visual studio – Chris Coulson's Developer Notes

Simplify Your Caching By Using a Generic Method

Chris Coulson — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:02:20 +0000

I needed to add caching to my data access routines to improve the performance of commonly accessed data. This is pretty straightforward: The problem was, I had a lot of data access routines that I wanted to add caching to. Adding the 4 or 5 lines of code needed to do this to each routine would be tedious, and all of the repetition would be messy. I knew I had to centralize my caching functionality...

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Performance Profiling a SharePoint 2010 Project using EQATEC Profiler

Chris Coulson — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:11:44 +0000

I wanted to profile a SharePoint 2010 project i’d been working on, in order to find some of the slower methods so that they could be improved. I decided to give EQATEC Profiler a try since it had some good recommendations on StackOverflow and was FREE. EQATEC works by modifying and rebuilding your assemblies. Since I use Visual Studio 2010’s built in package and deployment features, it needs to be...

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Deploying Localized Satellite Assemblies with SharePoint 2010

Chris Coulson — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:52:32 +0000

Localizing web parts in a SharePoint 2010 project is pretty straight forward. Add resource files to your project, set the Deployment Type to AppGlobalResource, and then access them with GetGlobalResourceObject or with the <%$Resources> tag. Unfortunately this only works where you have the HttpContext – so great for web parts, but useless for Timer jobs and event receivers. In order to access the...

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