In C# we are having automatic properties since C# 3.5 framework but now with Microsoft.NET 4.0 Framework VB.NET 10.0 version we are also having automatic properties for VB.NET Also.
Like in C# we can define automatic like following.
Public string TestProperty
{
get;
set;
}
Public Property TestProperty As String
In one of our project the site usage of site was very heavy and we need to migrate it to load balancing server. I have never configured the sites in the load balancing server but it was quite interspersing experience Here are the some points which we need to take care while we move asp.net sites into the load balancing environments. So first we will see what is load balancing.
Following is a load balancing definition from the Google.
In computer networking, load balancing is a technique to distribute workload evenly across two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload.
Following are the points which you need to take care when you are deploying your asp.net sites into load balancing server environments.
Machine Key Should be same for both servers: View state and session both are depends on the machine key. If you machine key is not same then you will have problems related to session and view state you may loose your session and view state in between request during post backs. If machine key will not be same then its possible that you can get strange result in Ajax requests. There is a machine key section in web.config where you can specify machine key.
<machineKey validationKey='C44B8B7C521CB5BC7E602BAE6118AA44CD690C7304817129DA27C17E800132A1BD946C6D9AD12F0A5B342840C7D130564195428160B7466146938CA9E3A62686' decryptionKey='0E9DF2DA7F210B84087690FF0BF25C905182AD81E16A5FA9' validation='SHA1'/>
Following is a good link to learn how you can configure sessions state in asp.net application.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317604
<sessionState mode="SQLServer" StateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" SqlConnectionString = "data source=SERVERNAME; user id=sa; password=sa" cookieless="false" timeout="20" />
<system.web> <pages enableViewStateMac="false" /> </system.web>
http://forums.asp.net/p/1119925/1881331.aspx#1881331
File Replication:File Replication is also an important features of load balancing you should have replication enabled on the folders of web application so if you upload anything on one server it should replicated to other sites. Following is good link to understand file replication.
Visual web developer is great tool and I am playing more and more with it and every time I am discovering some new features of it. Recently I have discovered a very cool feature of it. I want to rename a variable in visual studio 2010 Web Developer express edition and I found a great refractor tool for that which will rename that variable in all the instance and all the methods. First you need to select variable which you want to rename and then you need to Right Click ->Refractor->Rename. You can also invoke that via its shortcut Ctrl + R,Ctrl +R and it will be available For reference see the below screenshot.
Once you click the rename which will have a dialog box open which will ask for new name or variable like following.
It is also having options for search in comments and search in string. Search in comment will search and replace in comment and search in string will replace word for any string which contains that variable name. Once you put new name in dialog box it will display a preview of replaced strings like following. Here also you can select where you need to rename and where you don’t want to rename and this is really cool. :)
