Create a Line of Business Application using Silverlight 3

An ASP.NET extender control for displaying a template based progress message overlay on UpdatePanel controls while the UpdatePanel is updating. A good web 2.0 way of letting the user know their long running request is being processed.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 18-21, 2009 Web Development A (less) simple include for ASP.NET How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content Demystifying the ASP.NET MVC Project Type RESTful ASP.NET MVC Implement an Autocomplete in Asp.Net MVC using JQuery IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released ASP.NET MVC Html Helpers - is Response.Write needed? Test ASP.NET MVC routes using MVC Contrib ASP.NET MVC UI Controls from SyncFusion Creating search engine...(read more)

I just came across a great blog post by Gary Short of Developer Express who shares his opinion about the Google Chrome OS announcement.  What I really like is the last chapter:

Can we trust Google?
The biggest issue I think that faces Google in this area, however, is one of trust. At the end of the day Google is not an operating system company, it is an advertising company. If you read the EULA that Google issues that cover anything you upload to their severs (and that includes your work in Google Apps) then you will see it gives them quite a lot of rights over it. Ever sent an email to a friend, in Google Mail, recommending a product, only to see ads for that – or competing products – show up the next time you use Google Mail? Think what it could be like once everyone is sending more and more of their data to the Google cloud. Is this what we really want? At the end of the day, it could be this fact, rather than it’s lack of functionality, that retards it’s uptake amongst netbook owners.

Ever sent an email to a friend, in Google Mail, recommending a product, only to see ads for that – or competing products – show up the next time you use Google Mail?
I remember Mario Cardinal saying that he saw that happened when he was using Google Apps.  Because of that and the fact that he gets emails from Microsoft containing NDA stuff, he switched to an hosted Exchange account.

At the end of the day, it could be this fact, rather than it’s lack of functionality, that retards it’s uptake amongst netbook owners.
Nah, people are so mesmerized by Google that they simply don’t see that at all.

Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he was able to reproduce the issue using a very simple page. The error message was: Looking at the error, we know that there are articles like KB 911722 and a good blog - Enforcing FIPS Certified Cryptography which discuss the same issue. In Windows Server...(read more)

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

Mary-Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has submitted some 20,000 lines of drivers code for the Linux kernel.

Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3403

Microsoft's Linux code release: Not all fear and loathing in Linux land
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3414

What’s funny (or pathetic) is the hardcore Linux community reaction trying to find conspiracies in all of that:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL

Like “Microsoft source code must be covered by some kind of patents.  By including the code, Microsoft will at some point enforce these patents and sue everyone on the planet.” or funny comments like “You can trust IBM but not Microsoft.”

Oh well!  ;-)

As currently I am working on Migration from Silverlight 2.0 to Silverlight 3, so I thought to share or bookmark few of the important links which I am going through.

Find below the links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645049(VS.95).aspx

Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed?

The following list encompasses all changes made between the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release and the Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release.

Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 Changes

The following list encompasses all change made between the Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 release and the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release.

Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 change list.

In the process of upgrade there are few more challenges I am going to face

Upgrade of my WCF Services to implement Silverlight 3 Validation controls, as my DataContract is residing in Service Layer, and I am using WSSF to generate the WCF DataContract, ServiceContract, etc. As all the DataCOntracts are AutoGenerated so implementing the Validation in Silverlight will be bit tricky.

Since I am still in the process of upgrade, so if you too have some good links which will help me to upgrade my Services as I mentioned above then please do share here.

Thanks

Brij Mohan

Great news!

Get it from here, read all about it in Fabio's blog.

Also get the new version of the NHibernate Caches here.

Nesting GridViews without writing any javascript code [ Ajax Driven ]

Simple way to implement country/state/city drop down list in ASP.NET (VB)

1 Layouts Presentation.zip

2 Introducing_Silverlight_2.zip

3 Introductionto Silverlight 3.zip

4 Silverlight Control Lifecycle.zip

These are the Slides of the Silverlight Presentation which I had given on 17th July 2009, other useful links where you can download the examples and Installers are given below.

WHAT’S NEW IN SILVERLIGHT 3?

Download Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

This download will install the following:

• Silverlight 3 developer runtime
• Silverlight 3 software development kit
• KB967143 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  and/or
  KB967144 for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
• Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  and/or
  Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1

The Official Site of Silverlight | Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Expression Blend 3

Silverlight Community

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Offline Documentation

And for all other things,

http://www.silverlight.net

And for those who are mostly involved in Silverlight Designing

http://www.kirupa.com/blend_silverlight/index.htm

http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc184874.aspx

There are few basic concepts which I have used in my Presentation like Automatic Properties, Object Initializers, LINQ, etc you can find almost all these in Scott’s Blog

 

Thanks

~Brij

This article describes the ASP.NET Page Life Cycle from the moment the URL is hit from the web browser till the HTML code is generated and sent to the web browser.

The article introduces the reader with the MForm webcontrols, a set of controls that provides a very productive and flexible way of creating ASP.NET web forms

Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom

An application to find undisposed objects in your .NET application.