Contents tagged with Distributed Applications
-
Check out The Region
Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/
-
Subset of WCF supported by .NET Compact Framework 3.5
If you are developing mobile apps and want to know what aspects of WCF will be support by NetCF 3.5, you can find he definitive answers over here:
-
"Acropolis" CTP available for download
The cat is finally out of the bag and available for discussion - Microsoft's "Acropolis" project. Even though I decided to go ahead and port a major project to the CAB (Composite Application Building Block), I have spend the past few years explaining to the P&P team that the CAB was too hard to work with for most developers/projects. Acropolis is MS's attempt to
-
Mashups For The Masses !
As I have mentioned previously, I have recently been researching and playing with mashups and various sources of online data sources, such as Windows Live. Well, this is obviously something that has caught wider interest in Microsoft as well, as they recently released an alpha version of a tool/technology called "Popfly" (http://www.popfly.com/). This is a very cool, visual and interactive tool, for combining various building blocks and data sources, to build your own mashups, without all of the coding.
-
Progress Notification for Web Service Calls
In one of our current projects, we had a need to provide progress indication for web service calls that could take a long time to execute (by design - alot of data being transferred). It turns out that this is a perfect scenario for using SOAP extensions, in order to get into the processing pipeline and provide the necessary information. Kim Major, our senior developer, wrote a great article that clearly explains and shows how to do this.
-
Back from speaking at VSLive! San Francisco
I just got back from my annual appearance at VSLive! San Francisco (it seems that I have been speaking at one or more VSLive events since February 2000)
-
Migrating Our Application to use CAB and SCSF
Well over a year ago, we began work on the UI portion of a major project of our for a client in New York. One of the issues we needed to address was an infrastructure or framework for the UI of this application. Since the framework was to encompass many different applications (or modules) that would be devleoped over the coming years (and we wanted them to all look and feel the same), the CAB (Composite UI Application Block) from Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team seemed like a good choice.
-
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is Released and Available for Download
If you have been waiting for the released version of the Microsoft AJAX offering, you can now download it from here. This page has separate downloads for the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions as well as for the AJAX Control Toolkit. Congrats to Microsoft !
-
ClickOnce Community Resource Kit
A nice new source of practical and advanced information on building Click Once deployments has been developed by Brian Noyes for the MS Patterns and Practices team. Here is the description blurb:
-
Official Release - Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects
This is add-on for VS 2005, offers the project model for web applications like we had for VS 2003 is available as a free download here. There is also another great bonus included in this package - Edit and Continue for web applications !