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30 Apr 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.93/5
Votes: 46
Popularity: 8.15
Licence: CPOL
Views: 74,366
Bookmarked: 85
Downloaded: 0
A story of a typical offshore project which is overdue, customer shouting and screaming, offshore guys working day and night and how we brainstormed on some tricks to get out of this.
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2 May 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.97/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.95
Licence: CPOL
Views: 83,932
Bookmarked: 67
Downloaded: 0
Everyone knows automated tests are good, unit test is good, we should all do it. But when you try to convince management that it's going to take double the time to deliver anything from now on, you are kicked out of the room. Learn how I convinced a dev lead to do automated test.
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16 May 2013
Updated: 16 May 2013
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 34,261
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 0
Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Omar Al Zabir, a four time MVP legend on CodeProject.
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Database Development
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| SQL Server |
18 Sep 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.98/5
Votes: 37
Popularity: 7.75
Licence: CPOL
Views: 243,089
Bookmarked: 157
Downloaded: 0
Building High Performance Queue in Database for storing Orders, Notifications, Tasks
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Desktop Programming
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| Windows Forms |
1 Mar 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.74/5
Votes: 20
Popularity: 5.95
Licence: CPOL
Views: 95,489
Bookmarked: 69
Downloaded: 1,640
CPUAlert monitors CPU and Memory consumption of processes and alerts you when they are taking too much consistently and gives you an option to recycle or terminate
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29 Dec 2007
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.57/5
Votes: 24
Popularity: 6.14
Licence: CPOL
Views: 103,990
Bookmarked: 118
Downloaded: 0
Make a surveillance application which silently captures desktop and emails you screenshots as attachment periodically
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| WPF |
9 Mar 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.98/5
Votes: 65
Popularity: 8.85
Licence: CPOL
Views: 247,715
Bookmarked: 233
Downloaded: 6,377
A WPF smart client to generate UML diagrams from plain text using plantuml tool
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13 Mar 2010
Updated: 22 Mar 2010
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 10
Popularity: 4.71
Licence: CPOL
Views: 50,493
Bookmarked: 65
Downloaded: 336
ParallelWork is an open source free helper class that lets you run multiple work in parallel threads, get success, failure and progress update on the WPF UI thread, wait for work to complete, abort all work (in case of shutdown), queue work to run after certain time, chain parallel work one after an
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DevOps
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| Load Testing |
28 May 2011
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.70/5
Votes: 19
Popularity: 6.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 246,986
Bookmarked: 48
Downloaded: 0
An HttpFilter that processes the output generated by dynamic pages and appends the last modified date of static files like js, css in order to make browsers download latest version as soon as files are changed
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General Programming
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| Performance |
31 Jul 2011
Updated: 31 Jul 2011
Rating: 4.92/5
Votes: 35
Popularity: 7.54
Licence: CPOL
Views: 120,351
Bookmarked: 85
Downloaded: 1,161
You can build async REST API using WCF but due to some bug in WCF implementation it does not scale as you would want it to. Here's my journey with Microsoft's WCF team to explore the problem and find the right fix.
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| Tools |
8 Jul 2014
Updated: 15 Aug 2014
Rating: 4.96/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.48
Licence: CPOL
Views: 33,631
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 0
Do you sometimes fail to notice Outlook reminder window? Do you wish a chat window would remain always on top of other windows so that you never miss a message? Here's an app for that.
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Hosted Services
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| Azure |
3 Oct 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.84/5
Votes: 96
Popularity: 9.59
Licence: CPOL
Views: 324,914
Bookmarked: 271
Downloaded: 0
Caching large objects, duplicate objects, caching collections, live objects, thread unsafe caching and other common mistakes break your app instead of making it fly. Learn ten common caching mistakes devs make.
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Productivity Apps and Services
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| Sharepoint |
7 Jul 2014
Updated: 15 Aug 2014
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.51
Licence: CPOL
Views: 23,012
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
A .NET utility that scans a Sharepoint Task List and sends a daily digest type reminder email to each team member who has tasks assigned. It saves you from regularly chasing your team members to complete tasks or provide update.
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Programming Languages
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| C# |
6 May 2004
Updated: 6 May 2004
Rating: 4.66/5
Votes: 75
Popularity: 8.68
Licence: CPOL
Views: 580,951
Bookmarked: 199
Downloaded: 22,168
A handy utility for laptop users which stores network and proxy configuration as profiles and apply a profile very quickly whenever laptop goes to a different network
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3 Jul 2005
Updated: 19 Sep 2005
Rating: 4.90/5
Votes: 58
Popularity: 8.52
Licence: CPOL
Views: 463,010
Bookmarked: 132
Downloaded: 2,140
Make version independent COM wrapper using late bound calls yet providing strongly type and disposable interfaces. A version independent managed Outlook Automation Library.
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16 May 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.91/5
Votes: 40
Popularity: 7.76
Licence: CPOL
Views: 218,654
Bookmarked: 172
Downloaded: 2,934
Entity Framework is world’s most difficult ORM for n-tier application. See how I have produced a 100% unit testable fully n-tier compliant data access layer following the repository pattern using Entity Framework.
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12 Mar 2012
Updated: 22 Jul 2012
Rating: 4.76/5
Votes: 14
Popularity: 5.45
Licence: CPOL
Views: 100,681
Bookmarked: 52
Downloaded: 1,023
MemoryStreamMultiplexer is a MemoryStream like buffer manager where one thread can write and many threads can read from it simultaneously. It supports blocking reads, so that reader threads can call .Read() and wait for some data to be written. Handy for loading data in one thread that is consumed c
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18 Sep 2009
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.97/5
Votes: 62
Popularity: 8.83
Licence: CPOL
Views: 143,186
Bookmarked: 113
Downloaded: 0
AspectF is a simple way to do Aspect Oriented Programming style coding which makes your code a lot cleaner and more maintainable.
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31 Jul 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 3.17/5
Votes: 16
Popularity: 3.81
Licence: CPOL
Views: 152,709
Bookmarked: 32
Downloaded: 0
User Story is Worthless, Behavior is What We Need
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25 Jan 2005
Updated: 25 Jan 2005
Rating: 4.87/5
Votes: 74
Popularity: 9.02
Licence: CPOL
Views: 267,510
Bookmarked: 252
Downloaded: 2,654
Distributed Command Pattern is a pattern for connected systems which implements command pattern. It frees designers from thinking about the communication and helps them concentrate on implementing commands as if it is a regular desktop application. The framework takes care of the communication.
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2 Mar 2012
Updated: 2 Mar 2012
Rating: 4.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL
Views: 49,289
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 0
ReadLine on Binary Stream
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| Javascript |
14 Dec 2006
Updated: 14 Dec 2006
Rating: 4.88/5
Votes: 35
Popularity: 7.40
Licence: CPOL
Views: 291,688
Bookmarked: 165
Downloaded: 1,855
Powershell scripts allow you to take advantage of .NET libraries and write scripts which are almost as powerful as the .NET code itself.
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| Visual Basic |
23 Jul 2005
Updated: 16 Aug 2005
Rating: 4.91/5
Votes: 85
Popularity: 9.32
Licence: CPOL
Views: 1,152,192
Bookmarked: 397
Downloaded: 2,375
RSS Feed aggregator and blogging Smart Client which uses Enterprise Library, Updater Application Block, lots of XML hacks and desktop tricks. A comprehensive guide to real life hurdles of Smart Client development.
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| XML |
24 Jun 2005
Updated: 24 Jun 2005
Rating: 4.72/5
Votes: 20
Popularity: 6.15
Licence: CPOL
Views: 240,548
Bookmarked: 88
Downloaded: 3,842
Convert HTML to XHTML while applying tag and attribute filters in order to produce nice and clean HTML for web posting.
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Web Development
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| Apache |
29 May 2016
Updated: 29 May 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 79,779
Bookmarked: 18
Downloaded: 0
Use ElasticSearch and Grafana to build powerful and beautiful dashboards. Monitor and analyze IIS/Apache logs in near real time
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| ASP.NET |
29 Jul 2005
Updated: 16 Aug 2005
Rating: 4.96/5
Votes: 134
Popularity: 10.42
Licence: Not specified
Views: 1,226,124
Bookmarked: 462
Downloaded: 3,858
Comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients working with existing Service Oriented Architecture based XML web services, fully utilizing the Enterprise Library
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4 Jun 2012
Updated: 4 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.99/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 8.53
Licence: CPOL
Views: 145,431
Bookmarked: 121
Downloaded: 1
Codeuml.com is an open source free web based UML diagram editor. You can code uml diagrams as fast as you can type using a special language to describe the diagram.
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29 Sep 2014
Updated: 29 Sep 2014
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 54,991
Bookmarked: 23
Downloaded: 0
Oracle Performance Dashboard (OPD) is a small ASP.NET website that shows you performance & problems of one or more Oracle instances in near real-time. It uses the Dynamic Performance Views (DPV) and runs some popular DBA scripts in order to get meaningful, easy to understand information out of the s
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21 Jul 2014
Updated: 16 Oct 2014
Rating: 4.76/5
Votes: 63
Popularity: 8.54
Licence: CPOL
Views: 146,372
Bookmarked: 159
Downloaded: 0
SQL Server Performance Dashboard (SSPD) is a small open source web app that shows you performance & problems of one or more SQL Server instances and their databases in near real time.
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18 Jul 2016
Updated: 18 Jul 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 19
Popularity: 6.39
Licence: CPOL
Views: 42,574
Bookmarked: 31
Downloaded: 0
A .NET library to defend websites and web APIs against brute force and Denial-of-Service attacks
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9 May 2004
Updated: 9 May 2004
Rating: 4.08/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: Not specified
Views: 107,495
Bookmarked: 27
Downloaded: 0
MCMAB's XmlFileStorage has a known bug for which it does not work in Web Applications. When you need to use external XML file for storing configuration, you have to do some tweaking yourself.
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10 Dec 2008
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.97/5
Votes: 99
Popularity: 9.69
Licence: CPOL
Views: 280,408
Bookmarked: 346
Downloaded: 0
Production Architecture for a SaaS web application built using ASP.NET and SQL Server that guarantees 99.99% availability and super performance
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31 Oct 2005
Updated: 8 Nov 2005
Rating: 4.92/5
Votes: 220
Popularity: 11.42
Licence: CPOL
Views: 1,635,111
Bookmarked: 579
Downloaded: 17,780
Run scheduled jobs 24x7 using ASP.NET without requiring a Windows Service.
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6 Aug 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.71/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 5.09
Licence: CPOL
Views: 64,446
Bookmarked: 47
Downloaded: 0
WatinN to Automate Browser and Test Sophisticated ASP.NET AJAX Sites
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21 Aug 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 46
Popularity: 8.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 245,713
Bookmarked: 110
Downloaded: 0
A self-diagnostics page that runs through your web.config and confirms all the settings are correct, is a quick and easy way to identify environment problems after configuration change or production deployment.
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29 Jul 2011
Updated: 1 Feb 2012
Rating: 4.89/5
Votes: 44
Popularity: 8.04
Licence: CPOL
Views: 240,216
Bookmarked: 149
Downloaded: 0
How to build truly RESTful API and website using the same ASP.NET MVC code
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7 Apr 2014
Updated: 15 Aug 2014
Rating: 4.83/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.83
Licence: CPOL
Views: 68,415
Bookmarked: 43
Downloaded: 0
Let browser download Javascripts, CSS while server is still performing expensive operation and generating the page output
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9 Apr 2015
Updated: 9 Apr 2015
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 35
Popularity: 7.62
Licence: CPOL
Views: 73,366
Bookmarked: 77
Downloaded: 0
An example Web application showcasing the amazing features of ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, EF together with ESB to build a secure, reliable, REST based web api, and web frontend.
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13 Jun 2009
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 16
Popularity: 5.88
Licence: CPOL
Views: 74,192
Bookmarked: 52
Downloaded: 0
A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test.
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21 Jul 2011
Updated: 21 Jul 2011
Rating: 4.55/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.54
Licence: CPOL
Views: 55,455
Bookmarked: 21
Downloaded: 0
A handy ASPX page that you can just copy on any website and it dumps the Environment settings and common ASP.NET settings to help diagnose various problems.
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1 Nov 2009
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.86/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 6.88
Licence: CPOL
Views: 142,397
Bookmarked: 130
Downloaded: 0
Implement caching in your project using AspectF library that saves you from writing plumbing code for dealing with cached objects and collections and learn how to handle stale objects and collections
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5 Dec 2010
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.89/5
Votes: 44
Popularity: 8.03
Licence: CPOL
Views: 248,781
Bookmarked: 152
Downloaded: 0
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 make a lot of difference in terms of scalability.
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4 Apr 2012
Updated: 4 Apr 2012
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 41,185
Bookmarked: 17
Downloaded: 236
WCF Javascript Proxies (Service.svc/js) are never cached. They get generated and downloaded on every page view thus increasing page download time and server CPU. Here's an HttpModule to cache WCF Javascript Proxy on browser and respond with HTTP 304, if unchanged.
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20 Nov 2009
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 8.35
Licence: CPOL
Views: 168,724
Bookmarked: 163
Downloaded: 0
This article presents some realistic unit and integration test examples in a N-tier web application to assist in writing tests that provide confidence in moving towards Test Driven Development (TDD)
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28 Jul 2016
Updated: 28 Jul 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 18
Popularity: 6.15
Licence: CPOL
Views: 46,975
Bookmarked: 32
Downloaded: 0
Protect ASP.NET and WCF from various brute force and Denial of Service attacks and speed up response time using nginx.
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| CSS |
1 Jul 2015
Updated: 1 Jul 2015
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.51
Licence: CPOL
Views: 21,315
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
A Javascript-only, web based Dashboard library, that you can use to make eye-catchy Charts showing Transactions stats for your application, Server CPU, Memory, IO graphs etc. It offers libraries to convert different types of delimited text files into Charts.
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| HTML |
3 Jan 2007
Updated: 10 Mar 2010
Rating: 4.80/5
Votes: 325
Popularity: 12.04
Licence: CPOL
Views: 1,889,348
Bookmarked: 1106
Downloaded: 7,785
Build a Start Page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.NET AJAX, .NET 3.0, LINQ, DLinq, and XLinq.
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30 Nov 2006
Updated: 5 Mar 2008
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 103
Popularity: 9.83
Licence: CPOL
Views: 462,547
Bookmarked: 356
Downloaded: 1,412
Performance tips and hard-core tricks that change core runtimes, not for the faint-hearted
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29 Dec 2007
Updated: 29 Dec 2007
Rating: 4.74/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.63
Licence: CPOL
Views: 190,332
Bookmarked: 101
Downloaded: 1,938
An extender that allows content to be dragged and dropped within columns and across columns. Allows column-wise content flow and reorganization.
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13 Apr 2008
Updated: 13 Apr 2008
Rating: 4.99/5
Votes: 70
Popularity: 9.15
Licence: CPOL
Views: 340,864
Bookmarked: 220
Downloaded: 2,259
An AJAX Proxy HttpHandler built using ASP.NET that continuously delivers content from external domains to the browser and is thus faster and more scalable than any other proxy service.
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15 Jul 2012
Updated: 18 Jul 2012
Rating: 4.99/5
Votes: 55
Popularity: 8.69
Licence: CPOL
Views: 505,818
Bookmarked: 120
Downloaded: 0
Droptiles mimics the experience of Windows 8 Start screen using HTML, Javascript and CSS. It offers a framework to build Dashboards comprised of Tiles. Tiles are mini-Apps built using Javascript. They launch a full screen app when clicked. Apps can be any regular website to custom built applications
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30 Jan 2008
Updated: 30 Jan 2008
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 240
Popularity: 11.70
Licence: CPOL
Views: 1,542,605
Bookmarked: 1067
Downloaded: 2
10 easy ways to make ASP.NET and AJAX websites faster, more scalable and support more traffic at lower cost
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| IIS |
6 Aug 2007
Updated: 6 Aug 2007
Rating: 4.90/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 8.10
Licence: CPOL
Views: 185,209
Bookmarked: 120
Downloaded: 0
Learn about 13 production disasters that can bring down your business
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| XHTML |
8 Apr 2009
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.96/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 8.39
Licence: CPOL
Views: 285,500
Bookmarked: 266
Downloaded: 1
Web 2.0 AJAX Portal built using jQuery, and ASP.NET 3.5. It offers Silverlight widget framework. Middle-tier built on Workflow Foundation. Data Access Layer uses Compiled Linq to SQL. Uses Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unitiy, offering Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control. All hot stuff!
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23 Sep 2009
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.90/5
Votes: 40
Popularity: 7.80
Licence: CPOL
Views: 93,641
Bookmarked: 112
Downloaded: 0
Learn the principle behind Microsoft's new Doloto and 6 other cool techniques that I did in Pageflakes to load large amounts of JavaScript without compromising performance
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9 Jun 2008
Updated: 9 Jun 2008
Rating: 4.97/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 6.57
Licence: CPOL
Views: 154,465
Bookmarked: 91
Downloaded: 612
A tiny JavaScript library that provides a handy function "ensure" which allows you to load JavaScript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code. ensure ensures that relevant JavaScript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them.
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9 May 2008
Updated: 3 Aug 2008
Rating: 4.93/5
Votes: 60
Popularity: 8.66
Licence: CPOL
Views: 391,184
Bookmarked: 261
Downloaded: 2,109
Download all external scripts on your Web page after the visible content is loaded for faster perceived speed and donwload multiple JavaScript in batch for better actual speed
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29 Dec 2007
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.50/5
Votes: 10
Popularity: 4.29
Licence: CPOL
Views: 156,692
Bookmarked: 31
Downloaded: 0
Serve extensionless URL from IIS without using custom ISAPI handler or IIS 6.0 wildcard mapping
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28 Aug 2008
Updated: 28 Aug 2008
Rating: 4.89/5
Votes: 64
Popularity: 8.36
Licence: CPOL
Views: 270,276
Bookmarked: 191
Downloaded: 0
An HTTP handler that combines multiple CSS, JavaScript or URL into one response for faster page load. It can combine, compress and cache response which results in faster page load and better scalability of web application
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24 May 2008
Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 62
Popularity: 8.75
Licence: CPOL
Views: 570,633
Bookmarked: 198
Downloaded: 0
UFrame makes a DIV behave like an IFRAME that can load any ASP.NET/PHP/HTML page and allows all postback and hyperlink navigation to happen within the DIV - a painless way to make regular pages fully AJAX enabled
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