Speeding up your application with the IIS Auto-Start feature

Red Gate recently polled the ASP.NET developer community for tips on improving the performance of ASP.NET web applications. The result...

Looking Back; or How to Improve Your Team with Retrospectives

Instead of waiting until the end of a project to ask 'what worked and what didn't, why not use regular...

MongoDB Basics for .NET by Example

MongoDB is one of the more intriguing 'NoSQL' databases to emerge from 'Cloud' computing. Sometimes, the best way of understanding...

Hitting the Ground Running with Parallel Extensions in .NET 4.0

With the arrival of Parallel Extensions in .NET 4.0, the concurrent programming powers traditional reserved for the most elite of...

Two Steps Forward to More Secure Applications

Are you certain that you know enough about cross-site scripting attacks, and SQL Injection to avoid either of them happening...

Multi-Tier Performance Tuning with ANTS Performance Profiler 6

When you are developing a database application that, by its very nature, suffers from I/O bottlenecks, you need to get...

Mutation Testing

You may have a twinge of doubt when your code passes all its unit tests. They might say that the...