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Entity Framework and slow bulk INSERTs
21 comments
December 22, 2013 - Maui, HI
While inserting a large number of records into a SQL database using EF Code First, I ran into some stunningly slow performance. In this article I show the problem and a couple of simple workarounds to this issue.
Dell XPS 15 review
26 comments
December 19, 2013 - Maui, HI
I recently picked up new Dell XPS 15 to replace an older XPS machine. Lots of things to like about this machine - here's a quick review of what I liked and didn't.
Accepting Raw Request Body Content with ASP.NET Web API
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December 13, 2013 - Maui, HI
One ASP.NET Web API related question that frequently comes up frequently is how to capture the raw request content to a simple parameter on a controller method. Turns out that's not as easy as it should be. In this post I discuss how to natively capture the raw request content and then create a [NakedBody] attribute that makes it easy capture the raw content in a string or byte[] parameter.
Re-examining ASP.NET and Helios Performance Tests
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December 09, 2013 - Maui, HI
Spend a little time over the weekend re-running some of my ASP.NET raw throughput benchmarks on my new machine and found some interesting results. Much faster, but also some surprises with self-hosting and efficiency surprises with various Web API approaches.