Contents tagged with ASP.NET
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Migrating from ASPX MVC views to Razor
Razor-based view templates are a much cleaner way to construct MVC views in ASP.NET. However, they were only released fairly recently with MVC3.
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Web-based Farm Monitor for your Web Farm Framework Deployment
In my recent posts on scalability, I've mentioned the Web Farm Framework (WFF) as a solution for managing a farm of IIS servers. It adds a nice management Server Farm management UI into the IIS Manager.
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Using the .NET Chart API to add sparklines to your MVC site
In my last post, I introduced sparklines and showed you how to generate them using the Google Chart API. Using an external API may not be appropriate for all applications, so here is a way to generate the sparkline using the .NET Chart API.
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Adding sparklines to your MVC site using the Google Chart API
Sparklines present trends and variations associated with some measurement in a very compact form. The term & concept was proposed by Ed Tufte. This form of information graphic has become very popular for dashboards. In this post, I'll show how add sparklines to your site using a custom HTML Helper method to generate code accessing the Google Chart API. In my next post, I'll show you how to add sparklines using the .NET charting API.
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Scaling Out .NET Presentation at Jax Code Camp 2011
Today at the Jax Code Camp I gave a presentation on scaling out your .NET applications by leveraging IIS7, AppFabric, Web Farm Framework, and Web Deploy. Thanks to everyone how come out to the session.
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F5 Add-on for Web Farm Framework
Gupreet over on the IIS.NET site posted a sample for integrating an F5 load balancer with the Web Farm Framework. It works well, but isn't configurable. I started adding my own configuration, but artisticcheese posted a project to CodePlex that already has this functionality.
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The importance of clock alignment between AppFabric servers
In our latest release, we are taking advantage of the new AppFabric Caching Service to host our session state. AppFabric provides fault-taulerance for session data within our web server farm. However, the AppFabric cache servers were crashing every hour or so in our QA environment with the following exception:
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Configuring AppFabric Session Hosts Dynamically
Windows Server AppFabric has finally brought a performant, fault-taulerant session provider to ASP.NET. Originally, this technology was part of the Velocity Project. Very cool stuff. There are lots of articles out there about how to configure this new service via web.config. Now, I love web.config as much as the next person, but it makes my deployment process painful. Sure there is the new web.config transformation process, but it requires the code to go back through the build process which makes it hard to move from environment to environment. To solve these and other problems, we have a custom configuration system to handle environment specific settings.