WS, web services

51 of 3511 | CallQueue: Implementing a Sequential Web Service Call Queue for AJAX application - In AJAX based applications its common that user might end up breaking your AJAX calls by clicking on numerous places in very short interval of time. Let us assume there is a page where there are several of hyperlinks which make WebService calls and do some stuffs on callback. If user clicks on five hyperlinks being impatient or may be just for fun, there will be five different WebService calls made. All of those calls had the same parameters or UI state while they were invoked. But on completion of one or more WebService calls it may happen that the UI state or data passed to the rest of the WebServices calls no longer exist or expired, thus will be result in inconsistent UI behaviour and/o......

52 of 3511 | SharePoint, Silverlight, and Virtual Earth - I've been doing a number of project lately for the SharePoint and SharePoint online teams.  Mostly around services and integrating SharePoint services with Silverlight.  One of these projects was pretty cool so we decided to put it up on CodePlex - http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointsilverligh  (yes I can spell Silverlight - CodePlex seems to not like long project names in its URIs ;-)). The basic idea is a Silverlight control that coordinates data between a SharePoint List (using the SharePoint List Web Service) and the Virtual Earth map control in the browser.  You can point it at any list that has columns containing longitude and latitude data (it should be pretty ......

53 of 3511 | SharePoint, Silverlight, and Virtual Earth - I've been doing a number of project lately for the SharePoint and SharePoint online teams.  Mostly around services and integrating SharePoint services with Silverlight.  One of these projects was pretty cool so we decided to put it up on CodePlex - http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointsilverligh  (yes I can spell Silverlight - CodePlex seems to not like long project names in its URIs ;-)). The basic idea is a Silverlight control that coordinates data between a SharePoint List (using the SharePoint List Web Service) and the Virtual Earth map control in the browser.  You can point it at any list that has columns containing longitude and latitude data (it should ......

54 of 3511 | SharePoint, Silverlight, and Virtual Earth - I've been doing a number of project lately for the SharePoint and SharePoint online teams.  Mostly around services and integrating SharePoint services with Silverlight.  One of these projects was pretty cool so we decided to put it up on CodePlex - http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointsilverligh  (yes I can spell Silverlight - CodePlex seems to not like long project names in its URIs ;-)). The basic idea is a Silverlight control that coordinates data between a SharePoint List (using the SharePoint List Web Service) and the Virtual Earth map control in the browser.  You can point it at any list that has columns containing longitude and latitude data (it should ......

55 of 3511 | Speaking at SOAWorld 2008 - In a few hours I will be speaking at SOAWorld about REST and WS-* in the enterprise. The session provide a pragmatic view of the best practices customers are following in order to adopt the REST model in the enterprise and its coexistence with WS-* services...(read more)...

56 of 3511 | TFS - Publish Web Service with TeamBuild - TeamBuild is such a powerful tool.  We use it to run our unit tests and publish our apps using ClickOnce.  Recently we started using it to publish a web service.  This code depends on MSBuildTasks from Tigris. <PropertyGroup> <DeploymentFolder>**SHARED FOLDER ON WEB SERVER**</DeploymentFolder> <DeployServerName>**WEB SERVER NAME**</DeployServerName> <ApplicationPoolName>ReportingWS</ApplicationPoolName> <VirtualDirectory>ReportingWS</VirtualDirectory> <WebBinariesLocation>$(BuildDirectoryPath)\Binaries\Release\_PublishedWebSites\ReportingWS</WebBinariesLocation> <......

57 of 3511 | WebService - Soap message Handler problem, websphere - I have two webservice, say A and B. I have created a handler for WS-A, as I want to modify the SOAP msg before it reaches to WS-B.<br>For this, I ...

58 of 3511 | Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom - Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront’s biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term contracts. Content delivery networks speed up the Internet by [...] ...

59 of 3511 | Cloud Computing As An Economic Catalyst - The PDC was full of proper geeks as I like to call them – people who write code and talk fluent machine language. i.e. not me…for us mere mortals I found David Chappel’s paper on Azure to be a good primer. In particular he captured well what the CTP offers – underlines are mine.   Windows Azure is a general platform that can be used in various scenarios. Here are a few examples, all based on what the CTP version allows: A start-up creating a new Web site—the next Facebook, say—could build its application on Windows Azure. Because this platform supports both Web-facing services and background processes, the application can provide an interactive user interface as well as e......

60 of 3511 | Event : UX Options with Microsoft, 11th Dec 2008 (Dublin) - Event Invite: User Experience Options with Microsoft - a full-day seminar If you've been reading a lot about Silverlight, WPF and all the various flavours of the Expression tools - you might be wondering about how they all fit together, and with more mature technologies like VB6 and WinForms. Well, this is your chance to find out! A free day-long seminar with Ronan, Martha and visiting expert Max Knor will be well worth it!   Where?  Microsoft EPDC2 Auditorium, Microsoft European Product Development Centre, South County Business Part, Leopardstown (Bus transfer available from Sandyford Luas stop - leaving at 9:40am sharp!) When? Thursday, December 11th. 10am -5pm (Doors ope......

61 of 3511 | Silverlight Tip of the Day #8 - Silverlight Blogs and Resources - [Blog Mirrored from http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx] The following is my list of Silverlight Resources including blogs, tutorials and more. If you know of any other good ones please let me know as I will keep this list updated on a regular basis. Install The Latest Version of Silverlight with Silverlight Tools Silverlight Tools RTM: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en Getting Started Main Site: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/  First Look at Silverlight: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx Tutorials: http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx......

62 of 3511 | Web services management - Hi,<br><br>I noticed that the area of web services management (management of web services) is not getting its fair share of attention... while ...

63 of 3511 | Synchronous Web Service Calls with Silverlight 2: Dispelling the async-only myth - In this article we look at the asynchronous web service model in Silverlight 2, and how it can be augmented to allow synchronous web service calls. We also explore efficient channel caching, and asynchronous Silverlight Unit Tests....

64 of 3511 | Romeo and Julette and Azure - 1. Juliette sends a message "I'll take a drug which makes me look dead but I'm not really"2. Romeo receives the message3. Romeo finds Juliette looking dead, but knows she's not really dead4. They live happily ever after vs. 1. Juliette sends a message "I'll take a drug which makes me look dead but I'm not really"                [the message is lost in to a network outage due to plague]2. Romeo never receives the message3. Romeo finds Juliette looking dead, thinks she's dead, and kills himself4. Juliette wakes to find Romeo dead and kills herself too. Cloud computing is about distributed protocols with message......

65 of 3511 | SilverLight User Group Meeting - November 18 - Topic:  Migrating a Data Aware WPF Application to Silverlight 2.0 Presenter:  Mike Benkovich, Microsoft Date:  11/18/2008  Time:  12pm - 2 pm   Website:  http://www.ilmservice.com/silverlight/     Abstract: One of the great things about WPF and Silverlight is that they’re both built on top of XAML and with Silverlight 2.0 you can leverage the latest data manipulation capabilities of LINQ. In this session we’ll take a look at a basic WPF application that pulls data from a web service. We will explore VB.NET’s XML Literals as we work with the information. Then we will take that application and migrate it to Silverlight 2.0 and show how the security model and communications mechan......

66 of 3511 | Calling Web Services from Silverlight using IIS 7.0 and ARR - During this PDC I attended Ian's presentation about WPF and Silverlight where he demonstrated the high degree of compatibility that can be achieved between a WPF desktop application and a Silverlight application. One of the differences that he demonstrated was when your application consumed Web Services since Silverlight applications execute in a sandboxed environment they are not allowed to call random Web Services or issue HTTP requests to servers that are not the originating server, or a server that exposes a cross-domain manifest stating that it is allowed to be called by clients from that domain. Then he moved to show how you can work around this architectural difference by writing yo......

67 of 3511 | Client Perspective of Windows Azure Services Platform - Windows Azure was announced on PDC 2008 (Oct 27) and will hopefully be released mid next year. You probably already know about Azure by this time. If no, I would like to quote some from www.azure.com as intro: The Azure Services Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Azure Services Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. Fully interoperable through the support of industry standards and web protocols such as REST and SOAP, you can use the Azure services individually or together, e......

68 of 3511 | Part Deux: Storing Configuration Data for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Plug-ins - CRM MVP Mitch Milam returns as a guest blogger with part two of this post. You can read more from Mitch at his blog. In part one of this series we discussed the built-in mechanism provided by CRM to store plug-in application settings. Based on several comments on the article, I’ve decided to enhance the process by moving the storage of our settings from the plug-in configuration step to a custom CRM entity. Creating a Custom Entity for Settings Storage The first step in this process is to create a custom CRM entity which will store our settings. The New Entity form looks like this: The primary attribute for the Plug-in Setting entity will be configured as follows: We then add......

69 of 3511 | TechEd 2008: Claim-based Identity: "Geneva" - Technorati Tags: TechEd 2008,Geneva I have visit two sessions about “Geneva”. One done by David Chappell and one by Vittorio Bertocci. Geneva (previously “Zermatt”) is the claim-based identity platform Microsoft is working on. In a claimed-based platform, you need 3 things: A Security Token Service (STS) that provides tokens (with claims). Read here about tokens and claims. An identity library An identity selector Microsoft provides us with “Geneva” server (STS), “Geneva” framework (identity library) and “Geneva” Cardspace (identity selector). The best thing is that the platform supports open standards WS-Trust and SAML (2.0). This is great news, because with support for t......

70 of 3511 | W3C Forms New Web Services Resource Access (WS-RA) Working Group - W3C has launched the Web Services Resource Access (WS-RA) Working Group, chartered to standardize a general mechanism for accessing and updating the XML representation of a resource-oriented Web Service and metadata of a Web Service, as well as a mechanism to subscribe to events from a Web Service. W3C Recommendations will be produced based upon five Member Submissions: WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration, WS-MetadataExchange, and WS-Eventing....

71 of 3511 | Developing Virtual Earth iPhone Applications with Objective-C - You’ve been waiting for this post. If you’ve tried doing any iPhone development with Virtual Earth you’ve probably been swearing up a storm, beating down your computer, and lost hours of sleep wondering how Loopt, Weather Central and now NMobile got their iPhone apps working. Well, Colin Cornaby from Consonance Software may just be your new best friend. He’s the one who build the NMobile application I posted to the blog yesterday - “Mobile Speed Trap Mapping with iPhone” – which uses 100% supported code from Microsoft Virtual Earth to get the road and aerial map tiles via the Virtual Earth Web Services and use them for your iPhone applications. Before we begin I want to address the cha......

72 of 3511 | Enterprise Search - Another key component of MOSS 2007 relevant to enabling Kerberos in the farm is Enterprise Search. MOSS 2007 builds upon the two core search components of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - the Index engine and the Query engine.     Administration of Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007 is twofold: Central Administration: Allows the farm administrator to specify farm level search settings Shared Services Provider Administration: Allows the SSP Administrator to administer search settings for their SSP Search Administration Central Administration Shared Services Provider Administration Runs under Network Service Account Runs unde......

73 of 3511 | Get the Windows 7 Developer Guide - Build applications on a solid foundation, enable richer application experiences for users, and integrate the best of Windows and Web services with this guide to the features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system....

74 of 3511 | Mobile Speed Trap Mapping with iPhone - The newest app in the Apple iStore just may save you some cash. Njection Mobile (NMobile) allows users to find and report current and historical locations along the roads where our friendly law enforcement officers tend to hang out before stopping us for our autographs. NMobile uses Microsoft Virtual Earth to map out where these speed traps are, specifically with regards to your position. The application ties into the every-so-useful GPS on the iPhone to locate position, then queries other user-reported speed trap locations around the map. The locations can be submitted via the iPhone or their web-based application creating the ultimate speed trap repository available to you when you need ......

75 of 3511 | Unleashed Code is Posted! - If you've been to a MSDN Unleashed event in Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, Marshall, Sioux Falls or Kansas City and are wondering where to get the demo code we wrote, I've posted it to the downloads section of www.benkoTips.com. It includes the samples we wrote for SQL 2008 as well as the Silverlight 2.0 Application. Note that to make the Linq to Amazon query work you'll need to register for Amazon Web Services and replace the key in the demo code with your own....

76 of 3511 | Singleton Design Pattern in C# - /* The Singleton pattern assures that there is one and only one instance of a class, and provides a global point of access to it. There are any number of cases in programming where you need to make sure that there can be one and only one instance of a class. For example, your system can have only one web service manager, or a single point of access to a database. The easiest way to make a class that can have only one instance is to embed a static variable inside the class that A static variable is one for which there is only one instance, no matter how many instances there are of the class. To prevent instantiating the class more than once, we make the constructor private so an......

77 of 3511 | TFS Masala - How to get TFS pending check-in stats from a .Net web service - How to get TFS pending check-in statistics from a .Net web service...

78 of 3511 | C# "dynamic," Part V - Let's look at this: dynamic d = null; object o = d; // not an implicit conversion Last time, I said that the conversion on the second line is not an implicit conversion. If you know C# already, that sounds preposterous. Just look at it; of course it's an implicit conversion! It's not though. It's called an "assignment conversion." Assignment Conversions Assignment conversions are a new third kind of conversion, between explicit and implicit conversions. Every assignment conversion is also an explicit conversion, and every implicit conversion is also an assignment conversion. Why would we have introduced such a thing? Let's talk about the path that got us her......

79 of 3511 | Creating Outlook rules not possible using Exchange Web Services? - When i working with the customer who is working with Exchange Server 2007, the discussion turned towards the Exchange Web Services. He is interested to create rules on Outlook using Exchange Web Services (EWS) and looks how to proceed on this. At the end of research, we found that it's not possible to create rules for a specific mailbox using EWS. In the similar way, it is not possible to view the rules that are set on a mailbox with the EWS. This happens due to when we work with EWS we can't access...(read more)...

80 of 3511 | Determining a KMDF driver's client version - This was probably the most fun I've had in a while.  The initial versions of WdfVerifier simply collected the version information recorded by the KMDF coinstaller when it is used to install the framework for a driver.  Unfortunately: not every driver needs to use the coinstaller, so the registry tracks may not even be there (for instance, any KMDF driver shipping in an OS with KMDF native to it won't have them) the information comes from the INF, and by now many of us know how trustworthy that information is. the information could be modified or even removed any number of ways, since it is just unsubstantiated registry tracks. This was annoying (I wound up labeling all of these ......

81 of 3511 | Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2008 - Just got this email from Sony Ericsson for Developers.   www.sonyericsson.com/contentawards The Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2008 is all about you and us together. It's about rewarding talent and making your mark in the mobile content industry. With increasing sophistication of phones, content and consumers, the bar for winning this year's awards is raised even higher. Seven categories + innovation + your content = winning You know as much as we do about the importance of mobile phones in daily life. This year it's estimated that around 2,200,000,000 people have mobile access worldwide. From baby-boomers, tech-centred teens to gadget-focused business people, mobile phones d......

82 of 3511 | TechEd EMEA: we are missing you Mike! - Dion (Windows CE TPM), Pierre (French Embedded Developer Evangelist), Lynda (Windows Embedded Standard guru), me and other folks from the Embedded group are actually at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona. We are presenting sessions belonging to the huge Embedded track Catherine has been securing. So the Embedded track has a lot of sessions covering a bunch of interesting topics. Frank Prengel , from Germany, just presented a cool session on Web Services on Devices (implementation of the Device Profile for...(read more)...

83 of 3511 | Understand SharePoint Permissions - Check these really good articles by James Tsai. Understand SharePoint Permissions - Part 1. SPBasePermissions in Hex, Decimal and Binary - The Basics Understand SharePoint Permissions - Part 2. Check SharePoint user/group permissions with Permissions web service and JavaScript Thanks Suranja for sending me these links.   ...

84 of 3511 | Easily Making the Data Form Web Part reusable - There are plenty of examples out there of the many capabilities of the so called "Swiss Army" Web Part, the Data Form Web Part.  Although a lot of developers know about the capabilities, many of them dismiss this Web Part as a one-off, not a versatile re-useable Web Part.  I ran into such a situation recently on a project where one of the developers wanted to write a custom Web Part to display some data that was easily done by the Data Form Web Part.  His reason for writing a custom Web Part was because the requirement was for this Web Part to be re-usable across site collections.  The goal of this post is to show how to easily transform a one-off Data Form Web Part into......

85 of 3511 | Customer Care Framework 2009 in a nutshell - Competitive pressures force companies providing customer care - such as banks, insurance and utilities companies, healthcare providers, and telecommunications firms - to constantly improve their sales, marketing, and service operations, both in terms of efficiency and quality of service. Companies that deliver excellent customer care at less cost hold a tremendous advantage over their competitors. At the same time, companies struggle to reduce costs and increase service quality and availability by allowing a strong use of self service channels, to be delivered across a wide spectrum of devices and technologies. In order to maintain an optimal customer experience in those scenarios, one mu......

86 of 3511 | Edit In Excel - Part 4 (out of 4) - If you haven't read part 3, part 2 (and part 1), you should do so before continuing here. We have seen how to put code inside Excel, using VSTO and connect to NAV 2009 Web Services. We have seen how to add this to a table inside Excel and how to write data back to NAV through Web Services. We can delete, add and modify records in Excel and we can even do so with both Customers, Vendors and Items. We have added support for NAV filters, error handling and the only thing we are missing to have a very good experience is integrating the whole thing into NAV. So we better do that now! Disclaimer Most of the people reading this are probably superior AL coders compared to me. I really only star......

87 of 3511 | Storing Secrets in SharePoint 2007 - Once in a while you are challenged with storing secrets like username and passwords for instance for connecting to a web service in another domain or accessing remote resources like a database, a file or through a proxy. This task can be accomplished in many ways - some more secure that others depending on how you define security. One way is to store the values in web.config. This makes it difficult to deploy and encrypting it can be difficult as you need to encrypt a whole section of the file and you then need to sync keys across the farm to ensure it can be used in a load balanced environment. Another way would just be to hardcode the values, but hardcoded values can easily be discovered......

88 of 3511 | ???????? ????? :) - ???? 2 ??????? – ??????? ? ????? ??????? :) 1. ??????????? Professional Developers Conference, ? ?????? ?? ?????? ??????? ????? ???? ?????? ? ???????, ??????? ???? ?? ???????????. ? ? ?????? ????????? ????????? ?????????? ? ????????? Microsoft ? ??????? IT ? ????? – ????????? ?? ??? ? ?????? ? ??????? ??????. ????? ??????? ? ?????????? ????? ?????????? ????? ??????. 2. ?????? ???????? ? ?? ?????????? ? ?????? ????????? ?????????? ??? ??????? ???????? – BizSpark. ???? ????????? – ????? ????? ?????????? ? ????????? ?????? ???????? ?????????. ? ????? ???? ?????????? ? ?????? ? ???????? ?????? ???????. ????????? ??? ?????????? ? ?????? ? ......

89 of 3511 | AI RoboForm, BHO and C# - Remember the awesome AI RoboForm. Its the smartest of all web form fillers exist on earth. In case you haven't used it you can found it here. From password memorization (I'm extremely shaky about trusting any third party software expecially those deals with password, CCs etc.), to secure transfer of user data profile to removable devices by Pass2Go RoboForm has it all. Although its seems easy until I myself went on creating some proof of concept equivalent to this. To achieve anything closer to this I need to create something called plugin. You must be saying a - 2yr-old kid also know about plugins. What's your point? To be exact I need to create something called BHOs or browser h......

90 of 3511 | Edit In Excel - Part 3 (out of 4) - If you haven't read part 2 (and part 1), you should do so before continuing here. In Part 1 and 2, we have seen how easy it is to add a Web Service Reference inside Excel, and use it to get Data. In Part 2 we even had the ability to modify data and send this back to NAV. The original intend was that part 3 would be all about integrating this to NAV on the Client side and part 4 would be to make this loosely coupled - but I have changed my mind on this. Part 3 will remove the direct dependency on the Customer Web Service from most of the code - and thus allowing us to modify both Customer, Vendor or Item data in Excel with very few tweaks to the code. Also I will add support for parsing a ......

91 of 3511 | How I learned about sensor drivers - So, when I started working on the documentation for the sensor platform, I started at the bottom: the driver level. I've been at Microsoft 8 years now. In fact, my anniversary was this week. Come to think of it, my wedding anniversary was this week, too. That makes it easier to remember both dates, I guess. Anyway, in 8 years at Microsoft, I never got involved in drivers, until now. All of my work has been at the API level. Maybe I'm weird, but I was pretty excited to get to work on some driver code. But I'll admit, I was a bit intimidated at the thought, too. Fortunately, the development team had already written a skeleton sample driver, so that helped. It also helped that sensor dri......

92 of 3511 | Amazon Announces $100,000 Startup Challenge Finalists - Amazon Web Services has announced the finalists for its Startup Challenge. The competition, which is designed to showcase web startups that utilize Amazon’s web services stack, will award one winner with $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS credits, as well as a potential investment offer from Amazon. Amazon is in the midst of creating videos about each startup that will be published soon, and the public will be able to vote on their favorites. The voting doesn’t determine the winner, however. Rather, each finalist will be flown to Seattle later this month to pitch a judging panel at Amazon and submit to a Q&A about their business model and use of Amazon web services. The winner will be a......

93 of 3511 | Edit In Excel - Part 1 (out of 4) - For the last 6-9 months, Microsoft have been showing a demo of how a user could create a filter on a list place and invoke an action called Edit In Excel. This would open Microsoft Excel with the same records, the user selected in the List Place and allow the user to edit values and post modifications back to Microsoft Dynamics NAV, showing how the user would get a runtime error if he was trying to violate validation logic from NAV. I will divide this post into 4 sections on how to achieve this Create an Excel Spreadsheet, which reads the entire Customer table and show it in Excel. Create an Excel Spreadsheet, which reads the entire Customer table, show it and allow the user to modi......

94 of 3511 | Edit In Excel - Part 2 (out of 4) - If you haven't read Part 1, you should do so before continuing here. In Part 1 we saw how easy it is to white .net code inside Excel, and get it executed based on an event in Excel, and how easy it is to fill values into cells. But in order to make this really useful we need to go a different way around. First of all, we need to know more about the record we are working with. We could of course hard code everything - but that is not the preferred way to go. It needs to be flexible. When referencing the Customer Page in Visual Studio, Visual Studio creates a proxy class (a wrapper for the Customer). This Proxy class contains members for all fields on the Page and properties to access the......

95 of 3511 | New Working Group to Refine Web Services Resource Access Specifications - 2008-11-07: W3C today launched the Web Services Resource Access Working Group with a mission to produce W3C Recommendations for a set of Web Services specifications by refining the WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration, WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Eventing Member Submissions. The group will address existing issues in those specifications, and review implementation experience and interoperability feedback from implementers and considering composition with other Web services standards. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. (Permalink)...

96 of 3511 | PDC?????···???WinHEC - ??? Windows 7 ?????????? 1 ?????????????? PDC ?? Windows 7 ??????????????????????????????????! ???????????????Windows 7 ? Pre-Beta ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Beta ? RTM ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???????????????????????) ????????????????????????????????????????????????????WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference)???????????????????????????????????“????????”???????????Jon DeVaan????????????Windows 7 ???????????????????????????????????WinHEC ?? Windows Server 2008 R2(Windows 7 ?????????????)????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(......

97 of 3511 | Video: Using Cross-Domain Policy Files with Silverlight - Find out how to use cross-domain policy files when accessing third-party Web services....

98 of 3511 | A Data Access Discussion at the Summit - I spoke this morning at the patterns & practices Summit about data access. As I described this morning, I've mostly been working in the area of Web Services for the past number of years and didn't keep up too much with the advances in data access and UI development. I'm going to be kicking off a p&p project in the coming weeks focusing squarely on your options for dealing with data in your .NET applications. As I've come to appreciate in many aspects of my life, once you get your head in the right place ... you know, that place where everything is just resonating ... well, if you can get there, everything just seems to go smoother. So I wanted to share with everyone where......

99 of 3511 | Got Blog? - Alright, it’s been years since I had a blog and I finally decided to start again. I work on the Microsoft patterns & practices team and have worked on such projects as the Web Client Software Factory, Web Service Software Factory and, currently, Prism.   At p&p, we tend to work in team rooms and strive to follow agile principals and practices.  In addition to information coming out of the team room for my current project, I intend to use this blog to capture other thoughts about working at p&p, general development, .NET development, and agile practices....

100 of 3511 | PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect - Just found out about the new PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect. This is definitely worth checking out. Now Available:  PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect Available now for immediate download from http://Wintellect.com/PowerThreading is the latest version of Wintellect’s free Power Threading Library by Jeffrey Richter.  This new version includes a DLL for use by Silverlight applications and components.  In particular, the Silverlight version includes Jeffrey’s popular AsyncEnumerator class that allows developers to use a synchronous programming model while performing asynchronous operations. This allows develo......