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We've released the latest version of the Facebook Developer Toolkit on CodePlex. This release addresses a change to the Profile.SetFBML() method within the Facebook API. As of Thursday, Jan 17, 2008, Facebook will no longer accept the legacy version of...
The Twitterlight Coding4Fun article has been published . I've added some updates, including url link support. Check it out! All the source code is available, just make sure you add in references to the C1.Silverlight.dll. Enjoy. - steve =========...
About a month ago, I began using the October 2007 CTP release of Sandcastle , Microsoft's offering for generating code documentation files from existing .NET 2.0 assemblies. The product will no doubt become the standard for generating your project's...
Today is the target launch date for Google's OpenSocial, a programming API targeting social networks such as Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plazo & more. This move is intended to challenge the stranglehold Facebook currently is developing with social...
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 After we had this working, I noticed that when we tried to then load a newer version of the dynamic assembly...
Well, that pretty much wraps up MIX 2007. What a great showing by Microsoft. Keeping with Clarity tradition, thought I should throw up a few fuzzy pics: Keynote conference layout Guitar Hero and Gears of War got a LOT of attention. Is this the defining...
My final session of Tuesday was a deep dive on ASP.NET AJAX, with Jeff Prosise, co-founder of Wintellect and Matt Gibbs, Development Manager at Microsoft. Jeff and Matt did an excellent job of challenging the advanced AJAX guys while still engaging coders...
I received more detailed info on Silverlight 1.1, here's a quick synopsis: Silverlight 1.0 provides the core functionality for Microsoft's new cross-browser, cross-platform web presentation plugin. Version 1.1 (now available in Alpha) adds the .NET framework...
I attended Omar Khan's Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Preview for AJAX Web Development this afternoon, and walked away very excited about getting my hands on it. Unlike the Silverlight alpha & beta previews, which will take nearly a complete paradigm...
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...
I recently had to locate some data within a mysterious, vendor created SQL database; we knew the fields existed, but thanks to really poor (non-existent) documentation, the search was on. Here's a simple query that made my life easier... I think it's...
Just wanted to congratulate SaveTheInternet.com, which recently was named "Internet Hero of 2006" by WebProNews. STI's grassroots efforts to voice opposition to Congressional gutting of Net Neurality has led to some progress, and has started to turn the...
I've used the basic-cms content management system a few times for creating simple cms solutions for friends and relatives' web sites......
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