RIA with Silverlight – The Business Perspective(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 9 months, 12 days ago

If you are a corporate developer and like Silverlight, have you sold it to your management yet? If not, this post may give you some ideas. It looks into Silverlight not from the point of view of the developer, but that of business people, operations, and IT management - all usually subsumed under the term ROI. read more...

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HTML5 – The Limits(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 2 months ago

While the previous post in this series was about the chances and benefits of HTML5, there are also some exaggerated expectations that HTML5 cannot fulfill. Mainly this concerns the term “RIA”, and the effect HTML5 will have in this area. read more...

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HTML5 – New Standard for Web Applications(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 2 months ago

A lot of people talk about HTML5, but there are also a lot of misconceptions – and misguided expectations – about HTML5. This post looks into what HTML5 really is, and what impact it might have. read more...

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Visual Studio Async CTP – An Analysis(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 5 months ago

During the last PDC Microsoft announced a next innovation: Async C# Reception within the community so far has been very positive. However, if this is really such a compelling feature, it should be quite easy to present a bunch of examples in which it pays off. Instead, what I found was a bunch of examples that made me wonder. Therefore I decided to put it to some Litmus tests… read more...

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Silverlight. What if?(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 6 months ago

Just imagine… What would happen if Microsoft actually had changed their strategy? What if Silverlight was really dead on the client, and “only” the development platform for WP7? read more...

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The Cost of String.Split(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 8 months ago

For a any given string as input String.Split returns something more than that as result – and on top of that it needs twice as much memory temporarily! The article dives into the details and offers a more efficient replacement. read more...

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CommunicationException: NotFound(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 8 months ago

CommunicationException: NotFound – that is the one exception that bugs every Silverlight developer sooner or later. There are two main issues: 1.It doesn’t tell you anything and the slew of possible reasons makes it unnecessarily hard to diagnose the root cause. 2.It prevents legitimate handling of business errors in a WCF/SOAP conformant way. read more...

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A Pesky Little Silverlight Problem: The Presumptuous Scrollbar(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 9 months ago

I have my Silverlight application sitting on an .aspx page, occupying all real estate. I work a while. And suddenly there is this scrollbar appearing on the right side... read more...

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Silverlight and Integrated Authentication(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 9 months ago

Using integrated authentication with Silverlight should be simple. However the differences between Cassini (Visual Studio Web Development Server) and IIS in combination with some WCF configuration pitfalls cause a slew of pitfalls... read more...

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Replacing Events by Callbacks(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 10 months ago

My last post laid out how the employment of events has changed recently. This post gives a practical example to get the idea, and a better understanding of the consequences in code… read more...

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Employment of Events is changing...(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 10 months ago

Until recently I used to see events mainly from the event consumer side. Recently however this has been changing, as Silverlight, asynchrounous, and parallel processing introduced new features, demands, and patterns. read more...

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Some thoughts on Event-Based Components(www.minddriven.de)

submitted by MatthiasJ(446) 1 year, 10 months ago

This article shows Event-Based Components in contrast to typical Interface-Based Components as some kind of programming style to achieve high composability and testability without interfaces (and my thoughts about that). read more...

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The Future (of) UI(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 1 year, 11 months ago

User interfaces are changing. Touch, multitouch, gestures (Minority Report like control), ... On the other hand all these predictions focus on the cool new stuff and ignore conventional demands. read more...

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Calling Amazon - Part 2(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 2 years, 2 months ago

This second post implements the call to Amazon from the Silverlight client. It realizes a book search and addresses paging. read more...

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Calling Amazon – Part 1(ajdotnet.wordpress.com)

submitted by ajdotnet(2940) 2 years, 2 months ago

Amazon is a good example for calling foreign services from Silverlight clients. This first post is about the architectural and infrastructure aspects. read more...

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Will Windows Azure succeed?(www.minddriven.de)

submitted by MatthiasJ(446) 2 years, 2 months ago

This posts describes why I'm afraid that Windows Azure could become a non-starter. It shows the "fixed" costs for a little sample application, takes competitors into account and describes why hobbyists matter. It takes a look into history and explains why Microsoft could learn from the fail of OS/2... read more...

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