Just a quick one. Microsoft’s Devsta Challenge officially starts today. There are some great prizes including Xboxes, MSDN subscriptions and MIX09 tickets. All you need to do is go to http://devsta.microsoft.com.au and sign up with your Windows Live ID. So get coding, you have 200 hours to complete the task!
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Today I presented at the Sydney .NET User Group. The topic was using LINQ to SQL with WCF in a three tiered architecture.
It was quite a good turn out and I had lots of good audience feedback during the session. Thank you to all those who attended the session. I hope you all found it useful.
Yesterday I presented in an unusually cold Canberra. The topic was using LINQ to SQL with WCF in a three tiered architecture.
There was a lunchtime session at King O’Malley’s Irish Pub followed by an evening session at Microsoft Canberra.
A big thank you to Adam Cogan and Justin King for accompanying me to Canberra and proving useful feedback. Also a big thank you to those who attended the seesions for the interesting view point and discussions we had on the topic.
Resources
This weeks lunchtime training at SSW was about dealing with large (over 50,000 records) in ASP.NET. It was also my first screencast, so be sure to check out the video.
The Databound Drop Down List
I covered the disadvantages of trying to display a list of clients in a drop down list. The rendered page for 50,000 records
The drop down list:
- Rendered out a 5MB page
- Took 17 minutes to load on a dialup account
