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Scalability Vs. Performance

Posted on 1/3/2010 @ 1:30 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 2177 views | » Read full article


Debug Silverlight and JavaScript together

Posted on 1/2/2010 @ 4:54 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 1351 views | » Read full article


SharePoint and TDD

Posted on 7/1/2009 @ 6:21 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 12 comments | 4332 views | » Read full article


SharePoint User Group - Sofia, Bulgaria Nov 26th, Wednesday

Posted on 11/4/2008 @ 10:42 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 4656 views | » Read full article


I am super excited!

Posted on 11/3/2008 @ 1:51 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 3336 views | » Read full article


The Expression Suite

Posted on 9/29/2008 @ 1:37 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 3562 views | » Read full article


A word of appreciation

Posted on 7/5/2008 @ 1:05 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 7 comments | 1798 views | » Read full article


Disable IE Enhanced Security Mode in Windows 2008

Posted on 4/12/2008 @ 2:05 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 8 comments | 19533 views | » Read full article


I've been here before

Posted on 2/8/2008 @ 6:44 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 4285 views | » Read full article


Tafiti - Silverlight search front end

Posted on 12/18/2007 @ 10:09 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 2613 views | » Read full article


Authoring a Workflow Foundation runtime host

Posted on 10/24/2007 @ 9:50 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 4 comments | 4478 views | » Read full article


My Views about the ORM space, Entity Framework and all such stuff!

Posted on 6/9/2007 @ 10:24 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 21 comments | 8675 views | » Read full article


What happens after gotdotnet.com dies?

Posted on 5/18/2007 @ 8:10 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 5 comments | 3214 views | » Read full article


VMWare 6.0 ROCKS! Kicks Virtual Server's butt!

Posted on 5/13/2007 @ 8:31 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 9 comments | 7049 views | » Read full article


A different point of view.

Posted on 5/12/2007 @ 6:30 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 4237 views | » Read full article


Determining number of open connections in your connection pools

Posted on 3/19/2007 @ 3:13 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 17 comments | 12868 views | » Read full article


Using Reflection - without paying the price for it.

Posted on 3/18/2007 @ 11:01 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 7 comments | 14131 views | » Read full article


I know my blog was down!

Posted on 2/27/2007 @ 10:23 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 4 comments | 5580 views | » Read full article


A few tips to help your Virtual PC performance.

Posted on 3/31/2007 @ 4:43 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 11 comments | 15018 views | » Read full article


SharePoint 2007 Bootcamp

Posted on 2/1/2007 @ 8:38 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 1 comments | 5844 views | » Read full article


AJAX Progress Bar

Posted on 1/15/2007 @ 6:29 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 7 comments | 21498 views | » Read full article


Sudoku Solver in C#

Posted on 1/8/2007 @ 8:19 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 15 comments | 7067 views | » Read full article


Working with Embedded Resources

Posted on 12/15/2006 @ 1:17 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 1 comments | 4104 views | » Read full article


Validating an XML File with an XSD Schema

Posted on 12/15/2006 @ 1:19 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 4610 views | » Read full article


Orcas October CTP, clearer instructions for Virtual Server R2

Posted on 11/6/2006 @ 6:49 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 5 comments | 4406 views | » Read full article


.NET 2.0 Tip: Strongly Typing Configuration Settings

Posted on 10/29/2006 @ 11:17 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 8 comments | 5367 views | » Read full article


ADO.NET vNext is not "yet another ORM"

Posted on 10/10/2006 @ 2:07 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 8 comments | 2747 views | » Read full article


Visual Sourcesafe is EVIL!!

Posted on 9/18/2006 @ 4:44 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 14 comments | 3319 views | » Read full article


A bit about release dates.

Posted on 9/18/2006 @ 12:07 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 2716 views | » Read full article


Determine whether a SQL Server exists ..

Posted on 9/17/2006 @ 11:57 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 4276 views | » Read full article


.NET vNext: How LINQ Makes working with business objects better?

Posted on 9/7/2006 @ 12:49 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 6517 views | » Read full article


Next .NET framework version number

Posted on 9/5/2006 @ 2:15 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 13 comments | 3087 views | » Read full article


.NET vNext: Bridging Architectures

Posted on 9/7/2006 @ 12:49 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 4 comments | 3181 views | » Read full article


.NET vNext – what it means to your architecture?

Posted on 9/3/2006 @ 1:40 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 1 comments | 3632 views | » Read full article


New Article: Writing Custom Editors for WebParts

Posted on 8/27/2006 @ 10:22 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 3022 views | » Read full article


eSQL: Good or Bad?

Posted on 8/18/2006 @ 11:15 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 3608 views | » Read full article


How ADO.NET vNext bridges the Conceptual Model and the Logical Model.

Posted on 8/16/2006 @ 11:49 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 3128 views | » Read full article


ADO.NET vNext, the missing piece of .NET vNext.

Posted on 8/15/2006 @ 3:39 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 2962 views | » Read full article


Workflow Foundation: The ActivityExecutionStatus

Posted on 8/10/2006 @ 5:02 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 3245 views | » Read full article


Transaction support in Workflow Foundation

Posted on 8/6/2006 @ 2:47 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 5063 views | » Read full article


CompositeActivities: Workflow activities that contain one or more child activities.

Posted on 8/2/2006 @ 4:15 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 5 comments | 4987 views | » Read full article


Workflow Foundation: The Hello World App

Posted on 8/1/2006 @ 6:37 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 8465 views | » Read full article


What is Windows Workflow Foundation?

Posted on 8/1/2006 @ 5:18 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 6071 views | » Read full article


Technical Queries//Request for input

Posted on 7/28/2006 @ 8:46 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 1908 views | » Read full article


Oracle: Ass first design pattern: Just "Orrible"

Posted on 7/13/2006 @ 8:54 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 13 comments | 1580 views | » Read full article


The awesome Adam Machanic interviews me @ TechED (and guess who pops in)

Posted on 7/12/2006 @ 6:47 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 205 views | » Read full article


New Article: ASP.NET 2.0 Webpart Framework Basics

Posted on 7/10/2006 @ 7:24 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 1332 views | » Read full article


All about storing binary blobs in the database.

Posted on 7/7/2006 @ 9:17 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 1061 views | » Read full article


How to show a Progress Bar in ADO.NET

Posted on 7/5/2006 @ 11:41 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 4257 views | » Read full article


Never fail an interview question about System.String or StringBuilder again !!!!

Posted on 7/5/2006 @ 11:36 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 19 comments | 1292 views | » Read full article


Convert a byte array to a string and string to byte array

Posted on 7/5/2006 @ 11:33 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 5 comments | 5725 views | » Read full article


Cross Page Posting in ASP.NET 2.0

Posted on 7/5/2006 @ 8:19 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 16242 views | » Read full article


Viewstate Security & WebFarms

Posted on 7/5/2006 @ 8:17 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 395 views | » Read full article


.NET 2.0 vs .NET 1.1 !! Upgrade to .NET 2.0 "NOW"

Posted on 7/4/2006 @ 6:38 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 4737 views | » Read full article


Authenticate (forms based) against an NT Domain in ASP.NET - Without using Kerberos!!

Posted on 7/4/2006 @ 6:31 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 4 comments | 2088 views | » Read full article


Sahil's Learnin' Akademi!!

Posted on 7/4/2006 @ 6:14 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 791 views | » Read full article


The price of popularity

Posted on 7/2/2006 @ 12:18 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 5 comments | 165 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part 4.3 - Stored Procedures that return variable shapes

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 9:02 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 3885 views | » Read full article


New Article: DLINQ: Submitting your Changes

Posted on 7/2/2006 @ 12:13 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 320 views | » Read full article


The definitive TableAdapters + Transactions blog post

Posted on 7/2/2006 @ 12:13 AM in #Vanilla .NET | 21 comments | 12158 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part 4.2 - Stored Procedures that return a definite shape

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:59 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 4507 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part 4.1 - Stored Procedures that return scalar results

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:58 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 1 comments | 4586 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part 4 - Stored Procedure/UDF Support in DLINQ.

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:58 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 7 comments | 7096 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part3 - Querying for Data using DLINQ

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:57 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 4 comments | 8513 views | » Read full article


Announcing: THE ADO.NET 2.0 BOOT CAMP

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:56 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 318 views | » Read full article


System.Transactions: Choosing your Enlistment Method

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:56 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 769 views | » Read full article


A Quick Primer on System.Transactions

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:56 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 2 comments | 4222 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part2 - Setting up a DataContext Class

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:55 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 9960 views | » Read full article


New Article: DLINQ: Bridging the Object Relational Divide

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:54 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 690 views | » Read full article


Demystifying DLINQ: Part1 - An introduction to DLINQ

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:53 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 8 comments | 13761 views | » Read full article


Are you a Business Object person, or a DataSet person?

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:52 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 12 comments | 8281 views | » Read full article


Command Line Tricks

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:51 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 8 comments | 31385 views | » Read full article


Remote Desktop Tricks

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:51 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 8323 views | » Read full article


VS2005/SQL 2005/.NET 2.0: Editing SSIS packages Visually in VS2005

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:49 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 1285 views | » Read full article


ASP.NET 2.0 - Post Cache Substitution

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:48 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 3 comments | 2438 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 7: Expression Trees

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:47 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 8691 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 6: (LINQ) Query Expression Translation (to C# 3.0)

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:47 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 15 comments | 22474 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 5: Object and Collection Initializers

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:46 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 1 comments | 6889 views | » Read full article


LoadControl a UserControl - *and* pass in Constructor Parameters

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:45 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 31 comments | 20888 views | » Read full article


ASPNETDB + Production deployment --> Practical Tips

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:45 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 0 comments | 6632 views | » Read full article


ASP.NET 2.0: Implementing Single Sign On (SSO) with Membership API

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:44 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 21820 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 4: Lambda Expressions

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:43 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 9 comments | 22568 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 3: Extension Methods

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:41 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 10 comments | 12176 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 2: Anonymous Types

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:41 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 8 comments | 11522 views | » Read full article


Demystifying C# 3.0 - Part 1: Implicitly Typed Local Variables "var"

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:40 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 10 comments | 13353 views | » Read full article


ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart Communication

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:37 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 6 comments | 13452 views | » Read full article


The Definitive Guide to URL Rewriting in ASP.NET

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:36 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 12 comments | 12169 views | » Read full article

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