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In this post we are going to talk about techniques for displaying data contained in the SQL Server database with ASP.NET. There are at least three ways commonly used to perform the data binding to server conrol in ASP.NET 4.5
Here are three ways:
but in this time I will explain how to create a database with the Data Source Control in ASP.NET 4.5
Web Config
Before going into the main discussion helps me informed beforehand that the connection string that is used to communicate with the database in ASP.NET contained in the configuration file "web.config". Here are the contents
file: Web.config
<?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <connectionStrings> <add name="learn_webConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=SOFT-ENGINEER;Initial Catalog=learning_web;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /></connectionStrings> <system.web> <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" /> <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" /> </system.web> </configuration>
Database Design
The database used in this post only use one of the table is very simple with the name "Category"
Data Source Control
Data Source Control in ASP.NET 4.5 used as a link between the database with controls for displaying data. Using this approach means that we do is get the data in a declarative rather than programmatic. To be more explicit, the following is a sample code
file: default.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="TryingWebForm.Default" %><!DOCTYPE html><title>Data Source Control</title>
<form id="form1" runat="server">

The Declarative Way
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="sdsCategory" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:trying_webConnectionString %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [id], [name_category] FROM [Category]"/><asp:GridView ID="gvCategoryDeclarative" runat="server" DataSourceID="sdsCategory" />
</form>
As seen in the above code, control "SqlDataSource" requires a connection string and a query command to be executed. In magic this control will connect to the database and execute commands query and the result was thrown into "GridView" by filling property "DataSourceID" with the Id of control SqlDataSource concerned. The image below is the result
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Here I will explain how to count number of records in xml file in C# using ASP.NET 4.5 Cloud Hosting Spain or how to count number of nodes in xml file in asp.net using C# and VB.NET or count number of elements in xml file in C#.
In previous articles I explained insert xml data to sql table using stored procedure, Bind xml data to dropdown/gridview in asp.net, create online poll system with percentage graphs in asp.net and many articles relating to xml, Gridview, SQL, jQuery,asp.net, C#,VB.NET. Now I will explain how to count number of records in xml file in C# using ASP.NET.
To count number of nodes from xml file we need to write the code like as shown below
XmlDocument readDoc = new XmlDocument(); readDoc.Load(MapPath("Sample.xml")); int count = readDoc.SelectNodes("CommentsInformation/Comments").Count; lblcount.InnerHtml = "Number of Records: "+ count;
If you want to see it in complete example we need to write the code like as shown below  <title></title>   <form id="form1" runat="server">

  Name:	  <asp:TextBox ID="txtName" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

  Email:	  <asp:TextBox ID="txtEmail" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

	  <asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" OnClick="btnSubmit_Click" Text="Submit" />

 </form>
After that add XML file to your application and give name as "Sample.xml" then add root element in xml file otherwise it will through error. Here I added CommentInformation as root element in XML file.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <CommentsInformation> </CommentsInformation>
After that add this namespace in codebehind
C# Codeusing System; using System.Xml;After that add below code in code behind
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { } protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument(); xmldoc.Load(Server.MapPath("Sample.xml")); XmlElement parentelement = xmldoc.CreateElement("Comments"); XmlElement name = xmldoc.CreateElement("Name"); name.InnerText = txtName.Text; XmlElement email = xmldoc.CreateElement("Email"); email.InnerText = txtEmail.Text; parentelement.AppendChild(name);parentelement.AppendChild(email);xmldoc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(parentelement); xmldoc.Save(Server.MapPath("Sample.xml")); XmlDocument readDoc = new XmlDocument(); readDoc.Load(MapPath("Sample.xml")); int count = readDoc.SelectNodes("CommentsInformation/Comments").Count; lblcount.InnerHtml = "Number of Records: "+ count; }
VB.NET CodeImports System.Xml Partial Class vbcode Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) End Sub Protected Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Dim xmldoc As New XmlDocument() xmldoc.Load(Server.MapPath("Sample.xml")) Dim parentelement As XmlElement = xmldoc.CreateElement("Comments") Dim name As XmlElement = xmldoc.CreateElement("Name") name.InnerText = txtName.Text Dim email As XmlElement = xmldoc.CreateElement("Email") email.InnerText = txtEmail.Text parentelement.AppendChild(name) parentelement.AppendChild(email) xmldoc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(parentelement) xmldoc.Save(Server.MapPath("Sample.xml")) Dim readDoc As New XmlDocument() readDoc.Load(MapPath("Sample.xml")) Dim count As Integer = readDoc.SelectNodes("CommentsInformation/Comments").Count lblcount.InnerHtml = "Number of Records: " & count End Sub End Class
In total ASP.NET provide 5 + 1(ValidationSummary) validation control:
will discuss about all the control in detail, but before that i will elaborate the attributes that are common to all the controls.
1. Display - This attribute is used to display the error message. It takes 3 options
In short static and dynamic do exactly the same thing. Difference between them is that in case of static Style for the  is
style="visibility: hidden; color: red;"
and in case of Dynamic Style for span is
style="display: none; color: red;"
2. ControlToValidate - This attribute is used to get the control on which validation is to applied 3. EnableClientScript - Boolean value to indicate whether client- side validation is enabled or not. Default value is true. 4. IsValid - Boolean value to indicate whether the control mention is ControlToValidate attribute is valid or not. Default value is true. 5. Enabled - Boolean valued to indicate if Validation control is enabled or not. Default value is true. 6. ErrorMessage - This is the text message that will be displayed in the validation summary.
RequiredFieldValidator Control As the name suggest, this validation control make sure that control mention in ControlToValidate cannot be empty. <asp:TextBox ID="txtSampleTextBox" runat="server"> </asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="reqfldValidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtSampleTextBox" Enabled="true" Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="Required" ToolTip="Required"> *</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
CompareValidator Control This Control is used to compare the value or one control to the value of another control or to a fixed value. One catch here is that validation pass if both the fields are empty. To handle that one require to apply Required field validator along with CompareValidator. <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" /> <asp:TextBox ID="txtTextBox2" runat="server" /> <asp:CompareValidator ID="CompareValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtTextBox1" ControlToCompare="txtTextBox2" Display="Dynamic" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" ToolTip="No Match">*</asp:CompareValidator> ControlToCompare - This take the Id of control with which comparison is being done. Comparison can be made on following data types: Currency, Date, Double, Integer and String RangeValidator As the name suggest this control is used to make sure that data entered by the user fall within the specified range. Again as for Compare validator validation will pass if input control is empty. Use RequiredFieldValidator to fix this issue. <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" /> <asp:RangeValidator ID="RangeValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtTextBox1" MaximumValue="800" MinimumValue="5" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" Display="Dynamic" Type="String" ToolTip="Error">*</asp:RangeValidator> A little explanation for this validator. It has a Type attribute that signifies the datatype for Range. In above example datatype is string with MinimumValue="5" and MaximumValue="100". The validation goes like it will accept all the value that satisfy the regex ^[5-8]+$. A little confusing but will get clear after 2 3 reading.
RegularExpressionValidator This is one of my favorite validator control. This control provide maximum level of flexibility to the developer and almost all the validator control function can be achieved using this validator control. RegularExpressionValidator control has attribute ValidationExpression that is used to specify the regular expression that is used to validate the input control.
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" /> <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" runat="server"
ControlToValidate="txtTextBox1" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="^[5-8]+$" ToolTip="Error">*</asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
CustomValidator Control: Custom validator control is used to capture the validation that cannot be handled by the validator controls provided by ASP.NET. Here user is at the freedom to define his own custom method, both Client side and Server side. <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" /> <asp:CustomValidator runat="server" ClientValidationFunction="YouClientValidationFunction" ControlToValidate="txtTextBox1" ID="cstmValidatorControl" OnServerValidate="ServerSideMethod" ValidateEmptyText="true" ToolTip="Error">*</asp:CustomValidator> ValidateEmptyText is a boolean attribute that if set to true, the input control will be validated even if it is empty. ClientValidationFunction contains name of client validation function. OnServerValidate contains name of server validation function.
ValidationSummary Control This control is used to display the list of all the validation error that has occurred on the page. The error message displayed is the one set for the ErrorMessage attribute of the validation control. No error message will be displayed if this attribute is not set. <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" /> <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtTextBox1" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="^[5-8]+$" ErrorMessage="Error" ToolTip="Error">*</asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="Button1" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" Text="Submit" /> <asp:ValidationSummary runat="server" ID="ValidationSummary1" ShowMessageBox="true" ValidationGroup="MyGroup" ShowSummary="true" DisplayMode="BulletList" />
DisplayMode has three options List, BulletList and SingleParagraph ShowMessageBox when set to true will display the error as a alert popup ShowSummary will display the error on the page. By default it is true.
Page level caching for ASP.NET 4.5 web forms and MVC websites is pretty awesome, because it allows you to implement something that's quite complex; multilevel caching, without having to really understand too much about caching, or even write much code. But what if you want to clear a cached ASP.net page before it's due to expire.
What page caching aims to achieve
When developers turn to caching pages in their ASP.net websites, usually it's because of one thing; the need for speed. When our code bases start to require continual requests to a data store, be it disk or database, that doesn't change too much overtime, caching is usually the first hammer we turn to to minimise fetching from slower stores. ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.Net MVC both make this a pretty trivial thing to do by hiding the complexity of cache providers behind simple attributes to either your .aspx pages or controller actions:
WebForms page output caching example:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="300" VaryByParam="productId" %> ASP.net MVC controller caching: [OutputCache(Duration = 300, VaryByParam = "prodId")] public ActionResult ProductDetails(string prodId) { … } }
The above is awesome because it's simplicity, but you'll notice one key thing here: I've set my cache expiry to 300 seconds. This is primarily because I want the content to pull from the source now and then just in case something has changed. I've used 300 seconds, but really the time may be inconsequential – I've just set it to an arbitrary number that I deemed would meet my needs.
This doesn't really use the cache as well as it could be used in many scenarios, the primary one being during a period where my site isn't being updated, and the content only changes once every few days/weeks/months. The .NET tooling attempts to allow for these situations by having support for providers like the SQLCacheDependency you can add to your application. But the SQL cache provider or even a CustomCacheProvider don't give you the fine grain control you really want: being able to programmatically remove page, control, action or child-action level cached pages. Like most great things: simple and elegant ASP.net does support this out of the box – you just don't hear about it much. You can tell the runtime to remove cached pages and controls simply by using a very simple recursive API that refers to it's relative URL.
// remove any webforms cached item with the wildcard default.aspx* HttpResponse.RemoveOutputCacheItem("/default.aspx"); // just remove the webforms product page with the prodId=1234 param HttpResponse.RemoveOutputCacheItem("/product.aspx?prodId=1234"); // remove my MVC controller action's output HttpResponse.RemoveOutputCacheItem(Url.Action("details", "product", new { id = 1234 }));
You'll notice for the MVC page's cache reference I used the Url.Action helper, and I recommend this, as it uses the same MVC routing as the cache provider – usually taking the first route found. Using the Url.Action helper means your provided Url follows the same path in reverse to that of the cache provider. For MVC child actions there is currently no way that I know of clearing individual control's caches. MVC controller child actions are stored in the ChildActionCache. To clear the entire child action cache you can do the following:
OutputCacheAttribute.ChildActionCache = new MemoryCache("NewRandomStringNameToClearTheCache");
Obviously this is a pretty aggressive approach, but if you would like to do this in a more granular fashion, try the open source project MVC Doughnut caching instead.
This is very simple to implement in ASP.NET 4.5 Hosting. But, there are possibilities to get problems in exporting to excel from grid view. When you bind data to gridview and write some logic to export to excel then it will not be enough. We have to check or write some additional logic which will help us to solve the problems. Below is the explanation for all problems we may get in the complete process along with detailed solution. You may encounter below errors when you try to implement the export to excel for gridview.
Control of type "GridView" must be placed inside of the form tag with runat="server" This is very well known error to ASP.NET developers and by seeing it, we think that the control is not inside the form with runat server. But this is not correct. This error will come even if we put the GridView inside form with runat server. The reason is, in the export to excel logic we are calling RenderControl() method of GridView. So, to render it without any issues we have to override the "VerifyRenderingInServerForm" in our code. Below is the syntax of the event. Add this to the c# code in code behind file. Remember this event is a Page event means this method you should place in ASPX page. If you are using user control to implement this export to excel logic then below are the ways to go.
1. If your user control is using by less than 3-4 pages then go to each and every page and add this event to the page.
2. If your user control is using by more than 5 pages then the best solution is to create a base page [Which inherits from System.Web.UI.Page class] and all your ASPX pages should inherit from this base page.public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
{ //Confirms that an HtmlForm control is rendered for the specified ASP.NET //server control at run time. }
Now, after we added the event to page, the error will go away for sure. Even when you add the above code/event to the page, this is not enough if you have the paging, sorting enabled on gridview. If you enable paging or sorting then you encounter the below error.
"RegisterForEventValidation can only be called during Render();"
This error is coming because we are doing paging and sorting. If no paging or sorting enabled this error will not come. To resolve this error, please follow below steps.
1. In your export to excel button click event, first disable the paging, sorting on gridview and do data bind. 2. Call export to excel logic. 3. Re-enable paging, sorting on gridview and databind.
Below is the logic we have to use in export to excel button click event.
gvReport.AllowPaging = false; gvReport.AllowSorting = false; gvReport.DataBind(); ExportToExcel();//Method to use export to excel. gvReport.AllowPaging = true; gvReport.AllowSorting = false; gvReport.DataBind();
Now, you are clear with all errors and the logic will export all data in gridview to excel.
FYI, I am placing a sample of ExportToExcel() functionality here.
private void ExportToExcel() { Response.Clear(); Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", string.Format("attachment;filename=excel_report.xls")); Response.Charset = ""; // Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.xls"; System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new System.IO.StringWriter(); System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite); gvReport.RenderControl(htmlWrite); Response.Write(stringWrite.ToString()); Response.End(); }
Note: gvReport is the gridview control name in my example. And there are lot of posts in internet guide you incorrect to resolve the above error. For example, they will say set EnableEventValidation="false" in the <%@ Page directive Or disable validation in web.config level to resolve the error. Please do not set it.
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Authorization filters and action filters have been around for a while in ASP.NET Web API but there is this new authentication filter introduced in Web API 2. Authentication filters have their own place in the ASP.NET Web API pipeline like other filters. Historically, authorization filters have been used to implement authentication and there is ton of samples out there with all kinds of authentication implemented in authorization filters. Web API 2 introduces the authentication filter so that authentication concerns can be separated out of authorization filter and put into an authentication filter.
This blog post is just a quick introduction to writing a custom authentication filter for implementing HTTP Basic Authentication. There is a full-blown example here, if you are interested in writing a production-strength filter.First up, we create the filter class BasicAuthenticator implementing the IAuthenticationFilter interface. We also derive from Attribute so that we can apply the filter on action methods, like so.
public class EmployeesController : ApiController
[BasicAuthenticator(realm: "Magical")]
public HttpResponseMessage Get(int id)
return Request.CreateResponse<Employee>(
new Employee()
Id = id,
FirstName = "Johnny",
LastName = "Law"
There are two interesting methods that we need to implement in the filter – (1) AuthenticateAsync and (2) ChallengeAsync.
AuthenticateAsync contains the core authentication logic. If authentication is successful, context.Prinicipal is set. Otherwise, context.ErrorResult is set to UnauthorizedResult, which basically gets translated to a "401 – Unauthorized" HTTP response status code.
public class BasicAuthenticator : Attribute, IAuthenticationFilter
private readonly string realm;
public bool AllowMultiple { get { return false; } }
public BasicAuthenticator(string realm)
this.realm = "realm=" + realm;
public Task AuthenticateAsync(HttpAuthenticationContext context,
CancellationToken cancellationToken)
var req = context.Request;
if (req.Headers.Authorization != null &&
"basic", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
string credentials = encoding.GetString(
string[] parts = credentials.Split(':');
string userId = parts[0].Trim();
string password = parts[1].Trim();
if (userId.Equals(password)) // Just a dumb check
var claims = new List<Claim>()
new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, "badri")
var id = new ClaimsIdentity(claims, "Basic");
var principal = new ClaimsPrincipal(new[] { id });
context.Principal = principal;
context.ErrorResult = new UnauthorizedResult(
new AuthenticationHeaderValue[0],
return Task.FromResult(0);
public Task ChallengeAsync(
HttpAuthenticationChallengeContext context,
CancellationToken cancellationToken) {}}
For basic authentication, when there is a 401, we are supposed to send WWW-Authenticate header and the right place to write such challenge related logic will be the ChallengeAsync method. This is where things get interesting because it is not so straight forward to add headers here. The recommended approach is to create a class implementing IHttpActionResult and set an instance of it to context.Result, like so.
public Task ChallengeAsync(HttpAuthenticationChallengeContext context,
CancellationToken cancellationToken)
context.Result = new ResultWithChallenge(context.Result, realm);
return Task.FromResult(0);
Here is the result class. The crux of this class is in the ExecuteAsync method and that is where we set the WWW-Authenticate response header indicating the scheme and the realm.
public class ResultWithChallenge : IHttpActionResult
private readonly IHttpActionResult next;
private readonly string realm;
public ResultWithChallenge(IHttpActionResult next, string realm)
this.next = next;
this.realm = realm;
public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> ExecuteAsync(
CancellationToken cancellationToken)
var res = await next.ExecuteAsync(cancellationToken);
if (res.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", this.realm));
return res;
For setting the WWW-Authenticate response header, we created a class. However, it is possible to get away without creating one, like this.
public Task ChallengeAsync(HttpAuthenticationChallengeContext context,
CancellationToken cancellationToken)
var result = await context.Result.ExecuteAsync(cancellationToken);
if (result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
new AuthenticationHeaderValue(
"Basic", "realm=" + this.realm));
context.Result = new ResponseMessageResult(result);
However, this approach will not work with MVC since there is no ResponseMessageResult. For the sake of consistency, it is better to create our own class. Also, the code above changes the pipeline behavior slightly. For these reasons, it is recommended to create a class implementing IAuthenticationFilter (the initial approach in this post).
Web application is designed to handle hundreds and thousands of requests per seconds so to handle these requests effectively and successfully it is important to resolve any potential performance bottlenecks. Now we will state some tips that improve the performance of your web application. Try HostForLife.eu, only with € 3.00/month, you can get a reasonable price with best service. This topic contains only brief information about ASP.NET, if you want to be more familiar with ASP.NET, you should try HostForLife.eu. 1. Cache Commonly used objects You can cache commonly used objects in ASP.Net using Cache class that provides an extensive caching mechanism that storing resources and allow you to:
- Define an expiration for a cached object either by specified a TimeSpan or a fixed DateTime.
- Define priority for cached objects. when there is a memory lack and objects need to be freed.
- Define validity for a cached object by adding dependacies
- Attach callbacks to cached objects,so when an objects is removed from cache the callback is invoked.
you can add objects to cache by adding it to cache Dictionary.
Cache["Mykey"] = myObject;
or using Insert method of Cache class
Cache.Insert("MyKey",myObject, Cache.NoAbsoluteExpiration, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(60), dependacies : null );
2. Using Asynchronous Pages,Modules and Controllers When IIS passes a request to ASP.NET, the request is queued to the thread pool and a worker thread is assigned to handle this request. the worker thread is limited so any new request will be queued to be handle after the current requests handled. If a request need to do some I/O operation like retrieving data from a database or calling web service that mean you need to reduce the request time. You can change I/O operation in your web page by making it as Asynchronous Page. In ASP.NET you can do that by firstly marking the page as async <%@ Page Async="true".... then create new PageAsyncTask object and pass it the delegates for the begin, end, and timeout methods. After creating PageAsyncTask object, call the Page.RegisterAsuncTask method to start the asynchronous opertaion.
public partial class MyAsyncPage : System.Web.UI.Page { private SqlConnection _sqlConnection; private SqlCommand _sqlCommand; private SqlDataReader _sqlReader; IAsyncResult BeginAsyncOp(Object sender, EventArgs e, AsyncCallback cb, Object state) { // this method will be executed in the original worker thread, //so don't do any lengthy operation here _sqlcommand = CreateSqlCommand(_sqlConnection); return _sqlCommand.BeginExecuteReader(); } void EndAsyncOp(IAsyncResult asyncResult) { _sqlReader = _sqlCommand.EndExecuteReader(asyncResult); // read the data and build page contents ............. } void TimeoutAsyncOp(IAsyncResult asyncResult) { _sqlReader = _sqlCommand.EndExecuteReader(asyncResult); // read the data and build page contents ............. } public override void Dispose() { if(_sqlConnection != null) { _sqlConnection.Close(); } } protected void btnClick_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) { PageAsyncTask task = new PageAsyncTask( new BeginEventHandler(BeginAsyncOp), new EndEventHandler(EndAsyncOp), new TimeoutEventHandler(TimeoutAsyncOp), state : null); RegisterAsyncTask(task); } }
There is another way to create async pages is by using completion events.
public partial class MyAsyncPage2 : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void btnGetData_Click(Object sender , EventArgs e) { Services.MyService serviceProxy = new Services.MyService(); serviceProxy.GetDataCompleted +=Services.GetDataCompletedEventHandler(GetData_Completed); serviceProxy.GetDataAsync(); } void GetData_Completed(Object sender,Services.GetDataCompletedEventArgs e) { //Extract the result from the event args and build the page's content }
In ASP.NET MVC you can create such mechanisme by creating Asynchronous Controller. To create such contoller you need to follow these four steps:
- Create a Controller class that inherits from the AsyncController type.
- Implement a set of action methods for each async operation according to the following convention, where xx is the name of the action: xxAsync and xxCompleted.
- In the xxAsync method, call the AsyncManager.OutstandingOperations.Increment method with the number of asynchronous operations you are about to perform.
- In the code which executes during the return of the async operation, call the AsyncManager.OutstandingOperations.Decrement method to notify the operation has completed.
The following code shows you how to implement these steps:
public class MyController : AsyncController { public void IndexAsync() { AsyncManager.OutStandingOperations.Increment(); MyService serviceProxy = new MyService(); serviceProxy.GetDataCompleted += (sender , e) => { AsyncManager.Parameters["result"] = e.Value; AsyncManager.OutStandingOperations.Decrement(); }; serviceProxy.GetHeadlinesAsync(); } public ActionResult IndexCompleted(MyData result) { return view("Index",new MyViewModel { TheData = result }); } }
3. Turn off ASP.NET Tracing and debugging before deploying your web application turn of tracing feature by setting it to false in web.config file <configuration> <system.web> <trace enabled="false" /> </system.web> </configuration> While development phase you need to enable debugger to debug your code by setting it to true in web.config file. Neglecting change it again to false before deploying will affect your web application performance by facing many problems:
- Scripts that are downloaded using the WebResources.axd handler, by setting debug to false responses from that handler will be returned with caching headers, allowing browsers to cache the responses for future use.
- Request will not timeout when debug is set to true. By setting it to false will enable ASP.NET to define timeouts for requests according to the HttpRuntime.Execution Timeout configuration settings.
- JIT optimization will not be applied to the code when running with debug = true. JIT can efficiently improve the performance of your ASP.NET application without requiring you change your code.
- The compilation process does not use batch compilation when using debug = true. without batch compilation an assembly will be created for each page and control causing web application to load so many of assemblies during runtime. When debug set to false batch compilation is used, generating a single assembly for the user control and a several assemblies for pages.
in case you fear to forget setting debug to false when deploying your application, you can force all ASP.NET applications in a server to ignore the debug setting by adding the following configurations in the server's machine.config file.
<configuration> <system.web> <deployment retail="true" /> </system.web> </configuration>
4. Disable View State View state is used to allow ASP.NET to keep the state of the page between postbacks performed by user. View state data is stored in HTML output inside hidden field. If your page displays many controls that contains a huge data, the view state field will be big enough to affect the response time of your page. if your page just display data without need any postback so it will be better to disable the view state of the whole page by set EnableViewState to false.
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[Click here for our review of "Palestinian Chicken"]
Part of the problem was that this episode was rather predictable. Sure, this show is based around situations backfiring on Larry, but there's often a lot of great reveals along the way in how they backfire. The idea that Larry would be annoyed that his assistant, Antoinette, had been out of the office for so long while her father was dying was funny. But you could see it coming a mile away when she agreed to come in for one day, only for that to be the day her dad died.
We also got a lot of funny setup about how everyone, Larry himself, knew he was "s**ting where he eats" by dating Heidi (Rebecca Creskoff), the hostess at his favorite restaurant – and I loved Larry agreeing that "Inevitably, I will break up with her," but insisting he still would be able to go back to that restaurant. But the payoff on that, with Larry thinking his food had been tampered with, seemed pretty rushed and uninspired.
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Hair styles: 4 ponytail looks for New Year's Eve
1. Ponytail hair style: Polished at the nape of the neck
Valentino's Fall 2011 take on this hair trend was classic and refined. To emulate this look, blow out the hair with a round brush and gather it at the nape of the neck. Secure the style with an elastic and finish by taking some of the ponytail hair from the underside and wrapping it around the elastic to conceal it. Finish with bobby pins to secure the hair style and set it with hairspray. A simple ponytail situated at the nape of the neck is a great way to accentuate a backless dress.
2. Ponytail hairstyle: Adorned
On the Fall 2011 runway at Gucci, models wore a hairstyle similar to what we saw at Valentino (straight and fastened low at the nape of the neck) but with a twist — ponytails adorned with a single feather following the flow of the hair. If you're a free fashion spirit and wearing an ethereal or 70s-inspired outfit for your New Year's Eve party, try this hairstyle by keeping all other accessories minimal so that the feathered ponytail can command full attention. Hair style tip: Be sure to pack extra bobby pins should the feather fall out as you party the night away.
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Ponytails don't get much flirtier than the hair style shown at Marc Jacobs for Fall 2011: Slicked back with no volume at all and fastened high, these ponytails are part '90s minimalist, part '50s cheerleader. Try the ponytail hair trend in this way for New Year's Eve if you're wearing a high-necked dress or a collared shirt. With the hair pulled off the face and up, away from the neck, this hair style lets your clothes stand out and your kicky hair style be the focal point as you exit the room.
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Proenza Schouler sent models down the runway for their Fall 2011 collection with last night's ponytail still going strong. If you're planning an edgy party look for New Year's Eve, try this hair style out by working with slightly dirty hair. (If you want to look Rock 'n' Roll you have to at least somewhat play the part.) Start by using dry shampoo to soak up any oil at the root and work the powder down and into the hair shaft. The best part about this hair style is that anything goes: Tie it into a ponytail, muss it up and create more texture (if desired) with mousse and hairspray. This day-after look is paired best with mini-dresses, leather biker jackets and a sassy attitude.
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When Santa Punched a Heretic in the Face: 13 Memes on St. Nicholas
We put our shoes out Thursday night for St. Nicholas.
I've noticed some concern on facebook about how to deal with the St. Nicholas/December 6th vs Santa Claus/December 25th thing.
There are of course lots of different ways to do it, but here's what we do: the names St. Nicholas and Santa Claus are interchangeable. After all, one is just a translation of the other. Since Santa is a saint, he lives in Heaven with Jesus, but he has a workshop located at the North Pole, which is where the elves live and work. He comes around for everyone on December 25th, to celebrate Jesus' birthday, but for families who are WAITING and observing advent, he also comes by on December 6th, just for an attaboy. 'Cause he's cool like that.
We put out shoes and the kids get a couple of pieces of candy and a small toy. And this year a book, because our collection needed work.
Speaking of books, we have The Baker's Dozen, which is a great St. Nicholas story (the kindle version is only a penny today!), and The Miracle of St. Nicholas, which is a great story, but not about St. Nicholas, but I always read The Legend of St. Nicholas (available online at St. Nicholas Center) to the kids on St. Nicholas Day, because I love me some old timey kids stories wherein little boys who wander off against the rules get chopped up and put in a barrel. Pay attention children.
Don't worry, there's a happy ending. And if you've ever wondered why St. Nicholas holy cards include three naked little boys in a barrel, this will explain it.
I also love the manliness of a Pope who used to be a bouncer! How tough do we look now?!
To help with their conflict resolution skills. Can you tell he went to an all boys' school?
I have tried not to write this. I have spent all week trying not to write this. But then I read Micaela's birth story and I MUST WRITE IT.
It is a MIRACLE that I have never punched a labor and delivery nurse. A MIRACLE I tell you. I have had seven babies in three different hospitals in two states and have only had ONE nurse who didn't deserve a sock in the jaw.
I honestly believe that you must be a decent and caring person to want to go into nursing at all. And I have encountered plenty of nurses in other settings who seem to have a perfectly human regard for others. But if you put one in the labor and delivery ward she immediately turns into a prison matron. Only meaner.
My labor and delivery nurses have been dismissive and condescending and fear-mongering and bossy. It always takes my OB coming in to overrule them so I can do things like . . . walk around, or drink things, or not drink things.
Then once the baby comes the baby nurse swoops in to bruskly remove the baby from my incompetent arms and detail all the ways that raising babies properly has changed in the last two years, while the other lady jabs repeatedly me in the stomach for my own good.
Imma let you in on a little secret, learned at great personal cost: the answer to the question: "How long did baby nurse?" is: "Fifteen minutes on each side." This is the answer you must give. There are no other acceptable answers. It doesn't matter if you have exclusively breastfed seven babies and feel that what works for you to to let baby nurse to sleep on one side, then switch to the other next time. That is NOT an approved answer. This is a Catholic blog, but if you ever want the baby nurse to leave and let you sleep, YOU MUST LIE. That's all there is to it. She is the Red Queen. All ways are her ways. And if you ever want to get that blood pressure cuff off you better tell her what she wants to hear.
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I have had one super sweet labor and delivery nurse, when I had Frankie. I'm pretty sure she was new. I can only imagine she was severely reprimanded for leaving us pretty much to our own devices to have the baby. But we sure did appreciate it.
Anyway, I haven't punched anyone yet, but probably only because the husband knows better than to leave me alone with them.
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I've seen you on Facebook, and I know you want to punch anyone who has ever written Xmas. But perhaps you've been too hasty?
An interesting read at Mentalfloss:
So . . . simma down Facebook. Simma down.Lots of people think that the X in Xmas is a secular watering down of the word Christ. You know, a "we love to celebrate the holiday but don't believe in Jesus" sort of thing. However, that's not the origin of the X.The X actually comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of Χρήστος. And if that's all Greek to you, Χρήστος, of course, means Christ.According to Etymology Online, the abbreviation dates back to 1551, when it appeared as X'temmas. Around 1100, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle used Xres mæsse, where Xp- or Xr- corresponded to "Chr."
p.s. That Christmas Novena Booklet I tried to make for you guys has been punching ME in the face. But I think I finally have it sorted out. (I hope!) Anyway, I put the whole thing into a word document, and made THAT a pdf, and when I print it out on my printer I can select the "booklet" option, and it works. Here's the new one. Please let me know if it's still not working for you and I'll try again.
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DCPS: 14 schools without power, but most will open Monday
Hurricane Irene knocked out power to 14 D.C. schools, but school officials say almost all of the District's schools will open on time Monday.
DCPS is working with PEPCO officials to restore power and hopes to clear all schools Sunday for the safe return of teachers and students.
DCPS will issue an update later this evening regarding changes to the status of the following schools that are without electricity:
Anacostia SHS, Beers ES, Burroughs EC, Coolidge HS, Mann ES, Orr ES, Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Adams), Savoy ES, Stanton ES, Thomas ES, Turner ES @ Green, Whittier EC, LaSalle-Backus EC, and Winston EC.
A number of schools have reported leaks, minor flooding or downed trees, but nothing that would prevent them from opening on time Monday. The Office of Public Education Facilities and Modernization (OPEFM) is currently working with DCPS to make repairs.
School Without Walls High School in Ward 2 will not open tomorrow, as a result of damage sustained earlier in the week from an earthquake.
Students and staff from School Without Walls will relocate Monday to Eastern High School at 1700 East Capitol St. NE in Ward 6.
Eastern, which was recently modernized and houses a freshman class only this year, can easily accommodate School Without Walls' 520 students for the duration of repairs.
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Brittany Binger
|Brittany Binger
Binger in 2010.
March 24, 1987
Bellevue, Ohio, U.S.[1]
|Model, television personality
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Brittany Binger (born March 24, 1987)[3] is an American model and television personality who was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for June 2007.[1][4]
Early life[edit]
Brittany Binger was born in Bellevue, Ohio, and graduated Bellevue High School in 2005. She moved to California in 2006.[1]
Binger began her career around the age of 13, signing with Ford Models in New York.[1] According to her father, she had always been interested in modelling but moved to California in 2006 with little expectations.[1] However, her career began to take off, and in June 2007, at the age of 20, she was Playboy's Playmate of the Month.[1]
Since moving to California, she has appeared on CSI: NY, Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out, Deal or No Deal, and The Girls Next Door.[1][5] She is close friends with The Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson, and has appeared as a supporting cast member on Wilkinson's reality show Kendra.[5][6]
In addition to Ford Models, Binger has been represented by Elite Model Management.[1][5]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Nguyen, Janet (13 April 2007). "Bellevue's Binger is June Playmate | Bellevue beauty to appear in Playboy". Sandusky Register. Sandusky, OH: Sandusky Newspapers. OCLC 16632152. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ "Brit B." Los Angeles, CA: Vision Los Angeles. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Date Browse: 2007". PLAYBOY Playmates. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ "Playmate Of The Month June 2007 - Brittany Binger". Playboy.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-04. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ a b c "Brittany Binger Bio". The Hollywood Gossip. Lighthouse Point, FL: The Hollywood Gossip. c. 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Kendra's Krew". E! Online. Los Angeles, CA: E! Entertainment Television. OCLC 44322021. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
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Boehner says Obama still won't negotiate
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner has emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama to say the president is still refusing to negotiate.
Obama and congressional leaders met at the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown. Boehner says it was a nice conversation but suggested little progress was made. He says he wants Obama and Democrats to sit down for a serious discussion about funding the government.
Boehner says House Republicans have sent four proposals for funding the government to the Senate, but they've all been rejected. He says the Senate should appoint conferees to work out differences between a House and Senate proposals.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00379405
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 21, 2006
Last Update Posted : October 13, 2008
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|September 20, 2006
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|September 21, 2006
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|October 13, 2008
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|Saquinavir/Ritonavir in Single Therapy as Maintenance Treatment
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|Open-Label, Comparative and Randomised Pilot Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Saquinavir/Ritonavir in Single Therapy vs Standard HAART Therapy as Maintenance Therapy.
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|Study the efficacy of Saquinavir/Ritonavir when given in single therapy as maintenance therapy, compared to standard HAART therapies.
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Different therapeutic strategies have been investigated to improve adherence to treatment and reduce toxicity. Both the reduction in the number of doses and the number of daily tablets have led to an improvement in therapeutic compliance. Similarly, the administration of new treatment regimens with a reduced number of tablets a day and without NTRI may be clinically useful in improving compliance with HAART and limiting NTRI-associated toxicity. These would comprise combinations of a PI, boosted with ritonavir, plus a non-Nucleoside and single therapy with PIs boosted with ritonavir.
In this regard, the results obtained with lopinavir/ritonavir and with atazanavir/ritonavir are very promising and open up a possible channel of research with other PIs boosted with low doses of ritonavir.
There are other PIs whose antiretroviral efficacy has also been demonstrated, such as saquinavir, but whose economic cost is much lower. Furthermore, saquinavir has a low toxicity profile, and the availability of saquinavir 500 mg facilitates comfortable administration, since it makes it possible to reduce the number of daily tablets to more than half.
Moreover, it is important to take into account that the incidence of mutations that confer resistance to saquinavir on patients that fail on combinations including this PI is very low, which makes it possible to reuse the drug in future treatment regimens or salvage patients with other PI All these characteristics (high intrinsic potency, low number of tablets, low toxicity, low potential of selection of resistant viral strains in combination with ritonavir, and low economic cost) make single therapy with the new formulation of saquinavir, boosted with low doses of ritonavir, a possible therapeutic option as maintenance strategy in HIV-infected patients with maintained suppression of the viral load.
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Dine Around & Stay in Town Victoria
The Q! is proud to once again present Dine Around & Stay in Town Victoria!
The event runs from Friday, February 17 – Sunday, March 5 at over 60 restaurants, hotels and B&B's in town.
Try out the many restaurants offering 3-course meals – including vegetarian and gluten-free options – for only $20 – $50/person! Then, pamper yourself with an overnight stay at one of the many participating hotels, motels or B&B's, with room rates from $89 – $149.
Plus, get a taste of the event at the Dine Around Gala Launch on Thursday, February 16 at the Victoria Conference Centre from 5:00pm – 7:30pm – featuring all of the participating restaurants, breweries/wineries/cider houses. Tickets are $55 and available at Tourism Victoria's Visitor Centre and online here.
Head here for a list of participating locations and menus.
Dine Around & Stay in Town is presented by Tourism Victoria and the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association


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We provide a supportive environment for our students to immerse themselves in the martial arts, promoting the growth of our students in mind, body and spirit. In addition to developing physical self defense techniques, our primary objective is to encourage the formation of high personal standards by incorporating the virtues of the martial arts in all aspects of our student's lives. The ability to produce individuals who are positive, respected, contributing members of society defines our success.
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Achieving the level of Black Belt is a symbol of excellence and commitment in the world of Martial Arts.
It gives the individual a tremendous sense of accomplishment and self worth.
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What you will have when you achieve the level of Black Belt is not nearly as important as what you will have become.
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Avoiding Unwanted Phone Calls (São Paulo)
Hello People,
I am using the following method to avoid annoying and possible malicious phone calls. By annoying I mean telemarketing, and by malicious I'm referring to those calls where people try to ask you for personal data or randsom money for a bogus abduction of someone you know.
Anyway I simply avoid answering phone calls from people who are not listed as contacts by my cell/mobile phone and then enter the phone number registered to the the missed call into the top right hand corner box located in the page linked below.
Protected content
You can see if the phone number you received the call from is associated by the police to any criminal activity and/or if other users have complained about the same number ( see the comments below the result).
Another way to do this is by entering the area code plus phone number in a google search. This is faster since it will display if the number appeared in the list compiled by Protected content but you will probably have to follow the link to see exactly what kind of iillegal or annoying activity that number has or is being used for.


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BOSSIER PARISH, LA (KSLA) - A very bumpy and deteriorating railroad crossing has been causing headaches for years in East Bossier Parish. That crossing is at the intersection of Princeton road and Highway 157 near the Calumet Packaging Plant.
"If you go over it slow it just beats your car to death, if you go over it fast, it's still going to mess your car up," said L. W. O'Neal who has driven over the bumpy railroad crossing twice a day, for the past five years.
O'Neal believes driving over the deteriorating crossing so much is taking a toll on his car. "I've had some front end alignment problems," he explained, but car damage isn't the top concern, both L. W. and his wife Vickie, are more worried about the safety of drivers. "This [driving over the tracks] is like you're jumping a ditch," she explained and adds that those going too fast may lose control of their car, and those going too slow could also find themselves in trouble.
"You never know if someone is going to run into the back of you," said O'Neal. The Bossier couple is fed up and wants to see something done about it, "It's an accident waiting to happen!" said the O'Neals.
Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) owns the property, but they lease it to Watco Companies. The state or parish can't make repairs on their land, so ultimately the responsibility lies on the railroad line.
According to Louisiana State Representative Henry Burns, the crumbling crossing has been on KCS's radar for years. In fact, Burns says three years ago KCS told legislators that the crossing was 1 of 7 in the state chosen as priority number 1 to be fixed.
After KSLA News 12 contacted Burns, the lawmaker visited the tracks and is now vowing to push the issue until something finally is done. "I've driven down dirt roads in better shape than this," said O'Neal and both husband and wife hope a fix happens soon, before someone gets hurt.
According to C. Doniele Carlson, the AVP Corporate Communications and Community Affairs
Kansas City Southern, they are aware of the situation. "Routine maintenance is performed periodically on the crossing. A KCS crew will investigate the crossing tomorrow [Monday] and coordinate with the city to perform any necessary repairs," Carlson explained in an email.
The Department of Transportation and Development urges drivers to alert them or local rail lines of any potential problems with railroad crossings.
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Earlier this month, the foods division
"We chose [Element 79] without a shootout because we saw during the Jimmy Dean and Ball Park review that they had the skills in strategy, planning and creative to build the right marketing campaign for Hillshire Farm," Ms. Turner said.
Hillshire Farm, along with Jimmy Dean and Ball Park, has been dubbed a "strategic investment" brand for Sara Lee by new global sales and marketing head Lee Chaden. Brands so termed will receive additional spending for marketing. But while Hillshire Farm will have new advertising and product initiatives slated to debut in August, additional spending will not begin until next year for the brand.


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This Rosco E-Colour #142 Pale Violet 21 x 24" Sheet is part of a comprehensive system of European color filters for film and video production. E-Colour consists of every possible color and and material for color effects, alteration, diffusion, and reflection. Whether you are in film or TV, video or digital, E-Colour has something for you.
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Free Admission Day at Chimczuk Museum
Date: October 22nd, 10:00 am
Venue: Chimczuk Museum
Location: Windsor
OCTOBER 22 – Free Admission Day, from 10am-5pm at Windsor's Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Dr. W.
In addition to the exhibits highlighting the area's history and success, visitors can enjoy two new temporary exhibits: Essex Armoured Soldiers Museum the Windsor Regiment, and Ice Age Mammals from the Canadian Museum of Nature. Bring the family and spend some time enjoying interactive crafts and games in the Hands on History room and permanent gallery.
For more information, please call 519-253-1812 or e-mail [email protected].


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C:T talks to David Greilsammer, pianist, conductor, and artistic director of Geneva Camerata, whose performances of Cage and Scarlatti sonatas come to the UK in Feb 2017
Tell us something about your background.
I was born and raised in Israel, in a very artistic home. My parents were not artists themselves, but they always cherished culture, music and arts, and made us kids understand how vital these elements are in our world. Thanks to them, I was able to discover the world of theatre, dance, painting, and literature, which today are all very central to my work. After my military service in Israel, I went to New York to study at the Juilliard School. This was an important experience in my life, because being in NYC when you are young gives you the opportunity to meet the most fascinating people and create magical collaborations with other artists. I moved to Europe after my studies, because I felt that for the programmes that I want to create, I would have more opportunities — especially since my involvement in contemporary music was growing at that time. After signing my first recording contract in France, I went on to live for 5 years in Paris, and that gave me the chance to discover both the Baroque scene and also the avant-garde contemporary world. Today, I live in Geneva, where I serve as conductor and artistic director of the Geneva Camerata, an orchestra that performs wild, eclectic, and challenging programmes!
Tell us about your recital of Scarlatti:Cage:Sonatas - what gave you the idea to pair these two composers?
I always deeply loved these two composers, because each one, in his own way, seemed like wanting to break the boundaries of sound. These two had a very clear mission, to go beyond everything that had ever been done with sound, instead of doing the same thing as others very well. And then, one day, I truly realised how stunning the similarities between their respective Sonatas are: the form was the same, the kind of writing was very much the same, and even some of the harmonies — as strange as it might sound — are similar. Their treatment of "dissonance" is very organic, very poetic. They are both radical composers, but in a constructive way that makes the listener very much "absorbed" by sound and colour. So I decided that it would be interesting to pair them. In my recital, I alternate between one and the other's Sonatas, without any break, hoping that the lines will be blurred, as much as possible…
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NMC D220 Hallé, Hallé Youth Choir, The Manchester Grammar School Choir, Jamie Phillips and Sir Mark Elder.
It seems ridiculous that a disk that has no overt political agenda should, as the clock ticks inexorably down to the triggering of Article 50, have acted to calm my jittery Brexit nerves. It's not been fun being British on the continent these last few months, wondering what on earth is going to happen once we leave the EU.
There's something unashamedly international about this disk, a tonic at a time when our politics seem much meaner. O'Regan himself was brought up in the UK, but spent a lot of time in North Africa, his mother being born in Morocco but from an Algerian family. He now lives and works in New York City. These myriad cultural influences are woven deftly into his accessible musical language.
The opening work, for example, A Celestial Map of the Sky, contains a collage of texts with a distantly international tone. One of the threads which binds the whole together is Walt Whitman's Salut au Monde! which includes the lines:
I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them.
Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens; Asia, Africa, Europe, [...] America;
I see the cities of the earth;
I am a real Parisian;
I am a habitan of Vienna, St Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople; I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne;
I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick;
That these words are performed by the fresh, and excellent, voices of The Manchester Grammar School Choir (for whom the work was written) and the Hallé Youth Choir, makes them more poignant still. Citizen of nowhere Mrs. May? Count me in.
The music itself reflects wonderfully the changing tone of the different texts. There is the mystical opening of the Gerald Manly Hopkins, the positive and exhilarating energy of the Whitman, the more tonally ambiguous and searching quality of the Mahmood Jamal. Tarik O'Reagan identifies himself as a fan of Benjamin Britten. There is certainly an element of that here in his responsiveness to the text, his facility in writing for young voices and the flexibility of his musical style. Combined with this, there are more obviously American elements—hints of minimalism, a certain stylistic unpretentiousness, an occasionally Coplandesque 'openness' to his orchestration—making him truly transatlantic.
The stylistic net is drawn wider still in two works: Raï and Chaâbi. Written for orchestra alone they draw upon popular North African dance forms, though the composer is quick to observe that 'neither is an ethnographic study.' Raï, which is Moroccan influenced, takes things a stage further with the inclusion of darbuka drums, which add a propulsive energy to the proceedings. In fact, of the two, Raï is rather the more successful, its taut rondo structure containing a plethora of well-executed ideas. Chaâbi, has a wonderfully elegiac quality, especially in the opening dialogue between soloists and orchestra. It nevertheless feels a little diffuse, and towards the end some of the ostinato patterns begin to overstay their welcome. As if to emphasise this point, the download version of the disk contains a bonus track, Now Fatal Change, for solo violin and countertenor, based on the same material as Chaâbi. It is a beautiful work, poised and focused in a way that Chaâbi can't quite manage. It also once again highlights the Britten (this time via Purcell) influence.
J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin in C Major provides the inspiration for Latent Manifest, which was commissioned as part of a programme of musical transcriptions at the 2010 BBC Proms. O'Regan explains that his method of transcription is also derived from Bach, for when the composer himself adapted the violin piece for harpsichord 'the result was more fantasia than conventional transcription.' The same is certainly true here. The opening is a literal enough quotation, but O'Regan quickly leads us on an exhilarating reinterpretation of the original material. The brassy, and expertly prepared, peroration five minutes in had me clutching the arms of my sofa in delight.
The programme ends with Fragments from Heart of Darkness, a suite extracted from O'Regan's chamber opera Heart of Darkness, based upon the novel by Joseph Conrad. Again that text is seems apposite for our troubled times—though seen through the prism of imperialism, the central question of how one race perceives another remains relevant. The piece, the most substantial in the programme, works in a way that opera suites don't always manage—we are not merely presented with a bouquet of nice moments from the larger work, but a composition that contains a thrust and narrative drive of its own. It's not unlike listening to a Strauss tone poem; it is vividly pictorial and contains a circularity (we begin and end in the same place) familiar from, say, An Alpine Symphony. In any case it provides an excellent conclusion to this splendid and highly recommended programme of music.
A Celestial Map of the Sky: Interview with Tarik O'Regan
Leuven City Centre
It is with some exhaustion that I have just updated the concert listings here on C:T. Another period of change sees me now living in Leuven, Belgium, having wended my weary way here from sunny Nice a couple of weeks ago. Hunting an apartment has been enervating, rendered more stressful by the desire to become established before Mrs. May begins the business of Brexit.
I hope, soon, to be able to bring some more interesting perspectives from this part of the world. I am, indeed, excited by the possibilities. Nice is a beautiful place, but it is artistically out on a limb. Here I am one train stop from Brussels, with other important cultural centres within easy reach, including London, Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne.
One thing I can report is that linguistically Belgium is fascinating. Here in Leuven the main language is Dutch, or Flemish to be exact. Yet one can quite happily get by in daily life speaking English which, whilst not being an official language, is much preferred to French. And yet if you take that one-stop train journey to Brussels the world turns Francophone. The eastern cantons of Eupen-Malmedy, on the other hand, are Germanic. Different regional languages are, of course, pretty common in Europe—indeed I grew up with this in Wales—but the degree of linguistic homogeneity within each region makes one feel that Belgium is several countries in one, a fact, I suppose, reflected in the country's federal system of government.
Anyway, I digress. March is still a bit early in the season to be a bumper month for new music, but if you cast your eyes around there is, as ever, plenty going on. On 3rd Oliver Knussen will conduct BCMG and Huw Watkins in the world premiere of Helen Grime's new Piano Concerto at Wigmore Hall, with a second opportunity to hear the work at the CBSO Centre on 5th. In New York on 3rd, meanwhile, Gene Pritsker's new Violin Concerto with Big Band will be premiered by Vesselin Gellev at The Cutting Room, 19th West 24th Street.
James MacMillan receives a brace of premieres at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh in March. The first, on 4th, is his Concertino for Horn and Strings, to be played by Alec Frank-Gemmill accompanied by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. On the 23rd is the Scottish Premiere of his Stabat Mater, performed by The Sixteen.
At the Concergebouw, Amsterdam on 11th is the first performance of a new Requiem by Willem Jeths. If one premiere is not enough in a concert, however, there are two concerts worth checking out. On 19th, the New London Children's Choir celebrates its 25th anniversary with a programme that includes eight world premieres. Similarly, in Paris on 30th Ensemble Intercontemporain marks its fortieth anniversary with concert that includes seven new works, each of which is based on one of the days of Genesis.
At Wigmore Hall on 25th, finally, is a day dedicated to the music of Thomas Adès. It begins with a concert at 1pm that contains his The Four Quarters, Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face and Piano Quartet, as well as music by Lutosławski and Walton. At 6pm is the chance to hear Adès in conversation with Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly. The day concludes with BCMG performing his Concerto Conciso and Arcadiana Op. 12 alongside works by Kurtág, Janáček and Gerald Barry.
The BBC Concert Orchestra recently performed a tribute concert to mark the 85th birthday of John Williams, the complete concert being available here.
Much more fun, and educational, however, are their three performances of Star Wars, Jaws and Jurassic park, now available on the Radio Two website. They are interactive, so that you can zoom around the orchestra spotlighting different instrumental sections. Doing so reveals interesting details of orchestration. Unfortunately, it seems that Flash is required, so it won't work on mobile.
I have always been amazed at the opportunities offered by Ablaze Records. Especially I've wondered how they manage to finance such a lavish range of competitions.
Well, according to a story over at Slipped Disc, they do it by asking the winning composer to pay for the performance. Composer Nikita Suhih recently won a competition, but was then asked to stump up $19,000 for the performance.
Caveat emptor…
John Adams, who turns 70 this month, has just given some reactions to political events in the U.S. The interview, with Gabe Meline, can be found, here. Well worth a read…
This also come as the Seattle Symphony tonight plays a programme of music from the seven countries whose immigrants were banned from entering the country. From their website: 'As artists and Americans, we are committed to freedom of expression and the open exchange of ideas which create an environment of mutual understanding and the capacity for empathy. At the Seattle Symphony, we are inspired to add our voice in the hopes that we can come together through music.'
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Christian Morris talks to Philip Sawyers, whose Symphony No. 3 will be premiered by the English Symphony Orchestra on 28th February at St John's Smith Square, London.
Tell us a little about your background. How did you come to compose?
Almost as soon as I started learning the violin at the age of 13, making up music just seemed a natural thing to do. I was very lucky at Dartington College of the Arts, where I studied for my A-levels, in having an inspirational teacher in the person of Helen Glatz. She held a 'composers' workshop' every Friday and we were encouraged to bring anything we had written, however incomplete, to have played through and given her perceptive observations. It was a marvellously practical way to learn your craft. At the Guildhall I was a first study violinist so composition was not part of the course and I was left to find my own way. I had pieces performed and received various comments from my peers and from some of the composition staff. My most memorable occasion was conducting my Symphonic Music for Strings and Brass and having Rubbra make encouraging remarks about it.
You seem to have led a busy professional life after studying at Guildhall. Was there much time for composition?
After the Guildhall I had to make a living and again was lucky in getting a contract with the ROH orchestra where I played from 1973 to 1997. During that time I also freelanced with other orchestras, including the LSO and BSO, and, amazingly, found time to play in some light music and pop sessions as well! The marvellous thing about the ROH was the list of amazing world-renowned conductors and soloists, of whom I have many happy memories. This clearly left little time for composition but, although fellow musicians and audiences enjoyed my music, it was distinctly out of fashion. In the late 60s and into the 70s only the fashionable avant-garde composers following on from Stockhausen and Boulez seemed to get commissioned and large organisations like the BBC seemed only interested in 'cutting-edge' work. This I found hugely discouraging as a mostly 'tonal' composer and that played some part in my drop in output during those years.
Click here to read the rest of the interview.
On 25th March at The Barbican is the chance to hear Shostakovich's piano score New Babylon, which will accompany a screening of the film. This is the first performance of the work as it was originally conceived.
From the Barbican website:
Shostakovich's spectacular first film score, New Babylon, was written when he was just 23 years old and is, alongside The Nose, his most important early dramatic work. Numerous re-writes of the film were demanded even before shooting started and the directors' final cut completed in December 1928, when the composer was contracted to join the production. His myriad musical quotations matched a fast cross-cut film to produce a work of astonishing complexity and precision unequalled in silent film composition.
However, after two industry preview screenings with the composer himself performing his original solo piano score, the Moscow Sovkino office ordered the removal of over 20% of the film. Re-editing Shostakovich's score to match proved impossible, parts were incomplete and early performances, a series of debacles, were beyond the abilities of cinema orchestras. Remaining copies of the piano score, destined for smaller cinemas and now unfitted for the re-edited film, were sold off. A rare surviving copy has provided the material for this first public performance.
A very happy birthday to John Williams, who turns 85 today.
It would be impossible to number the composers I've met who have been influenced by him in some way. For me, his film scores were among my first introductions to classical music, even before I knew his name—his soundtrack to E.T. was one of the first vinyl single singles I bought.
It seems that the younger generation are just as enamoured by his music as was mine. Here are a couple of kids fanfaring the master six months ago. His reaction is delightful.
And here he is talking about the scoring of E.T. Though it's a relatively well-known fact, it's worth hearing the part where he describes how, in the final section, Spielberg cut the film to match the music, not the other way around.
The Konzerthaus Berlin has put out a series of videos in which an orchestra provides soundtracks to everyday events. They're very tongue in cheek, but a lot of fun. Perhaps there are even some real composition ideas in there somewhere...
Here's the first, entitled Currywurst:


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And you're upset about noodles… really?
A recent scroll on Facebook had me following a line of comments from "concerned" mothers. If it wasn't so ridiculous I'd get upset. A posted picture of pasta dyed in food coloring sent parents on a tirade of comments about poor parental food choices, high risk eating and a pleather of insults toward a few […]
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School Workshops
Holiday Programs
Digi Ed runs a number of programs during the school holidays
consisting of 1 or 2 day workshops.
All programs are highly engaging and use the latest equipment and software. If you are interested in attending or receiving information about our upcoming programs sign up for our newsletter.
Holiday Workshops are in our Norwest studios.
Our next School Holiday Workshops are during October 2018 Holidays.
The workshops run from 8:30am – 3:30pm. Spaces are filling fast. Our price is $105.00 for the one day workshop and $190.00 for the two day workshop. Call Steve at Digi Ed on (02) 9626 0270.
One Day Holiday Workshop Dates:
- Wednesday 3rd October 2018
- Monday 8th October 2018
- Tuesday 9th October 2018
Two Day Holiday Workshop Dates:
- Thursday & Friday 4th & 5th October 2018
- Thursday & Friday 11th & 12th October 2018
The workshops will use DragonFrame Software and will be limited to 16 students per workshop. Students will write, shoot and edit a short claymation movie using the latest equipment in our studio located in Norwest Sydney. All materials will be provided and each participant will have their movie available for download at the end of the workshop. The students will build the characters and sets, shoot the footage, edit the footage and add a soundtrack. Places are limited and will be filled on a first come basis. The workshops suit all ages from eight to eighteen years of age. If you have a group of 12 or more students, we can also come visit you!
Warringah and Willoughby Council Workshops
We often run holiday workshops through Warringah Council and at Willoughby Park Centre. To find out more information click here.
Think Club Australia
We are also running workshops through Think Club Australia at Sydney Boys High School. To find out more click here.