The concept behind the web farm is that a number of different web sites share pooled resources. They typically share a common front-end dispatcher to perform load control and distribute customer requests. They share the multiple web servers themselves.

read this article @ C-Sharp Corner WEB farm - Load Balancing in Asp.net By P GOPENATH

Object Oriented AJAX class and objects structured for ease of use and maintainability for multiple requests.

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The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of AJAX controls to spice up your Web site, and as a shared-source project you can use its infrastructure to create your own cool controls and extenders. Be sure to grab the newest release of the Control Toolkit, as it contains a number of bug fixes.

HTTP File Downloader Class for .NET (HTTPFileDownloader)

I am sitting here listening to the MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to Entities and guess what. Patrick Lowendahl is there as well and beat me to it with the following remark.

Question: Eilsa, if you want more feedback from DDD mvps you can drop me or my friend Jimmy (who wrote the second book, and only .net book, on the subject) a line

Excellent! Wouldn't it be great to use the Entity Framework for our domain model based application architectures. My question in this particular area:

Question: What improvements can we expect in the designer?
Answer: The current designer is actually a CTP 1 that works with the Beta 2 of the EF. We are currently working hard to implement customer feedback and implement things such as the model first scenario. You should see significant changes in the designer coming soon.

I asked Eilsa how POCO the Entity Framework will be? She responded with... for version 1 it will implement the IPOCO concept. This means you're entities need to implement a specific Entity Framework interface. The Entity Framework will have full POCO support in version 2. Microsoft is acknowledging the fact that a lot of customers are practicing DDD.

Eilon has an interesting post about using the new anonymous object initializer syntax in APIs that take dictionaries. The end result looks very much like the JSON parameterized function calls that are very common in many JavaScript frameworks, which shows once more how C# is getting many of the nice features of dynamic languages while remaining statically-typed. While I wouldn't use that just to get named parameters like those frameworks are often doing, it looks well-justified in this context because the parameter it's being used for is actually not predetermined.

http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2007/09/24/using-c-3-0-anonymous-types-as-dictionaries.aspx

A simple Windows framework that beginners and intermediate programmers can use as an alternative to MFC. It makes learning to program for Windows easier.

You can download the slides and demos for my talk at Jaoo here:

Talk: Testing Data Access Code Pragmatically

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My guitar didn't make it through the flights over here, so someone was kind enough to lend me their personal guitar. Thanks! Someone. The song I sang: It's Time for Violence

Create an AJAX-based auto suggesting textbox or textarea with no database or server side scripting needed.

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This article presents code that augments any INPUT box with an auto-suggest feature, AJAX-capable

.NET StockTrader is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on WCF and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET 3.0 technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications.

I will be speaking at the New England Code Camp 8: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA on September 29-30. I will be speaking on the following security topics: Penetration Testing of Web Applications Secure Code Reviews: What are the ingredients? There is already a great lineup of talks here . Also, Chris Bowen mentioned there will be a Saturday Evening Geek Event at 7:00 pm at the Weston Hotel in Waltham (a tradition that started way back in Code Camp II). This...(read more)

Kudos to Microsoft to have MacGyver aka Richard Dean Anderson for the Halo 3 launch party tomorrow night in Dublin! Now I just wonder how he will stand as the Chief. Forget the trendy new weapons, give him just a paperclip and a string and I am sure no more game over. Of course Richard is know recently as the main leader in Stargate, but hey I'm over 40 now and McGyver is still do it cool for me. Now Microsoft what about the Hoff aka David Hasselhoff for the launch of Visual Studio 2008 ;-)...(read more)

This article provides basic information about software testing for programmers in a beginner’s level.

During a design meeting for a new feature in ASP.NET we had a requirement that a new method accept a dictionary of name/values pairs. An obvious solution is to have the method accept a parameter of type IDictionary (or its generic cousin): public static string GetHtmlLink( string text, IDictionary < string , string > properties) { ... } While it looks nice and neat from the perspective of our function, the caller of this function has a real mess to deal with. Creating dictionaries is definitely...(read more)