Measuring performance using Fiddler API

Having used Fiddler as one of the most useful tool as a developer, would it not be easy to actually use Fiddler to measure up website performance, throughput etc. Well!! FiddlerCore API can be used to achieve this. Refer to FiddlerCode API for some samples. Pretty cool. I have been using DevExpress ASP.NET controls for quite sometime now...

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DevExpress Input string was not in a correct format

I have started using ASP.NET DevExpress controls quite some time now. In last couple of days I have seen a strange error on pages with the following error message : "Input string was not in a correct format" Here is what my page consisted of a list of controls - ASPxTextBox - ASPxComboBox - ASPxButton - ASPxCallback I want to pass the input data of ASPxTextBox & ASPxComboBox on button click to server via ASPxCallback...

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State management in ASP.NET for high availability of data

ASP.NET session is the correct answer for state management. Yes that's it developers have to just use session to maintain state ie.. any data relavant to a user's session. Ways to store session state can mainly be categorized into InProc and OutProc. InProc Session state stored as in-memory on the web server. Websites running in "Inproc" mode is completely dependent on the resources of the server. Limitation for number of...

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