async Lights, Camera, ActionBlock! The TPL Dataflow library available from the NuGet Package Manager is a great way to manage in memory asynchronous data processing. It’s especially useful in producer/consumer situations because it greatly simplifies the amount of ceremonious code required to manage and synchronize multiple asynchronous processes happening in parallel. Last
httphandler Streaming Large Files Asynchronously using .NET 4.5 Recently I had a project that required me to be able to transfer large files via a service call to a remote server where the file would be ingested by an always-on application for further processing. When thinking about the requirements for such a service, a few things came to
ajax Getting ActiveTabChanging Functionality from the AJAX TabControl I have always considered myself to be quite client-side challenged. Having been soured to the thought of JavaScript by all the browser specific code I used to have to write years ago I swore off it and took to server-side development and never looked back. After a year’s hiatus
asp.net ObjectDataSource, SOA Style It’s been entirely too long since my last post, and with the olympics in full swing, we’ll go with a volleyball theme for this post. BUMP So here’s the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool
.net Metadata Exchange Using SvcUtil: A Cautionary Tale One of the projects that I’ve been working on the past week is a conversion project that involves a web site that has a tightly coupled business logic layer. The goal of the project is to re-engineer the site so that the business logic and corresponding data access tiers
