Understanding WCF Services in Silverlight 2

netfxharmonics.com — This article covers in detail how to interact with WCF services in Silverlight 2 without reverting to magic as well as how to utilize the async pattern, setup external-website service access, utilize WCF configuration, create strongly-typed WCF clients, access JSON services, use thread wait to ease the need for async chains, and also how NetFXHarmonics DevServer can aide your WCF and general web development. read more...

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Test Driven Development & Visual Studio 2010

blogs.microsoft.co.il — Up to now, Visual Studio did a great job helping us develop applications and tests based on existing classes and methods, but when you don't have your API ready, the IDE will fight you. TDD is out there for some time now and is popular, however the IDE gives all those developers who use TDD hard time. Visual Studio 2010 IDE has some improvements to allow test first style. read more...

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Windows Live Writer Makes Blogging Less of a Hassle

submitted by Rickasaurus 17 days, 12 hours ago

atalasoft.com — The blog CMS we use is great in a lot of ways but it’s built in editor is really, really bad. Initially, I had used Microsoft Word to fill the gap, with disastrous results. Since then I have moved to using our blog software’s horribly antiquated text editing system but that has limited my formatting options quite considerably. Now, after a recommendation from a friend, I am giving Windows Live Writer a shot. This blog post is a recursive review of my experience writing this blog post in Windows Live Writer. read more...

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How to build your own Digg Client in SIlverlight 2

submitted by donjuanito909 17 days, 17 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — Silverlight 2 is a impressive RIA creator. Learn how to make a application using the API from a popular social bookmarking site. read more...

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Performance with ASP.NET AJAX - Part 1 - The Updatepanel

hockblogs.net — Hi there, I've recently been struggling with performance issues while implementing an ASP.NET Repeater control with a large resultset (more than 1000 records binded to it) and especially this in combination with ASP.NET AJAX. I was heavilly suffering from performance issues, a lot of times my browser really frozes during asynchronous postbacks. Add to that a serious performance requirement that data should load within 1,5 seconds I soon figured out that a solution with and UpdatePanel, an ASP.NET Repeater server Control wasn't going to do it for me. After reading Dave Ward's post on 'Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater' I decided to rewrite my code to built a client-side repeater. During the development time that went into it, I'd tried multiple ways to achieve my goal, namely: Good Performance! After my thorough investigation I thought it was my obligation to write some post about it and show you the different performances that I discovered. so I decided I was going to write a couple of articles on it. In this first article I will show you the following: Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Repeater Server Control - Part 1 - The Updatepanel These are the following articles that I will soon be writing about. * Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Client Repeater Control - Part 2 - Using StringBuilder * Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Client Repeater Control - Part 3 - DOM Create element * Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Client Repeater Control - Part 4 - String Concatenation But first this article! These are the things I have done (which can be seen when you download the source files below): 1. Setting up a page with a generate data button to retrieve a set of 3000 person records 2. Setting up a local webservice that will get the data (could have been a PageMethod). 3. Adding an updatepanel to the page, in which the repeater was wrapped 4. Adding progress indication during the asynchronous loading operation. 5. Using client side script to show the loading time in milliseconds. read more...

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How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

published 20 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by keyvan 20 days, 11 hours ago

codeclimber.net.nz — In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies. read more...

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For vs Foreach Performance (in .NET)

madprops.org — Timing the difference between a "for" loop and a more "modern" version using "foreach" and Enumerable.Range. read more...

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Silverlight Toolkit Overview and Examples

published 1 month, 5 days ago, submitted by johnsheehan 1 month, 6 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — If you’ve used ASP.NET AJAX then you’ve likely used controls from toolkits such as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications. Microsoft has also released a Silverlight Toolkit with new controls and functionality that can be used in Silverlight 2 applications. read more...

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