Sergey Zwezdin

Using custom domain with Office 365

2011-11-04T11:35:23Z

This blog post contains steps to linking cutom domain to Office 365. Read more...(read more)

Using Visual Studio 2010 in different environments

2011-08-05T14:24:00Z

Do you like to setup a Visual Studio with the personal preferences? Unfortunately, in some situations we are forced to change development environment settings according to that context in which at present we are. Let's talk about automation of this process. Read more...(read more)

Multitasking at Windows Phone 7 Series

2010-03-25T22:05:00Z

One of most question, discussed with consideration of Windows Phone 7 Series is multitasking. As it was clarified, this question calls concern in a great number of users and developers. Let's more in detail consider this question. Read more...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Series - what the new mobile platform hides in itself

2010-03-23T16:21:01Z

By this post I wish to open a series of articles about development for Windows Phone 7 Series. We will start that we will consider philosophy of a new platform from the point of view of the developer. Read more...(read more)

My blog has been updated

2010-03-17T21:31:50Z

My blog has been updated. Welcome! Don't forget to update your RSS readers. Read more...(read more)

Use of enum type in ADO.NET Data Services

2009-11-29T05:33:00Z

This the autumn was possible to communicate about ADO.NET Data Services with the Izhevsk developers community . Except other discussed questions, we have started talking about use of enum type as a part of entity which is used in service based on ADO.NET Data Services. As after that in this question was interested some more person, I decide to take out this information here. The problem consists in the following. We will assume have decided to create service ADO.NET Data Services and to use in its...(read more)

ADO.NET Data Services 1.5: server driven paging.

2009-11-20T12:59:00Z

We continue to consider new possibilities of ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 and today we will look possibility of compulsory breakdown of data into pages. Possibility of breakdown of data on pages already was present at first version of Astoria. For these purposes it was possible to construct query by means of Take/Skip operators. Changing values of these parametres it was possible to get paginal access to data from the client. Nevertheless, at the access to a collection without parametres service returned...(read more)

ADO.NET Data Services 1.5: projections.

2009-11-19T12:46:00Z

Recently I’ve started discussion about ADO.NET Data Services 1.5. I spoke about main trends in this project. Now I want to say about some details. Here we will speak about possibilities to create projections of data in version 1.5 of ADO.NET Data Services. Necessity of creation of projections was present at first version of Astoria. However, as we know, time and resources are limited, therefore such possibility has appeared only in version 1.5. Possibility of creation of projections is necessary...(read more)

Displaying of progress of downloading data in WCF services

2009-11-04T03:11:00Z

Platform Windows Communication Foundation can be used not only for a simple operations call, but also for transfer of big parts of data (for example, files in some mbyte). Sometimes such scenarios are applicable and on slow channels. In this case an indicator of executing of operation (progress bar) is necessary. For simplicity we will use BasicHttpBinding binding. The key moment at implementation of the given scenario is setting of TransferMode parameter to Streamed value. Thus, data will be transferred...(read more)

Throttling in WCF

2009-11-01T02:11:00Z

Here I want to give the main information which need to be known at setting of the service working with high load. ConcurrencyMode Parameter which defines a service operating mode - how many real threads will process messages and to execute actions. This parameter can have following values: Single – Messages are processed sequentially in a single thread (default value). Reentrant – Similarly Single with some singularity (see MSDN ). Multiple – Messages are processed in parallel in several threads...(read more)

ADO.NET Data Services – what waits for us in the future

2009-09-12T11:27:41Z

Approximately hardly there is more than year back we have seen a new services platform - ADO.NET Data Services. Its occurrence has marked the beginning of wide use of the REST-approach by many developers. At that time this platform was represented as the convenient tool for access to data through HTTP. Lately it is possible to understand, that this tool is really successful - huge number of developers have started to use immediately it in the projects. The reason for it is quite logical - use of...(read more)

ADO.NET Data Services v.1.5 CTP2

2009-08-31T23:58:15Z

Astoria team has released next CTP of ADO.NET Data Services 1.5. In comparison with previous release, CTP2 is really big work and we can observe now already that ADO.NET Data Services becomes even more powerful platform. As a whole it is visible, that development of Astoria is directed on more closer integration with Silverlight and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. What’s new in CTP2: Projection. It is new feature for Astoria which has appeared only in this CTP. This feature allows to build more difficult...(read more)

PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services – erasing bounds of technologies: PHP + .NET

2009-08-23T01:29:10Z

Microsoft Interoperability team announced an release of the new project which is the bridge between PHP and.NET and erases bounds of technologies even more. This project allows developers on PHP even more easier to access and use all power of .NET services which based on ADO.NET Data Services. From the point of view of working out the scheme looks classically enough. By working out it is necessary to use utility PHPDataSvcUtil which is in PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services. This utility...(read more)

Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile users

2009-07-15T02:40:48Z

Marat Bakirov already wrote in his blog about Windows Marketplact for Mobile users. Till now over Windows Marketplace the curtain of secret kept and it was not clear as this direction will develop. And here recently, at WPC some details Windows Marketplace for mobile devices became known. Some facts about Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile users (some of them already have been sounded earlier): For application placing on Windows Marketplace it is required to pay $99 per year. Thus it will be...(read more)

Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform: Implementation of own sensor (Part 3/3)

2009-07-02T08:02:00Z

Recently I have told about use Sensor and Location platform in the applications. We have seen, that use of this component set can be very convenient for the application and do not demand many efforts. Also we have an opportunity to work with set of devices in the unified style. Problem of use of this platform there is a presence of drivers for Windows 7 and presence of wrappers for Sensor API. Development of the driver for the device - a task of the manufacturer. And implementation of support in...(read more)