Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Here’s the recent presentation made on LIDNUG on scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users. Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users by Omar AL Zabir Here’re the slides. Scaling asp.net websites to millions of users...

Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox by Mehfuz's WebLog

This will post will show how you can use AutoBox to easily write a bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC. I have used the latest version of AutoBox (available from nuget, this version also includes Castle.Windsor internally for managing dependencies rather using...
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Get Dropthings license by donating to charity by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Now you no longer pay me for Dropthings license instead you donate the money to a charity and I will give you the license. In case you don’t know what Dropthings is, it is a Web 2.0 Personalizable Dashboard framework that you can use to build Web 2.0...
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Introducing AutoBox - On the fly dependency injection and caching container. by Mehfuz's WebLog

Just when we have dependencies for a controller, we need to wrap around our heads to write a bootstrapper that will dynamically inject dependencies for a controller in runtime and once we we want to do  data caching like a particular method in accounts...
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MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Microsoft Research arranged MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge on Oct 24, 2011. Beautiful university, made me feel like giving up my job and going back to study. Amazing research work going there, very thought provoking. The session on DNA programming was...
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Prevent ASP.NET cookies from being sent on every css, js, image request by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

ASP.NET generates some large cookies if you are using ASP.NET membership provider. Especially if you are using the Anonymous provider, then a typical site will send the following cookies to every request when a user is logged in, whether the request is...
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Build truly RESTful API and website using same ASP.NET MVC code by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

A truly RESTful API means you have unique URLs to uniquely represent entities and collections, and there is no verb/action on the URL. You cannot have URL like /Customers/Create or /Customers/John/Update, /Customers/John/Delete where the action is part...
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Automatic Javascript, CSS versioning to refresh browser cache by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

When you update javascript or css files that are already cached in users’ browsers, most likely many users won’t get that for some time because of the caching at the browser or intermediate proxy(s). You need some way to force browser and proxy...
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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...
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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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Dynamically set WCF Endpoint in Silverlight by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

When you add a WCF service reference to a Silverlight Application, it generates the ServiceReference.ClientConfig file where the URL of the WCF endpoint is defined. When you add the WCF service reference on a development computer, the endpoint URL is...
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Integrate Html5 Form in ASP.NET MVC by Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

This article is divided into three parts. In the first, part I will show you how you can add Html5 forms in your ASP.NET MVC application with very minimum effort. In the second part, I will show you how to implement client side validation which will trigger...
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Ten Caching Mistakes that Break your App by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Caching frequently used objects, that are expensive to fetch from the source, makes application perform faster under high load. It helps scale an application under concurrent requests. But some hard to notice mistakes can lead the application to suffer...
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Dropthings now available from Microsoft/Web by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Dropthings is now available on Microsoft/Web. You can now install it using the Web Platform Installer. I will soon write an article how to make an installer that can install a ASP.NET website, a SQL Server database, setup web.config files, setup directory...
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