10 ways to improve your client relationships

One thing is true for all consultants: If we have any work, we have clients. And one of our most important roles is to maintain and enhance our relationship with them. Preserving those relationships can be good for referrals and future business, as well as making the time spent on the project more enjoyable and satisfying. Here are some suggestions to help you foster those important business relationships.

Easier way to manage your ASP.NET Cache

Was recently told by a client of mine that the ASP.NET app I developed was WAY TOO SLOW! I had to agree; the site was pinging the database twice on every load of the home page. So I said, “Give me a week… I’ll make it work better”. I went home feeling bad… my app was slow and I really didn’t know where to begin. I had a lot of code that depended on pinging the database and I didn’t want to sift through it all. What I ended up doing was using the cache object.

I started to look at other open source projects and their approaches to caching. Than DotNetKicks’ cache manager caught my eye! I went off that idea and created my own way of implementing an object to interface with the cache object, making it more manageable.

The Cache manager I wrote has 3 methods (Grab, insert, clear), a constructor and 2 properties (CacheKey, CacheDuration). So here’s my code in VB and C#:

Encrypt / Decrypt Section in Configuration File

Lets understand Encrypt and Decrypt particular section in web.config file with example of connectionstring encrypt in web.config file.

URL Mapping in asp.net 2.0

URL Mapping is a mechanism by which you can change the displayed url in address bar.

Example:

Your asp.net application is developed from years, with convention frm as prefix to webform.

XPath

XPath uses path expressions to select nodes or node-sets in an XML document.
The node is selected by following a path or steps.