Command line WCF Proxy Generation for Silverlight 2 RTM
I have a scenario where my web service app exposes several interfaces, and I want to use all of them from the Silverlight UI. The code generated by... more »
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Testing WCF Apps (Part 2 of 4) -- Mocking out the service
Once you have written tests against your WCF service, you need a strategy for testing the code that uses the service. This article covers a technique... more »
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Microsoft makes 'M' interoperable with OMG-compliant software
Although Microsoft did not adopt OMG's MetaObject Facility specification, the M modeling language can handle MOF-compliant XML Metadata Interchange.... more »
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The Fat Controller
Good advice on writing mvc applications, in particular around the 'fat controller' code smell.
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Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button (V2)
This is a continuation of my last post. I have made a better version of my ExtendedGridSplitter, this one works in both horizontal and vertical... more »
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Quick and Dirty LINQ to SQL Debugging in ASP.NET
Sometimes, for debugging purposes, it's important to determine the T-SQL that's being issued to the database when a LINQ to SQL query executes.... more »
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Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13?
At the Professional Developers Conference in late October, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky announced that Windows 7 Beta 1 would be ready “early next... more »
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ASP.NET Page LifeCycle X-Ray’d
There are many good articles on the web covering ASP.NET Page LifeCycle - published my Microsoft on MSDN or by professionals in .NET related blogs.... more »
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What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?
As we hear from more and more developers who have started using the Live Framework or who are trying to understand it, it’s clear that some of you... more »
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Laptop Power Conservation with Windows Bridge
In these days of ever-increasing mobile computing, laptop power consumption is ever more important. With laptops making up more than 50% of the... more »
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DirectUI GUI Library -- a powerful C++ gui library
DirectUI is a gui library like "DirectUIHWND" in msn.It uses xml and script to construct ui. The DirectUI doesn't make use of the native Win32... more »
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Windows 7 Beta 1 for MDC Attendees
Breaking news!!! Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. Note: The Windows 7 DVDs will not be... more »
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Download details: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit
Download the training kit for Visual Studio 2010, VB10, C#4, and .NET 4.0
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WCF and Multiple IIS Site Bindings
We ran into an issue last week when we were deploying a WCF service on an IIS web site which had multiple IIS bindings. It manifested itself by... more »
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Screencast: Calling services asynchronously with WCF
Time for another screencast in the WCF screencast series. In this one you'll learn how to call services asynchronously with WCF in order to avoid... more »
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Future of Queuing
Another of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is queuing. WCF has previously supported... more »
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AutoCompleteBox control: The missing guide
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This is a comprehensive developer’s guide to using AutoCompleteBox. With the initial Silverlight Toolkit release, we focused on providing API... more »
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Windows PowerShell: Get-Everyone
Jeffery Snover just posted a Get-Me script. The Get-Me script finds out the principal of the user running PowerShell. In case you ever wanted to... more »
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Adapter Design Pattern in C#
The adapter pattern is a design pattern that is used to allow two incompatible types to communicate. Where one class relies upon a specific interface... more »
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Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Google
New Comscore data was released today which clearly shows how Google’s search share is continuing to rise, and despite Microsoft’s best efforts (even... more »
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With Vista SP2, Microsoft is back on track
From the other side of the world comes a report that Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will be released to manufacturing in April 2009, roughly a year... more »
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