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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. However, there is one area that has been causing some grief for me (and my Java ...

This may result in a “geekasm” – you’ve been warned. http://stargate.mgm.com/photosynth   How’d they do it? MGM Stargate Case Study

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. Tee shirts for the April Presentation Tour were available for sale from vendors as you left the ...

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 is required to take a Silverlight application off-line. As a developer, you need to make a ...

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 go away. No warning. No error. Just disappear. It didn’t happen that often for me, but I have had ...

Last Week Mike Flasko from the ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) Team blogged about what’s coming in V1.5 which will ship prior to VS 2010. I applaud these out of band releases. One of the new features is support for two-way data binding in the client library generated proxy classes. These classes currently do not implement INotifyPropertyChanged ...

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? And expanded multiple levels to find the specific property that you’re looking for? Of course you ...

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 property declaration complete with a private backing variable. However, in VS2008, the prop ...

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 I’ve always had is that when you open a WPF file, even when you have disabled the design ...

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 service. This means to define the attributes related to the deployment and execution of your ...