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Merry Christmas!

Posted 25 December 2008 08:00 by tonyj
Merry Christmas everyone, I hope Santa brought you something nice. Here's to an eventful, but peaceful, 2009! Read More...
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Building a Silverlight RSS reader - part 2 - getting the data.

Posted 20 December 2008 23:13 by tonyj
Continuing from part 1 , we're now going to extend our Silverlight application to get data (available feeds and actual RSS postings) which we will shortly bind to in the UI. One of the things we need to work around is the cross domain security in Silverlight. Read More...
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The Uncanny Valley effect...

Posted 17 December 2008 19:34 by tonyj
I've always rejected building web applications that ape desktop applications, but articulating this rejection has always failed me. I've never been able to put my finger on why I don't like fancy ajax interfaces that mimic desktop application, but Jeff Read More...
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Building a Silverlight RSS reader - part 1 - getting the skeleton structure ready

Posted 16 December 2008 22:01 by tonyj
In this series of posts, I'm going to look at building a simple RSS reader in silverlight. I chose an RSS reader as it covers a number of typical scenarios including; Cross domain requests - where you can't guarantee the target domain has a cross domain Read More...
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Essential reading

Posted 08 December 2008 20:34 by tonyj
Here's a quick list of what my top 4 general development books that everyone should have on their shelf; Code complete (2nd Edition) Steve McConnell Microsoft Press This is a practical guide to programming in general and the definitive guide to software Read More...
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"New XBOX Experience" trashes my 360...

Posted 03 December 2008 00:17 by tonyj
Whilst I like to keep this as a technical blog, I must doff my cap to Microsoft's XBOX 360 warranty and repair service. I bought my 360 in Jan 2006 and didn't have any problems with it until the new XBOX experience was launched a couple of weeks ago. Read More...
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Expand a virtual PC VHD file and extend the partition

Posted 18 November 2008 22:41 by tonyj
Ran into a few problems today, for one client who uses a VPN that doesn't work at all well with Vista, I have an XP development virtual PC. I needed to install visual studio sp1 (yet again) on it but my boot drive only had 4Gb of free space - the temporary Read More...
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Using attached properties to compose new behaviour

Posted 16 November 2008 22:31 by tonyj
I was inspired by a posting on stackoverflow.com - "How do I drag an image around a canvas in WPF" - where the first response in most peoples heads is to work with mouse up/down/move events, track offset positions and move the UI element around in response Read More...
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The Enterprise Stack

Posted 16 November 2008 19:57 by tonyj
What makes good software? Separation of concerns has got to be up there in a big way, ensuring you have relevant tiers to your application that deal with a particular set of concerns, but what does an enterprise software stack look like? I've been asked Read More...
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Microsoft Tech-Ed is over, I'm going back to work for a REST

Posted 14 November 2008 22:36 by tonyj
It's a shame that it's over for another year, and its been a fantastic, if somewhat tiring, week that I've thoroughly enjoyed. They cram in as much information as they can in the 5 days of the conference and provide you with everything you need to stay Read More...
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Day 5 - 15:15 : The TechEd Daily Scrum

Posted 14 November 2008 22:22 by tonyj
Presented by Stephen Forte again (second time inside of a single day!), this final session at Tech-Ed was a review of what SCRUM is, how it's working for people and then it turned over to mass debate. Again, we find religious arguments coming to a head Read More...
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Day 5 - 13:30 : An introduction to Oslo (mostly M)

Posted 14 November 2008 21:52 by tonyj
This session, run by Jon Flanders focused on the new M modelling language - specifically MSchema and MGrammar. To be honest the entire session concentrated on using MSchema to generate T-SQL to create a database which I didn't feel was a great example Read More...
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Day 5 - 10:45 : Data access smackdown! Making sense of Microsoft's new data access strategy (DAT02-IS)

Posted 14 November 2008 21:41 by tonyj
Stephen Forte , Chief Strategy Officer from Telerik, started this interactive session reviewing the history of Microsoft's data access offerings and then discussing the latest multitude of choices. As this was an interactive session, there were lots of Read More...
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Day 5 - 09:00 : Identity and cloud services (ARC302)

Posted 14 November 2008 09:51 by tonyj
Vittorio Bertocci presented this session on how to work with identity across services and environments using the cloud. Traditionally in enterprise we have a set of users and a set of resources that they can access. Each time the user accesses a resource, Read More...
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Day 4 - 17:30 : Building and consuming REST based data services for the web. (WUX313)

Posted 13 November 2008 22:35 by tonyj
In this session, Mike Flasko demonstrated the new ADO.NET data services framework that enables developers to create services that expose data over a REST interface using industry standard formats and semantics such as JSON and AtomPub. The reason I attended Read More...
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