Archive for the ‘.net 3.5’ Category

WpfToolkit + VisualStateManager + Visual studio .net 2008 = hotfix time

I got into playing a bit with WPF. I had to look at some reference samples that were created by some of my colleagues and I found that I had an issue opening any xaml file in the visual studio .net 2008 designer. The problem was the VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups that could not be resolved. Appareantly this [...]

IIS 7: HTTP POST, DefaultDocumentModule and a forgotten '/'

Yesterday I experienced some issues when I was trying to access a generic http handler (*.ashx) file using only the path without the filename e.g.: http://localhost/somefolder The default document was set to uploadhandler.ashx. So i expected that if I connected to http://localhost/somefolder it would sent me to http://localhost/somefolder/uploadhandler.ashx but it didn’t. Appareantly it has got [...]

Compact framework WCF, Disco files, netcfsvcutil

When using the 3.5 version of the compact framework it is possible to connect with wcf services. This is because the CF 3.5 contains a limited subset of the wcf technology. There are several blog posts listing the wcf capabilities in CF e.g.: http://blogs.msdn.com/andrewarnottms/archive/2007/08/21/the-wcf-subset-supported-by-netcf.aspx We were researching for a mobile client to connect to a [...]

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

MSMQ Message priority

In my recent development I’ve been using msmq to store messages that can’t reach a wcf service when it’s not available. I was setting the Message (System.Messaging) property Priority so that the queue would prioritize the incoming messages. However when I looked at the queue all the messages their priorities where 0 or “Lowest”. It [...]

WCF: msmqIntegrationBinding

Today I discovered the msmqintegrationbinding in the windows communication framework. This binding is especially to allow wcf services to process message that are put in a message queue by some legacy program. The advantage of this is that you can do this without the need to change the legacy client. If you want more information [...]

var crash = from feature in visual studio where feature.name.Contains(Silverlight 2.0 tools) select feature

i’ve been struggling to get the RC1 of the silverlight tools for visual studio .net 2008 going. So far I’ve tried the following: – turning off UAC – Repairing Visual studio setup – SubinAcl from the following blog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com/2008/01/fix-requested-registry-access-is-not.html – Running vs.net as administrator I always get the following error message:   Personally I really am starting [...]

Babysteps: LINQ To SQL

Okay I had some free time to spend on LINQ  To SQL and because I’m working on a new personal project for the future (God only knows if I’ll ever finish it ). I need in my database a table “Countries”. Because I don’t want to create a script to load this table  and I certainly [...]

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# [...]