Here is a cool link to a .NET Framework 3.0 training kit for WorkFlow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and CardSpace including a set of hands-on-labs, demos, and presentations. It has 13 presentations, 10 labs, and 16 Demos in...

It still worries me that so many sites are still vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks! I use an online DVD rental service and today I needed to go and discover my password, only to be presented with a screen which took querstring values and directly...

Recently, I had been asked to examine a situation where WSE V3 service calls were substantially quicker than the equivalent WCF version. The reason in this instance was the fact that the WCF proxy was being created for each and every service call made...

Desmond Nolan (Enterprise Architect) will present at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group meeting on Tuesday Jan 23rd (6-8PM) at the Microsoft Farmington office . More details at the CTDOTNET website . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...

Back in December I released a sample application that demonstrated how WPF/E and ASP.NET AJAX could be integrated to view albums returned from an Amazon.com Web Service in a simulated 3D type view. I finally made some time to get the application running...

All February long, Microsoft and Dr. Dobb's have been webcasting about ASP.NET with content especially cooked for Java developers . I've been invited to do a couple of those webcasts, and they'll be aired on Monday and Tuesday at 1:00 PM PST....

The basic strategy is to build your SharePoint server in a virtual machine (VM or VPC), and keep all your developer tools local. Then you can treat your virtual machine just like a physical server, and surf or demo it just as you would a production environement....

I was working with the Adrotator component included in .NET 2.0 on Vista and IIS7. I was getting this error; BC32400: Class 'CLSID_CorSymWriter' could not be created: Access is denied. It worked on my other vista machine, so I knew it was specific...

Recently one of my programmers came to me after having visited with a PDSA client. He told me one of the programmers at this client was creating a new .NET application and had about 5 add, edit, delete screens created. He had spent, on average, about...

I don't normally regurgitate other blogger's posts like a headless chicken, but in this case it's worth mentioning. Stephen , a colleague of mine, and a picky sod (who puts their enums in alphabetical order? - no serious comments on that remark,...

This page list the products that currently have earned the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo or the "Works with Windows Vista" logo. The missing column here is about the Aero compatibility. It would be nice to get this extra information....

I'm looking for a few good men (or women, but no lizards unless you're that cool one from that Geico commercial). I need a few good experienced intermediate to senior .NET developers in the Calgary area for projects. Short term, long term, or full time,...

Okay, so rule number one of user interface design is consistency - make sure people don't have to learn new things too often and be sure to use the same design (bad or otherwise) everywhere. So why in gods name did the SQL Server team feel the need to...

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is one of the best features of MOSS 2007 (no, it's not in WSS 3.0). What excites me is the prospect of not only reading from, but writing back to data sources defined in the BDC. It's recently come up a few times...

By popular demand, I am releasing another update to the ASP.NET AJAX Class Browser. The new features: Support for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Added icons to TreeView to indicate interface/class/enum/flags I tested it on these browsers: IE 6.0 Firefox 2.0.0.1 Safari...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF aka "Avalon") is a massive step forward for Windows client development, and delivers a super-rich .NET UI framework that integrates vector graphics, rich flow text support, and 3D visualization with a powerful control...

Miguel de Icaza writes: This time Reflector will work out of the box with Mono on Unix (no special handling or special flags) and will event detect the presence of your Mono libraries: One thing to watch out for when running Reflector on Mono is the 'Show...

My colleague Jens Schaller has released a new version of SonicFileFinder , a free add-in for Visual Studio 2005. SonicFileFinder adds a fast search for files in the current solution, just by entering parts of the file name. This is definitely one of those...

I recently wanted to retry the idea of using virtual development environments instead of developing locally on my PC so that I can have several pre-built development and test environments that are tailored to each deployment target. Having dabbled at...

Where I work: The Plain Dealer (they describe my environment on page 3) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...

Please join Robert Holmes and other presenters at an all day event in Waltham, MA on Saturday, February 24th, from 8:30 to 6:00 PM presenting all aspects of the new SharePoint products, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The main focus will be on the new aspects...

Not a new article, but good reading. All you need to know about HTTP requests, including page life cycle. Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide a very thorough explanation of what happens during an HTTP request to an ASP.NET page being...

Useful article from Scott Mitchell. Learn how to build the second layer of a n-tier application, maybe the most critical one, the Business Logic Layer. Read the tutorial... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live...

There has been a lot of buzz around SharePoint support for ASP.NET AJAX the last couple of days, resulting in some nice posts, even from the Microsoft guys. If you are new to the topic; some required reading: Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint (by...

Every so often I'm surprised by the incredible flexability built into Visual Studio 2005. I've been writing a lot of VoiceXML latly and I was really missing the intelesense that I've become so used to. On a whim I tried opening a VoiceXML...