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Base64 serialized images are useful in many cases for serving images on page. It is also a format of image that JavaScript can generate on the fly. HTML canvas object has native support for base64 and it can be easily serialized to base64 string from JavaScript code by invoking toDataURL method of the canvas element. ... read more

It is an often case that application configuration is different for each environment. Most often this is the case for database connection string where developer has connection string to dev environment database or it's local database and quality assurance (qa) and production have different connection strings wile the rest of the config ... read more

Microsoft made IIS management from the ASP.NET code itself much easer and accessible right out of the box by introducing Microsoft.Web.Administration library. Simply by adding the reference in your project to Microsoft.Web.Administration library you are getting options to manage websites hosted on the IIS where application is running. One of the requirements beside referencing Microsoft.Web.Administration library is setting your Application Pool to run under LocalSystem account. ... read more

Using REDIS for caching values for increasing application performance can be quite beneficial and can increase performance and scalability of your application. Although REDIS allows quite large text files, up to 512MB which is something you most likely will not reach if you are storing for example JOSN data, there will be a significant network transfer over the wire for putting and pulling this value in and out. ... read more

This article is based on one of my previous topic Advanced Base64 image extension in ASP.NET MVC. It uses the same concept to display image on the page and to cache it, but it involves QR code bitmap generation which is basically a NuGet package use. Basically, QR code is generated using NuGet package QRCoder https://www.nuget.org/packages/QRCoder/ and result Bitmap is serialized to base64 string and cached so we do not regenerate same QR bitmap over and over on every request which may lead to server overload. ... read more

The common reason I wrote Windows Services applications for are usually workers. For example, you need to read messages from the queue and process them ... read more

Web API and in general REST services are becoming more and more often used layer of the applications. It relies on the HTTP, it is lighter than the SOAP and more natural to JavaScript, therefore easy to use both from the client and serer side ... read more

Serializing images to base64 string is well known technique to reduce requests per page. Each image on the page produces a separate request while page is loading ... read more

When it comes to WebAPI many project overlook the versioning aspect. The whole concept of WebAPI is to serve multiple types of clients which can be based on different platforms, run on different devices etc ... read more

Like JavaScript, CSS files are also loaded on the page by default in a blocking manner. Luckily for us, for JavaScript we can use either async or defer attributes on the script tag itself to change the behavior of JavaScript external file loading. There is a different between these two attributes, but this is not the subject of this article. ... read more