// December 2012

I created another episode of the SharePoint Toolbox: SharePoint 2010 BlobCache Manager. First time I reviewed the solution with a performance evaluation and the first time ever I contributed to a Codeplex project - interesting times! You can watch it in English or German. Abstract The SharePoint 2010 BlobCache Manager enables you to control the BlobCache settings from Central Admin. You don’t have to maintain these settings on each web frontend manually.

If you never heard of SignalR – it’s a real-time web framework for bi-directional communication between a client and server – in short: your server (here SharePoint) can notify a client that something very important happened. Let’s say you want to have Task List and a Dashboard where you can see how many tasks are open (you can watch this example here by Matt Menezes)– in real-time, without hitting F5 permanently and without having an AJAX function polling the list every second.