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C#.Next, What do you expect?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:04:50 GMT

I have been searching for any clue about the next version of C# and what the features to be included, and I finally found something on Charlie Calvert's blog.

Using WebHttpBinding & JSON Support in WCF

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:11:09 GMT

Create a simple chat application From the page: "One of the most ineteresting and useful features is the JSON support and how easy you can enable the JSON support for your current WCF services by changing the configurations"

LINQ let Keyword (How did I miss that)

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:01:04 GMT

This is strange, because I've been working with LINQ for almost 2 years since (March 2006 CTP), and I've never noticed the new keyword "let" which is used inside LINQ queries to create temporarily variables.

My Silverlight 1.1 Hello World Application

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:08:11 GMT

Imagine being able to author rich internet applications in your .NET language of choice, without having to mess with Javascript, cross-browser compatibility issues, or ActionScript. That's the promise of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1. In this article, I will document my attempt at creating a Silverlight 1.1 "Hello World" application. My Hello World application is a little bit more fancy than the typical one. this one involves some animation, and drawing a few shapes from code.

Microsoft Parallel Extensions (PFX) or PLINQ is now a CTP

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:54:01 GMT

At last now we can play around with PLINQ :)

Implementing filters in asp.net mvc

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:01:02 GMT

This post demonstrates how you could go about implementing filters for the asp.net mvc handler

Catch hackers red handed using http modules

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:19:34 GMT

Here is a nice trick to help you to detect hackers in action while trying to hack your web applications. The idea is very simple, we want to set a layer there between your application and the internet to watch the web traffic for anything suspicious. These suspicious things might be a query string that contains a XSS script or a SQL injection query. So we will monitor the web traffic that is passing through that layer for well known and common patterns of attack methods that most hackers use to scan your web applications for vulnerabilities. We will use http modules to implement that layer, here is some dirty code to demonstrate the idea.

PLINQ = Parallel FX = PFX = The new Concurrent World

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:01:02 GMT

?Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.

SOA via WCF - Part 2-

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:11:46 GMT

This is the second part of my presentation in SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD 2) last July, for the first part, Check Here, you will also find the presentation slides & samples

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:31:02 GMT

If you are using Subversion source control, you will be familiar with the .svn folders that SVN adds to any folder under the source control, these folders are used to keep track of the current state of the folder, but sometimes, I want to copy my code and get rid of these folders, and instead of doing this manually which becomes a headache if you have a very deep hierarchy of folders, this is a Shell Script comes to the rescue

Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:31:02 GMT

Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser plug-in that enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and .NET based RIAs for the web. Expression Encoder is part of the Microsoft Expression suite of products, and enables designers and content professionals to enhance, encode and publish media content for Silverlight. You can use it to import media files from a variety of formats (QuickTime, WMV, AVI and more), add leaders and trailers to videos for advertising or roll credits, easily watermark video with corporate logos or brands, and then tune the encoding settings to create optimal web-friendly Silverlight experiences. Over the last few months we've been working to enable Silverlight support on Linux, and today we are announcing a formal partnership with Novell to provide a great Silverlight implementation for Linux. Microsoft will be delivering Silverlight Media Codecs for Linux, and Novell will be building a 100% compatible Silverlight runtime implementation called "Moonlight". Moonlight will run on all Linux distributions, and support FireFox, Konqueror, and Opera browsers. Moonlight will support both the JavaScript programming model available in Silverlight 1.0, as well as the full .NET programming model we will enable in Silverlight 1.1.

SOA via WCF - Part 1

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:01:43 GMT

# Part 1- Service Oriented Architecture * Background * Motivations * What is a service ? * Message Exchange Patterns (MEP's) * Industry Standards * Web Standards

C# 3.0 Sets support, a first look

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:01:01 GMT

I heard that .net 3.5 will have support for Set operations on lists like Union, Intersect so I gave it a try and it turned out to be cool check this out

Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:31:02 GMT

This is a post I wanted to write really long time ago, but I never had enough time to sit and write. The following listing will be my agenda for this post 1. Why Javascript for ASP.net developers is different ? 2. Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers * Reading ASP.net controls values from Javascript * Passing values calculated by Javascript to the server side. * Passoing values from ASP.net to Javascript 3. Javascript development tools

SQL Server code name "Katami"

Sun, 27 May 2007 22:36:22 GMT

SQL Server code name "Katmai" is a complete enterprise-class offering that builds upon the success of SQL Server 2005 and delivers increased functionality to a comprehensive range of applications from the desktop to the data center. SQL Server code name "Katmai," the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights.

Microsoft and Facebook Launch a Partnership

Sun, 27 May 2007 22:18:07 GMT

Microsoft and Facebook partner to provide a great development experience for the Facebook Platform using Microsoft Popfly and Visual Studio Express. "Facebook Platform empowers developers to utilize the social graph -- the network of connections through which people communicate and share information -- like never before. And, by building tools that ordinary people can use to develop experiences on top of the social graph, Microsoft helps people define their experience on Facebook."

Astoria Data Services, Pure Data Service for the Web

Fri, 25 May 2007 19:46:01 GMT

?Meet Pablo Castro one of the folks behind Astoria. Astoria exposes "data services" that enable applications to access and manipulate data over regular HTTP connections, using URIs to identify pieces of information within the data service, and simple payload formats such as XML and JSON to represent the data exchanged between the client and the server. Click here for the Video on Channel9 You can also see Pablo's presentation about Astoria in MIX-07

.net Framework 3.5 is not just about LINQ

Wed, 09 May 2007 23:41:22 GMT

.net framework 3.5 is the next version of .net framework which is going to be shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio codename "ORCAS", which you can find a Beta 1 of it on msdn, and also a beta 1 of .net framework 3.5 Most people thinks that this version is all about LINQ integration, which is not the complete story, may be LINQ is the one of the important new API's that ships with 3.5, but not the only thing.

Free SQL Server Stumpers V1 Book

Wed, 09 May 2007 22:27:21 GMT

End to End Training is offering a free $24 book for those who register to receive their training schedule. They even pay the shipping cost!

One year of technical blogging

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:16:01 GMT

Yeah, it had been one year since I've started this blog, It was a great chance to publish some of my daily work challenges and also personal code challenges. after 1 year I had 56,000 unique visitors from all over the world, and 141 blog entries,I hope most of are useful and easy to understand. These are list of the most visited articles I wrote in the last year

LINQ To Flickr

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:16:02 GMT

I had some free time at last, so I implemented a LINQ extension to Flickr, so you can query for photos by tags, creation date, user id or title, the implementation was really easy because I didn't have to use the Flickr API's directly as I found a good open source library for this called FlickrNet which I used as my infrastructure. So this is a sample of a query

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:31:01 GMT

If you've been keeping up with the Community Technology Preview releases, there shouldn't be anything too surprising in the final release, although the overall quality should be much higher. All of the major new features have already been described on this blog or in other places, but here is a quick summary of the most significant changes:

Command Pattern in C# 2.0 = Generics + delegates

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:16:02 GMT

How to implement Command Design pattern in C# 2.0 in a way that is more suitable with C# 2.0

EntropyZero releases dataFresh to the open source community!

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:01:01 GMT

dataFresh is a database rollback library that enables test driven developers to focus on the test and for get about cleaning up after. dataFresh restores your test database to a known state fate than ever before. And best yet? dataFresh is now available to the open source community!! Download the source and start contributing today!!

.Net Adventures : ReSharper 3.0 Pre-Beta(Build 402) released

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:30:11 GMT

According to the Jetbrains roadmap the 3.0 release is going to be mostly about adding in Visual Basic.NET support for ReSharper.