If you've ever got an error along the lines of "Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read" from Visual Studio (in my case 2008), it could be due to duplicate entries in the solution file for the global section for source control. Here's how to fix it...

Microsoft Parallel Extension to .Net Framework 3.5 is "a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, and coordination on parallel hardware unified by a common work scheduler" (MSDN). I've taken a look at some examples, some timing versus the same tasks sequentially and included my test project in this article for download.

A HttpModule that removes white space, certain javascript comments, as well as optimising ASPX post-back javascript. This is useful when trying to save on the bandwidth your blog is using, or just plain and simply trying to decrease load time of your pages.

Although ActiveRecord handles the majority, if not all, of your data persistence requirements, there is often a need to get access to the underlying database connection for tasks like bulk SQL copies, one-off stored procedure calls, etc. The included code snippet demonstrates getting the connection and calling a stored procedure.