Tom Christian's Blog
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Slow performance of a GridView inside an UpdatePanel
Here is an interesting problem we ran into recently. The customer had a large GridView that was being updated by AJAX inside on UpdatePanel and seeing bad performance.
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Debugger Extension update
The debugger extension that we were working on getting out with the debugger package has hit some roadblocks and it looks like it isn't going to be shipping with the debugger anytime soon.
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Updating a web site to apply a security patch with the help of Hyper-V
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How do you test the performance of your web site?
I wanted to get a feel for what tools people are using to test the performance of their website. My questions are:
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SOS Tip: Using help
This is just a quick little note to remind everyone that the !help command in sos can be very helpful. Not only does it list all of the possible commands, but if you run it and pass it the name of a command, it will print out a bunch of really useful information for that command.
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Who is using MVC?
So MVC have been out now for a while, and I have seen a few things come by my way with it. I just wanted to see who all was using it and how it was working out for you.
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Important blogs to visit regularly
While I like to think of my blog as a “must read”, I wanted to give out a list of some of the blogs that I think are really important to keep up with, either by visiting the blog or by subscribing to the RSS feed.
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Microsoft Optimization for your IT
I haven’t seen a whole lot of information coming out about how Microsoft can help you optimize your IT infrastructure so I thought I could mention it.
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Any other .NET 3.5 SP1 issues?
So I recently posted Known issues for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 SP1, what I wanted to do is see how SP1 was working out for everyone so far. The things I am wondering are:
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Improving Time-Critical Code written in C
Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code. You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible.