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Using modern web standards you can remove these road blocks and optimise your website to accommodate all users regardless of the browser they're using. 

This article introduces you to the in-browser document database known as IndexedDB. With IndexedDB you can create, read, update, and delete large sets of records in much the same way you are accustomed to doing with server-side databases. To experiment with a working version of the code presented in this article, please go to , and the full source code is available via the GitHub repository found at .

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This series of videos covers of the the most important concepts related to system design, with a focus on practical system design knowledge for interviews. These system design videos cover topics like vertical vs horizontal scaling, load balancers, database design and scaling, caching, back of the envelope math for estimating capacity requirements for a system, an introduction to distributed systems, and some system design interview style questions walking through a full design implementation

 

.NET Conf: Focus on Microservices is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and .NET teams that are working on designing and building microservice-based applications, tools and frameworks. Learn from the experts their best practices, practical advice, as well as patterns, tools, tips and tricks for successfully designing, building, deploying and running cloud native applications at scale with .NET. 

 Transaction (Process ID 54) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. 
Rerun the transaction.

 ALTER DATABASE testDatabase SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION ON;
ALTER DATABASE testDatabase SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON;

using (var transactionScope =
  new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required,
  new TransactionOptions { IsolationLevel= IsolationLevel.Snapshot }))
{
   // update some tables using entity framework  
   context.SaveChanges();  
   transactionScope.Complete();
}

            try
            {
                using (WebSession mywebsession = WebCore.CreateWebSession(
new WebPreferences() { CustomCSS = "::-webkit-scrollbar { visibility: hidden; }" }))
                {
                    using (var view = WebCore.CreateWebView(1240, 1000, mywebsession))
                    {
                        view.Source = new Uri("https://site.com/");

                        bool finishedLoading = false;
                        view.LoadingFrameComplete += (s, e) =>
                        {
                            if (e.IsMainFrame)
                                finishedLoading = true;
                        };

                        while (!finishedLoading)
                        {
                            Thread.Sleep(100);
                            WebCore.Update();
                        }

                        using (var surface = (BitmapSurface)view.Surface)
                        {
                            surface.SaveToJPEG("result.jpg");
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            finally
            {
                WebCore.Shutdown();
            }

 System.InvalidOperationException: You are attempting to re-initialize the WebCore.
The WebCore must only be initialized once per process and must be shut down only when the process exits.

 System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory.
This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at Awesomium.Core.NativeMethods.WebCore_CreateWebView_1(HandleRef jarg1, Int32 jarg2, Int32 jarg3, HandleRef jarg4)

using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Web;
using Awesomium.Core;

namespace AwesomiumWebModule
{
    public class AwesomiumModule : IHttpModule
    {
        private static readonly Thread WorkerThread = new Thread(awesomiumWorker);
        private static readonly ConcurrentQueue<AwesomiumRequest> TaskQueue = new ConcurrentQueue<AwesomiumRequest>();
        private static bool _isRunning = true;

        static AwesomiumModule()
        {
            WorkerThread.Start();
        }       

        private static void awesomiumWorker()
        {
            while (_isRunning)
            {
                if (TaskQueue.Count != 0)
                {
                    AwesomiumRequest outRequest;
                    if (TaskQueue.TryDequeue(out outRequest))
                    {
                        var img = AwesomiumThumbnail.FetchWebPageThumbnail(outRequest);
                        File.WriteAllBytes(outRequest.SavePath, img);
                        Thread.Sleep(500);
                    }
                }
                Thread.Sleep(5);
            }
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _isRunning = false;
            WebCore.Shutdown();
        }

        public void Init(HttpApplication context)
        {
            context.EndRequest += endRequest;
        }

        static void endRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var url = HttpContext.Current.Items[Constants.AwesomiumRequest] as AwesomiumRequest;
            if (url!=null)
            {
                TaskQueue.Enqueue(url);
            }
        }
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
    <httpModules>
      <add name="AwesomiumWebModule" type="AwesomiumWebModule.AwesomiumModule"/>
    </httpModules>
  </system.web>

  <system.webServer>
    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
    <modules>
      <add name="AwesomiumWebModule" type="AwesomiumWebModule.AwesomiumModule"/>
    </modules>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

        protected void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var host = new Uri(txtUrl.Text).Host;
            HttpContext.Current.Items.Add(Constants.AwesomiumRequest, new AwesomiumRequest
            {
                Url = txtUrl.Text,
                SavePath = Path.Combine(HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath, "App_Data\\Thumbnails\\" + host + ".jpg"),
                TempDir = Path.Combine(HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath, "App_Data\\Temp")
            });
            lblInfo.Text = "Please wait. Your request will be served shortly.";
        }