Chris
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St. Louis Day of .NET 2010
April 5, 2010 - 7:16 am
Tags: commuinty, Day of Dot Net, Events
Posted in Day of .NET | 1 comment
August 20th & 21st 2010
Ameristar Casino & Resort St. Charles, MO
Last year we had 500 people, 66 sessions, and 48 speakers. This year we have even more in store. Be there with hundreds of developers and IT pros from across the country.
The 2010 St. Louis Day of .NET, such an awesome day it takes 2 [...]
VS 2010 Events in St Louis
Monday April 12, 5:30 PM – 3 City Place, 11th Floor Creve Coeur, MO
High Speed, Low Drag: Driving Application Quality with Minimal Friction Mark Mydland – Principal Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers, Microsoft Corporation
Software teams are continually under pressure to do more in less time, to [...]
Redirecting From a WCF REST Service
March 27, 2010 - 6:27 pm
Tags: HTTP, REST, WCF
Posted in WCF | 3 comments
REST is based on HTTP and revolves around using the standard HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT as well as standard HTTP error codes. The error codes that have to do with redirection are in the 300 block. Today we’ll focus on 302 which is the status code for a redirection (other 300 codes, such as [...]
Using Silverlight 4 to Browse NetFlix’s OData Catalog
March 22, 2010 - 7:45 am
Tags: Netflix, OData, Silverlight
Posted in OData | 3 comments
One of the announcements at Mix 10 was the preview of NetFlix’s OData catalog API. The Astoria team has been hard at work getting the new release of what is now called WCF Data Services (Formerly ADO.NET Data Services). In Silverlight 4 the WCF Data Services Client is included as part of the Silverlight runtime [...]
Drop the Soap: WCF, REST, and Pretty URIs in .NET 4
March 17, 2010 - 7:11 pm
Tags: HTTP, REST, WCF
Posted in WCF | 6 comments
Years ago I was working in libraries when the Web 2.0 revolution began. One of the things that caught my attention about early start-ups using the AJAX/REST/Web 2.0 model was how nice the URIs were for their applications. Those were my first impressions of REST; pretty URIs. Turns out there is a little more to [...]
Windows Phone 7 Series Dev Tools Available
March 15, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Tags: Mobile, Silverlight, WP7
Posted in Windows Phone 7 Series | 4 comments
I am not at MIX. However, I have been wanting to write about these tools since the MVP Summit where I first saw the beta tools. You can download all you need here.
Once installed, after clicking, file –> new project you should see:
Highlighting windows Phone Application gives you this template.
Should you decide to [...]
“Icky” Decisions
March 12, 2010 - 8:24 am
Tags: Architecture, Development
Posted in Architecture | 3 comments
@KeithDahlby posted a good question for thought the other day on “the” Twitter:
When implementing the Observer pattern, how do you handle exceptions from observers?
This seemingly harmless question should spark at least a good 15 minute debate. An obvious question (and the one I asked):
Do you care if an observer throws an exception?
If you consider [...]
WCF 4 – Loosening the Chains of Configuration
If you have spent anytime in WCF land the first thing you learn about is the joys of configuration. For the coming release of .NET 4 and WCF 4 the team heard that feedback and has made configuration much easier for the development experience.
Let’s take a look at what’s changed:
Sample 1 – WCF Configuration on [...]
Reclaiming Your Identity with Windows Identity Foundation
Windows Identity Foundation is a new framework from Microsoft that helps to solve the identity crisis so many users face with multiple accounts for on-line services, applications, etc. WIF (dub-eye-eff, not “wiff”), supports the notion of claims-based authentication where a user will authenticate with an external provider and return to your application with a set [...]
2010 MVP Summit Experience
February 22, 2010 - 10:45 am
Tags: 2010, conference, MVP, Summit
Posted in MVP | Comments Off
Before I get started, I’ll just say that if you are here to read about things I learned or saw at the summit you will be disappointed. Most all of what I saw and learned was under NDA, so I won’t be talking about any content. What I will talk about is the experience and [...]
