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Using ASP.NET application services from Silverlight

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...

Published 08-03-2010 20:32 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, C#, WCF, Async programming, .NET Framework 4, ASP.NET 4

Building and unit-testing .NET RIA domain services

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...

Published 04-01-2010 22:15 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, .NET Framework 4, .NET RIA services

Tracking events with workflow 4

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...

Published 15-12-2009 20:25 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, C#, WF 4.0, .NET Framework 4

There was an error reading from the pipe: Unrecognized error

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...

Published 17-11-2009 19:51 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, .NET 3.5, C#, WCF, .NET Framework 4, Debugging

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available

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...

Published 20-10-2009 7:44 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, .NET Framework 4, Visual Studio 2010

Optimize silverlight applications for size

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...

Published 13-08-2009 21:05 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Performance

JQuery will be included in ASP.NET

There's is some good news on the web front. Microsoft will be including JQuery in ASP.NET, there is even going to be intellisense support for this great library. Microsoft will be posting an update to visual studio with the intellisense support in just...

Published 20-10-2008 8:30 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

Silverlight 2.0 RTM

Sometimes release dates come swooshing by so fast that I miss them. Silverlight 2.0 is one of them, appearantly Microsoft released it in the last few days. I don't know what is changed, but its there and I'm pretty sure I'm going to try it...

Published 14-10-2008 18:11 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Access denied when signing an assembly

This afternoon my computer decided it had done enough for me and tried stopping me from compiling the prismcontrib project. I have signed the prismAg assemblies for an experiment I will be posting about this week, but for some weird reason I got an access...

Published 27-09-2008 14:34 by willemm

Filed under: .NET

TypeForwardedTo Attribute

It’s the little things that make working with .NET fun. Especially the sometimes not so useful documentation or classes you never knew existed. I was surprised to discover that Microsoft has a TypeForwardedTo attribute to indicate that a type has...

Published 27-08-2008 11:52 by willemm

Filed under: .NET

.NET is not always that useful

Please don't start e-mailing me that I am wrong here, for the most part .NET is a great framework and it contains a lot of useful components. Except for the GridTablesFactory class. I have no idea what it does and appearantly Microsoft isn't so sure either...

Published 04-08-2008 8:00 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, Misc.

Running ASP.NET websites from the Global Assembly Cache

Running ASP.NET websites from the GAC was always something I wanted to try out, because with 40 websites running exactly the same code there must be a better way to deploy them. So last week I tried it out and to my surprise it worked right away. Here...

Published 21-07-2008 11:38 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

Dude where’s my FxCop documentation?

Currently I’m in the final stages of completing development on a new Polaris tool. One of things that still needs to be done is checking for any violations of FxCop rules. While most rules are pretty clear to me, others still require a read-up in the...

Published 19-06-2008 10:03 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, FxCop

Customizing Windows PowerShell – Part 3

In this third part I'm going to show a demo of a powershell provider I created in dead moment on a Thursday evening (grin). This post is part of a series consisting of currently four parts (not all published, but that doesn't matter). The first...

Published 28-04-2008 19:00 by willemm

Filed under: .NET, C#, PowerShell

Customizing Windows PowerShell - Part 2

This is the second part of the series on customizing Windows PowerShell. This time I'm going to explain how to create your own commandlets. Commandlets are a very powerful way to extend the functionality of Windows PowerShell, it's also one of the most...

Published 14-04-2008 8:05 by willemm