of the .cshtml extension used for the “razor” view engine that comes with ASP.NET MVC 3 and also WebMatrix. Well there are a number of ways you can change this. For the purposes of learning and tinkering, I decided to try and register a new view engine using the new Dependency Injection support within ASP.NET MVC 3.