At PDC this week we had a booth to showcase the interoperability that WCF gives you through its support for the WS-* protocols. In particular, we highlighted an Apache incubator project called Stonehenge. At Stonehenge we work together with a growing list of WS-* vendors (WSO2, Sun, SpringSource, and soon Progress) to build samples and prove out .. more »

were too easy I promise this ones tougher To do this well need to bring back two fields from the database the customers name and the customers ID. When a customer is selected we want the ComboBoxs SelectedValue property to equal the customers ID. How would you do that? Youd need to insert an anonymous type into an existing sequence of anonymous .. more »

The message box will be displayed twice! To understand why, open up the project in Reflector, and in the System_Windows_Mark_IComponentConnector_Connect method youll see these two lines: Youll see this is actually a of type Button (thats what the compiler does for WithEvents/Handles the full story of how WithEvents works is its own blog entry). In .. more »

Today at PDC we are excited to introduce the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1. AppFabric evolves the existing application server capabilities of Windows Server to make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on Internet Information Services (IIS). For Web applications, AppFabric provides caching capabilities to .. more »

Attending Microsoft PDC 2009? Then come hear Henrik Frystyk Nielsen's presentation on Developing REST Applications with the .NET Framework. The talk gives an overview of REST principles and why REST is becoming popular beyond traditional Web applications. Learn how to write applications that produce and consume RESTful services using the .NET F.. more »

This post covers Code Only improvements in the CTP2 release for VS 2010 Beta2. This walkthrough shows how you can change the default model like specifying property facets and navigation property inverses as well change the default mapping by changing the default inheritance strategy and table and column names. You can learn more about the CTP2 .. more »

A new feature of the Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 is the ability to return collections of complex type instances from stored procedures. In the next public release of the designer, we have enriched this functionality by adding the ability to automatically create these complex types by querying stored procedure metadata from the database server. To .. more »

The goal of this walkthrough is to demonstrate a basic scenario for the use of the Self-Tracking Entities feature of Entity Framework.  Self-Tracking Entities consist on a set of code generation templates based on Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) technology that is used to generate entity types that have the ability to record changes on s.. more »

By now, everyone and his brother are downloading and installing the SharePoint 2010 beta onto their Windows 7 and Vista boxes. Why not? I mean, for the longest time we were stuck with having to spin up a Windows 2003 or 2008 server so now accessibility is here and we can genuinely put it on our machines without hackish workarounds. Of course why .. more »

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform.  This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out.  Here is a quick overview:   IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release! The IIS team shipped the final release of IIS SEO toolkit which makes it easier to optimize your Website.. more »

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex   MVC 2 Beta introduces two nice helpers called Html.RenderAction and Html.Action.  Phil Haack described them in detail on his blog , so you may want to read through that before Read More......(read more).. more »

Until now we can use ASP.NET default output cache. We dont have any option to write our own output cache mechanisms. introduces extensible output cache programmers can write their own output cache providers. In this posting I will show you how to write your own output cache provider and give you my sample solution to download. Before we begin with .. more »

I was really blown away by the new features in Silverlight 4 demoed at the PDC keynote yesterday. The list is too long to include here so go here instead. If we have all these features in Silverlight, then why even bother with WPF? This will be one less technology we will have to learn about. The VS 2010 editor should simply have been written in .. more »

Just a decade and a half ago, the process of building a simple Windows-based application could have been described as a nightmare. The introduction of Visual Basic changed it so developers could for the first time implement Windows applications in an intuitive, graphical environment by dragging controls onto a form. The web revolution is here and .. more »

Ya tenemos la beta de Silverlight 4. Son muchas las novedades que hay, de momento voy a listarlas junto a sus enlaces: Mejores herramientas API de impresión Manejo del evento del click derecho Acceso al micrófono y webcam Soporte nativo a la rueda del ratón RichTextArea Control Soporte ICommand API del portapapeles Control WebBrowser para mos.. more »

I received the vague error message The project file ' ' has been renamed or is no longer in the solution while building a Visual Studio solution. I was unable to build any projects in the solution. Rebuild and Clean were not working and were responding with the same message. After a bunch of searching around and hair pulling, I was able to narrow .. more »

En la prxima versin de Windows Embedded CE 6 (la R3), incluir una versin de Silverlight. Aclaro esto, porque hay que coger la noticia con cuidado. Va a incluir una maquina de renderizado de XAML (de un subconjunto de Silverlight 2 XAML), para ello debes disear la aplicacin con Blend / Visual Studio y luego hacer un programa nativo en C++ para poder .. more »

After I graduated from the HIO Enschede (B.Sc level) in '94 I have worked with a lot of different platforms and environments: from 4GL's like System Builder, uniVerse and Magic to C++ on AIX to Java to Perl on Linux to C# on .NET. All these platforms and environments had one thing in common: their creators were convinced their platform was the best .. more »

As you may have noticed, Ive been blogging a bit about the , now the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) and how it will change the way we approach asynchronous and event-based programming. Just as LINQ to Objects changed the way we deal with collections, The Reactive Extensions will change the way we deal with asynchronous and event-based .. more »

Several of the customers I work with are looking to build kiosk or point-of-sale applications with . The ease of deployment with browser-based Silverlight applications is definitely appealing. Sharing applications or components between customers kiosks and web sites is another appealing reasons to go with Silverlight. This post outlines the .. more »