‘Programming’ Archive

Apple’s iPad risks RIA Technologies (Flex/Silverlight) February 10, 2010 No Comments

Apple announces iPad, a bigger version of iPod Touch. With a big screen of 1024×786 pixels. And it comes with basic need of surfing internet and be online. So called magical and revolutionary device does not support Flash and Silverlight yet. And most of business apps today, built upon RIA are running either on [...]

Current Problems of Windows 7 for Developers September 13, 2009 1 Comment

After visiting Microsoft TechNet Seminar everyone was quite excited about Windows 7 and everyone was saying that Windows 7 is far better then Vista and its now ready to go alive. I did stick to my plan of upgrading my development machine to Windows 7 only after Service Pack 1 arrives. But everybody argued that [...]

Optimize Windows Vista Machine for Faster Development (VC#,Web and VC++) August 29, 2009 No Comments

This document only refers to optimization of Vista Machine for faster development only intended for the ones who are doing development on C#, ASP.NET and Optional VC++, no VB.NET.
Installation of Limited Visual Studio 2008
We probably dont need Compact Frameworks and VB.NET and other tools, unnecessary installing them doesnt waste much of Hard disk space but [...]

Huge File Storage in Database instead of File System August 23, 2009 11 Comments

The quest to store large number of files in database or on regular file system began at a time when number of files to manage went beyond 1 million in one of our project. We started noticing a huge drop in performance of our windows server. After investigating we found out that using pure file [...]

C# Optimizations Via Caching – Part 2 March 22, 2009 1 Comment

I decided to write part 2 of optimization, with C# Project, to actually test the performance for accessing NameValueCollection and Property access.
I had lot of comments by extra smart people quoting regarding my previous post at "C# Optimizations Via Caching" . That all methods posted do not do any significant impact on performance, I wonder [...]

RIA – Why? Which One? How? December 13, 2008 9 Comments

RIA (Rich Internet Application) means faster means to develop light applications to fit in your business presentation and few quick interactive applications. With RIA you can not make a money tree and you can not become rich.
Target Applications:

Frontend Applications
Small Quick Demo Applications
Graphical Analysis of MIS
Marketing Presentations
Quick Forms/Data Entry for Mass Audience
Polls, Social Interaction Applications
Thin Client [...]

C# Optimizations Via Caching December 12, 2008 14 Comments

Being computer science expert, I can visualize the load on Processor when I write the code, and though its cumbersome sometime to write more code to perform optimized operation,but its real worth while to spend time to understand Caching in programming.
Static Caching Config Values
The configuration values that you probably store in some config file, or [...]