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Build your own FaceBook applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WinForms or Silverlight ! Read More Download the SDK Facebook.dll : This is the main assembly that will be used by all applications. This has all the logic to handle communication with the Facebook application. This assembly also has specific support of XAML applications (Silverlight and WPF) to enhance the Facebook platform to make databinding and data caching easier. Facebook.Silverlight.dll : This is the Silverlight version of the main assembly that will be used by all Silverlight applications. This has all the logic to handle communication with the Facebook application. This assembly also has specific support of XAML applications to enhance the Facebook platform to make databinding...

Working at Microsoft has been GREAT. I’ve been here for 8 years. But it’s hard too. For a decade before I joined Microsoft, I ran the show. Here, I’m just a peon, and not being on campus often means not being “inside” which creates several barriers to success.  There is the politics, the constant org changes, the haters spanning your blog, the travel. (Not to mention the cut in pay :) Today I had a bit of a cool thing happen. Last night I installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – which I’m VERY excited about. Today I fired it up to start working on some new videos and the top item in the “Latest News” page was an item about my latest video.  Trivial, i know, but my spirits valued thy boost !! Read More...

The first shows how ASP.NET helps you understand and easily defend against Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in your Web Applications. This one has a REAL WORLD example of DOM Injection based hijacking attacks. Note that Script Injection is the OWASP #1 vulnerability. The second video, is a light introduction to programming with LINQ and compares simple data access between ADO.NET and LINQ from a developer experience perspective.   Next I’ll be playing with SQL Injection – the OWASP #2 vulnerability.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET Video Security XSS LINQ Data Read More...

We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform.  This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package.  In addition, we released the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, which allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight.   Supported features include PlayReady, DVR controls, instant replay, slow motion, multiple camera angles, alternate audio tracks, content protection, ad integration, in-stream data feeds, and more. Since April, 2009, key broadcasters around the world have used beta versions of IIS Media Services...

  Some time ago I posted about JavaScript being inevitable Over the last couple of weeks I’m been writing some web security related videos and writing some DOM based hacking examples. In the course of that I picked up Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting training and reference. It's everything I’ve come to expect from a Murach’s book !!!  It’s simply a complete guide to writing JavaScript with a practical guide to not only “doing” JavaScript but manipulating the DOM and CSS. It’s great to read a book that continues to have value after you’ve read it cover to cover. I now have a stack of Murach’s books on my desk :) and this one is proving to be very useful, not only for the security stuff I’m doing but as I’m diving deeper into...

I found a cool project on CodePlex that I wanted to share with you. SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio lets you work with SQL Azure inside Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. It tries to mimic the ordinary Server Explorer.                   Current Features: SQL Azure Explorer which contains: Databases Tables with columns Views with columns Stored procs with parameters Functions with parameters Context menues for: Open Sql Editor Window Select Top 100 Rows Script as CREATE for all tables, views, stored procs and functions SQL Editor Window with built in: SQL Execute Off line parser Script formater Get it here - http://sqlazureexplorer.codeplex.com/ Read More...

After 2 years of development and lots of customer feedback, Microsoft is proud to announce that the Web Deployment Tool has gone  RTW version 1.0! You can now download the RTW version and use it in production, and it is fully supported by Microsoft Support. Install our 1.0 RTW release from http://www.iis.net/webdeploymenttool , available in x86 and x64. Version 1.0, includes the following components: Powerful APIs that allow you to deploy, sync and migrate web applications on IIS, and perform granular operations like changing IP bindings, site names and changing file structures on the fly. You can also create a new provider to sync a new type of resource. Command-line tool (msdeploy.exe) that allows you to perform all the same operations...

Did you know Microsoft has a team in Developer Division that is specifically focused on Interop ?? Their latest coolness is a submission to Zend to add Azure support to their PHP Cloud Initiative. Click HERE to read a detailed blog post from the Interop Team. Read More...

You are probably hearing more and more about the “next wave” for .NET Developers. Check out the free training ………. [ Click HERE to start getting up to speed on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 ]   Technorati Tags: Microsoft .NET Training Free Read More...

Back in June I posted about Murach’s Book - ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with VB 2008 It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Murach’s books. I’m preparing to record a podcast on data access and so I pickup up this book. In a word – BRILLIANT. It covers the three primary data access technologies that matter to developers using current .NET development tools. Detailed coverage of all three makes this book a no-brainer. I read it cover to cover and it has assumed a bit of high-value real-estate on my desk !!!! Well, now it has a companion on my deck – the C# 2008 Version [ Buy the VB Version Here ] [ Buy the C# Version Here ]   Technorati Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET LINQ Entity Framework Book Murach Read More...