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Indisposable: WCF Gotcha #1
02 July 08 11:44 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

When you have the code behind the service ready to go, you deploy it to the server of your choice and are ready to call the service. At this point, you will most likely do one of two things to consume the service: Create a ChannelFactory and reuse your...

Filed under: .NET, WCF

iServiceOriented.com
01 July 08 09:48 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

I'm starting up a new blog / website over at www.iserviceoriented.com . If you are considering transitioning over to a service oriented architecture, I'll help you make the jump. I don't have an ESB to sell or a product to muddy up the conversation with...

Filed under: .NET, WCF

.NET 3.5 SP1 / Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Details
09 April 08 04:22 PM | Jesse Ezell | 3 comment(s)

"It's settled! The Entity Framework (and the Entity Designer) along with ADO.NET Data Services will RTM as part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 releases! Unfortunately, we don't have official release dates at this point, but stay tuned. You...

Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, .NET 3.0 SP1

Flash Lite on Windows Mobile
17 March 08 02:43 PM | Jesse Ezell | 4 comment(s)

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone...

Filed under: Microsoft, Adobe, .NET, Silverlight, Flash Light

Silverlight on iPhone
05 March 08 09:21 PM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

Jobs says Flash just doesn't cut the mustard and won't show up on the iPhone [1] [2]. Does that mean we will see Silverlight running on the iPhone first? There are some rumors... [3] [4] [1] http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803041742DOWJONESDJONLINE000829_FORTUNE5...

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight and N Tier Architecture
04 March 08 01:00 PM | Jesse Ezell | 4 comment(s)

Ryan van der Kooy asks: "I've been beginning to try to find out how a good architecture will work using silverlight 2.0. I've read that Silverlight 2.0 could possible offer a 6 tier design. However, having a bll in your silverlight app could possibly...

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight for Symbian
04 March 08 10:01 AM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

"The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia's Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available...

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Using WCF endpoints with SQL Reporting Services
21 February 08 07:39 AM | Jesse Ezell | 6 comment(s)

Consuming WCF endpointpoints with SQL Reporting Services can be difficult. Most of this difficulty is for two reasons: 1) SQL Reporting Services XML and web services support is slightly better than a piece of crap. 2) Documentation for the XML query provider...

Filed under: .NET, SQL Server, WCF, SQL Server Reporting Services

XNA on Zune and X-Box Live
21 February 08 07:12 AM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

Two pieces of news today in the "damn that's cool" category. First, Microsoft has announced that you will now be able to use XNA to create games that run on Zune. Second, XBox live will have a "XBox Live Community Games" section where you can upload your...

Filed under: .NET, Zune, XNA, X-Box

Silverlight Supercomputer
28 January 08 06:18 PM | Jesse Ezell | 1 comment(s)

Dan Fay pointed to an interesting article on CodeProject about building a grid computing framework that runs on Silverlight. The proposition is really interesting. Imagine someone like the folding at home ( http://folding.stanford.edu/ ) project providing...

Filed under: WPF, .NET, Silverlight