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Archives - January 2009

• Fri

  30

  Jan 09

  Blog Etiquette - The Art of the Duel

  It seems I’ve been recently called out regarding my October 16, 2008 post about those dreaded, so-called “CSS Friendly” Control Adapters.

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  Tagged as: opinion
• Fri

  16

  Jan 09

  10 Reasons ASP.NET Webforms (Still) Rock

  With ASP.NET MVC being the new hotness, some just can't resist the urge to proclaim that, all of a sudden, Webforms Suck. Well, some of us have been making a living on Webforms for years, and despite proclamations to the contrary, Webforms are still useful and are here to stay.

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  24 Comments Lee Dumond

  Tagged as: asp-net, mvc, web, opinion
• Thu

  15

  Jan 09

  Getting Strongly Typed Profile Properties From a Class Library

  Separating your application layers into class libraries offers several advantages, but one of the disadvantages is that you lose access to ASP.NET's dynamically-compiled  ProfileCommon class, which provides strong-typing for profile properties. Here's how to regain the advantage of strongly typed profile properties in a class library.

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  Tagged as: asp-net, profiles
• Fri

  09

  Jan 09

  Books I Wish Would Just Come Out Already

  In case you haven't noticed, the .NET world has been inundated with a flood of new technology over the last year or so -- first C# 3.0, followed quickly by the .NET 3.5 Framework, LINQ, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, the Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and soon, ASP.NET MVC.

  And as I'm sure many of you have definitely noticed, the poor publishers have had a helluva time keeping up.

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  8 Comments Lee Dumond

  Tagged as: asp-net, books, review, entity-framework, mvc, wrox
• Sun

  04

  Jan 09

  Caching Roles For Better Site Performance

  If you use roles in your ASP.NET application, by default ASP.NET queries the database with every page request in order to fetch the list of roles the current user belongs to. Considering the performance overhead that entails, it's surprising that so many developers forget to enable role caching in their applications.

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  Tagged as: asp-net, performance