I am using Visual Studio database project and data generation plan to populate my database with random data. In my database there are some tables for table per class inheritance mapping and there are some additional steps required to get these tables filled with data correctly. In this posting I will describe the process of generating data for table per class inheritance tables and give you some hints how to make this data valid for O/R-mappers. (more…)

In my last post Find out how long your method runs I introduced how to measure the speed of code using actions. In this posting I will make a step further and give you some ideas about how to create easily measurable code units and how to build measurable scenarios of them. As a foundation I use simplified versions of patterns like Command and Unit of Work.

During my large database experiment I wrote simple solution for paged queries that I can use in my repositories. This far my experiments have shown pretty good results and I think it is time to share some of my code with you. In this posting I will show you how to create paged results using NHibernate and Entity Framework based repositories.

I am making some experiments with large database and different O/R-mappers. To make it easier for me to measure the time that code takes to run I wrote simple command class that uses Stopwatch class and measures how long it takes for action to run. I this posting I will show you my class and explain how to use it.

Lists and their performance has been hot discussion topic for years. I have seen many examples and read a lot of stories about List class and I made conclusion that there is too much pointless opinions about it. In this posting I will show you how List performs when adding elements to it and how it works internally. Be prepared for interesting discussion!

During times I have seen problematic ways how developers measure the speed and performance of their code. There are some easy tricks that help you make your measurements way better and accurate comparing to measurements made not so well. In this posting I will give you some hints how to get more accurate results when measuring the speed of your code.

Some ASP.NET web applications use web services to get some data that they display to users. Some pages may lay hardly on web services and these pages need some optimization to work better. In this posting I will show you how to use web services behind your ASP.NET page asynchronously and perform a lot of queries to web services. Sample code included!

I am auditing one big legacy application. I use Visual Studio 2010 modeling projects to visualize the design of this legacy application. When I wanted to get my UML diagrams to image files so I can insert them to documents I found no option for it. As it turned out we have to write extension for modeling projects and deploy it as Visual Studio 2010 extension. Here is the installer and source package of my UML.SaveAsImage extension.

In my last posting I introduced my idea about common membership provider for ASP.NET that is able to support multiple authentication providers. Before writing membership provider we need support for some authentication providers to get an better idea how to use them together. In this posting I will introduce you how to use OAuth protocol with Twitter. (more…)

I am trying to implement form based authentication (FBA) membership provider that is able to support multiple authentication mechanisms. Take it as an self-training experiment. In this posting I will introduce bases of my experiment and introduce my current plans and ideas.