A method for abstracting WCF service calls in Silverlight to facilitate reuse and easy re-targeting of services.

Create a Line of Business Application using Silverlight 3

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).

Visual WebGui 6.3.8a was released today as a fix to the following v6.3.8 issues: VWG-5087 - IE-Button: The right-side border should be rendered in the correct position VWG-4256 - Button with 21x21 image should not crop image with button size of 25x25 VWG-5091 - OpenFileDialog non-Flash should not throw JS error (while calling parent.Upload_CloseWindow()) VWG-5092 - OpenFileDialog non-Flash should not hang when OK button pressed VWG-5093 - OpenFileDialog in Flash mode should not throw JS error while...(read more)

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Gizmox is announcing today that the Visual WebGui rich Internet application platform can now enable customers to build and deploy applications to Microsoft’s cloud computing environment, Windows Azure. With the use of Visual WebGui, Gizmox will demonstrate to MS customers and partners an extremely fast and low-cost method to port line of business (LOB) applications to the cloud at the WPC in New Orleans. Read the full Press Release or visit the team at the WPC in New Orleans this week....(read more)

A simple example of how to use the ASP.NET charting control with jQuery.

This article describes, how to setup debugging and debug a ASP.NET web application that is hosted on remote IIS Server . Details of msvsmon.exe and its configuration

So, Millimeter is hosting a live web event about Live Smooth Streaming, featuring the always-awesome John Bishop of Inlet and our own (also excellent) Tim Harader. With those two together, expect an hour of real-world experience and context with awesome technical details and delivered with a charming Carolina lilt. It's Thursday, July 16th, at 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -5) You can register here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid...(read more)

In-Place editing is a slick feature for managing some of a web sites content. I’ve mocked up a demo of In-Place editing using the new ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit’s Editor control and the ASP.NET Multi-View control. Also, I’m implementing this as a User Read More......(read more)

This article discusses how to do WPF programming in VC++ and one working example of Loan Amortization with some background.

A DropDownList in ASP.NET which you can hide bellow a DIV tag in IE6 and other browser

The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a motivated software engineer that wants to work on next set of Web related features in Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio, shipping Visual Studio 2010 and beyond. Web development is a highly competitive Read More......(read more)

Combine a .NET math library and a .NET dynamic programming language to create a Matlab/Mathematica-like interactive environment for math and data analysis.

I started hanging out in the newsgroups again, along with the forums at http://forums.iis.net  I ran across a particular interesting post by Alun Jones (Security MVP and maker of WSFTPD).   There are a fair amount of posts on http://forums.iis.net about FTP, some are confused by Active, Passive, and SSL settings. His posting in the newsgroups described this very clearly. (IMO).   What people are confused about is how Active, Passive connections are handled.

Here is his post

http://omgili.com/newsgroups/microsoft/public/inetserver/iis/ftp/E703AA31-D0A7-4AE8-B6C4-06A76736FBEBmicrosoftcom.html

Here is an article series Alun is posting on his blog.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/alunj/archive/2009/07/08/1698917.aspx

Hopes this helps.  Thanks Alun for posting such great information!

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

Large loops in Javascript tend to slow down browsers and cause the user experience to degrade. With the use of enclosures and setTimeout, we can simulate 'threading' and improve the performance of our page. This post explains how to create a simple class to handle 'threading'.

This article shows how to use FTDI API to interact with the devices, which have FTDI chip within. EEPROM programming is also discussed.

VSHelper adds some usability enhancements to Visual Studio .NET

Common problems and solutions while consuming SSL enabled web services in MS.NET

A very long time ago I set up Subversion on one of my servers, and did it the old fashioned way... mucking about with config files and all of that with an instance of Apache. Yuck. I remember it taking a few hours because I hadn't seen Apache since, well, since long before I would've called myself a professional code monkey.

In any case, VisualSVN has since appeared, and I used that with much joy at my last gig because it took virtually no effort to install. The biggest win, however, was the right-clickability to set permissions, which is awesome. So I figured, what the heck, back it up and see what happens. I stopped the Apache service, ran the installer, pointed the repo directory to the one I already had, and like magic, it worked. I had to remove the all users from the root permission first. Then I had to change the IP setting to just use one IP instead of listen on the same port on all IP's, but other than that, it worked. I uninstalled the stand-alone instance of Apache, and now all is well.

+1 to everyone who has worked on that product. I love it when stuff just works.