Rick Anderson posted step by step tutorial series on MVC covering

And Plural Sigh video library links to MVC [More]

Recently my colleague Ravi cleared the PMP exam. Here is the secret for clearing the exam in his own words

“I cleared the PMP exam after several sleepless nights. I am sharing my experience and I hope it will help you prepare for the PMP exam.

You may call me obsessed with PMI approach to manage the projects; but I treated my PMP exam as a real “Project” and followed the same approach to plan and execute to achieve the PMP certification. Here are the details:

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C# 4 now supports both Named and Optional Parameters. Optional Parameters give the ability to omit the parameter while calling the method whereas Named parameters enable users to specify the parameter name. So users don’t have to worry about the parameter position. [More]

On 64 bit window 2003/2008 servers as soon as you give any .Net (.aspx) resource requests you would notice w3wp.exe taking large amount of memory in form of Virtual bytes.

Looking in task manager we would notice W3wp.exe Process/Commit size: 380 MB

Whereas looking into perfmon virtual bytes counter or in IIS 7 => Worker Processes.We would notice approx. 5.5 GB as virtual bytes occupied by w3wp.exe
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When setting Kernel mode cache via Output Cache module in IIS7.x , you can have any of following value set

kernelCachePolicy – can be DontCache | CacheUntilChange | CacheForTimePeriod | DisableCache (only in server).
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Hanselman made the big announcement on his computer zen blog

Read more http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVC4ASPNETWebAPIAndASPNETWebPagesV2RazorNowAllOpenSourceWithContributions.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29
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Probably you would heard it many times and it is quite evident from the MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.aspx

“Classes within the System.Drawing namespace are not supported for use within a Windows or ASP.NET service. Attempting to use these classes from within one of these application types may produce unexpected problems, such as diminished service performance and run-time exceptions.”

Today I’ll try to explain WHY it is not supported through the windbg dump analysis.

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When you have a Managed COM+ component written in C# class library and hosted on to DLLHOST.EXE

By default on a multi proc box .Net would load Server Mode GC(Mscorsvr) and in case you want to change the GC flavor to Workstation Mode (Mscorwks) for some reasons

Typically we do the change in aspnet.config in framework 2.0 folder
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If you are passionate about troubleshooting issues of the customers world wide ranging from Development boxes to Production down situations.

Then GTSC India is hiring!!!
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In the real world scenario, at times you would have more than one applications running in the Default Web Site. For example:

Default Website
--> Root
--> HR
--> Buggy App
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