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oazabir — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:34:05 GMT

For latest news and updates, visit my blog http://omaralzabir.com/

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike IFRAME, it loads the content within the main document and you can put any number of UFrame on your page without slowing down the browser. It supports ASP.NET postback nicely and you can have DataGrid or any other complex ASP.NET control within a UFrame. UFrame works perfectly with ASP.NET MVC making it an replacement for UpdatePanel. Best of all, UFrame is implemented 100% in Javascript making it a cross platform solution. As a result, you can use UFrame on ASP.NET, PHP, JSP or any other platform.

<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

Response from SomePage.aspx is rendered directly inside the UFrame. Here you see two UFrame's are used to load the same SomePage.aspx as if they are loaded inside IFRAME. Another UFrame is used to load AnotherPage.aspx that shows photos from Flickr.

See it in action!

You can test UFrame from:

http://labs.omaralzabir.com/UFrame2005 - Visual Studio 2005 version, .NET 2.0 implementation showing regular ASP.NET 2.0 controls work as usual
http://labs.omaralzabir.com/UFrameMvc - Visual Studio 2008 version shows ASP.NET MVC works fine making UFrame an ultimate replacement for UpdatePanel

Read the article about UFrame

I have published an article about UFrame at CodeProject:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/uframe.aspx

The article explains in details how the UFrame is built. Be prepared for a big dose of Javascript code.

If you find UFrame or the article useful, please vote for me at CodeProject.

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Caching WCF javascript proxy on browser

04 April 2012 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you use WCF services from Javascript, you have to generate the Javascript proxies by hitting the Service.svc/js. If you have five WCF services, then it means five javascripts to download. As browsers download javascripts synchronously, one after another, it adds latency to page load and slows down page rendering performance. Moreover, the same WCF [...]

Memory Stream Multiplexer–write and read from many threads simultaneously

12 March 2012 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Here’s an implementation of MemoryStream like buffer manager where one thread can write and many threads can read simultaneously. Each reading thread gets its own reader and can read from the shared stream on its own without blocking write operation or other parallel read operations. It supports blocking Read call so that reader threads can [...]

ReadLine on Binary Stream

02 March 2012 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you are reading data from a binary stream, like NetworkStream or FileStream and you need to read both binary chunks as well as read one text line at a time, you are on your own as BinaryReader nor Stream supports ReadLine. You can use StreamReader to do ReadLine, but it does not allow you [...]

Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG

04 February 2012 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Here’s the recent presentation made on LIDNUG on scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users. Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users by Omar AL Zabir Here’re the slides. Scaling asp.net websites to millions of users

Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file

29 December 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Internet is full of flash ads nowadays that make page load slower, render slower and consumes more CPU, thus power. If you can browse without having any flash ads or in fact any ads loaded and without any of the tracking scripts – you can browse much faster, scroll through pages much smoother and have [...]

Get Dropthings license by donating to charity

22 December 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Now you no longer pay me for Dropthings license instead you donate the money to a charity and I will give you the license. In case you don’t know what Dropthings is, it is a Web 2.0 Personalizable Dashboard framework that you can use to build Web 2.0 personalizable websites and enterprise dashboards. It is [...]

MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge

15 October 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Microsoft Research arranged MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge on Oct 24, 2011. Beautiful university, made me feel like giving up my job and going back to study. Amazing research work going there, very thought provoking. The session on DNA programming was out of the world. The most surprising thing I learnt that a 10cm [...]

Prevent ASP.NET cookies from being sent on every css, js, image request

15 October 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

ASP.NET generates some large cookies if you are using ASP.NET membership provider. Especially if you are using the Anonymous provider, then a typical site will send the following cookies to every request when a user is logged in, whether the request is to a dynamic page or to any static resource: .DBANON=w3kYczsH8Wvzs6MgryS4JYEF0N-8ZR6aLRSTU9KwVaGaydD6WwUHD7X9tN8vBgjgzKf3r3SJHusTYFjU85y [...]

Tweaking WCF to build highly scalable async REST API

31 July 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

At 9 AM in the morning, during the peak traffic for your business, you get an emergency call that the website you built is no more. It’s not responding to any request. Some people can see some page after waiting for long time but most can’t. So, you think it must be some slow query [...]

Build truly RESTful API and website using same ASP.NET MVC code

26 July 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

A truly RESTful API means you have unique URLs to uniquely represent entities and collections, and there is no verb/action on the URL. You cannot have URL like /Customers/Create or /Customers/John/Update, /Customers/John/Delete where the action is part of the URL that represents the entity. An URL can only represent the state of an entity, like [...]

Automatic Javascript, CSS versioning to refresh browser cache

29 May 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you update javascript or css files that are already cached in users’ browsers, most likely many users won’t get that for some time because of the caching at the browser or intermediate proxy(s). You need some way to force browser and proxy(s) to download latest files. There’s no way to do that effectively across [...]

WCF does not support compression out of the box, so fix it

22 May 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

WCF service and client do not support HTTP Compression out of the box in .NET 3.5 even if you turn on Dynamic Compression in IIS 6 or 7. It has been fixed in .NET 4 but those who are stuck with .NET 3.5 for foreseeable future, you are out of luck. First of all, it’s [...]

WCF does not support compression out of the box, so fix it

26 February 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Safely deploying changes to production servers

23 February 2011 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you deploy incremental changes on a production server, which is running and live all the time, you some times see error messages like “Compiler Error Message: The Type ‘XXX’ exists in both…”. Sometimes you find Application_Start event not firing although you shipped a new class, dll or web.config. Sometimes you find static variables not [...]

Quick ways to boost performance and scalability of ASP.NET, WCF and Desktop Clients

05 December 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

There are some simple configuration changes that you can make on machine.config and IIS to give your web applications significant performance boost. These are simple harmless changes but makes a lot of difference in terms of scalability. By tweaking system.net changes, you can increase the number of parallel calls that can be made from the [...]

Dynamically set WCF Endpoint in Silverlight

05 December 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

When you add a WCF service reference to a Silverlight Application, it generates the ServiceReference.ClientConfig file where the URL of the WCF endpoint is defined. When you add the WCF service reference on a development computer, the endpoint URL is on localhost. But when you deploy the Silverlight client and the WCF service on a [...]

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23 November 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

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Ten Caching Mistakes that Break your App

02 October 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Caching frequently used objects, that are expensive to fetch from the source, makes application perform faster under high load. It helps scale an application under concurrent requests. But some hard to notice mistakes can lead the application to suffer under high load, let alone making it perform better, especially when you are using distributed caching [...]

Dropthings now available from Microsoft/Web

29 September 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Dropthings is now available on Microsoft/Web. You can now install it using the Web Platform Installer. I will soon write an article how to make an installer that can install a ASP.NET website, a SQL Server database, setup web.config files, setup directory permissions (eg App_Data) etc. It wasn’t straightforward and I learnt some best practices [...]

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Updated Wiki: Home

oazabir — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:04:16 GMT

For latest news and updates, visit my blog http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike IFRAME, it loads the content within the main document and you can put any number of UFrame on your page without slowing down the browser. It supports ASP.NET postback nicely and you can have DataGrid or any other complex ASP.NET control within a UFrame. UFrame works perfectly with ASP.NET MVC making it an replacement for UpdatePanel. Best of all, UFrame is implemented 100% in Javascript making it a cross platform solution. As a result, you can use UFrame on ASP.NET, PHP, JSP or any other platform.

<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

See it in action!

Read the article about UFrame

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Dropthings – Web 2.0 AJAX Portal

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal built using .NET 3.5, jQuery Linq to SQL+XML, Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection and all hot techs you can grasp in one shot. It’s a project in use by large companies like BT, Intel, Microsoft and many Education & Govt Orgs in US and other countries.
See it live! or Get the [...]

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PlantUMLEditor – code UML diagram fast

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Produce UML diagrams at the speed of coding. It’s an IDE for writing UML diagrams using plantuml syntax that saves you from the horror of mouse focused UML designers.
Read more

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Fastest Streaming AJAX proxy in the world

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

It’s the fastest streaming proxy for making cross-domain AJAX call on your Web 2.0 sites. Support GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. Can stream large content directly from source without the double download overhead. Fully asynchronous, memory effcient.
Read more

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CPU Alert monitor high CPU and memory usage

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Alerts you when there’s any process consuming high CPU consistently and burning your CPU and battery. Also monitor high memory usage by any process that might be slowing down other processes.
Read more

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ParallelWork multi-threading library for WPF

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Feature rich multi-threading library to run tasks in parallel, chain tasks, update UI from background thread, terminate all tasks, wait for all tasks using a convenient fluent API.
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Ensure: Load html, js, css on demand

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

A tiny javascript library to load html, javascript, css on demand and inject on page. Handy for ajaxifying any website without using custom frameworks.
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UFrame: combine UpdatePanel and IFRAME

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

UFrame is the light weight Javascript only alternative to UpdatePanel and IFRAME to do AJAX cheap. You can load any page from your site with javascripts, css, and html on demand and inject anywhere on the page.
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Desktop Spy: email subject’s desktop screenshot

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Secretly take snapshot of subject’s desktop screen and mail to you periodically. Handy surveillance tool.
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Desktop RSS Aggregator with Outlook

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Read and aggregate RSS feeds into a desktop application and optionally send them to Outlook for more convenient reading.
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SmartClient with Office like Automation

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Build a Smart Client using Microsoft Office like automation model. Highly pluggable architecture that is much cleaner as separation of concern is maximized.
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SwitchNetConfig

09 April 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Save and quickly switch between multiple network configuration. When you have a laptop that you use at home and work, you can use this to quickly change between different network settings.
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C# with keyword equivalent

21 March 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

There’s no with keyword in C#, like Visual Basic.
So you end up writing code like this:

this.StatusProgressBar.IsIndeterminate = false;
this.StatusProgressBar.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
this.StatusProgressBar.Minimum = 0;
this.StatusProgressBar.Maximum = 100;
this.StatusProgressBar.Value = percentage;

Here’s a work around to this:

this.StatusProgressBar.Use(p =>
{
p.IsIndeterminate = false;
p.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
p.Minimum = 0;
p.Maximum = 100;
p.Value = percentage;});

Saves you repeatedly typing [...]

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ParallelWork: Feature rich multithreaded fluent task execution library for WPF

14 March 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

ParallelWork is an open source free helper class that
lets you run multiple work in parallel threads, get success,
failure and progress update on the WPF UI thread, wait for work to
complete, abort all work (in case of shutdown), queue work to run
after certain time, chain parallel work one after another.
It’s more convenient than using .NET’s
BackgroundWorker because [...]

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Open Source WPF UML Design tool

09 March 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

PlantUmlEditor is my
new free open source UML designer project built using WPF and .NET
3.5. If you have used plantuml before, you know
that you can quickly create sophisitcated UML diagrams without
struggling with a designer. Especially those who use Visio to draw
UML diagrams (God forbid!), you will be at heaven. This is a super
fast way to get [...]

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Do Unit Test and Integration Test from same test code using Conditional Compilation

28 February 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

You usually write unit test and integration test code separately
using different technologies. For example, for unit test, you use
some mocking framework like Moq to
do the mocking. For integration test, you do not use any mocking,
just some test classes that hits some service or facade to do
end-to-end integration test. However, sometimes you see that the
integration and [...]

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Is your computer running slow, battery running out quickly?

28 February 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

If your computer is running hot or battery running out quickly
then it is most likely due to some application or process consuming
high CPU or memory. If you keep running applications for a long
time, for example, Outlook, then it continues to grow in memory
consumption and does not free up memory efficiently. As a result,
your computer runs [...]

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Fast Streaming Ajax Proxy with GET PUT POST DELETE

22 February 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

I have enhanced my streaming Ajax Proxy with POST, PUT and
DELETE features. Previously it supported only GET. Now it supports
all 4 popular methods for complete REST support. Using this proxy,
you can call REST API on external domain directly from your
website’s javascript code. You can test the proxy from this
link:

labs.omaralzabir.com/ajaxstreamingproxy/GetPutDeleteTest.aspx
The latest source code for the Ajax [...]

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Windows 7 64bit, Outlook 2010 64bit, Conferencing Addin 64bit, Macbook Pro 64bit

04 February 2010 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

I am a 64bit freak. I got Windows 7, Outlook 2010, Conferencing
Addin all 64 bit versions to work on a Macbook pro. Those who are
thinking about moving to 64bit and hesitating whether something
will break, GO AHEAD! Macbook Pro hardware and Microsoft’s
software are the best combination out there. You will enjoy every
moment you spend with your [...]

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Unit Testing and Integration Testing in real projects

21 November 2009 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

I am yet to find a proper sample on how to do realistic Test
Driven Development (TDD) and how to write proper unit tests for
complex business applications, that gives you enough confidence to
stop doing manual tests anymore. Generally
the samples show you how to test a Stack or a LinkedList, which
is far simpler than testing a [...]

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Simple way to cache objects and collections for greater performance and scalability

01 November 2009 | From Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs

Caching of frequently used data greatly increases the
scalability of your application since you can avoid repeated
queries on database, file system or to webservices. When objects
are cached, it can be retrieved from the cache which is lot faster
and more scalable than loading from database, file or web service.
However, implementing caching is tricky and monotonous when you
have [...]

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Updated Wiki: Home

oazabir — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:18:58 GMT

<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

See it in action!

Read the article about UFrame

Updated Wiki: Home

oazabir — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:47:18 GMT

 
<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

See it in action!

You can test UFrame from:

http://labs.dropthings.com/UFrame2005 - Visual Studio 2005 version, .NET 2.0 implementation showing regular ASP.NET 2.0 controls work as usual
http://labs.dropthings.com/UFrameMvc - Visual Studio 2008 version shows ASP.NET MVC works fine making UFrame an ultimate replacement for UpdatePanel

Read the article about UFrame

Updated Wiki: Home

oazabir — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:46:37 GMT

For latest news and updates, visit my blog utl:http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike IFRAME, it loads the content within the main document and you can put any number of UFrame on your page without slowing down the browser. It supports ASP.NET postback nicely and you can have DataGrid or any other complex ASP.NET control within a UFrame. UFrame works perfectly with ASP.NET MVC making it an replacement for UpdatePanel. Best of all, UFrame is implemented 100% in Javascript making it a cross platform solution. As a result, you can use UFrame on ASP.NET, PHP, JSP or any other platform.

 
<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

See it in action!

Read the article about UFrame

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oazabir — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:51:22 GMT

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript and CSS, just like an IFRAME. But unlike IFRAME, it loads the content within the main document and you can put any number of UFrame on your page without slowing down the browser. It supports ASP.NET postback nicely and you can have DataGrid or any other complex ASP.NET control within a UFrame. UFrame works perfectly with ASP.NET MVC making it an replacement for UpdatePanel. Best of all, UFrame is implemented 100% in Javascript making it a cross platform solution. As a result, you can use UFrame on ASP.NET, PHP, JSP or any other platform.

 
<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

See it in action!

Read the article about UFrame

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oazabir — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:08:08 GMT

 
<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

See it in action!

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oazabir — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:27:36 GMT

 
<div class="UFrame" id="UFrame1" src="SomePage.aspx?ID=UFrame1" >
  <p>This should get replaced with content from Somepage.aspx</p>
</div>

Response from SomePage.aspx is rendered directly inside the UFrame. Here you see two UFrame's are used to load the same SomePage.aspx as if they are loaded inside IFRAME: