ILMerge

ILMerge is a wonderful tool provided by MicroSoft to merge the assembly files.

If you have a licenesed third pary assembly using in the application and you really want to hide it from the users, then ILMerge is a good tool to assist you. It will merge the assemblies (Including EXE) into a single executable (EXE). It will also intenrnally reassign the entry point of the EXE to the merged one.

LosFormatter (Limited Object Serializer Fotmatter)

Limited Object Serializer Fotmatter

• This formatter is used by .Net framework to serizalise viewstate for ASP.Net applications
• Member of System.Web.UI namespace
• This can be used to Serialize and Deserialize the viewstate data

A free Zip Utility

DotnetZip is a wonderful free liberary which can be used in .Net frame work (Mobile too)

It can be used as a replacement of Deflate, GZip Streams.

http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/

A highly rated product.

What make this product good.

• Open source
• Can make self extraction Exe, just like WinZip / Win Rar .. does.
• Compatability with Java.Util.Zip classes

Compress and Decompress Date in Memory using .Net native classes

It uses GZipStream to Compress the data
Good link
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/viewstate/ViewStateCompression.aspx

View State Issue in WebFarm( MAC Failure)

We landed into one issue when we deployed the application in webfarm environment.

Reference

http://www.andreas-kraus.net/blog/index.php?s=postback
http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/03/14/validation-of-viewstate-mac-failed-error.aspx -- the one which has 3 solutions
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312906 - The one which really helped

http://aspnetresources.com/tools/keycreator.aspx (Key Creator Site)

AppDoman - Process Background execution

What ASP.NET Programmers Should Know About Application Domains (Good resource on Background execution in .Net)

http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/305.aspx

Good resource on AppDomain and its background working.

Good resource on AppDomain and its background working.

(What ASP.NET Programmers Should Know About Application Domains )
http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/305.aspx