In today’s post, I’m going to show an interesting technique to solve a problem and then I will tear it to pieces and explain why it is actually useless. I believe that negative results should also be published so that we can save other people from wasting time trying the same thing. So here goes… A few days ago, a post on Ajaxian proposed a new version of a somewhat old technique to implement querySelectorAll on old versions of IE, using the browser’s native CSS engine. That sounds like a great idea at first, and the hack is quite clever. The idea is to dynamically add a CSS rule to the document that has the selector that you want to evaluate, and an expression that adds the matched elements to a global array. When I read this, it reminded me...

I was recently working on a project and needed to have Silverlight make a WCF call.  That is pretty straight forward until you place the Silverlight code inside SharePoint and want it to call a WCF that is also inside SharePoint. The first problem that I had to solve was getting Silverlight to be able to call the WCF correctly.  Since in Visual Studio when you make the connection, it will have the local server for the path.  Like http://localhost:95559/MyService.svc and for SharePoint I wanted it to point to the local server’s name and in the _layouts directory.  Luckily I came across the following blog that helped with getting that to work: Silverlight ServiceReferences.ClientConfig Alternatives The only change I had to...

Episode #3 - Tim Heur, Silverlight Community PM, on Silverlight 3 ! In this episode - The Misfit Geek talks with Tim Heur, SIlverlight PM, on SIlverlight 3, how SIlverlught ROCKs and application scenarios that might be being overlooked Resources ...... Silverlight.net - www.silverlight.net Tim's Blog - http://timheuer.com/blog/ I'm still getting the hang of it all and I don't have audio engineers, production staff, or SPONSORS ! If you are interested in advertising, have suggestions, or advice.... Please CLICK HERE and send them to me. Download Now ! Subscribe Via RSS ... Play Now ! ' /> Click to Play With Flash Read More...

Winston Churchill said - “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.” This sums up by blog experience with GraffitiCMS. As many of you have emailed me, my blog has been having problems for about a month. The default install of GraffititCMS has just crumbled over the increased traffic. It does down and my server needs to be rebooted (restarting IIS doesn’t always fix the issues.) Files get locked and my server needs to be rebooted. The stats tables get screwed up and my server needs to be rebooted. I try to do comments admin and my server needs to be rebooted. I’ve used DasBlog and BlogEngine.net and they are both super, but the versions I used did not support a true "database” which I desire...

Corrina , head UX-designer for Silverlight,  just posted some cool new themes for the Silverlight 3 Navigation Application and, better yet, some ideas on how to tweak the ones that are out there to make them match your specific scenario.   I really love where this is going… Hopefully we will eventually get to the powerpoint like theme support… My favorite new one is Candy Store…   Enjoy ! Read More...

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I wrote couple of posts describing how Web MultiTargeting (Web MT) works in VS 2010… You can find those posts at: All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 1 All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 2 Today  I hope to cover few other things related to MultiTargeting that the team focused on during VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 cycle… Silverlight MultiTargeting VS 2010 will allow you to develop Silverlight (SL) projects seamlessly…  SL has got its own runtime versions like SL 2.0/3.0 and eventually there will be SL 4.0 too…  SL development has been possible with VS 2008 where you might have your Web Projects using SL 2.0 or 3.0 and now when VS 2010 comes out is is obvious that developers will expect smooth migration and upgrade for their...

One of the challenging aspects of working with TFS as your source control system is very unfortunately the installation of the client software. Over the past few years, I’ve been managing a number of small and large projects on CodePlex, and while the Subversion bridge has provided a much needed simple choice of client software, TFS remains its native protocol , which makes it still very much relevant to people who do a lot of work there. But as I said, installing the client software may be challenging . The first and main problem here is that Team Explorer, while free, comes in a very unfriendly format: an ISO image of the DVD. I asked the team why they made that weird and less than optimal choice, and apparently there are some technical reasons...

This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post discusses VS 2010’s enhanced multi-targeting support – which allows you to use and target multiple versions of .NET.  We did significant architectural work in the VS 2010 release to enable a number of new multi-targeting features, and provide a much better experience. Understanding Side-by-Side VS 2010 can be installed “side by side” with previous versions of Visual Studio.  What this means is that you can install it on the same machine as VS 2008/VS 2005/VS 2003 – and use all of the versions at the same time if you’d like. .NET 4.0 can also be installed “side by side” with previous versions of .NET on the same machine. ...

David Yack dropped by my office today and we had a good chat about the direction of Silverlight and RIA Services.   David has some great feedback for us from several real apps he has been working on.  He also dropped off a copy of his book Silverlight 3 Jumpstart .  While I haven’t read it in detail yet, I love that the book is small and focused, giving readers just what they need to get started with Silverlight.  He includes a teaser on RIA Services as well, I hope to see even more on that in the future. ;-)   Enjoy! Read More...