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One of my current tasks for a client has been to facilitate the integration between a Java client and a WCF service. The mechanism for doing this is JSON and I have been quite grateful that WCF makes it relatively easy to implement this type of communication.
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On Wednesday past, I did a Code Contracts presentation to the Toronto Visual Basic User Group . It was a continuation of my whirlwind ‘April Presentation Tour’, in that it was my third presentation in a week and the third of five that I’m doing in April.
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The fundamental philosophy used to develop the off-browser functionality for Silverlight applications was to reduce the friction surrounding the moving of the application from in-browser to out-of-browser. Specifically, there is no separate download that
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I have been working with WPF and Silverlight pretty steadily for the past 6 months or so. And thanks to Rocky Lhotka , a problem that I didn’t even realize I had has been (probably) corrected. The problem was that occasionally Visual Studio would just
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On the scale of annoyances, this is not a huge one. But the solution is so simple, that it’s worth a quick post. Have you ever been in the middle of debugging an application and used the hover functionality to display the current value of a variable?
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Have you ever been dissatisfied with the code that is automatically generated by Visual Studio in response to various commands that you perform. For example, in VS2005, I got used to using the prop snippet to create properties. This snippet created a
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If you use WPF on a regular basis, then I can take a good guess as the esteem in which you hold the designer. While it has it’s place, hard code WPF devs using XAML directly. It’s much each to get the result that you’re looking for quickly. The problem
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Get ready to hear about the 'Fabric controller'. In a cloud computer environment, the fabric controller is the "O/S". It is responsible for managing the services that you have configured. Modeling your services The first step is to model your
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I'm just passing along some information that has been making the rounds (I found it on Guy Burstein's blog). If you attempt to install SQL Server 2008 on a machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed, it will fail. The requirement is to have VS 2008
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