(Nathanael Jones) Many people think of “performance tuning” as optimizing loops, algorithms, and memory use. In truth, however, you don’t get the huge performance gains from optimizing CPU and memory use (which is good), but from eliminating I/O calls.

(Nikhil Kothari) Over the weekend, I saw a question on StackOverflow about combining .NET RIA Services and the ViewModel pattern and answered briefly there, but the topic is worthy of a blog post.

(Mahesh Chand) The Image object is used to view images in XAML and Silverlight. The Source property of the image is used to specify the location of the image. This property can be an absolute URL or a relative URL. The following code snippet views a jpg file using the absolute path.

(Shoban Kumar) As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing software and then save it. The pain is even more when I need to use two Buttons for a screenshot (Fn + PrintScreen) in my Laptop ;-). So I th

(Tess Ferrandez) Since a .net exception is a .NET object like any other, it gets stored on the GC heap when you (or some code you call) calls new XXException().

(Peter Vogel) I like e-mail and I don’t like phones. Phones, like bombs, go off when they want; with mail, I’m in control. (Incidentally, I think that anyone who sets up their e-mail client to pick up their mail every x minutes is nuts.)

(Andrea Colaci) Velocity is a Microsoft project, actually in CTP2, its goal is to provide a distributed, performing and highly available cache to our applications. Velocity could be integrated in Web and Desktop applications as well, thanks to a simple api is possible to perform basic operations lik

(David Hayden) Output Caching, and in particular the OutputCacheAttribute, is one of those things that looks great on paper but usually fails miserably in practice unless you have the most simplest of caching needs. Still, if you can get away with it, decorating your ASP.NET MVC Actions with the Out

(David Ebbo) Quick summary: we are introducing a new optimizeCompilations switch in ASP.NET that can greatly improve the compilation speed in some scenarios. There are some catches, so read on for more details. This switch is currently available as a QFE for 3.5SP1, and will be part of VS 2010.

(Scott Lysle) This article provides a simple example of using jQuery along with the jQuery tablesorter and tablesorter.pager plug-ins to provide sorting and paging support for a listview within the context of an ASP.NET MVC application. JQuery has partnered with Microsoft and is now integrated with