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Working with WCF: Pt 2 - Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:00:06 GMT

So now you have a service, congratulations! What are you going to do with it. Some people like to say of WCF that you have ". a multitude of hosting options" but in reality you have two; host it in IIS or create your own host.

When "Activator" is just to slow

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Nice performance tip

Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:00 GMT

I've been playing with WCF since .NET 3 came out. Sometimes I have to be reminded that not everybody is as familiar with all it's "cob-webby corners" as I am. And that's OK. Often (too often) I encounter someone who has NEVER used WCF and doesn't even know where to begin.That's not so OK.

60+ .Net libraries every developer should know about

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:45:03 GMT

Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I've found some of these libraries invaluable, so I'm sharing them for some of the other dev's out there with a brief outline of how to use.

Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:15:17 GMT

In previous two posts we covered wiring up the Views and ViewModels and Blendability and showing ModalDialogs in MVVM way. Today we will touch another problem that people starting with MVVM very often fail to address properly: Handling the UI Events of the View in the ViewModel while avoiding placing any logic in code behind of the View. So our design goals for this post are: * We want to be able to wire-up UI Events to the commands in ViewModel via DataBinding in Xaml without any code behind in the View * View should not be aware of the ViewModel's type or any other details of its existence - View should just use Silverlight's DataBinding to access its ViewModel public properties (its DataContext) regardless of what is actually set to be there * We want to be able to handle any event that occurs in View (that includes not only Button clicks but also Mouse events, Drag and Drop events, Loaded events etc).

Keeping Your ASP.NET Session Alive Using jQuery

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:01 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to keep your session alive when you're using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.

How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:15:00 GMT

Taking a look how to host your WCF service inside your Windows Service. In many situations hosting WCF inside of IIS may not be the best solution for you or your team. When this is the case hosting inside a windows service may be the best solution and in this episode we will take a look at how you can accomplish this.

Review of SubSonic 3 from a SubSonic 2.x user perspective

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMT

A quick review of SubSonic 3.0.0.3 from the perspective of a developer who's implemented SubSonic 2.x on numerous projects. An overview of initial likes and dislikes and a little bit of code snippets to bring back 2.x functions missing from 3.0.

.NET - IP Address Location In ASP.NET

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:45:02 GMT

Get client's ip address from a free online web query.

LINQ to SQL Data Context Provider

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:46:15 GMT

Provides an approach to lifetime management of LINQ to SQL Data Contexts with a strategy based pattern for caching the Data Context. The solution also allows the Data Context to be set up using a registration approach. Included code will work for web, winforms, or service projects.

10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:46:02 GMT

One of the best things about C# is that as the language and libraries expand thought is put into keeping things readable. Below I have listed 10 shorthands that you can use to make your code tighter and less wordy. No doubt you know one or more already - but do you currently use all ten of them ?

ASP.NET - YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points "A" grade is possible

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:46:02 GMT

Just in case if somebody doesn't know what YSlow is? YSlow is Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. You can run it on you project and see your grade. You can do some easy improvements and maybe even get D grade. However to get higher then D grade becomes a real challenge. Below I will describe how I got A grade (100 points) on my web blog application.

Creating SOLID Code: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:46:02 GMT

Taking a look at how to create SOLID Code: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). This is a first in a series where we will take a look at each of the parts the SOLID Principle

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

WPF XAML Data Binding Cheat Sheet

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:31:02 GMT

One of the best things about WPF is the advanced data binding support, the Binding class that is used to create data bindings has many interesting and useful options. And I never remember the more advanced options when I'm writing XAML. So I wrote a very detailed "cheat sheet" for the WPF Binding class ...

Install SQL Server (Express) with your Application

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:31:03 GMT

A bootstrap to allow the deployment of SQL Server Express along with your Application

Compressing JS files as part of your build process

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project. Here's what we did

Cleaning Up Your C# Closet, Making Messy C# Code More Readable

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:01:05 GMT

Struggling with an existing code base and want to tidy things up? This article gives some great tips on how to do this along with a real world example. The end result is much more readable code that is easier to maintain.

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

Microsoft Releases Free CMS-Blog System

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:46:26 GMT

Read about the new, free CMS/Blog system released by Microsoft called "Oxite". It is built using the new ASP.NET MVC framework and is highly extensible, touting such features as Microformats and source control integration.

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.

Using Active Directory to authenticate users to your ASP.NET Web Site

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET membership provides the ability to authenticate users to your web application using forms based authentication against a database of users or directory services. This article explains the steps required to provide authentication against Active Directory, either for new sites with no authentication, or for existing sites using database authentication.

Best of the web - my pick for October 2008

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:01:02 GMT

There were a lot of high quality articles dawned in my Google Reader last month. Chris Spooner (Blog.SpoonGraphics) posted two awesome tutorials on how to create a modern blog design. Angie and Robert Bowen (Arbenitng) launched Social Media Directory for Designers. Dave Ward (Encosia) shared & of his favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASAP.NET. I published Handycons, free hand-drawn social media icon set, and I'm working on Handycons II.