March 2008 - Posts
Bindings in WCF are used to specify the transport, encoding, and protocol details required for clients and services to communicate with each other. It uses bindings to generate the underlying wire representation of the endpoint, so most of the binding...
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If you try to deploy Silverlight2 on a production web server, all you can see is nothing more than blank canvas. The problem is that the web server is not set up to handle the .xap file extension that Silverlight2 uses to encapsulate the code for the...
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 is out and it's available for download. As it is stated in the official release notes, IE has several performance improvements. Most of them are around DOM and JavaScript execution. There are few changes which are personally my favorites such as: six downloads per hostname, support for data:URIs, JavaScript Engine improvements and the greatest one - loading scripts in parallel.
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Starting with this post I'm beginning a series of posts related with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and integration with different Microsoft technologies such as Windows Workflow, Message Queue, Enterprise Services, Silverlight, Microsoft...
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PowerCommands is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference...
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SQL Caching is nothing new to the ASP.NET world, but SqlCacheDependency class definitely makes .NET 2.0/3.x great development platform in combination with SQL Server. It does a brilliant job of illustrating how various Microsoft products integrates together...
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Everyone who knows Kerberos will agree that it is still one of the most secure authentication mechanism but at the same time it is the dubious task to configure Kerberos authentication because his complexity and presents a difficult task to undertake...
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Yesterday it was announced this exciting release for Silverlight, since it provides a ton of new features, including built in controls, layout containers like Grid and StackPanel, control skinning, templating, improved networking, and better performance...
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A common scenario for developers is that they create an assembly that needs to be hosted by application with permission given to it by default from Internet or LocalIntranet zone code groups. Typical example for this scenario is any hosted assembly in Internet Explorer....
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If someone tend to hear the name of Linus Torvalds, sorry I'm disappointing you. Here is a latest Microsoft action about "software that really changes my world": What makes you a hero? For many, it is doing what you love, and doing it well...
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