Francesco's blog - "Practical Guidelines" won an Excellence Award

Sunday, February 12, 2006

"Practical Guidelines" won an Excellence Award

Great news for yours truly.

Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers won an Excellence Award from the Society of Technical Communication, which selects the best books, sites, and coursewares published in the year. Not just programming-related or computer-related publishing, but technical publishing in the wider sense. As a matter of fact, among the books that won the award, only about ten have to do with software. And the book I co-authored with Giuseppe Dimauro (the other Italian RD) is the only book from Microsoft Press that won the award. I guess it's something we can be quite satisfied of :-)

It's an important acknowledgement and I am especially happy because it's the first book I wrote that isn't part of the "Programming Visual Basic" series, which now counts four editions (VB6, 2002, 2003, and 2005). The "Practical Guideline" book is a truly unique book, the first and only coherent collection of guidelines for .NET developers.

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2/12/2006 8:51:08 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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6/12/2008 1:31:04 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

Francesco,
I have read and really enjoyed your book, I however have a question about connections in ASP.NET using the Page Load and Unload methods.
Other developers have employed this connection methodology but I was skeptical due to application layering and scalability concerns. Recently one of our projects employed this method and now with 200 + concurrent users is seeing timeout issues that are related to not enough pooled connections. The connection is being disposed and closed in page unload but it does not behave as expected to relinquesh the connection back into the pool for use by another process. I would like to know if you seen this, if not how did you employ the connection to Page Load and Unload...
Environment (VS Studio 2005, ASP.NET 2.0)
Ex:

BASE PAGE
inherits system.web.ui.page

Page_LOad
Open Connection
END

Page_Unload
Close
Dispose Connection
END

Please advise your assistance is appreciated.

edmond |edeuserAT NOSPAMrejis dot org

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