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Comment on Eat cornflakes, use Pageflakes by siva

siva — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:10:40 +0000

This site is not working , is this up and running now.

http://www.pageflakes.com/omar.ashx

Comment on Get email address of all users from all mails in Outlook Folder by bruno

bruno — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:42:11 +0000

I tried all te posibilities but it doesn’t work in Outlook 2007.

got a syntax fault:

If InStr(strEmails, strEmail) = 0 Then strEmails = strEmails + strEmail + “;”

Comment on Loading static content in ASP.NET pages from different domain for faster parallel download by Sam

Sam — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:48:57 +0000

Great code! I was wondering how can I implement this on MVC? especially when checking ASPX page extension:

if (Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath.EndsWith(“.aspx”)) { … }

Thanks

Comment on Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG by Shahed

Shahed — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:37:05 +0000

Great article. You mentioned about the drawbacks of using Linq to Sql. Is using entity framework any better?

Comment on Prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in your web application by Emmanuel Huna

Emmanuel Huna — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:13:18 +0000

Nicely done, sir.

Comment on Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6.0 by Michael Freidgeim

Michael Freidgeim — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:05:48 +0000

From value in the response header is not valid and causing the .net HttpClient to throw an exception.

According to http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
The From request-header field, shoul contain an Internet e-mail address.

We should rename the custom header to something else to avoid conflicts, e.g.FromServer: FARMSRV04

Comment on MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge by Adil Faisal

Adil Faisal — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:13:00 +0000

And yet …. we think intel processor is engineered by man and the DNA strand is just a random accident of “nature”.

Comment on How to setup SQL Server 2005 Transaction Log Ship on large database that really works by Abhishek

Abhishek — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:34:04 +0000

Hello Omar.
This was really a nice and clear explaination. Thank you very much for this!
But I have a query. After all this, I am encountering non restoration of the trn file on the secondary even though its getting copied. It says:
The restore operation was successful. Secondary Database: ‘ARSystem’, Number of log backup files restored: 0
2012-03-04 20:00:12.62 Deleting old log backup files. Primary Database: ‘ARSystem’
2012-03-04 20:00:12.64 The restore operation was successful. Secondary ID: ‘75e1e1b8-a140-4dfe-9839-0198fdbe4a8e’
2012-03-04 20:00:12.65 —– END OF TRANSACTION LOG RESTORE —–
and

Could not find a log backup file that could be applied to secondary database ‘ARSystem’.

Comment on ReadLine on Binary Stream by oleksii

oleksii — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:52:05 +0000

Can you not use Environment.NewLine to make it work on all OS?

Comment on Solving common problems with Compiled Queries in Linq to Sql for high demand ASP.NET websites by orz

orz — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:06:22 +0000

hi
i have a question
is it correct to use stored procedure in compiled query

Comment on Get email address of all users from all mails in Outlook Folder by ron

ron — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:53:27 +0000

I ran the script below on a folder that contains 2000 emails. I’m doing this on outlook 2007.

But it only retrieved about 40 addresses. Now each of the 2000 emails goes to a different person, no duplicates.

any thought why if only grabs 40 addresses?

Thanks

Sub GetALLEmailAddresses()

Dim objFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim strEmail As String
Dim strEmails As String
”’ Requires reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime
Dim dic As New Dictionary
Dim objItem As Object

”Set objFolder = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
Set objFolder = Application.GetNamespace(“Mapi”).PickFolder

For Each objItem In objFolder.Items

If objItem.Class = olMail Then

strEmail = objItem.SenderEmailAddress

If Not dic.Exists(strEmail) Then

strEmails = strEmails + strEmail + vbCrLf

dic.Add strEmail, “”

End If

Debug.Print strEmails

End Sub

Comment on Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG by Omar AL Zabir

Omar AL Zabir — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:08:23 +0000

You are right, this is mostly about vertical scalability. For horizontal scalability, I suggest reading this article of mine:
http://omaralzabir.com/99_99__available_asp_net_and_sql_server_saas_production_architecture/

Comment on Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity by Vijay

Vijay — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:14:01 +0000

hey Omar, incredible product. kudos for that.

You have not answered the million dollar question however . Do you plan to release the MVC version of this product anytime soon?

Any help/response will be greatly appreciated!

Comment on Charity by Darius

Darius — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:50:16 +0000

Hi,

For your book dropthings and articles I’ve learned so much. I want to build something so that they will come and toss coins and a few dollars for water for children. I am based in America. Can I make a website like this? It will take me a year but I will build it. It is a serious request.

Thank you.

Darius

Comment on Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG by oleksii

oleksii — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:44:20 +0000

Hi Omar,

Great talk, thanks for sharing your experience. I learnt lots of new stuff.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but mostly this is vertical scalability (apart from CDN) and I was wondering if you would mention some horizontal scalability techniques, perhaps like load balancing, CQRS, database sharding or replication. Do you have any posts or talks on horizontal scalability?

Thanks,
Oleksii

Comment on Get email address of all users from all mails in Outlook Folder by Siva

Siva — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:20:26 +0000

I appreciate the Paris Wells post on 26 May 2011 at 22:11. http://geekswithblogs.net/VROD/archive/2008/11/08/126878.aspx. it works for me in outlook 2007. can anyone help me. how to retrieve bcc & cc address

Comment on Charity by Rupinder

Rupinder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:42:46 +0000

great effort!

Comment on Charity by bhavya kamboj

bhavya kamboj — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:33:39 +0000

For the first time on internet have I seen such a wonderful person. I kneel down to your humble efforts. Keep up the good work!

I feel so because your philosophy inspires mine. Thanks

Comment on UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined by Balakrishnan

Balakrishnan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:33:36 +0000

Uframe is really awesome tool it works well and good with IE..but it in not working with Firefox and chrome..Do I want to make some changes to work with Chrome and Firefox?

Comment on Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file by Omar AL Zabir

Omar AL Zabir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:27:11 +0000

Hitting 127.0.0.1 means if you have IIS, it is going to make a hit to IIS and cause IIS to abort the request. unnecessary cpu consumption. it does not speed up browsing noticeably, but it saves unnecessary cpu and disk usage.

Comment on Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file by Michael Freidgeim

Michael Freidgeim — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Replace 127.0.0.1 to 255.255.255.0 doesn’t give benefits according to

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostsfaq.htm#Personal

Comment on Serve extensionless URL from ASP.NET without using ISAPI module or IIS 6 Wildcard mapping by Phil

Phil — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:13:52 +0000

I could kiss you! Thank you! I *knew* this was possible, and have spent ages looking for it. Have asked on forums on how to do this, and got nowhere. (Favoured response there, if any, was MVC and URL ReWriter moduile – yuk.) The simplest answer is always the best.

Comment on Prevent ASP.NET cookies from being sent on every css, js, image request by Somesh Batra

Somesh Batra — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:12:52 +0000

This is one of the best articles so far I have read online. Just useful information. Very well presented. Thanks for sharing with us. Check out this link too…
http://mindstick.com/Articles/c4e253f5-67dc-4211-8a1f-e29c17ce2943/?Cookies%20in%20ASP.NET

Its also helped me lot!!

Thanks Everyone!!

Comment on 100% CPU, 100% IO, a near death experience for SQL Server 2005 and us by Abdul Muheet

Abdul Muheet — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:15:01 +0000

another Awesome post…. love you….

Comment on Prevent ASP.NET cookies from being sent on every css, js, image request by mahdi

mahdi — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:12:53 +0000

How it could work on images that request from CSS file?

Comment on Prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in your web application by mahdi

mahdi — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:37:50 +0000

Hi Omar
Why don’t you use Global.asax?

Comment on Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file by Usman Shaheen

Usman Shaheen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:45:51 +0000

Have you tried AdBlock Plus? addon for FireFox and Chrome.
this addon filters the URL before even before dns resolution call

Comment on Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file by Omar AL Zabir

Omar AL Zabir — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:19:49 +0000

It causes high cpu when it tries to cache dns using the large hosts file.

Comment on Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file by Chandermani

Chandermani — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:50:31 +0000

Great tip! Why was DNS client disable?

Comment on Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file by JDean

JDean — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:35:43 +0000

Changing localhost to 255.255.255.0 allows the browser to determine that it should drop the request. Otherwise the request is redirected to your local HTTP server. If you don’t have one, the request will time out.