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Silverlight is a platform the behaves pretty much like any windows application. This makes sense when you think about where the application is actually running. It is deployed from a website, but doesn’t actually run on the web server. Because Silverlight doesn’t run on the server you should prepare...
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AKA ‘replace any static method call with a lamda allowing you to test first’ I’m, like many others, a strong believer of TDD , DRY, Build Only Business and Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work . However sometimes they don’t seem to co-exist very nicely. Although I’m...
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A very interesting post on the new WPF and Silverlight designer (Cider) in Visual Studio 2010 . One of the things that stood out to me was this: “ The other piece of advice I would give you for Beta 2 is to make sure you’re running either Vista or Windows 7. Most of VS 2010’s performance testing...
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Introduction While I was working on an article for a magazine I came to the realization that building a testable Silverlight RIA application that uses the new .NET RIA services framework can be quite hard. There’s a lot that is organized by the framework. Because of that it can be quite an undertaking...
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A few days ago Sander, Edwin and I published an article in the dutch .NET magazine on WF 4 and WCF 4. In the article we couldn’t quite talk about the more advanced concepts of Workflow 4. One of them being workflow tracking. It’s an interesting subject, but you simply can’t cover all the new stuff that...
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Introduction When using a named pipe binding for WCF services one may come across errors that denote the very promising “The pipe has ended” with seemlingy random errorcode. These errors can be quite hard to debug as the error message itself is not very descriptive. I’ve come across...
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To be honest a have not spent too much time looking at .Net 4.0 beta 2 yet. But I do keep up with the blogs concerning Parallel Extensions. Josh Philps has just posted an entry about the changes that were made in the Coordination Data Structures (CDS) in Beta 2. The CDS are the types that have been added...
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After a long period of developing and testing visual studio 2010 a new Beta 2 release is available for subscribers on MSDN. I can assure you it’s an exciting release. I’m especially excited about the new workflow runtime and the great possibilities it provides when working alongside WCF. Download here...
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In RIA’s it often happens that you need some kind of drag and drop support. Flex has provided in this support, with it’s DragManager class. This is a class with static methods like StartDrag, you only have to supply a UIComponent, and the DragManager creates a nice transparent image, which...
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This post is about some of the new Flash Builder 4 Data Centric Development features. I'm going to use these features to integrate a Flex 4 front-end, with a .Net back-end. Let's start with the .Net back-end. The .Net Back-end The .Net back-end will be a WCF Service Application. We're going...
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Filed under: Flex, .Net, Adobe, C#, LINQ, Flash Builder, Data Centric Development, WCF, Flex Builder, Flex 4, Webservices, DCD, Gumbo, Adobe Flex
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Introduction Silverlight applications are not run on the server, this allows developers to create really rich user interfaces with a ton of options. This great, but it also requires developers to write a lot of XAML, code and add a lot of images and other resources to the silverlight application. This...
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Over the last few months I have been working on a little project to make Linq ‘come to life’ in two full size posters that developers can hang on the wall of their offices. The Linq posters demonstrates the usage of all Linq operators using visual sequences of female and male figures. Since...
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In my previous post I described how to create a thread safe data cache using PFX. PFX however is scheduled to be released as a part of the .Net framework 4.0 which means we will have to wait a while before we can use this in real world applications. That’s why I created an implementation using...
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Caching objects based on a key is a very common task in software development, making it both thread safe and scalable however is not quite trivial. That's why I implemented a generic implementation of such a cache, to handle the concurrency issues I used the Parallel Extensions to the .NET framework...
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To be honest I don't really like to blog about stuff that is already 'out there' on the web. There are however some topics that I personally think are important and don't always get the attention they deserve. These topics mostly concentrate around parallel programming (see my blogroll in the sidebar...