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Safely deploying changes to production servers by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

When you deploy incremental changes on a production server, which is running and live all the time, you some times see error messages like “Compiler Error Message: The Type ‘XXX’ exists in both…”. Sometimes you find Application_Start event not firing...

Quick ways to boost performance and scalability of ASP.NET, WCF and Desktop Clients by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

There are some simple configuration changes that you can make on machine.config and IIS to give your web applications significant performance boost. These are simple harmless changes but makes a lot of difference in terms of scalability. By tweaking system...

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Finally! Entity Framework working in fully disconnected N-tier web app by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Entity Framework was supposed to solve the problem of Linq to SQL, which requires endless hacks to make it work in n-tier world. Not only did Entity Framework solve none of the L2S problems, but also it made it even more difficult to use and hack it for...

Munq is for web, Unity is for Enterprise by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection. It’s a great library for facilitating Inversion of Control and the recent version supports...
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Keep website and webservices warm with zero coding by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

If you want to keep your websites or webservices warm and save user from seeing the long warm up time after an application pool recycle, or IIS restart or new code deployment or even windows restart, you can use the tinyget command line tool, that comes...
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Do not use “using” in WCF Client by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

You know that any IDisposable object must be disposed using using. So, you have been using using to wrap WCF service’s ChannelFactory and Clients like this: using(var client = new SomeClient()) {. ..} Or, if you are doing it the hard and slow way (without...
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Step by Step screencasts to do Behavior Driven Development on WCF and UI using xUnit by Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

I am trying to encourage my team to get into Behavior Driven Development (BDD). So, I made two quick video tutorials to show how BDD can be done from early requirement collection stage to late integration tests. It explains breaking user stories into...
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Rescue overdue offshore projects and convince management to use automated tests by Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

I have published two articles on codeproject recently. One is a story where an offshore project was two months overdue, my friend who runs it was paying the team from his own pocket and he was drowning in ever increasing number of change requests and...
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New and Improved Dropthings – the Open Source Web 2.0 AJAX portal by Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

I have made some significant improvements and bug fixes on the latest 2.5.4 release of Dropthings, my open source Web 2.0-style AJAX Portal built on ASP.NET 3.5, Linq to SQL, Linq to Xml, Silverlight, Enterprise Library, Unity, Velocity, and what not...
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Synchronize File Date Time in multiple servers, solve IIS ETag problem by Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you deploy the same website on multiple webservers, you end up having each file getting different last modified date. As a result, each IIS produces different ETag for the static files. If user is hitting different servers for the same file (due...
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Redirecting traffic from http to https with zero coding in IIS by Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you want to enforce https on users and you want to redirect any URL being hit on http to the exact counterpart of https, then usually you do it with some HttpModule written in .NET, or install some URL Redirector module in IIS, or setup a dummy website...
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Implementing Repository Pattern With Entity Framework by Morshed Anwar's Blog

The Repository pattern is defined by P of EAA as: Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. Repository provides a in-memory like collection interface for accessing domain objects...
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