There are many good articles on the web covering ASP.NET Page LifeCycle – published my Microsoft on MSDN or by professionals in .NET related blogs. dynaTrace allowed me to dive deeper into the Page LifeCycle seeing the impact of my implemented OnInit, OnPreRender, … methods of my pages, web parts and controls when my application actually [...]

ASP.NET offers a powerful GridView control that can be used to display data from different data sources, e.g.: SQLServer, LINQ, XML, …  The control additionally supports features like paging, sorting and editing. Visual Studio makes it very easy to use this control on your web page and to bind it to a data source like [...]

What is LINQ? LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a great set of new features that evolved out of the LINQ Project (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa904594.aspx). LINQ allows you to execute “SQL Like” queries against different kinds of data sources (.NET objects/lists, SQL, XML). Its very powerful and it helps developers to query for certain information instead of “hand-coding” [...]

I am currently attending MSFT TechEd in Orlando. During lasts week TechEd for Developers I was given the opportunity to talk about dynaTrace Diagnostics – the Integration into Visual Studio Team System and how dynaTrace is able to provide a solution for Microsoft SharePoint throughout the Application LifeCycle. They key components to our LifeCycle Solution [...]