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I spent the last couple of weeks creating a posting for Coding4Fun's blog site, called YeahTrivia. The demo consists of a WCF client & server communicating via the wsDualHttpBinding channel. I used the article to learn quite a bit about implementing...
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...
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 After we had this working, I noticed that when we tried to then load a newer version of the dynamic assembly...
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...
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...
Jeff Atwood posted this article on Coding Horror, which details his (and others') views on object oriented programming. A very interesting debate, since most of us were taught that OO is the king of kings... like everything, it looks like too much of...
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...
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...
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...
a simple example of using events, delegates, public properties and subscribing forms to capture events from one form to the next...
An important element in managing a project is the ability to handle tradeoffs. A project contains three adjustable variables: Resources, Schedule, and Features....
I'm going to start this off by examining the Microsoft.NET Solutions Framework......
One reason I endorse the MSF as a design process is the success of those who use it: The MSF has evolved from the experiences of both Microsoft developers and external customers, vendors and developers throughout the IT community....