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WhatWG, W3C and HTML 5.0
It's an interesting exercise every once in a while to take a look at the technologies we use in everyday development, and how they evolve over time. I started out writing HTML 4.0 & ASP 3.0 apps in high school, then watched as .NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2...
Using AppDomain to Load and Unload Dynamic Assemblies
Recently a project I was working on required us to dynamically load an assembly at runtime, and invoke a method on the newly loaded assembly. After we had this working, I noticed that when we tried to then load a newer version of the dynamic assembly...
Microsoft MIX 2007 Keynote announcements
Wow. We just finished up the Microsoft MIX 07 keynote address, and as Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie were detailing the latest announcements from the Microsoft dev front, some eyepopping demos and incredible platform announcements were made public. As I...
Remoting De-bloating with .Net 2.0
The .Net 2.0 framework has baked in some new remoting capabilites that, in my opinion, no remoting solution should ever hit production status without. Today I'm focusing on the new binary serialization format available for datasets. In a nutshell, remoting...
WCF Master Class - Concurrency Management
We just finished up a Windows Communication Framework (WCF) Master Class taught by Juval Lowy, President of IDesign. Juval has been deemed a Software Legend by Micrsoft, and his knowledge of the WCF was impressive. I was interested in WCF before this...
Script#, the C# --> AJAX Framework: let the debate begin
Nikhil Kothari, an architect on the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft, has released a pet project of his, based on a prototype creating during experimentation with expanding the Atlas toolset. His release, Script# , allows developers the ability...
IIS 7 with deployable IIS configuration settings
Jon Rauschenberger just informed us that iis.net has launched, and I'm excited to try out one of the new features that should make IIS 7 great... deployable configuration settings. IIS Config now supports XML, ASP.NET-style configuration that is able...
Capture Master Page Events in Content Pages - ASP.NET 2.0
a simple example of using events, delegates, public properties and subscribing forms to capture events from one form to the next...