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	<description>Random Thoughts of a Software Development Professional</description>
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		<title>Wrap your ASP.Net session state into a more meaningful object.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried to eliminate as much session state as possible as I know that it can cause some issues, especially in a server farm environment. However, there are quite a few times that I just need to have it, and I really doubt this small application is going to be hosted in a farm environment. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/12/08/wrap-your-asp-net-session-state-into-a-more-meaningful-object/</link>
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		<title>WCF in an ASP.Net Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted a question on Stackoverflow.com today because I am experiancing some issues in production with a web application that is using WCF. To make a long story short, see this post.
My solution was actually quite simple and easy for me to implement. I can&#8217;t post actual code here since it&#8217;s a production project and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/05/22/wcf-in-an-aspnet-application/</link>
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		<title>First usage of WCF and specified fields.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t done much in the past with WCF. We had built our web service with the classes .Net 2.0 form of web services and it worked well. Then one day I realized that we had no built in security other than SSL. Since we had added a lot more things to it that could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/04/27/first-usage-of-wcf-and-specified-fields/</link>
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		<title>Why excellent vendor support matters.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been having some strange problems on production installs. Things like screens clearing when they shouldn&#8217;t, applications slowing down when they didn&#8217;t before, and people&#8217;s computers running slower and slower until they close our application. When I was finally informed of this, I knew it had to be memory leaks.
So I fired up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/03/20/why-excellent-vendor-support-matters/</link>
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		<title>How VB.Net can screw up a newbie without them knowing it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this by saying I have no hate for VB.Net. When used properly, it is just as good as C#. However, VB as a whole has gotten a bad rep because generally the people that flock to it are the ones with no formal programming experience. Thus, they don&#8217;t really always know what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/03/17/how-vbnet-can-screw-up-a-newbie-without-them-knowing-it/</link>
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		<title>Linq to SQL in web services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite a while ago, I investigated the use of Linq to SQL in our one web service component that feeds a CMS that we package with out software. In my initial investigations, every time I would send an entity through the web service, I would get a circular reference error. This made sense since each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/03/02/linq-to-sql-in-web-services/</link>
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		<title>ASP.Net MVC versus Web Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASP.Net MVC is an awesome concept, and works great. It just has a little way to go in the UI department.]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/02/05/aspnet-mvc-versus-web-forms/</link>
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		<title>Wix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In finally get CruiseControl.Net set up to not only automate our build process, but notify us of any breaking changes on checkin, I discovered some issues in using the standard setup and deployment projects. Not wanting to spend a lot of time on it, I decided to look into Wix and see how it could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2009/01/09/wix/</link>
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		<title>Make it easy for the IT department.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite a while I have noticed that there seems to be this huge divide between IT departments and the software developers. I say IT meaning the hardware/software support department and the programmers that write software. In my organization, we are only software developers. Any hardware support is done by me because I have had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2008/06/23/make-it-easy-for-the-it-department/</link>
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		<title>I </title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the latest technologies to hit .Net recently is Linq. Language Integrated Query allows you to perform a more SQL like syntax on object collections in code. It has been out for quite some time, but I just recently was able to use it in a project. It&#8217;s pretty cool stuff and has already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecodemonk.com/2008/06/03/i/</link>
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