Archive for the ‘.net 3.0’ Category

Microsoft Tag Rest API & Silverlight

Recently I was contacted by a developer that was working with my MS Tag REST service. He was was calling the REST API from within silverlight. I helped him out with some questions and in return I got a sample project that I can distribute as reference sample. The sample will allow you to create [...]

Visual studio .net 2010 & .net Framework 4.0 CTP

Today I found that the first CTP for visual studio .net 2010 and the .net framework 4.0 is available for download. If you want a quick overview of some of the new features go to this website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc948977.aspx  If you want to download the CTP you should go to the Microsoft Connect page Print PDF

How to ignore a blogging career ?

That’s simple buy a house that needs to be finished in the meantime switch jobs and on top of that move out of your current appartement. I’ve not been writing as much as would like, but I can’t seem to find the time. Lately I’ve been watching more closely to LINQ, Nhibernate, EDM, Windows Server [...]

Get a history of the evolution to LINQ

 Anson Horton wrote a very nice article for the MSDN magazine June 2007 edition. It gives you an overview of how LINQ (Language Integrated Query) has evolved from the idea of the concept to an actual technology. A nice extra on this article is that he shows a lot which new language features in C# [...]

Get started with Expression Blend and Design

F or those that like to get started with the new Microsoft products Expression Blend and Expression Design. You should check out these links below. They give you access to tons of FREE video tutorials hosted by lynda.com Links: – Getting started with Expression Blend In Getting Started with Expression Blend , Lee Brimelow covers [...]

Visual Studio Orcas Beta available !!!

I saw the notice on Informationweek that Microsoft released a beta of the VS.net Orcas. Find out more here. Print PDF

WPF: draggable windowless windows

I’m currently trying out the Microsoft Expression Blend designer (formerly known as Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer). I must say it’s already very nice, the only I still can’t seem to get working is the integration with visual studio .net 2005 to edit the code behind files… Anyway that’s not what I wanted to talk about. [...]

Exception serialization & WCF

I was helping a colleague of mine this week with some exception handling in WCF. The problem we were facing was that when we send a faultexception we lost important information about the original exception like the innerexceptions. Although it may not be best practice to send all of the exception information to the client [...]