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Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5
A few weeks back my company offered a free online webinar on LINQ technologies to help developers more easily make the transition to LINQ. While there was a great turn out at the webinar, I received several emails from people who couldn’t attend asking if I could provide a video recording of the webinar. It turns out that the audio for the recording wasn’t up to my standards so I put together a video that provides an introductory look at different LINQ technologies including: -
Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with a WCF Duplex Service – Part II
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Creating a Silverlight 2 Client Access Policy Socket Server
Silverlight 2 provides built-in support for sockets which allows servers to push data to Silverlight clients. By using this feature clients can avoid polling the server on a timed basis to ensure that clients are kept up-to-date. If you're new to the socket features built-into Silverlight 2 you'll want to read my previous posts to get additional details about how data can be pushed from a server to a client:
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Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET
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Service Pack 1 Beta Released for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements. Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included:
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Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks
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Silverlight 2 Networking Options
I've been spending my nights working on a new book covering Silverlight 2 and have been focusing on the new networking features that are available in the System.Net and related namespaces. Silverlight's great at animating objects, performing transformations and collecting data with all of the new controls that are available, but at some point you'll need to retrieve data or send data to a service. There's great support built-in for calling WCF services, ASMX services as well as other services. Support for calling REST APIs is also very good and easy to implement using classes such as WebClient and HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse. Asynchronous requests can be issued and handled quite easily once you figure out the pattern (which is quite consistent throughout the different networking classes). -
LINQ to XSD
One of the cool features in VB 9.0 is the ability to work directly with XML in code without having to wrap quotes around everything. If you're a C# developer, that's a feature that we don't have although you can do similar things with LINQ to XML (quotes required though).
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Upcoming .NET Courses in 2008
I've had several people here in the Phoenix area and others I've met at ASP.NET Connections conferences ask when I'll be teaching specific .NET classes in 2008 and my standard reply has been "I'm not sure at this point". We have things scheduled out past June now so here's the information for those who are interested. Most of the classes listed are 5 days aside from the First Look at Visual Studio 2008 (1 day) and ASP.NET AJAX Programming (3 days). -
Exchanging Binary Data with MTOM and Web Services
In the distributed computing class I'm teaching this week we're covering a few topics related to the Web Service Enhancements V3 (WSE3). One of the nice features of WSE3 (and WCF for that matter) is that it can be used to exchange binary data quite easily and in an efficient manner by using MTOM. I put together a demo project that shows how MTOM can be used to exchange binary data between a client and a Web Service.
