dejan's Blog Posts

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide is available on Microsoft TechNet site and my favorite subject inside is actually IIS7 related chapter ( Chapter 6: Hardening Web Services ). This chapter focuses on how to harden Web servers running Windows Server 2008...

Architects and developers can use the Web Client Software Factory to quickly incorporate many of the proven practices and patterns of building Web client applications. These practices and patterns have been identified during the development of many Web...

Take a look on the following code snippet: Func < int , int > r = null ; r = n => n > 1 ? r(n - 1) + r(n - 2) : n; Console .WriteLine(r(6)); It's hard to read it and understand from one reading, isn't it?

LINQ to Active Directory implements a custom LINQ query provider that allows querying objects in Active Directory. Internally, queries are translated into LDAP filters which are sent to the server using the System.DirectoryServices .NET Framework library...

Until we are waiting for the first public beta of Silverlight 2, which will be a major update of Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, Scott Guthrie has published his team effort on the rich set of features...

Good news Maybe you have noticed that there are few changes in Visual Studio 2008 XML related tools, but however here is the list of changes: Fully supported IntelliSense Using of code snippets when editing XML, XSLT, XSD … Schema cache and Schema...

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