http://www.codeproject.com Latest Articles for Omar Al Zabir from CodeProject en-us http://www.codeproject.com/App_Themes/Std/Img/logo100x30.gif http://www.codeproject.com 100 30 CodeProject Copyright CodeProject, 1999-2013 Webmaster@codeproject.com (Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 10:41:01 GMT 20 C# Hand-coded goodness Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Omar Al Zabir, a four time MVP legend on CodeProject. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/593644/A-Coder-Interview-With-Omar-Al-Zabir CodeProject, Omar Al Zabir All-Topics Thu, 16 May 2013 13:35:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/593644/A-Coder-Interview-With-Omar-Al-Zabir Article Thu, 16 May 2013 13:35:00 GMT 4008 5 5 10 1 Using custom fonts without slowing down a page. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/462209/Using-custom-font-without-slowing-down-page-load Omar Al Zabir Windows Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:23:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/462209/Using-custom-font-without-slowing-down-page-load Technical Blog Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:23:00 GMT 4504 5 1 4 MemoryStreamMultiplexer is a MemoryStream like buffer manager where one thread can write and many threads can read from it simultaneously. It supports blocking reads, so that reader threads can call .Read() and wait for some data to be written. Handy for loading data in one thread that is consumed c http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/345105/Memory-Stream-Multiplexer-write-and-read-from-many Omar Al Zabir C# .NET Dev Intermediate Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/345105/Memory-Stream-Multiplexer-write-and-read-from-many Article Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:38:00 GMT 19177 5 4.77 9 35 311 Droptiles mimics the experience of Windows 8 Start screen using HTML, Javascript and CSS. It offers a framework to build Dashboards comprised of Tiles. Tiles are mini-Apps built using Javascript. They launch a full screen app when clicked. Apps can be any regular website to custom built applications http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/421601/Droptiles-Metro-style-Live-Tiles-powered-Web-Dashb Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Architect Dev Ajax Design Beginner Intermediate Advanced jQuery Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:10:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/421601/Droptiles-Metro-style-Live-Tiles-powered-Web-Dashb Article Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT 97384 4.99 7.76 36 92 Codeuml.com is an open source free web based UML diagram editor. You can code uml diagrams as fast as you can type using a special language to describe the diagram. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/397629/Codeuml-design-UML-diagrams-as-fast-as-you-can-cod Omar Al Zabir .NET3.5 C# ASP.NET UML Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:38:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/397629/Codeuml-design-UML-diagrams-as-fast-as-you-can-cod Article Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:57:00 GMT 28412 5 8.12 42 86 WCF Javascript Proxies (Service.svc/js) are never cached. They get generated and downloaded on every page view thus increasing page download time and server CPU. Here's an HttpModule to cache WCF Javascript Proxy on browser and respond with HTTP 304, if unchanged. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/360437/Caching-WCF-javascript-proxy-on-browser Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET .NET Dev WCF Intermediate Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:52:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/360437/Caching-WCF-javascript-proxy-on-browser Article Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:52:00 GMT 9256 5 3.01 4 13 146 When you are reading data from a binary stream, like NetworkStream or FileStream and you need to read both binary chunks as well as read one text line at a time, you are on your own as BinaryReader nor Stream supports ReadLine. You can use StreamReader to do ReadLine, but it does not allow you [...] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/339311/ReadLine-on-Binary-Stream Omar Al Zabir C# Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:46:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/339311/ReadLine-on-Binary-Stream Technical Blog Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:46:00 GMT 12676 0 4 How to build truly RESTful API and website using the same ASP.NET MVC code http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/233572/Build-truly-RESTful-API-and-website-using-same-ASP Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET MVC REST API Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:26:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/233572/Build-truly-RESTful-API-and-website-using-same-ASP Article Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:27:00 GMT 75664 4.87 7.64 37 121 Internet is full of flash ads nowadays that make page load slower, render slower and consumes more CPU, thus power. If you can browse without having any flash ads or in fact any ads loaded and without any of the tracking scripts – you can browse much faster, scroll through pages much smoother http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/307723/Browse-internet-faster-and-save-power-using-a-smar Omar Al Zabir C# Windows .NET Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:06:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/307723/Browse-internet-faster-and-save-power-using-a-smar Technical Blog Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:06:00 GMT 19933 5 5.21 11 16 ASP.NET generates some large cookies if you are using ASP.NET membership provider. Especially if you are using the Anonymous provider, then a typical site will send the following cookies to every request when a user is logged in, whether the request is to a dynamic page or to any static resource: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/269360/Prevent-ASP-NET-cookies-from-being-sent-on-every-c Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET Javascript CSS Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:30:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/269360/Prevent-ASP-NET-cookies-from-being-sent-on-every-c Technical Blog Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:30:00 GMT 15217 0 8 You should add more ideas or at least edit the content significantly instead of copying and pasting from another article, my article that is:10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets[^]==================There are several ASP.NET default HttpModules which sit in the request... http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/264083/Performance-Tuning-though-Pipeline-Optimization-in Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET Windows Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:22:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/264083/Performance-Tuning-though-Pipeline-Optimization-in Tip/Trick Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:22:00 GMT 3442 0 2 WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/169112/WCF-does-not-support-Compression-out-of-the-box-so Omar Al Zabir IIS6 IIS7 IIS WCF performance scalability Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:38:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/169112/WCF-does-not-support-Compression-out-of-the-box-so Tip/Trick Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:33:00 GMT 18287 4.86 3.36 5 9 How WCF works for async services and how to fix this bug to make your async services truly async and scale under heavy load. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/234131/Tweaking-WCF-to-build-highly-scalable-async-REST-A Omar Al Zabir Dev WCF Intermediate Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:17:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/234131/Tweaking-WCF-to-build-highly-scalable-async-REST-A Technical Blog Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:17:00 GMT 13061 0 2 How to build a truly RESTful API and website using the same ASP.NET MVC code. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/233599/Build-truly-RESTful-API-and-website-using-same-ASP Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET Dev Intermediate Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:19:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/233599/Build-truly-RESTful-API-and-website-using-same-ASP Technical Blog Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:19:00 GMT 7651 1 1 3 You can build async REST API using WCF but due to some bug in WCF implementation it does not scale as you would want it to. Here's my journey with Microsoft's WCF team to explore the problem and find the right fix. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/234085/Fixing-WCF-to-build-highly-scalable-async-REST-API Omar Al Zabir .NET3.0 WCF performance REST scalability API Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:35:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/234085/Fixing-WCF-to-build-highly-scalable-async-REST-API Article Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:47:00 GMT 30619 4.86 6.09 18 50 618 A handy ASPX page that you can just copy on any website and it dumps the Environment settings and common ASP.NET settings to help diagnose various problems. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/229356/ASP-NET-Diagnostic-page-to-dump-ASP-NET-and-Enviro Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET Dev Beginner SysAdmin Web-Development Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/229356/ASP-NET-Diagnostic-page-to-dump-ASP-NET-and-Enviro Article Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:50:00 GMT 10567 4.44 3 5 14 This article presents some realistic unit and integration test examples in a N-tier web application to assist in writing tests that provide confidence in moving towards Test Driven Development (TDD) http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/44276/Unit-Testing-and-Integration-Testing-in-Business-A Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev QA Intermediate EF Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:43:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/44276/Unit-Testing-and-Integration-Testing-in-Business-A Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:25:00 GMT 66086 4.93 8.15 45 138 User Story is Worthless, Behavior is What We Need http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/98328/User-Story-is-Worthless-Behavior-is-What-We-Need Omar Al Zabir C# .NET Architect Dev QA Design Beginner Intermediate Advanced Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:44:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/98328/User-Story-is-Worthless-Behavior-is-What-We-Need Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:24:00 GMT 42985 3.33 3.92 15 27 Everyone knows automated tests are good, unit test is good, we should all do it. But when you try to convince management that it's going to take double the time to deliver anything from now on, you are kicked out of the room. Learn how I convinced a dev lead to do automated test. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/78499/How-to-convince-developers-and-management-to-use-a Omar Al Zabir CEO Architect Dev QA Design Beginner Intermediate All-Topics Sun, 02 May 2010 12:12:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/78499/How-to-convince-developers-and-management-to-use-a Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:23:00 GMT 37821 4.97 7.03 26 59 A story of a typical offshore project which is overdue, customer shouting and screaming, offshore guys working day and night and how we brainstormed on some tricks to get out of this. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/77927/Tips-and-Tricks-to-Rescue-Overdue-Projects Omar Al Zabir CEO Architect Dev Beginner Intermediate Sales All-Topics Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:19:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/77927/Tips-and-Tricks-to-Rescue-Overdue-Projects Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:22:00 GMT 27515 4.92 8.08 44 75 AspectF is a simple way to do Aspect Oriented Programming style coding which makes your code a lot cleaner and more maintainable. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42474/AspectF-Fluent-Way-to-Add-Aspects-for-Cleaner-Main Omar Al Zabir .NET3.5 C# .NET Architect Dev Design Intermediate Advanced .NET4 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:38:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42474/AspectF-Fluent-Way-to-Add-Aspects-for-Cleaner-Main Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:21:00 GMT 38432 4.98 8.81 59 101 Make a surveillance application which silently captures desktop and emails you screenshots as attachment periodically http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22543/Desktop-spy-utility-that-emails-subject-s-screensh Omar Al Zabir .NET1.1 .NET2.0 C#1.0 C#2.0 .NET3.0 C#3.0 .NET3.5 C# .NET Dev Beginner WinForm Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:32:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22543/Desktop-spy-utility-that-emails-subject-s-screensh Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:19:00 GMT 41928 4.53 5.77 19 89 Entity Framework is world’s most difficult ORM for n-tier application. See how I have produced a 100% unit testable fully n-tier compliant data access layer following the repository pattern using Entity Framework. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/81543/Finally-Entity-Framework-working-in-fully-disconne Omar Al Zabir C#3.0 .NET3.5 C# .NET Architect Dev Design Intermediate EF Sun, 16 May 2010 15:24:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/81543/Finally-Entity-Framework-working-in-fully-disconne Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:18:00 GMT 87469 4.9 7.68 37 144 2009 Building High Performance Queue in Database for storing Orders, Notifications, Tasks http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/110931/Building-High-Performance-Queue-in-Database-for-st Omar Al Zabir SQL2005 SQL SQL-Server Architect DBA Dev Intermediate Advanced SysAdmin SQL2008 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/110931/Building-High-Performance-Queue-in-Database-for-st Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:17:00 GMT 51098 4.97 7.34 30 116 There are some simple configuration changes that you can make on machine.config and IIS to give your web applications significant performance boost. These are simple harmless changes but make a lot of difference in terms of scalability. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/133738/Quick-Ways-to-Boost-Performance-and-Scalability-of Omar Al Zabir .NET3.0 ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev WCF Ajax Intermediate SysAdmin performance Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:44:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/133738/Quick-Ways-to-Boost-Performance-and-Scalability-of Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:15:00 GMT 74923 4.87 7.58 36 119 Caching large objects, duplicate objects, caching collections, live objects, thread unsafe caching and other common mistakes break your app instead of making it fly. Learn ten common caching mistakes devs make. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/115107/Ten-Caching-Mistakes-that-Break-your-App Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev WCF WebForms Intermediate Advanced AppFabric Azure WinForm Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:32:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/115107/Ten-Caching-Mistakes-that-Break-your-App Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:12:00 GMT 105285 4.83 8.96 72 216 Implement caching in your project using AspectF library that saves you from writing plumbing code for dealing with cached objects and collections and learn how to handle stale objects and collections http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43434/A-Simple-Way-to-Cache-Objects-and-Collections-for Omar Al Zabir C#3.0 .NET3.5 C# ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev LINQ Intermediate Advanced C#4.0 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:36:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43434/A-Simple-Way-to-Cache-Objects-and-Collections-for Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:11:00 GMT 39747 4.89 6.75 24 108 An HttpFilter that processes the output generated by dynamic pages and appends the last modified date of static files like js, css in order to make browsers download latest version as soon as files are changed http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/203288/Automatic-JS-CSS-versioning-to-update-browser-cach Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET IIS Intermediate performance Cache Sun, 29 May 2011 08:59:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/203288/Automatic-JS-CSS-versioning-to-update-browser-cach Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:10:00 GMT 33907 4.68 4.86 11 32 UFrame makes a DIV behave like an IFRAME that can load any ASP.NET/PHP/HTML page and allows all postback and hyperlink navigation to happen within the DIV - a painless way to make regular pages fully AJAX enabled http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26330/UFrame-goodness-of-UpdatePanel-and-IFRAME-combined Omar Al Zabir ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Architect XHTML WebForms Ajax Design Intermediate Advanced Sat, 24 May 2008 18:18:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26330/UFrame-goodness-of-UpdatePanel-and-IFRAME-combined Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:02:00 GMT 259232 4.95 8.69 57 186 A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37225/ASP-NET-AJAX-testing-made-easy-using-Visual-Studio Omar Al Zabir C#1.0 C#2.0 .NET3.0 C#3.0 .NET3.5 C# ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev QA Ajax Intermediate Advanced Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:39:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37225/ASP-NET-AJAX-testing-made-easy-using-Visual-Studio Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:01:00 GMT 30853 5 5.88 15 44 A self-diagnostics page that runs through your web.config and confirms all the settings are correct, is a quick and easy way to identify environment problems after configuration change or production deployment. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/103625/Website-Diagnostics-Page-to-diagnose-your-ASP-NET Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev QA Ajax Beginner Intermediate Advanced EF Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/103625/Website-Diagnostics-Page-to-diagnose-your-ASP-NET Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:00:00 GMT 44445 4.95 7.99 41 99 WatinN to Automate Browser and Test Sophisticated ASP.NET AJAX Sites http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/99838/WatinN-to-Automate-Browser-and-Test-Sophisticated Omar Al Zabir .NET3.5 ASP.NET .NET Architect Dev QA Intermediate Advanced Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/99838/WatinN-to-Automate-Browser-and-Test-Sophisticated Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:59:00 GMT 21627 4.69 5.06 12 41 Serve extensionless URL from IIS without using custom ISAPI handler or IIS 6.0 wildcard mapping http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22537/Serve-extensionless-URL-without-using-ISAPI-handle Omar Al Zabir .NET1.0 .NET1.1 .NET2.0 IIS5.1 IIS6 Mono DotGNU .NET3.0 IIS7 .NET3.5 ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS .NET IIS HTML Architect Dev XHTML Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:55:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22537/Serve-extensionless-URL-without-using-ISAPI-handle Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:58:00 GMT 88192 4.13 3.73 8 28 Production Architecture for a SaaS web application built using ASP.NET and SQL Server that guarantees 99.99% availability and super performance http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31654/99-99-available-ASP-NET-and-SQL-Server-SaaS-Produc Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET SQL .NET SQL-Server Architect Dev Intermediate Advanced Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:29:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31654/99-99-available-ASP-NET-and-SQL-Server-SaaS-Produc Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:56:00 GMT 135475 4.97 9.71 90 309 Learn the principle behind Microsoft's new Doloto and 6 other cool techniques that I did in Pageflakes to load large amounts of JavaScript without compromising performance http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42573/7-Tips-for-Loading-JavaScript-Rich-Web-2-0-like-Si Omar Al Zabir ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Architect Dev QA XHTML WebForms Ajax Design Beginner Intermediate Advanced Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:18:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42573/7-Tips-for-Loading-JavaScript-Rich-Web-2-0-like-Si Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:54:00 GMT 42935 4.91 7.76 38 105 Web 2.0 AJAX Portal built using jQuery, and ASP.NET 3.5. It offers Silverlight widget framework. Middle-tier built on Workflow Foundation. Data Access Layer uses Compiled Linq to SQL. Uses Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unitiy, offering Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control. All hot stuff! http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35193/Web-2-0-AJAX-Portal-using-jQuery-ASP-NET-3-5-Silve Omar Al Zabir C#2.0 C#3.0 C# ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Architect Dev XHTML WebForms Ajax Intermediate Advanced Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:06:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35193/Web-2-0-AJAX-Portal-using-jQuery-ASP-NET-3-5-Silve Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:52:00 GMT 134771 4.96 8.47 51 259 1 A WPF smart client to generate UML diagrams from plain text using plantuml tool http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/64328/PlantUML-Editor-A-Fast-and-Simple-UML-Editor-using Omar Al Zabir C#3.0 .NET3.5 C# .NET Architect DBA Dev WPF Design Beginner Intermediate SysAdmin Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:23:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/64328/PlantUML-Editor-A-Fast-and-Simple-UML-Editor-using Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:50:00 GMT 83239 4.98 8.7 56 200 3131 CPUAlert monitors CPU and Memory consumption of processes and alerts you when they are taking too much consistently and gives you an option to recycle or terminate http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/62355/CPUAlert-Save-your-CPU-from-Burning-Hot-and-Batter Omar Al Zabir .NET2.0 C# Windows .NET CEO Architect DBA Dev QA Design Beginner Intermediate Advanced SysAdmin Sales Marketing WinForm Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:31:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/62355/CPUAlert-Save-your-CPU-from-Burning-Hot-and-Batter Article Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:47:00 GMT 28447 4.71 5.81 18 56 958 Automatic JavaScript, CSS versioning to refresh browser cache http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/203620/Automatic-JavaScript-CSS-versioning-to-refresh-bro Omar Al Zabir Javascript CSS Windows HTML Mon, 30 May 2011 11:30:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/203620/Automatic-JavaScript-CSS-versioning-to-refresh-bro Technical Blog Mon, 30 May 2011 08:16:00 GMT 13925 0 5 VB has a With keyword that you can use to save typing same variables name over and over again. Here's a similar workaround for C# http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197548/C-equivalent-of-VB-s-With-keyword Omar Al Zabir C# Tue, 17 May 2011 12:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197548/C-equivalent-of-VB-s-With-keyword Tip/Trick Fri, 27 May 2011 19:43:00 GMT 44680 4.8 7.68 46 16 How to make compression work for WCF services. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/198169/WCF-does-not-support-compression-out-of-the-box-so Omar Al Zabir C# .NET Dev WCF Intermediate Wed, 18 May 2011 13:56:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/198169/WCF-does-not-support-compression-out-of-the-box-so Technical Blog Wed, 18 May 2011 13:56:00 GMT 9518 4.67 2.23 3 6 93 Steps to ensure that the web sites are properly recycled, caches are cleared, all the data stored at Application level is initialized. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/198170/Safely-deploying-changes-to-production-servers Omar Al Zabir Windows .NET DBA All-Topics Wed, 18 May 2011 13:53:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/198170/Safely-deploying-changes-to-production-servers Technical Blog Wed, 18 May 2011 13:53:00 GMT 8280 4.33 2.07 3 6 Files with different date time get different ETag generated by IIS. As a result, on a web server farm, each webserver sends different ETag for the same file as the files are copied to those servers at different date time. Here's a script that can set date time of same file across multiple servers to http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197546/Synchronize-file-date-time-on-multiple-IIS-servers Omar Al Zabir IIS7 PowerShell Web-Development performance Tue, 17 May 2011 12:17:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197546/Synchronize-file-date-time-on-multiple-IIS-servers Tip/Trick Tue, 17 May 2011 12:17:00 GMT 6643 0 2 Traditional using() block disposes WCF clients incorrectly when there's a communication exception, eg dropping network connection. It raises exception during the dispose and thus the resources held by the WCF client aren't released properly. After some time, you end up with memory leaks. http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197531/Do-not-use-using-for-WCF-Clients Omar Al Zabir C# WCF performance Tue, 17 May 2011 12:01:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197531/Do-not-use-using-for-WCF-Clients Tip/Trick Tue, 17 May 2011 12:01:00 GMT 33187 4.95 6.09 17 25 Use tinyget to keep websites and webservices always warm http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197526/Keep-websites-and-webservices-warm-with-zero-codin Omar Al Zabir IIS Tue, 17 May 2011 11:55:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197526/Keep-websites-and-webservices-warm-with-zero-codin Tip/Trick Tue, 17 May 2011 11:55:00 GMT 5452 3 .9 2 2 Caching frequently used objects, that are expensive to fetch from the source, makes application perform faster under high load. It helps scale an application under concurrent requests. But some hard to notice mistakes can lead the application to suffer under high load, let alone making it perform be http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197523/Common-serialization-mistakes-to-avoid Omar Al Zabir .NET performance Tue, 17 May 2011 11:52:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197523/Common-serialization-mistakes-to-avoid Tip/Trick Tue, 17 May 2011 11:52:00 GMT 6676 4.75 2.86 4 2 Silverlight webservice references get harcoded in ServiceReference.ClientConfig. The URLs get set to your development servers. But when you deploy live, the URLs don't match. Here's a way to dynamically change the URL of the service based on which website the Silverlight app is loaded from. http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197520/Dynamically-send-WCF-endpoint-in-Silverlight Omar Al Zabir ASM Silverlight Tue, 17 May 2011 11:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197520/Dynamically-send-WCF-endpoint-in-Silverlight Tip/Trick Tue, 17 May 2011 11:49:00 GMT 22480 5 3.49 5 10 Deploy incremental updates on production asp.net sites without causing weird compilation error or runtime errors and ensure servers are recycled gracefully without impacting any user's session http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197516/Safely-deploy-changes-on-production Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET IIS Tue, 17 May 2011 11:46:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/197516/Safely-deploy-changes-on-production Tip/Trick Tue, 17 May 2011 11:46:00 GMT 6696 4 1 3 ParallelWork is an open source free helper class that lets you run multiple work in parallel threads, get success, failure and progress update on the WPF UI thread, wait for work to complete, abort all work (in case of shutdown), queue work to run after certain time, chain parallel work one after an http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/65408/ParallelWork-Feature-rich-multithreaded-fluent-tas Omar Al Zabir C#3.0 Architect Dev WPF Intermediate Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:15:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/65408/ParallelWork-Feature-rich-multithreaded-fluent-tas Article Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:23:00 GMT 19950 4.82 4.82 10 59 226 Build a Start Page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.NET AJAX, .NET 3.0, LINQ, DLinq, and XLinq. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16997/Build-a-Google-IG-like-AJAX-Start-Page-in-7-days-u Omar Al Zabir .NET3.0 C# ASP.NET Javascript XML Windows Visual-Studio HTML Dev WebForms Ajax LINQ Intermediate Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16997/Build-a-Google-IG-like-AJAX-Start-Page-in-7-days-u Article Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:18:00 GMT 998049 4.98 12.51 326 1103 6843 An HTTP handler that combines multiple CSS, JavaScript or URL into one response for faster page load. It can combine, compress and cache response which results in faster page load and better scalability of web application http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28909/HTTP-Handler-to-Combine-Multiple-Files-Cache-and-D Omar Al Zabir ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Architect Dev XHTML Ajax Design Intermediate Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28909/HTTP-Handler-to-Combine-Multiple-Files-Cache-and-D Article Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:00 GMT 110053 4.96 8.7 57 186 Download all external scripts on your Web page after the visible content is loaded for faster perceived speed and donwload multiple JavaScript in batch for better actual speed http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25929/Fast-ASP-NET-Web-page-loading-by-downloading-multi Omar Al Zabir C# ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Dev XHTML Ajax Intermediate Fri, 09 May 2008 16:30:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25929/Fast-ASP-NET-Web-page-loading-by-downloading-multi Article Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:17:00 GMT 201217 4.93 8.61 56 244 1320 A tiny JavaScript library that provides a handy function "ensure" which allows you to load JavaScript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code. ensure ensures that relevant JavaScript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26797/ensure-Ensure-JavaScripts-HTML-CSS-are-loaded-on-d Omar Al Zabir ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Dev XHTML Ajax Intermediate Advanced Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26797/ensure-Ensure-JavaScripts-HTML-CSS-are-loaded-on-d Article Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:50:00 GMT 75364 4.97 6.67 22 88 422 An AJAX Proxy HttpHandler built using ASP.NET that continuously delivers content from external domains to the browser and is thus faster and more scalable than any other proxy service. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25218/Fast-Scalable-Streaming-AJAX-Proxy-continuously-de Omar Al Zabir ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS HTML Architect Dev Ajax Design Intermediate Advanced Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:44:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25218/Fast-Scalable-Streaming-AJAX-Proxy-continuously-de Article Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:44:00 GMT 156612 4.99 9.15 68 207 1637 Performance tips and hard-core tricks that change core runtimes, not for the faint-hearted http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16596/ASP-NET-Ajax-Under-the-hood-Secrets Omar Al Zabir .NET2.0 IIS6 VS2005 C#2.0 Javascript XML Windows HTML Dev Ajax Intermediate Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:11:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16596/ASP-NET-Ajax-Under-the-hood-Secrets Article Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:26:00 GMT 316608 4.94 9.94 103 355 1279 10 easy ways to make ASP.NET and AJAX websites faster, more scalable and support more traffic at lower cost http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/23306/10-ASP-NET-Performance-and-Scalability-Secrets Omar Al Zabir ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS IIS HTML Architect Dev Ajax Beginner Intermediate Advanced Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:40:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/23306/10-ASP-NET-Performance-and-Scalability-Secrets Article Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:40:00 GMT 618186 4.94 11.42 204 959 2 An extender that allows content to be dragged and dropped within columns and across columns. Allows column-wise content flow and reorganization. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22541/ASP-NET-AJAX-Extender-for-multicolumn-drag-and-dro Omar Al Zabir .NET1.0 .NET1.1 .NET2.0 Mono DotGNU .NET3.0 .NET3.5 ASP ASP.NET Javascript CSS .NET HTML Dev Ajax Intermediate Advanced Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:36:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22541/ASP-NET-AJAX-Extender-for-multicolumn-drag-and-dro Article Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:36:00 GMT 109459 4.74 6.79 27 99 1373 Learn about 13 production disasters that can bring down your business http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19906/13-disasters-for-production-web-sites-and-their-so Omar Al Zabir .NET2.0 Win2003 SQL2005 IIS6 Win64 Visual-Studio CEO Architect DBA Dev Intermediate Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19906/13-disasters-for-production-web-sites-and-their-so Article Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:50:00 GMT 109476 4.86 8.16 48 114 Powershell scripts allow you to take advantage of .NET libraries and write scripts which are almost as powerful as the .NET code itself. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16768/Deployment-made-simple-using-Powershell Omar Al Zabir C# Javascript Windows .NET Visual-Studio Dev Intermediate Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:37:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16768/Deployment-made-simple-using-Powershell Article Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:37:00 GMT 148315 4.87 7.4 33 152 715 Run scheduled jobs 24x7 using ASP.NET without requiring a Windows Service. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12117/Simulate-a-Windows-Service-using-ASP-NET-to-run-sc Omar Al Zabir C# ASP.NET Windows .NET Visual-Studio Dev Intermediate Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:03:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12117/Simulate-a-Windows-Service-using-ASP-NET-to-run-sc Article Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:48:00 GMT 697195 4.92 10.89 163 491 8546 Make version independent COM wrapper using late bound calls yet providing strongly type and disposable interfaces. A version independent managed Outlook Automation Library. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10888/SafeCOMWrapper-Managed-Disposable-Strongly-Typed-s Omar Al Zabir .NET1.1 VS.NET2003 C# Windows Dev COM Advanced Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:18:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10888/SafeCOMWrapper-Managed-Disposable-Strongly-Typed-s Article Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:46:00 GMT 246620 4.89 8.46 54 115 1611 Comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients working with existing Service Oriented Architecture based XML web services, fully utilizing the Enterprise Library http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11163/Developing-Next-Generation-Smart-Clients-using-NET Omar Al Zabir .NET1.1 .NET2.0 SQL2000 VS.NET2003 VS2005 C# ASP.NET SQL Windows Mobile DBA Dev WebForms Intermediate Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11163/Developing-Next-Generation-Smart-Clients-using-NET Article Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:35:00 GMT 642811 4.96 10.54 133 456 3014 RSS Feed aggregator and blogging Smart Client which uses Enterprise Library, Updater Application Block, lots of XML hacks and desktop tricks. A comprehensive guide to real life hurdles of Smart Client development. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11088/RSS-Feed-Aggregator-and-Blogging-Smart-Client Omar Al Zabir .NET1.1 VS.NET2003 VB6 C# Windows Dev ADO.NET Intermediate Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:18:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11088/RSS-Feed-Aggregator-and-Blogging-Smart-Client Article Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:12:00 GMT 734623 4.91 9.45 84 393 1641 Convert HTML to XHTML while applying tag and attribute filters in order to produce nice and clean HTML for web posting. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10792/Convert-HTML-to-XHTML-and-Clean-Unnecessary-Tags-a Omar Al Zabir VC6 .NET1.1 VS.NET2003 C# XML Windows Dev Intermediate Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:31:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10792/Convert-HTML-to-XHTML-and-Clean-Unnecessary-Tags-a Article Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:31:00 GMT 145854 4.67 5.62 16 84 2562 Distributed Command Pattern is a pattern for connected systems which implements command pattern. It frees designers from thinking about the communication and helps them concentrate on implementing commands as if it is a regular desktop application. The framework takes care of the communication. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9415/Distributed-Command-Pattern-an-extension-of-comman Omar Al Zabir .NET1.1 VS.NET2003 C# Windows Dev Intermediate Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9415/Distributed-Command-Pattern-an-extension-of-comman Article Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:49:00 GMT 160775 4.86 8.93 69 215 1894 MCMAB's XmlFileStorage has a known bug for which it does not work in Web Applications. When you need to use external XML file for storing configuration, you have to do some tweaking yourself. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6997/Problems-and-solutions-to-Microsoft-Configuration Omar Al Zabir ASP.NET Windows .NET Visual-Studio Dev Intermediate Mon, 10 May 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6997/Problems-and-solutions-to-Microsoft-Configuration Article Mon, 10 May 2004 04:00:00 GMT 70861 4.08 4.25 11 26 A handy utility for laptop users which stores network and proxy configuration as profiles and apply a profile very quickly whenever laptop goes to a different network http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6975/SwitchNetConfig-Laptop-users-quickly-switch-networ Omar Al Zabir .NET1.1 VS.NET2003 C# Windows Dev Intermediate Fri, 07 May 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6975/SwitchNetConfig-Laptop-users-quickly-switch-networ Article Fri, 07 May 2004 04:00:00 GMT 260244 4.78 8.6 63 174 10495