Task

Implement a Microsoft approved strategy with regards to the usage of a sitemap provider allowing for dynamic updates without requiring a restart of the web application.

Glossary of Terms

The terms below are intended to provide a basic understanding of common terms and procedures used throughout the remainder of this document.

Provider Model – an extensibility model that [...]

In the past, when building small web applications with up to a couple concurrent users, I’ve placed the database on the same system as the web server. Blasphemy!!!…not really. You see, knowing that database systems will entirely consume their allocated memory allows for clear capacity planning.
There are many factors that need to be taken [...]

My good friend Jamey’s first blog post is about helping himself. Well…I just did the same on a post about using the ESRI JavaScript API to zoom to a polygon so I thought it best to provide him with a ping back…

you can modify the .net sql role provider to be hierarchical in just a few simple steps …
first you need to modify the aspnet_Roles table:

1: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[aspnet_Roles] ADD [ParentRoleId] [uniqueidentifier] NULL

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There exists a new feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 called Service Broker.  With Service Broker, internal or external processes can send and receive guaranteed, asynchronous messaging by using extensions to Transact-SQL.
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One way to utilize this feature is by implementing SQLCacheDependency within a SqlSiteMapProvider.  Thus allowing the SqlSiteMapProvider to update as changes occur to [...]

I started off to make a short list of the ASP.NET MVC sites I use often but it quickly turned into a top 10 list. That is until I realized I only visit 9 ASP.NET MVC related sites on a regular basis. So, here is my Top 9..That is until someone suggests another site worthy [...]

Just a quick note…in this tight economy there is a huge opportunity for open source software to enter the public sector. I’d really like to see little changes like these in the public sector. Expectably when the open source software, IMHO, is better then the commercial software.

You know, this should mean something.  So I was on the F5 site, trying to find a solution to a problem I’m having, and I’m searching around.  I throw a term into the search box, hit enter, and up pops a list of hits - the last of which, a forum post, looks relevant.  So [...]