Silverlight: Client-Side Database via LINQ and Isolated Storage

submitted by crpietschmann 18 hours, 35 minutes ago

pietschsoft.com — When I did a search on "Silverlight Database" there weren't many results, and none of them actually mentioned a small database that you could embed into your Silverlight application. So, I thought I'd share a solution that I've used to store application data on the client using a combination of LINQ and Isolated Storage. This actually gives you a small "SQL"-like database since you can use LINQ to interact with it. read more...

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C# and VB on the Road

blogs.msdn.com — The C# and VB teams, along with a few closely associated friends, are going to be on the road quite a bit during the next few months. Here I’ve posted at least a few of the major events we will be attending. read more...

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Social Bookmarking on MSDN

blogs.msdn.com — Social bookmarking plays a big role in my online life. Sites like Delicious, DotNetKicks and Digg are places I often turn to for information or entertainment. These sites are important to me because I believe the community has a wisdom of its own that sometimes matches or exceeds the wisdom of the various experts we have been taught to rely on when we need to exercise taste or judgment. read more...

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Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication

published 4 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by gt1329a 4 days, 8 hours ago

encosia.com — An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback. read more...

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Virtual Earth Concepts - Dynamically Draw Polyline

submitted by crpietschmann 7 days, 13 hours ago

garzilla.net — In this example we will look at the functionality needed to dynamically draw a polyline on the map. In the example to the right, functionality has been added so that you can dynamically draw a polyline on the displayed map. At the bottom of the map there is a button that needs to be clicked to start the process. read more...

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Silverlight "HTML Bridge" Interoperability

submitted by crpietschmann 7 days, 21 hours ago

wilcob.com — This can be addressed with Silverlight. The key to integrating all of this is the two-way interoperability layer in Silverlight (sometimes referred to as 'the HTML/JS bridge'), which is what I will be going through in this article. I will show you how you can access the HTML DOM and use your existing JavaScript code. You will see how you can pass managed objects back and forth, and program against them in JavaScript like ordinary JS objects. We will dive deep and take a look at what really happens under the hood to understand how far exactly our interoperability goes. read more...

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What’s new in .NET Framework 4.0?

submitted by crpietschmann 7 days, 23 hours ago

itwriting.com — Good question. There are a few things we know about Microsoft’s managed application runtime and class library: There will be major updates to the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Workflow Foundation (WF). According to this announcement along with this post by Steven Martin we are going to see “better support for Web 2.0 technologies like REST, POX and ATOM” and a 10x performance increase in WF. read more...

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Access JavaScript variables on PostBack using ASP.NET Code

published 7 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by crpietschmann 9 days, 16 hours ago

dotnetcurry.com — In this article, we will see how to pass javascript values on postback and then access these values in your server side code. This article will primarily showcase two techniques of doing so. One using Hidden variables and the other using the __doPostBack() javascript method. read more...

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