Example Lexical Analysis of Obama's State of the Union Speech using LINQ ... How to analyze text with word frequency lexical analysis: Obama State of the Union Speech read more
By Peter Bromberg
ASP.NET - How to Emit and Consume JSON with ASMX Web Services, including jQuery Table example ... Many developers are not aware that it is easy to emit JSON from an ASMX Webservice. We describe the techinque and provide a Yahoo Finance stock quotes sample that displays quotes in a table via jQuery. read more
By Peter Bromberg
ASP.NET - how to use YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) to select keywords from a block of text or a URL ... Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides developers with a unified way to query a broad range of sources with a single API endpoint using an easy-to-learn SQL like query language read more
By Peter Bromberg
How to keep your Windows PC Infection Free, and what to do if it gets infected ... Windows catches viruses and even rootkits. Learn how to keep your PC infection free and fix nasty viruses read more
By Peter Bromberg
Several useful C# List<T> extension methods - ToDatatable, ToCsv ... Create C# Extension methods to convert List
By Peter Bromberg
SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor enables developers to create custom statistics, partitions, indexes and indexed views ... Most .NET developers do not have the expertise to create the best possible indexes and statistics for a database. The SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor wizard is easy to learn to use and will enhance the performance of your database for production use. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Use HtmlAgilityPack to collect Google Realtime Search Results and display in ASP.NET Page ... Google has some search operators than many people are not aware of. If you suffix a google search url with one of these, you can restrict results to those that got indexed as little as one minute ago. Here we use HtmlAgilityPack to collect Google Realtime Search Results and display in ASP.NET Page read more
By Peter Bromberg
Win a free Subscription to New Relic -- a real-time performance dashboard that you install on your web server machine. The engine captures a large amount of information in real time - information that ... Win a Free Subscription to New Relic. It allows you to tune page performance based on proven metric, tune and improve database transactions, and improve the availability and user-satisfaction of your sites. New Relic is a real-time performance dashboard that you install on your web server machine. The engine captures a large amount of information in real time - information that is not provided by other application monitoring and statistics tools. read more
By Peter Bromberg
How to use optional parameters to keep method signatures backward compatible ... From C# 4.0, methods, constructors, and indexers can declare optional parameters. A parameter is optional if it specifies a default value. Here we show how to preserve backward compatibilty. read more
By Peter Bromberg
ASP.NET Eight ways to transfer data between pages ... This article is really quite the "back to basics" ASP.NET tutorial. But you would be surprised how many ASP.NET developers aren't aware of all the different ways that data can be transferred from one ASP.NET page to another. We'll illustrate eight different ways that data can be sent from one page to another. Complete source code download provided. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Test Results using v2 of the SilverlightSerializer ... SilverlightSerializer is a fast binary serializer that works in both .NET and Silverlight, allowing you to move your objects between the two instances or store and retrieve them locally in either. It is highly performant and produces small byte arrays which are suitable for further compression. We put it through the paces. read more
By Peter Bromberg
A Helper class for Dapper-Dot-Net, the micro ORM ... Dapper is the micro-ORM developed by Sam Saffron and Marc Gravell. I use it in production code wherever possible, mostly because of its raw speed, and secondly because of it's ease of use. I understand that they use it as a kind of "drop-in" replacement to Linq to SQL at Stackoverflow. Here we provide a useful Helper class to work with Dapper. read more
By Peter Bromberg
How to export GridView data to Excel in ASP.NET ... Exporting GridView Data to Excel Sheet is a common task for most Applications. This article details how to perform this action read more
By Vickey F
Complete Google+ .NET Client Library ... A Complete implementation of the Google+ API in .NET. Contains all current methods in the API. read more
By Peter Bromberg
LINQ: We test performance over large collections and find performance bottlenecks ... LINQ is "very cool" and brings much-needed elegance and utility to querying collections and other objects. However, there are some real bottlenecks that developers should be aware of when using LINQ. Querying or using the Where clause over a large collection has serious performance issues compared to a standard foreach loop read more
By Peter Bromberg
How to apply IFrame content server-side and adjust the element's height to fit the content ... ASP.NET - How to adjust an iframe element’s height to fit its content and populate content server-side. Some handy tips on how to use IFRAME element, adjust it's height, and get non-same-domain content into it. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Net Framework 4.0 Concurrent Collections and how they can improve performance ... Net Framework 4.0 Concurent Collections implement the producer-consumer paradigm with the exception of the ConcurrentDictionary class. With producer-consumer, usually one thread adds elements, and a different thread removes elements. We look at how these are used. read more
By Peter Bromberg
ASP.NET Unique Tips and Tricks That you may not have known about. ... ASP.NET has evolved continuously since it's introduction at the PDC Orlando Conference in 2000. Here are some unique tips and tricks that aren't widely known. read more
By Peter Bromberg
A review and sample of the Eloquera Object NoSQL Database ... Eloquera Database is a Client - Server (runs as service) NoSQL Object Database that is easy to use and scales well. Commercial use is free. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Review of UserGroup.tv, a video presentation site featuring over 100 free videos from various user groups. ... On January 1st of 2012, UserGroup.tv will have its first aniversary. UserGroup.tv is the source for recorded User Group presentations and materials, with over 100 presentations now avaiable from user groups worldwide. We review the site and its features. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Cross-browser, cross-device ASP.NET Geolocation with server-side fallback method ... A solution that will get you a geolocation for mapping purposes regardless of the browser or device. The DOM Geolocation API is implemented by most modern browsers in the navigator.geolocation object. The problem is, not all devices and browsers implement it the same way. By the use of several scripts and the addition of a server-side fallback method, it is possible to get a valid latitude and longitude for mapping purposes in every case. read more
By Peter Bromberg
An ASP.NET Custom Control for NOAA Weather Service complete with embedded database ... NOAA (the "National Weather Service", among other neat things it does) publishes a WebService that allows anybody to get weather forecasts if they care to parse the WSDL and include a WebReference in their .NET project. This ASP.NET Custom Control has an embedded Zipcode - latitude -longitude database. read more
By Peter Bromberg
ASP.NET - Silverlight How to Call PageMethods ... Using the Silverlight ScriptObject and ASP.NET ScriptManager control to call PageMethods read more
By Peter Bromberg
Setup a new module using DotNetNuke 5.6.3 framework in Micro ... A guide to setup a new module using DotNetNuke 5.6.3 framework in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Included are screenshots and brief descriptions of each step. read more
By Ben Budnevich
Enhancements and Useful Features in the C# programming language ... Enhancements to the C# language have come from the addition of features such as generic types, nullable value types, lambda expressions, iterator methods, partial classes and a long list of other useful language constructs. Here we cover a short list of operators and techniques. read more
By Peter Bromberg
How to perform multithreaded ASP.NET WebClient Requests in a WCF Service in Parallel ... A demo that has two separate services - one that does parallel requests via the Threadpool (the "old" way) using a ManualResetEvent to block until completion, and the second, using the TaskFactory class from .NET 4.0. read more
By Peter Bromberg