Category Archives: Enterprise .NET

.NET File Compression in Memory

By Karl Schwirz | February 22, 2011

File compression is nothing new to .NET.  However, in many solutions it requires the developer to establish a file folder which they will write the compressed file to and later read from.
This solution cannot work if you want to compress and use the file in memory without writing to disk.  An example of this [...]

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Modularizing .NET Training Part 2

By Karl Schwirz | January 21, 2011

In our previous post we introduced the idea of sub-modularizing our training modules. In the course of developing for this blog posting our focus shifted to a bigger picture for this type of training.  Instead of presenting the differences between training in ASP.NET and MVC, we are now focused on proper architecture of an application, [...]

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Using Table Valued Variables instead of Dynamic SQL

By Michael Gerety | December 21, 2010

I had a situation today where I have a stored procedure that is structured as follows:

1 CREATE PROCEDURE _Entity_GetByKeywordTypeDateRange(
2 @keyword varchar(255) = null,
3 @typeA bit = 0,
4 @typeB bit = 0,
5 @typeC bit = [...]

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Display NuGet Console Results in a new Window

By Michael Gerety | December 15, 2010

I caught a pretty awesome tip over Twitter today.
One of the annoying things about using the “Package Manager Console” in NuGet is that you’re constantly scrolling up and down the list of results.  If you’re like me, and you keep your console in the lower panel in VS2010, it’s not exactly easy to see a [...]

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Screencast Completed: What’s new in MVC3–Part 1: Framework and Tools

By Michael Gerety | December 6, 2010

UPDATE: Streaming Video Solution Added!!!
I’ve completed my first screencast on what’s new in MVC3, covering new features such as Razor View Engine, NuGet, and Multiple View Engine support.
I’m working on getting a streaming solution worked out, but until then, I’m including a link to download the screencast in High Definition .mp4 format.  The file is [...]

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What’s New in ASP.NET MVC 3

By Michael Gerety | December 1, 2010

I did a tech talk (an internal presentation for Tallan) on 11/30 with the intent to do a quick demonstration of the new features of ASP.NET MVC3.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), there’s are just too many new features to cover in a 45 minute presentation.
I’m writing a series of [...]

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Identity Developer Training Kit and an issue with missing dependencies

By Andrew Babiec | September 14, 2010

If you are learning about Windows Identity Foundation, you should install these components in the following order:

WIF runtime
WIF SDK
Identity Developer Training Kit

Note that there is a version of the SDK and Training Kit for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (.NET 3.5) and one for Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0.)
Note: Side by side installation of the WIF [...]

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Using Atalasoft DotImage to create blank Tiff image

By Craig Vallee | August 24, 2010

Atalasoft DotImage is a great library for working with all kinds of images. I recently had the need for a Tiff image which met the following specification:
300 x 300 dpi
Print at regular letter size (8 1/2 x 11)
Encoded using Group 4 compression
I created this Tiff file using only the following 5 lines of code:

AtalaImage atalaImage [...]

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Multi Tenant Architecture via Dependency Injection: Part 3

By Nathaniel Engelsen | July 21, 2010

Using Ninject and Dependency Injection to enhance your ASP.Net MVC application’s Multi-Tenant Application.

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Multi Tenant Architecture via Dependency Injection: Part 2

By Nathaniel Engelsen | July 16, 2010

Using Ninject and Dependency Injection to enhance your ASP.Net MVC application’s Multi-Tenant Application.

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