Few months back I had used a nice component from TSHAK to encrypt query strings. it requires just one line of code to encrypt a query string. Right now I am unable to find the exact page at TSHAK where I got the control. Due to a site re organization at TSHAK , they might have moved it to some […]

(David Hayden) Continuing our discussions regarding Performance Profiling O/R Mapper Calls to the Database and Quick Examples on LINQ To SQL Performance Tuning – Performance Profiling Your O/R Mapper, let’s look at another way of choosing better performance through eager loading using Mindscape’s Li

(Tess Ferrandez) In my last post I wrote about a WCF hang I caused because of a newbie mistake. I also wrote that I would post about how to create a simple WCF service. This tutorial is mostly for myself so that Ill remember what I did, but hopefully it might benefit some other people too

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