Sam Gentile's Blog

ASP.NET and Web Programming

• Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu produces his 7th in the series and the first covering a few runtime features. This particular one is pretty cool: the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without having to wait for an external client to hit the web server.  This can help you provide a faster response experience for the first user who hits the server, and avoids you having to write custom scripts to “warm up” the server and get any data caches ready.  It works with all types of ASP.NET applications – including both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC based applications.
• ScottGu also covers the new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX).  The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
• Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services - Billy talks about one of the "grey areas" between application layers; between where the presentation layer ends and the controller and/or business logic begins.
• Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client - Rick Strahl takes another look at the idea of service proxy is to make it as easy as a single function call to call a WCF or ASMX service. There no dependencies here other than jQuery.js.

Windows Azure

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/14/2009+
• Updating the Windows Azure Story - David Chappell updates his whitepaper